The Sevastopol Courier
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Vintage Redvan Osmanov — 8.27
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.27, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Sevastopol
Rustam Vazitdinov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Oct 2026
Sevastopol see off Druzhba
Three points for Sevastopol, 2‑1 the final word against Druzhba in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Redvan Osmanov is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.30 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market12 Oct 2026
Gleb Ermakov steps up from the Sevastopol academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gleb Ermakov 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Yefrem Smolnikov joins the Sevastopol first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yefrem Smolnikov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Bekkhan Aliev at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sevastopol.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sevastopol are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Mikhail Yefremov, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
- Squad Rostislav Tyschenko falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout Maxim Isaev gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Lev Potapov knocks on the manager's door