The fifth championship of the Crimean football union Premier League starts on August 17

The fifth championship of the CFU Premier League will start on next Saturday, August 17. 8 teams from different parts of the Crimea will take part in the tournament traditionally.

Two matches will be on August 17.

"Kyzyltash", Bakhchysaray will host"Favorit- VD Kafa", Feodosiya in Novopavlovka. The team from Feodosiya – is newcomer of the Premier League, it got the right to participate in higher division thanks to the win in the Open Crimean championship. The team from Feodosiya heads Iurii Getikov, who is well known to Crimean football lovers by the work in "TSK-Tavriya". The mentor of Bakhchysaray’s team was changed too. Anatoliy Skvortsov become the head coach of "Kyzyltash", earlier he worked in "Kafa", Feodosiya and "TSK-Tavriya". The match "Kyzyltash" – "Favorit-VD Kafa" will be on the field of sports complex "Skif" and will start at 17 o’clock. The teams will be judged by the referee from Simferopol Iurii Volkov.

The second Saturday match will be in Sevastopol, where acting champion of the CFU Premier League FC "Sevastopol" will measure its strength with "Ocean", Kerch. Let us note, that Kerch ended last championship in upper part of the standings – on the fourth position. The opposition stats of the "Sevastopol" and "Ocean" counts 16 matches in the championships of the Premier League, Sevastopol won the half of it, 2 wins in the asset of Kerch, the rest of the games ended in a draw result. The solemn opening ceremony of the 5^th championship of the CFU PL will be before the match of the "Sevastopol" – "Ocean". The referees’ team led by Roman Shalverov from Pervomaiskoe will bring out the teams.

Two more duels will be on Sunday, August 18.

"TSK-Tavriya", Simferopol will host "Incomsport", Yalta on "Fiolent" stadium. The metropolitan team will play in a good mood in this game. "Tavriya" become the CFU Supercup-2019 holder, having won from "Sevastopol" in the shootout series. "TSK-Tavriya" and "Incomsport" met 4 times in total. Simferopol celebrated the win three times, Yalta won once. The match "TSK-Tavriya" – "Incomsport" starts at 17 o’clock, the referee of the match – Oleg Lapishko from Simferopol.

And the match in Yevpatoriya will close the first tour, where local same name club will meet with "Krymteplitsa", Molodezhnoe. Molodezhnoe took the bronze medals of the championship in last season, and Yevpatoriya finished at the head of the bottom standings, having took the fifth place. The rivals met 12 times in the championships under the aegis of the CFU – Yevpatoriya has 5 wins, Molodezhnoe – 3, 4 games didn’t show the winner. The game of the 1^st tour "Yevpatoriya" – "Krymteplitsa" will be judged by the referee from Yalta Bogdan Golovko, the game will be in the sports complex "Arena-Crimea" and will start at 18 o’clock.

All matches of the 1^st tour of the CFU PL championship will be shown in live broadcast on the official Crimean football union website.