Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

Russian Championship. Zenit — CSKA

The long-awaited resumption of the RPL season will take place on February 28, and a day later the central match of the upcoming 19th round will take place. In it, Zenit St. Petersburg, one of the two leaders of the Russian championship at the time of the winter break, will host CSKA Moscow, which is stuck in sixth place and has one of the last chances to return to the fight for medals. This game will show how much the teams have changed over the almost three months of the break and how ready they are for the spring part of the national championship.

March 1, 16:30, Gazprom Arena (St. Petersburg). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Boxing

REN TV Fight Club. Sergey Kuzmin — Ebenezer Tette

One of the most exciting boxing nights in Russia in the first months of 2025 will be held in Yoshkar-Ola as part of the REN TV Fight Club, thereby expanding the geography of such events. In the card of the upcoming tournament, the main fight will be the heavyweight confrontation between Russian Sergey Kuzmin and Gantz Ebenezer Tette. In the main match, our Igor Sviridov will enter the ring against Cuban Roniel Iglesias. In addition, the audience is waiting for another Russian-Cuban fight between Sergey Sergeev and Jorge Manuel Soto.

February 28, 16:00, Mari El Arena (Yoshkar-Ola). Live broadcast on REN TV at 23:00

Cross-country skiing

Russian Championship

The Russian Ski Racing Championship, which starts next weekend in the village of Mirny near Kazan, will be one of the main events of the season in our country. The main part of the national championship will be held in Tatarstan until the end of next week. Our stars such as three-time Olympic champion Alexander Bolshunov, Olympic champions Natalia Terentyeva, Yulia Stupak and many others will take part in the competition. On March 1, the audience will be able to see our main stars in skiathlon, and a day later they will compete in the mixed relay.

March 1, skiathlon: 10:00, women; 12:00, men. March 2, 11:00 a.m., mixed relay race. Mirny Ski and biathlon complex (Kazan). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Arena" and "Match! Planeta

Athletics

Russian Indoor Championships

The winter season for track and field athletes is traditionally considered a special moment in this sport. And in our country, its crowning achievement is the Russian Indoor Championship, which takes place in late February and early March, which has gained special significance in the absence of our athletes on the international stage. Over the next three days, viewers in Moscow will be able to see firsthand the performances of such stars as the world champion in the 110 m hurdles Sergey Shubenkov, the world indoor champion in the triple jump Ekaterina Koneva, Olympic silver medalist in the long jump Elena Sokolova, the bronze medalist of the World Championships in the high jump Ilya Ivanyuk and many others.

February 28th, 9:40 – 18:50. 1 Martha, 9:00 – 18:40. 2 March, 12:30 – 15:00. CSKA Moscow Football and Athletics Arena. Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Country" and "Match! Arena"

Hockey

KHL Regular Season. Traktor — Ak Bars, Metallurg — Avtomobilist, Spartak - Avangard, Dynamo (Minsk) — SKA

There is less than a month left before the start of the KHL playoffs, but the intrigue in the regular season still persists. The clubs are fighting for the leading positions in their conferences in order to start in the Gagarin Cup as favorably as possible.

Traktor Chelyabinsk, which is the first in the Eastern Conference, will host Ak Bars Kazan, one of its main pursuers, on the last day of winter, who is fourth but only six points behind the Ural team with a game in reserve.

Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which occupies the fifth place, is located at the same distance from Traktor. On March 1, he will meet at home with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, which occupies the second line, which is one point behind the leader, but also played one less match, therefore having the informal status of the leader in lost points.

Avangard Omsk can also break into the top five of the East, which on March 2 will meet on the road with Spartak Moscow, the second team of the West. Viewers may also be interested in the game in Belarus between Dinamo Minsk rushing up and St. Petersburg SKA sensationally stuck in seventh place.

February 28, 17:00, "Valery Belousov Tractor Arena" (Chelyabinsk). March 1, 2:30 p.m., Metallurg Arena (Magnitogorsk). March 2: Megasport (Moscow); 17:10, Minsk Arena (Minsk, Belarus). Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk

Football

French Championship. Monaco — Reims, PSG — Lille. The Chinese Championship. Shanghai Shenhua — Beijing Guoan. Regular season MLS. Charlotte — Atlanta United. The Spanish Championship. Barcelona — Real Sociedad

As usual, important matches in foreign championships with the participation of Russians are waiting for us at the end of the week. In France, Matvey Safonov's PSG has practically solved the issue of winning the national championship. In order not to give competitors a chance, the capital club needs to win at home against Lille.

In turn, Alexander Golovin's Monaco turned from a gold contender to a club that dropped out of the top 4 in three months and may lose the right to play in the Champions League next season. To avoid such a disaster, the Monegasques need to win at home against Reims.

In the second round of the North American MLS, Alexei Miranchuk's Atlanta United will travel to North Carolina, where they will play away against local Charlotte. In Spain, Arsen Zakharyan, who is gaining form after a long injury, scored a goal in the last round against Leganes and now has a chance to participate in a larger—scale confrontation - his Real Sociedad is going to visit Barcelona. Finally, Leonid Slutsky, at the head of Shanghai Shenhua, is waiting for the home match of the second round of the Chinese championship against Beijing Guoan.

February 28, 22:45, Louis Stadium II (Fonvieille, Principality of Monaco). March 1: 2:35 p.m., Shanghai Stadium (Shanghai, China). 22:15, Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, USA); 23:05, Parc des Princes Stadium (Paris, France). March 2, 18:15, Camp Nou Stadium (Barcelona, Spain). Live broadcasts on Okko and "Match! Football 2"

Basketball

VTB United League. CSKA —UNICS

The regular season in the main Russian club basketball tournament is already coming to an end, but the top four has been determined for a long time, which includes CSKA Moscow, Zenit St. Petersburg, Kazan UNICS and Krasnodar Lokomotiv Kuban. Hence, the face-to—face meeting of the last two playoff winners — CSKA and UNICS - acquires a special status. It will be held in Moscow on March 1 and will largely affect the balance of power at the top of the table.

March 1, 13:30, Megasport (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV