Maxim Konyaev

Left Wingback - Sevastopol
13 Nov 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Maxim Konyaev

14 Edition

The Sevastopol Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bekkhan Aliev

Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Vladislav Kucheiko breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

8 matches without a win for Sevastopol

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Sevastopol are no longer polite ones.

Market

Maxim Konyaev asks to leave Sevastopol

“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.

Match

Sevastopol come up short against Kuban Holding

Kuban Holding left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Redvan Osmanov

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

Market

Talks stall between Sevastopol and Vladislav Kucheiko

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

When it matters, Yury Maximov plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Yury Maximov changes it off the bench

He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Sevastopol had a different afternoon.

In brief

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The Sevastopol Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Vladislav Kucheiko breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them Yury Maximov's — 8.18

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Maxim Isaev at 21 — 8.13

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Maxim Isaev did not need any: 8.13, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Maxim Konyaev hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sevastopol can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Sevastopol cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Match

Sevastopol get the job done against Rubin Yalta

A 3‑2 win over Rubin Yalta, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

Sevastopol supporters have found a favourite in Maxim Isaev

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Maxim Isaev 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Amet Dugu

“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.

Squad

Alexandr Popov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

5 Edition

The Sevastopol Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Maxim Isaev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $220.0K sale of Artem Stepanovich

He is going to Flora, the club has $220.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Maxim Vertiev asks to leave Sevastopol

“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.

Market

Business is business: Artem Stepanovich goes

Flora paid $220.0K and Sevastopol took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Match

Sevastopol see off Angusht

Three points for Sevastopol, 2‑1 the final word against Angusht in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Bekkhan Aliev at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sevastopol.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Yury Maximov at his very best

Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sevastopol.

Player ratings

Maxim Myasnikov turns it into his own net

Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Sevastopol deserved better, and so did he.

Market

Uralets-TS are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Sevastopol will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

2 Edition

The Sevastopol Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bekkhan Aliev leads the rout of Legion

4‑1, and Bekkhan Aliev took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Sevastopol tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Alexandr Popov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Both of them Bekkhan Aliev's — 8.26

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.26, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Maxim Konyaev asks to leave Sevastopol

“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.

Market

Nosta come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sevastopol did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Sevastopol

Artem Stepanovich 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Artem Stepanovich

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

Match

Legion blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Legion tried to reorganise, Sevastopol did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Player ratings

One of those days for Artem Stepanovich

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief