Marked for Alexei Emelyanov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match8 Jan 2028
Nowhere to hide for Kolomna
0‑5 against Zenit 2, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market10 Jan 2028
“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.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
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Squad10 Jan 2028
Rauf Novruzov 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Zaurbek Ramonov 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.
Boardroom10 Jan 2028
Nobody left the Kolomna dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ruslan Dmitriev, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market3 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
No sign of nerves from Alexei Emelyanov at 17 — 8.64
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alexei Emelyanov did not need any: 8.64, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Kolomna
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Kolomna is running low.
Match1 Jan 2028
Luki-Energiya made Kolomna work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Rauf Novruzov 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.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
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Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Islam-Bek Gubzhokov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Astemir Mambetov did the work nobody counts — 6.76
10 combined actions and 6.76. 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.
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Uneasy
Market27 Dec 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolomna, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Marked 8.22 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
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Match25 Dec 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Danil Kazantsev. 3‑2 against Zvezda, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Kolomna
Rauf Novruzov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces27 Dec 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Danil Kazantsev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑2, Artyom Mamaev could afford to be generous.
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Crisis
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Laurent Mignolet for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Kolomna will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match18 Dec 2027
The wait goes on for Kolomna
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match18 Dec 2027
A bad afternoon for Kolomna against Tver
1‑2 to Tver, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Kolomna
Rauf Novruzov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
“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.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
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Squad20 Dec 2027
Zaurbek Ramonov 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Evgeniy Gribov and Kolomna agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Uneasy
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Marked 7.97 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
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Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Kolomna
Rauf Novruzov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match30 Oct 2027
A 2‑0 win over Cherepovets, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match1 Nov 2027
Kolomna at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 8, 20 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Artyom Mamaev on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Kolomna counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Kolomna now.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Kolomna
Rauf Novruzov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
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Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anton Zabolotsky and Kolomna agree another 3 years.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Alexei Emelyanov is the weekend's best young player
At 17 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Klyuev
“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.
Match23 Oct 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Irkutsk came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Crisis
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
No sign of nerves from Alexei Emelyanov at 17 — 8.44
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alexei Emelyanov did not need any: 8.44, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Danil Kazantsev pops up at the right end — 7.87
7.87, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
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Match16 Oct 2027
Saturn left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match16 Oct 2027
Alexei Emelyanov among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Alexei Emelyanov on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Kolomna and Saturn.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
He is 17 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Kolomna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zaurbek Ramonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Rauf Novruzov
“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 ratings18 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
A falling-out at Kolomna
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The dugout
Dmitriy Khrenov dropped after a run of poor form
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Rodion Kuznetsov out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kolomna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
Anger at Kolomna spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market20 Sep 2027
“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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Marked 8.23 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
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Squad20 Sep 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets20 Sep 2027
Kolomna asked and Mashuk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad20 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolomna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The deal with Pobeda is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Kolomna
Rauf Novruzov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match7 Aug 2027
0‑1 to Baltika 2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rauf Novruzov, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Denis Klyuev and Kolomna agree another 3 years.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Artyom Mamaev after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Belts tighten at Kolomna
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Kolomna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexei Emelyanov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Anatoly Demidov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Danil Kazantsev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kolomna say nothing, which says plenty.
Market15 Mar 2027
“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.
Market15 Mar 2027
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Kolomna could get for him.
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Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
“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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kolomna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Neftekhimik keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tyumen have kept their man, and Kolomna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Alexei Emelyanov 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
90% of the income goes out in wages at Kolomna
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A loan move for Artem Gyurdzhan is in the works
Kolomna have made the call to Yenisey. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A loan move for Shamil Isaev is in the works
Kolomna have made the call to Ufa. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
“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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Kolomna say no — this time
The offer from Znamya Truda for Arseny Chkalov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Alexei Emelyanov 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Tyumen 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Rotor: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A loan move for Yury Maleev is in the works
Kolomna have made the call to Ural. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Akron 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Khrenov, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market25 Jan 2027
Rauf Novruzov 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 Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Kolomna
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
93% of the income goes out in wages at Kolomna
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Kolomna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Lukjanenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arseniy Gromov and Kolomna agree another 3 years.
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Crisis
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolomna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexei Emelyanov and Kolomna agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Kolomna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurent Mignolet is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arseniy Gromov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arseny Chkalov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match9 Jan 2027
Zenit 2 left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mikhail Kanaev 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alexei Emelyanov 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Late, late show earns Kolomna a point
Minute 89, against Luki-Energiya, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match2 Jan 2027
A 2‑2 draw with Luki-Energiya leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Artyom Mamaev was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Kolomna dressing room was either.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
Cruel end for Tver as Kolomna pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Kolomna scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A brace, and Laurent Mignolet takes the afternoon — 9.46
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Laurent Mignolet provided it, and the 9.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Alexei Emelyanov, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 8.55
A mark of 8.55 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market21 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Dec 2026
Three points for Kolomna, 3‑2 the final word against Tver in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match19 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for Kolomna
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Tver were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Maxim Kovzikov
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolomna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolomna, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Alexei Emelyanov, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match31 Oct 2026
Cherepovets made Kolomna work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 16 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yaroslav Kolesnichenko, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Maxim Kovzikov
74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolomna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Alexei Emelyanov, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 8.20
A mark of 8.20 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Alexandr Peshkov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kolomna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolomna can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniil Kopylov commits to Kolomna for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mikhail Kanaev 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
A point taken on 89 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kolomna
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match10 Oct 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
Kolomna throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Tver the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Kolomna will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.69 at 16, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolomna, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Kolomna
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kolomna are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rauf Novruzov 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Islam-Bek Gubzhokov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match5 Sep 2026
Kolomna share the spoils with Tver
A 2‑2 draw with Tver leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vladimir Malyshev and Kolomna agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Kolomna
Mikhail Kanaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Kolomna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurent Mignolet is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniil Kopylov 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danil Yelagin has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fedor Vasin has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rodion Kuznetsov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexei Emelyanov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.