Discussion of a possible tightening of the limit for foreign players in the Russian Premier League (RPL) is not finished yet. The president of the Russian Football Federation told journalists this (RFU) Alexander Diukov.

The Ministry of Sports proposes to tighten the limit for foreign players by 2028 according to the “10 foreign players in the application, 5 on the field” scheme.

“The Ministry gave the football community, experts and specialists the opportunity to talk openly about this issue. As far as I understand, the discussion process continues,” Dyukov said.

According to the current limit, clubs RPL can include 13 foreign players in the application and release 8 foreign players on the field. In September, the Russian Football Federation said that the current limit allows for the first time to increase the playing time of young players to 18%.

The Samara football club “Wings of the Soviets” will pay 555 million rubles to the Rostec subsidiary “RT-Capital” by the end of 2025. The chairman of the board of directors of “Wings of the Soviets” told journalists. Dmitry Yakovlev.

“At the moment we have paid another 67 million rubles for the debt. Later we plan to increase it to 100. Budget funds will not be used to pay off the debt. We will pay off the debt of 555 million rubles by the end of the year. We are not asking for a loan from the Solidarity Bank,” Yakovlev said.

He also stressed that the club has no debts to players, employees and staff. “We paid all the holidays. We fulfilled all our obligations,” Yakovlev noted.

On December 1, enforcement proceedings were initiated to collect a debt of more than 928 million rubles from Krylya Sovetov in favor of RT-Capital. Previously, the decision to collect the debt was made by the Moscow Arbitration Court, then the 9th Arbitration Court of Appeal confirmed this decision. The football club has borrowed funds for financial support, but has not met its debt repayment obligations since 2016.

Arbitration and Inspection Department of the Russian Football Federation (RFU) demonstrated that the referee Egor Egorov did not affect the results of matches involving Moscow Torpedo. The head of RFU Alexander Diukov.

“The investigation is ongoing and until it is completed we cannot make any comments. I am not familiar with Egorov’s statements. Our refereeing and inspection department analyzed the Torpedo matches refereed by Egorov. In these matches, our experts did not find any incorrect decisions of the referee that could have influenced the result,” Dyukov said.

Previously, the referee’s father, Igor Egorov, in an interview with Sport Express, denied that his son was in custody due to suspicion of involvement in the Torpedo case. Subsequently, in a conversation with the RB Sport portal, Igor Egorov said that his son was involved in a related criminal case.

On July 10, Torpedo was expelled from the Russian World Premier League for the 2025/26 season and fined 5 million rubles. Former chairman of the board of directors Leonid Sobolev and former general director Valery Skorodumov were suspended from all football-related activities for attempting to organize match-fixing for 5 and 10 years respectively. On July 11, the office of the executive committee of the Russian Football Federation decided that Torpedo would compete in the second strongest division of the national championship.