Moscow football club ZOV lost to Vladimir Torpedo and was eliminated from the Russian Cup.
The final match of the 1/256 tournament was played at the capital’s Oktyabr stadium and ended with a score of 3:2 for the away team. Ilya Zharov scored a double for the winners and Dmitry Khokhlov scored another goal. Prokhor Romanov and Daniil Zyuikin scored for the Muscovites.
ZOV was founded in 2023 on the basis of the amateur team “Luch-team”; the team plays in the Moscow Amateur League. The club positions itself as promoting “the creation of a patriotic union”; videos in support of the team are regularly recorded by servicemen in the special military operations (SVO) zone.
On August 1, Amkal media club in the first round of the Russian Cup Regions Road match loser Kolomna 8:1 near Moscow. Among the winners Stepan Kostyukov scored three goals, David Agekyan scored one goal, Vasily Mavrin, Maxim Pichugin and Ruslan Imaev scored one goal each. Artem Teterkin scored for Kolomna.
Amkal President German Popkov said after the match that not all Kolomna players would pass the Media League selection.
He was previously the coach of 2DROTS during the match was attacked to the journalist.