Matches of the 17th tour of the Crimean football union Premier League championship were played on the peninsula on March 14 and 16.
Three duels took place on Wednesday, March 14.
In Feodosiya local club "Kafa" hosted Bakhchysaray "Kyzyltash" at the stadium n.a. Shaiderov. The club from Feodosiya is in a prolonged game crisis, and duel with Bakhchysaray team was 12th in a row, where "Kafa" was defeated. Midfielder of "Kyzyltash" Dmitriy Khodarchenko scored the only goal in this meeting on the 77th minute and brought his team three points – 1:0, "Kyzyltash" wins.
Simferopol "TSK-Tavriya" met with "Rubin Yalta" in Novopavlovka on the field of sports complex "Skif". The team from South Coast of Crimea took the lead first: Roman Livinskiy distinguish himself on the 36th minute. Simferopol team managed to break the game and not only to equalize the score, but to step forward in second half. Evgeniy Odintsov made the score a draw from penalty on the 59th minute, and he took his team forward on the 70th minute. But Yalta managed to save themselves for two minutes before the regular time match end: Ruslan Imaev set the final game score – a draw 2:2.
The central tour match took place at the sports complex "Arena-Crimea" in Yevpatoriya, where the local "Yevpatoriya" hosted Molodezhnoe "Krymteplitsa". The championship leader could not rehabilitate in the eyes of native supporters after failed away confrontation with "Kyzyltash" in the last tour (2:2 draw). This time Yevpatoriya gave way to the team from Molodezhnoe. All decided the only one penalty, which was converted by defender of "Krymteplitsa" Rollan Pogoreltsev on the 55th minute. As result 1:0, the victory of "teplitsa".
The tour program was closed by the match "Sevastopol" – "Ocean" on Friday, March 16. Guests opened the hosts goal on the 36th minute – well-placed shot on the asset of Pavel Grishchenko. However, Sevastopol managed to wining back before the half-time (Oleg Solovich scored on the 44th minute) and snatch a victory in the second half. Midfielder of Sevastopol Sergey Ferenchak made finally assist of this game on the 66th minute – 2:1, the comeback of "Sevastopol".
The situation in the standings after played the 17th tour matches, looks next: "Yevpatoriya" is leading still (41 points), "Sevastopol" has the same number of points now, third place is for "TSK-Tavriya" (36 points), "Krymteplitsa" on the fourth place (27 points). The top of the tournament table is headed by "Ocean" (20 points), "Kyzyltash" at the sixth position with 18 points, "Rubin Yalta" on the seventh line with 7 points, and "Kafa" is traditionally place on eighth place (only 3 points).
The first semi-final matches of the CFU Cup season-2017/18 will be played on Wednesday, March 21. Will play: "Krymteplitsa" – "Yevpatoriya" and "Sevastopol" – "Rubin Yalta". Both matches will start at 18:00.
And the 18th tour of the CFU Premier-League championship will be held on March 24 and 25. "TSK-Tavriya" and "Ocean" will play on Saturday, March 24, and there will be duels on Sunday, March 25: "Kyzyltash" – "Sevastopol", "Rubin Yalta" – "Yevpatoriya" and "Krymteplitsa" – "Kafa".
