Russian Premier League referees
Russia
Russian Premier League referees 2026/2027
Every referee's cards, penalties and fouls per game this season, strictest first. Cards count both teams, second yellows included. The league averages 5.04 cards and 0.29 penalties a match over 110 matches.
Strictest
Matvey Zaika
7.67 cards a game
Most lenient
Yan Bobrovskiy
2.67 cards a game
Appointed
0
referees named for the next two weeks
| Referee | Next match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Matvey Zaika | 3 | 7.67 | 20 | 3 | 0.33 | 29.7 | – |
| Inal Tanashev | 8 | 6.75 | 51 | 3 | 0.63 | 29.0 | – |
| Rafael Shafeev | 7 | 6.71 | 45 | 2 | 0.00 | 30.3 | – |
| Evgeny Kukulyak | 3 | 6.00 | 18 | 0 | 0.67 | 31.7 | – |
| Andrey Prokopov | 10 | 5.90 | 58 | 1 | 0.40 | 27.6 | – |
| Nikita Novikov | 6 | 5.67 | 31 | 3 | 0.00 | 28.3 | – |
| Danil Naboka | 3 | 5.33 | 16 | 0 | 0.33 | 33.3 | – |
| Ivan Abrosimov | 6 | 5.17 | 28 | 3 | 0.67 | 26.2 | – |
| Kirill Levnikov | 7 | 5.00 | 34 | 1 | 0.00 | 26.7 | – |
| Artem Chistyakov | 8 | 4.88 | 36 | 3 | 0.25 | 28.6 | – |
| Anton Frolov | 6 | 4.67 | 26 | 2 | 1.17 | 27.8 | – |
| Vasili Kazartsev | 3 | 4.67 | 14 | 0 | 0.00 | 22.7 | – |
| Igor Kaplenkov | 5 | 4.40 | 22 | 0 | 0.00 | 25.4 | – |
| Aleksey Sukhoy | 4 | 3.75 | 15 | 0 | 0.00 | 26.5 | – |
| Stanislav Matveev | 7 | 3.71 | 25 | 1 | 0.29 | 26.6 | – |
| Sergey Karasev | 6 | 3.50 | 21 | 0 | 0.00 | 24.3 | – |
| Evgeni Bulanov | 5 | 3.40 | 17 | 0 | 0.00 | 34.0 | – |
| Yan Bobrovskiy | 3 | 2.67 | 7 | 1 | 0.00 | 23.3 | – |
| Danil Kashirin | 1 | 7.00 | 7 | 0 | 0.00 | 28.0 | – |
| Pavel Kukuyan | 2 | 6.50 | 11 | 2 | 0.50 | 26.5 | – |
| Pavel Shadykhanov | 1 | 6.00 | 6 | 0 | 0.00 | 32.0 | – |
| Sergey Tsyganok | 1 | 5.00 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 31.0 | – |
| Mikhail Plisko | 1 | 4.00 | 4 | 0 | 1.00 | 28.0 | – |
| Vladimir Moskalev | 2 | 3.50 | 7 | 0 | 0.00 | 29.5 | – |
| Sergey Ivanov | 2 | 2.50 | 5 | 0 | 1.00 | 28.0 | – |
| League average | 110 | 5.04 | 4.81 | 0.23 | 0.29 | 27.9 |
Bars compare cards per game with the league average (the middle tick): red is stricter, green more lenient. Tap a referee for their card-line form, recent matches and the card odds on their next match. Callouts need 3+ matches.