Ivan OrekhovCorrespondent SportAll materialsOur response to the Paris Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid. The final of the Russian Football Cup of the 2021/22 season will be held at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on Sunday. In the decisive match of the tournament, the capital's «Spartak» and «Dynamo» will meet, which have not won this trophy since 2003 and 1995, respectively. In 2016, Zenit and CSKA fought for the Russian Cup — a top event, but audience interest was low. And here are the finals fans were content with until 2021:
- —2017:«Locomotive» — »Ural»;
- —2018: «Tosno» — «Vanguard»;
- —2019: Lokomotiv — Ural;
- —2020: Zenit — Khimki;
- —2021: Krylya Sovetov — Lokomotiv.
According to the Russian Football Union (RFU), Sunday's match will be sold out. Luzhniki can accommodate 80,000 people. Applications for the purchase of tickets were submitted more than twice. It was reported that in the first four hours of sales, fans sold 20,000 tickets, and a day later they bought a total of 50,000 seats. An event of this magnitude could not but interest speculators. The head of the RFU, Alexander Dyukov, noted that less than 2% of the tickets fell into the hands of resellers. The road to Luzhniki /8 final defeated Kuban (6:1), after which he took over CSKA (1:0) and Enisey (3:0);
Farewell to Gigot. And Schwartz? The upcoming match will be the last for the defender of “Spartacus” Samuel Gigot in the red and white. The Frenchman, who has played for Muscovites since 2018, will join Marseille at the end of the season.