Stepan Yevseyev

Right Midfielder - Luki-Energiya U19
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Stepan Yevseyev

20 Edition

The Luki-Energiya Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Luki-Energiya

Dmitry Saganovich 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 ratings

Yegor Pankov was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. 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 dugout

No hiding place for Lev Ushakhin

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

Player ratings

Alexandr Galimov runs at them all day

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.

Match

Yegor Pankov rescues a point for Luki-Energiya

It needed Yegor Pankov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Spartak Moscow 2, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Evgeniy Demidov was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Luki-Energiya dressing room was either.

The dugout

Dmitry Saganovich knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Luki-Energiya, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Luki-Energiya

Zenit 2 top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

Squad

Stepan Yevseyev makes his debut at 16

At 16 years old, Stepan Yevseyev became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Luki-Energiya Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Igor Kurbanov 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 Luki-Energiya can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Not going: Daniil Vaulin stays at Luki-Energiya

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Zenit Penza had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Osipovichi come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Luki-Energiya

Dmitry Saganovich 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 targets

Luki-Energiya rebuffed over Denis Chuprunov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nizhniy Novgorod have kept their man, and Luki-Energiya go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: Stepan Yevseyev joins the Luki-Energiya first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stepan Yevseyev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Lev Ushakhin gets it from the manager

“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 dugout

Alexandr Galimov knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Luki-Energiya, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Yegor Pankov

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Tver in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief