Kacper Tracz

Striker - Uralets-TS
18 Jan 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Kacper Tracz

15 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidyn Mirzoev

68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Uralets-TS lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Uralets-TS run riot against Khimik

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

The dugout

Jakub Welter keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Uralets-TS may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Nobody above Uralets-TS

First, on 22 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Player ratings

Stephen Adayilo scores twice — 8.27

Two goals and a mark of 8.27 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Uralets-TS make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Uralets-TS have 4 straight wins of it.

The terraces

Uralets-TS supporters have found a favourite in Mikhail Pilipenko

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mikhail Pilipenko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Uralets-TS are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kacper Tracz

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Aidyn Mirzoev damages knee ligaments — 133 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 133 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Daniil Gerasimov asks to leave Uralets-TS

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A falling-out at Uralets-TS

Jakub Welter and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Spartak Moscow tell Uralets-TS: Daniil Zhitnikov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Kacper Tracz is the division's best young player this month

At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Uralets-TS will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad

Rayat Sharafutdinov is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Rayat Sharafutdinov has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

Jakub Welter gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jakub Welter is on it.

Market

Uralets-TS and Vladimir Tolmachev are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

Uralets-TS put Maxim Moskovets up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Maxim Moskovets may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

5 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Maxim Moskovets asks to leave Uralets-TS

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Stephen Adayilo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Stephen Adayilo and Uralets-TS agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Uralets-TS

Stephen Adayilo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Spartak Moscow tell Uralets-TS: Georgy Rykov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Uralets-TS come up short against KDV Tomsk

KDV Tomsk left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Danil Kapustyanskiy did the work nobody counts — 7.01

11 combined actions and 7.01. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yegor Zubarev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yegor Zubarev, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Arseny Sorokin answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Transfer targets

Uralets-TS try to borrow Artem Dryakhlov

Krasnodar have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

4 Edition

The Uralets-TS Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Uralets-TS through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over Cherepovets, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Both of them Kacper Tracz's — 8.60

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.60, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Uralets-TS make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Uralets-TS have 3 straight wins of it.

Transfer targets

Rodina tell Uralets-TS: Gleb Knyazev is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Uralets-TS find a way past Orenburg 2

Orenburg 2 made Uralets-TS work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

Uralets-TS supporters have found a favourite in Mikhail Pilipenko

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mikhail Pilipenko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Maxim Moskovets

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Mikhail Pilipenko

7.76, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Uralets-TS had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

Arseny Sorokin: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

In brief