Zenit awarded technical defeat for breaking selection regulations during CSKA game

The Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union decided today at its meeting to award Zenit a technical defeat for the Day 4 game of the Russian Premier League against CSKA. The St. Petersburg club will also pay a fine of 200 thousand roubles.

The game ended in a 1:1 draw, but it soon surfaced that Zenit head coach Luciano Spalletti did not include any ‘home-grown’ players into the match squad despite a warning from the game inspector. Current Russian regulations require the clubs for each game to have at least one such player, who has to be born not earlier than 1990 and hold Russian citizenship.