Preview of the Dynamo — Zenit match: where to watch, our news, studying the opponent

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Preview of the Dynamo — Zenit match: where to watch, our news, studying the opponent

On Saturday, July 19, 2025, a match of the 15th round of the Winline Super League among women's teams between Dynamo Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg will take place at the training base in Novogorsk.

When to start and where to watch

It will be possible to follow the main events of the match in the match center on our website, where the text broadcast of the match will be conducted, as well as in the club's social networks VKontakte and Telegram.

The live video broadcast of the game will be available for free on the VK Video platform in the official Winline Super League community on VKontakte. The meeting starts at 18:00 Moscow time.

Always remember – our girls are really looking forward to the support of the fans at the stadium! Traditionally, the blue and white home game will be held at VTB UTB Novogorsk-Dynamo. How to get there and support Dynamo girls, you can find out here.

The entrance to the match with Zenit is free, but – we draw your attention! Entrance to the stadium of the base of our club will be carried out by free electronic tickets, which can be obtained from this link:

TICKETS FOR FANS OF THE HOUSING AND COMMUNAL COMPLEX "Dynamo"

Tickets for Zenit fans will be distributed through representatives of their club.

A fan's passport (Fan ID) is not needed to enter the stands!

You can always view the full schedule of home and away matches of the main Dynamo team in the 2025 season at this link.

Preview of the Dynamo — Zenit match: where to watch, our news, studying the opponent

Team status

In the previous round, our team also played a game in the native walls of Novogorsk, where it hosted Spartak FC in the capital's derby. This was the fourth official meeting of the two clubs since the appearance of the red and white in the top division of Russian women's football and, as in previous games, the victory again went to our principal rivals.

Despite the fact that the teams spent the first half without goals, each of them could have scored at least one goal before the break. Lina Yakupova had a scoring opportunity as part of Spartak, but her dangerous headbutt was repelled by the goalkeeper of the blue and white Diana Ponomareva. Dynamovki responded with a sharp blow from the penalty area of Yulia Bessolova, after which the ball missed the Spartak bar in centimeters.

The scales tipped in the direction of Vadim Kozlov's team in the second half. And the standard provisions helped her in this. When Tiyana Filipovic earned a penalty in the 51st minute dangerously close to the Dynamo goal, Marina Fedorova approached the ball. A few seconds later, the ex-dynamo struck a direct blow to the right nine so perfectly that the ball was not stopped even by touching Ponomareva's fingertips. So the account was opened.

Then the game returned to the cautious course in which it took place in the first half. The teams did not exchange the most dangerous attacks, and there was more fighting on the approaches to each other's goal than a combination game. The point in the match was put by the Spartacists at the very end of the meeting – and again thanks to the standard. Kozlov's wards quickly played another penalty, the same Fedorova gave Filipovic a pass, and already from her canopy the defender and captain of the red and white Anna Kozhnikova scored the second goal of the season. By the way, for the Serbian football player of Spartak, this assist has already become the 17th effective action in the Winline Super League in the 2025 season, she is unconditionally leading in the rating of players according to the goal + pass system.

After another victory in the derby, Spartak returned, or rather, retained the first place in the Winline Super League, Dynamo continues to get bogged down in the middle of the standings, lagging behind third place by 14 points. Another problem is that Alexander Katasonov's team cannot hit the opponents' goal for three matches in a row. During this time, the blue and white played a zero draw with Ryazan-Airborne Forces and lost to Spartak in the championship, and also flew out of the Russian Cup Winline, losing to Wings of the Soviets in Samara (0:2).

The last time dynamovki scored more than a month ago – on June 14 in the derby with Lokomotiv (1:0) at the RZD Arena.

Top 3 interesting facts about the match

1st

The match in the Winline Super League was held by Fauzia Nazhemba in the 2025 season. The last time in the championship, she entered the field on August 11, 2024 in an away meeting with Zenit (2:5).

9

interceptions and 14 rebounds of the ball on the account of Anna Sas. According to this indicator, the Belarusian football player became the best in the blue and white team.

100

Zelka Belovan won the percentage of martial arts in the match with Spartak. On the account of the central defender of the blue and white 12 won episodes out of 12.

Preview of the Dynamo — Zenit match: where to watch, our news, studying the opponent

The photo gallery of the final derby of the season between Dynamo and Spartak can be viewed here.

And so not the best mood after the defeat in the derby with Spartak was prolonged by the event that happened on Monday, July 14. The decision to end her playing career was announced by Elina Samoilova, the team leader and one of the key Dynamo players in the middle of the field.

Elina became a player of our club in January 2024. and she scored her first goal for the blue and white already in her debut match - from the penalty spot against FC Krasnodar (2:0). In total, the 30-year-old football player scored 8 goals and made 2 assists in 38 matches for Dynamo.

This season, Samoilova played 12 games for the blue and white, in which she scored three goals. Elina's last match for Dynamo was the meeting of the 13th round of the Winline Super League against the Ryazan-Airborne Housing Company (0:0), which took place on June 21 in Ryazan.

Elya, thank you for playing and success in life after football!

Preview of the Dynamo — Zenit match: where to watch, our news, studying the opponent

About the opponent

The next opponent of the blue and white - ZHFC Zenit is the current champion of the Winline Super League and the winner of the Winline Super Cup of Russia.

The team led by Olga Ordina takes the gold medals of the championship for three seasons in a row and is definitely not going to give up the fourth victory in a row. Despite only the equator of the season, the second round has just started in the last round, in fact, three teams have already decided in the championship, which will play for the new championship title. These are the already named Spartak and Zenit plus CSKA – it is in this order that they are now in the standings. All three teams are separated from each other by one point: 33, 32 and 31, respectively.

But, unlike Spartak, Zenit and CSKA have already lost this season, the army club even twice. But the St. Petersburg team has suffered its only defeat so far from CSKA – in June on the road in Luzhniki (1:2). Two more teams that took away points from the blue-white-blue – Spartak and ... Wings of the Soviets. Zenit played zero draws with them both times. The draw with the Samara team, although it happened in the first round of the season, was undoubtedly sensational. If only because the game was held in St. Petersburg, and the current league champion hosted the team that took the penultimate place in the last championship.

In all other matches, the wards of the Order were in perfect order. Before the defeat from CSKA, Zenit collected an 11-match winless streak, and at the same time defeated Lokomotiv Moscow in the Russian Super Cup Winline (3:0) and won its first trophy this season.

The Petersburgers also started confidently in the new draw of the Winline Cup of Russia, again defeating their rival, the Moscow-based Master Saturn, with the same score – 3:0. Now Zenit will have a difficult trip to Rostov-on-Don in the quarterfinals of the tournament – the local housing and Communal services will be waiting for him there in early August."Rostov." By the way, it is the Winline Cup of Russia that remains the only tournament in Russia that Zenit has not submitted to. The blue-white-blues played in the final three times and lost three times in it. Interestingly, theoretically, in the semi-finals of the draw, Zenit may meet again with Lokomotiv, which they have already beaten in another cup tournament.

However, these are all the worries and problems of Zenit. But Dynamo, which will host him in Novogorsk this Saturday, has a specific task – to win the first victory in the history of the club over the St. Petersburg team at the highest level. So far, everything is very sad for the blue and white - 5 defeats in 5 matches.

The last of them happened, as you might guess, in the first round of this season of the Winline Super League. On May 23 in St. Petersburg, the hostesses beat their Moscow guests with a score of 3:1, scoring two unanswered goals in the first half. In the second, Kaylan Williams gave Dynamo fans hope, but it was quickly extinguished by Olga Poryadina's wards, scoring her third goal just a minute after the Dynamo striker's goal.

Another motivating moment for our team is the meeting with Zenit in Novogorsk, namely the fact that, in addition to two home defeats (0:5 and 0:2), the blue and white have never been able to score against the guests from the banks of the Neva. And something definitely needs to be done about it.

Achievements of FC Zenit: gold (2022, 2023, 2024) and bronze (2021) winners of the Winline Super League, winner of the Winline Russian Super Cup (2023, 2025), finalist of the Winline Cup of Russia (2021, 2022, 2023).

Intersections

Maria Digurova – Zenit, 2020-2021 (16 matches, 1 transfer)

Elena Shesterneva – Zenit, 2020-2022 (41 matches, 20 goals, 3 assists), the author of Zenit's first goal in the Russian championships (08/01/2020 CSKA – Zenit 2:1).

Dynamo goalkeeper Arina Taranchenko was born in St. Petersburg.

History of meetings

04/21/2023 6th round of the preliminary stage of the Super League

Zenit – Dynamo – 2:0 (Gzhivinska, 58. Lazareva, 90)

08/20/2023 17th round of the preliminary stage of the Super League

Dynamo - Zenit - 0:5 (Yakupova, 9, 67. Diash, 21, 52. Lazareva, 78)

11/18/2023 4th round of the final stage of the 1-6 Super League

Zenit – Dynamo - 3:0 (Diash, 6. Yakupova, 44. Kuropatkina, 73)

06/29/2024 3rd round of the Super League

Dynamo – Zenit - 0:2 (Gzhivinska, 49; Chinchilla Chinchilla, 67)

08/11/2024 Round 16 of the Super League

Zenit – Dynamo - 5:2 (Gzhivinska, 14, 74; Tsybutovich, 32; Kiki, 35, 54 – Komissarova, 27; Williams, 88)

05/23/2025 11th round of the Winline Super League

Zenit – Dynamo - 3:1 (Gzhivinska, 9; Andreeva, 37; Pantyukhina, 71 – Williams, 70)

Total: 0+ / 0= / 6-, the goal difference is 3-20.

The top scorer of the confrontation is Gabriela Grzywinska (5 goals).

Preview of the Dynamo — Zenit match: where to watch, our news, studying the opponent

The judging panel

The meeting will be served by the judging panel headed by Ksenia Goryacheva from Ryazan, who will be assisted by assistant judges Ekaterina Kozyreva (Moscow) and Elena Shnyrova (Tyumen).

Anna Kurkina from Moscow was appointed reserve referee, Lev Antonov (Vladimir) was appointed match inspector.

Earlier, Goryacheva worked on Dynamo matches: in the Super League – against Rostov (2:0), CSKA (1:3), Zenit (0:2) and Krasnodar (1:2); in the Youth League – against Zenit (3:2 and 0:2), "Yenisei" (2:1), "Rostov" (3:1), "Sochi" (2:0) and "Master Saturn" (0:2).

The balance of Dynamo wins and losses under Goryacheva's refereeing: 10 matches – 5 wins and 5 losses, the goal difference is 14-15.