On Sunday, July 27, 2025, at the Salyut Heraklion stadium, the Dynamo youth team will play against the CSKA U-21 football club as part of the 11th round of the Youth League.
When to start and where to watch
Oleg Gusev's wards will hold their new match in the Youth League-2025 at the Salyut Heraklion stadium at the address: Moscow, Lodochnaya str., 15, building 1A.
Dynamo fans will be allocated one of the sectors of the arena. Admission to the game is free, no need to buy or receive tickets before the match!
A fan's passport (Fan ID) is not needed to enter the stadium!
It will be possible to follow the main events of the match in the match center on our website, as well as in the club's social networksVKontakte and Telegram.
The meeting starts at 12:00 Moscow time.
You can always view the full schedule of home and away matches of the Dynamo youth team in the 2025 season here.
Team status
The previous match, in which Dynamo hosted Rubin Kazan in Novogorsk, could have been the fourth in a row for the blue and white without a win. Before that, the Dynamo team was able to score only one point in three matches: they drew with Lokomotiv (1:1) and lost twice dryly – Zenit (0:2) and Master Saturn (0:1). In the process of these forced losses, Dynamo first lost its place in the top 3, and then began to roll further and further away from the top three, which was clearly not part of the plans of Oleg Gusev's team, which gained a good move from the start of the tournament.
It was hard to imagine a better opportunity to win the long-awaited victory over the team that occupied the penultimate place in the standings before this meeting. We must pay tribute to the Dynamo youth, she used this chance one hundred percent.
However, despite the big victory (3:0), the match itself was not so simple for the blue and white, and the first half of the meeting turned out to be much better than the second.
From the very starting whistle, Dynamo actively joined the game and quickly achieved its first success: already in the 10th minute, Varvara Demidova with direct participationEkaterina Sergeeva andSvetlana Vinnikova opened an account in the match. Immediately after that, Sergeeva herself could have doubled the advantage, but the ball sent by the attacker to the very nine of the Kazan gate still flew a little higher.
After such a hot start, both teams took a short break, largely due to the actions of our guests, who pushed the Dynamo players away from their gates and stopped giving them the freedom they received at the beginning of the meeting.
True, Ilya Ulyanin's wards had enough to play in such a restraining style for a short time. The blue and white increased their pressure, increasingly began to bother the goalkeeper of the Kazan team, Yesenia Yeremeyeva, with punches and throws into the penalty area, and - again they achieved their goal
At the 34th minute, the same restless Sergeeva took over the game again and upset the Rubin goalkeeper with a smart shot for the second time in this game – 2:0! The first half was completely left to the Dynamo team and there were no special reasons to worry about the relative final result in principle.
Expectations were met on the whole: the second half of the meeting turned out to be not so bright, although the audience saw both dangerous moments and even a goal in it. However, in compensated time. On one of the minutes added to the main time, the one that was replacedMaria Zernikova successfully played on finishing after Anastasia Orlova's strike and set the final score of the game – 3:0.
Only now, unfortunately, the main event of the second half was not the scoring episode performed by the blue and white, but not a game event at all. In the same ending, I got a serious injury absolutely out of the blue and not in single combatAnastasia Begeneva. They began to provide medical assistance to her immediately right on the field, but the 18-year-old football player was able to leave the field only on a stretcher… And even the third goal scored by Dynamo after this tragic event could not dispel the anxiety on the faces of the players of our team. In such a situation, it remains only to wish Nastya good health and a speedy return to the football field!
— We were preparing for a tough game, we got it. We knew when Rubin was starting to take action, so we got what we were preparing for. Yes, the game turned out to be difficult, this only makes the victory more valuable.
We want to dedicate this victory to Nastya Begeneva. She is a good football player, we are very worried about her and look forward to seeing her on the field as soon as she recovers," Oleg Gusev, head coach of the Dynamo youth football team, summed up the difficult match with Rubin.
Varvara Demidova, the defender of the blue and white and the author of the first, winning goal, shared her view on the game:
— We came to the game with the intention to take the initiative from the first minutes. We were preparing for exactly how the opponent would play, so we completed the installation.
How did you score a goal? I entered the center of the penalty area, gave it to Svetlana Vinnikova, Svetlana returned the ball to me, I was in a good position and shot. The combination was fake.
According to the results of the tour, the blue and white were able to rise in the standings, but also to get closer to the top three - from the "Master Saturn", which now occupies the third line, the team is now separated by only one victory.
You can always view the Youth League standings on our website at this link.
About the opponent, the history of the confrontation, the judging panel
The opponent of the blue and white in the 11th round is the youth team of the Housing and Communal Services of CSKA, in its current form it has existed since 2021 and during this time has already managed to win the youth championship twice - in 2021 and 2023.
A curious fact: the army youth wins gold only in odd–numbered years, but in even-numbered years it does not win anything at all, not even getting into the top three. So it was in 2022, when, after the gold in the debut season-2021, the army team immediately rolled back to 7th place, the situation repeated in 2024 - after the golden season-2023, the red and blue finished the championship in 4th, again without taking medals of any other dignity except gold.
It is logical to assume that in the new, odd season, the youth CSKA will again rush to victory in the championship. However, at the moment, the army team is still too far away from a new golden triumph. The wards of Dmitry Nechaev, who has become the new mentor of the red and blue this season, are on the 4th line of the standings, ahead of Dynamo by only one point and at the same time lagging behind the leading Krasnodar by five. However, it is clear that the whole struggle not only for the top three, but also for the championship is still ahead, and a lot can change.
Yes, the army youth team lost points in 4 of the 9 matches played, but only one of them can be considered unexpected – with the Wings of the Soviets away (1:1). In all other cases, these were matches that were completely equal in terms of play and score with rivals comparable in class: Krasnodar (0:1), Lokomotiv (0:1) and Spartak (1:1).
In addition, do not forget that CSKA is one of the leaders in the game both in attack and defense. So, on account of the army team 23 goals scored – this is the third indicator in the league. What are only 11 goals scored against Rostov (the final score is 11:2!). As for the goals conceded, there are only 9 of them – this is generally the second result in the Youth League, less than only the undisputed leader of Krasnodar (only 2).
Another argument not in favor of Dynamo is that CSKA has not lost twice in a row this season, namely in the last round the red and blue suffered their second defeat of the season from Lokomotiv. Plus the factor of your field, which you should not forget about either.
Despite the generally short life span of the Dynamo and CSKA youth teams, the history of their relationship is already quite rich – 8 matches. In many ways, this happened due to the number of friendly matches - out of 8 of these matches played among themselves, 4 were control matches. Nevertheless, the advantage is still on the side of the army club: he has 5 wins against Dynamo's 3. Accordingly, the goal difference is better for the red-blue, and noticeably – 17-9 in their favor.
The new meeting within the framework of the Youth League will be served by the judging panel headed by Maria Tkacheva, who will be assisted by assistant judges Ekaterina Kozyreva and Victoria Guardis (all from Moscow).
Tkacheva has previously worked on Dynamo matches: in the Youth League – against CSKA Moscow Football Club (0:3), Strogino (0:0) and Lokomotiv (0:4); in the Super League – twice against Lokomotiv Football Club (0:2 and 0:2), and also against Spartak (1:3).
The balance of Dynamo wins and losses under Tkacheva's refereeing: 6 matches – 1 draw, 5 defeats, goal difference 1-14.