The Chernomorets Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ilja Zhigulev
105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chernomorets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilja Zhigulev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chernomorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Chernomorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kirill Suslov 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Krasian Kolev
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chernomorets promote Valery Komarov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valery Komarov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Mikhail Abakumov joins the Chernomorets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikhail Abakumov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Andrei Trifonov steps up from the Chernomorets academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrei Trifonov 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
One of our own: Ruslan Agafonov joins the Chernomorets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruslan Agafonov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Ilja Kukharchuk
A mark of 7.79, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Chernomorets
- Match Ilja Kukharchuk rescues a point for Chernomorets
- Player ratings Anton Antonov ran the game