MOSCOW, July 14, Alexander Sergeev. The Russian Cup will be played in an updated format in the new season, and they decided to abandon the idea of holding the RPL Cup, said Alexander Medvedev, general director of St. Petersburg Zenit.
"There will be no League Cup, there will be an updated Russian Cup&# 34;,» Medvedev said.
On May 2, due to a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, the Executive Committee of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) suspended Russian football and futsal clubs from European competitions for the 2022/23 season, while men's and women's football and futsal teams — from participation in European tournaments. It was planned that the RPL Cup would become a replacement for the European Cups in the upcoming season.