Volga Ulyanovsk — Spartak Kostroma 0:1, 18 September: match result

match finished Russian First League · Matchday 12 Friday 18 September · 14:00 UTC

Volga Ulyanovsk 14th · 11 pts LLDWD

0 : 1 1st half 0:1

Spartak Kostroma 2th · 24 pts LWWWW

Trud Stadium · referee Y. Galimov

Match predictionSafe

Volga Ulyanovsk +2.5

93% · Volga Ulyanovsk games average 2.8 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Volga Ulyanovsk +2.5”, and the match finished 0:1.

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our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Volga Ulyanovsk 29% draw 28% Spartak Kostroma 43%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Spartak Kostroma win, and the match finished 0:1. Fans backed Spartak Kostroma win — they got it right.

fans 66 votes

Volga Ulyanovsk 26% draw 17% Spartak Kostroma 57%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

A. Kalmykov 0-1 7'

A. Bykov 41'

D. Zhilmostnykh 42'

A. Khabibullin 74'

V. Kamilov 90+4'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Volga Ulyanovsk 5-4-1 · Aleksey Tuskaev 5-3-2 · Andrey Ashikhmin Spartak Kostroma

Rinat Shakerov  
Oleg Krasilnichenko  4 Kamil Ibragimov  30 Aydar Khabibullin  50 Artem Bykov  5 Danil Stepanov  
Aleksandr Saplinov  99 Andrey Kostin  22 Dmitriy Rakhmanov  7 Andrey Nikitin  
Astemir Khashkulov  

Armin Spahić  90 Amur Kalmykov  
Anatoliy Nemchenko  17 Dmitriy Kaptilovich  10 David Karaev  
Denis Zhilmostnykh  6 Nader Mohammadi  2 Nikolay Tarasov  21 Marko Bugarin  7 Kirill Malyarov  
Mikhail Gaydash  

Volga Ulyanovsk bench

95Andrey Khodanovich
28Danil Novikov
8Denis Rakhmanov
60Ignat Kasyanov
17Igor Gershun
9Kirill Folmer
20Konstantin Kovalev
77Luka Bagatelia
88Maks Dziov
10Ruslan Shagiakhmetov
76Vadim Livadnov
14Vladislav Yakovlev

Spartak Kostroma bench

96Amir Mokhammad
73David Kirakosyan
11Dimitri Gurtskaia
50Egor Shamov
13Ilya Rubtsov
69Kirill Chursin
66Maksim Nikiforov
8Nikita Demchenko
82Oleg Nikiforenko
70Ruslan Chervyakov
3Sergey Bugriev
18Vladislav Kamilov

Match stats

9 metrics for the full match

58%Possession42%

Shots

0Shots on target1

8Shots off target2

Blocked shots

Shots inside box

5Corners4

2Yellow cards2

0Red cards0

Volga Ulyanovsk

Spartak KostromaThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

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Volga Ulyanovsk and Spartak Kostroma met on matchday 12 of the Russian First League on 18 September at Trud Stadium. Final score — 0:1.

Volga Ulyanovsk sit 14th on 11 points after 12 matches (3 wins, 2 draws, 7 losses), winless in 3 matches. Spartak Kostroma sit 2th on 24 points after 12 matches (7 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses), 6 matches without conceding.

Of the last 2 meetings Volga Ulyanovsk won 1, Spartak Kostroma won 0, with 1 more meeting drawn. Aggregate score — 2:1.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Volga Ulyanovsk last five Spartak Kostroma

LLDWD form LWWWW

12 Matches 12

3 — 2 — 7 Wins — draws — defeats 7 — 3 — 2

14 — 18 Scored — conceded 16 — 10

0.92 Points per game 2

1.17 Goals scored per game 1.33

2 Clean sheets 6

4 Failed to score 2

winless in 3 Current streak winless in 1

Volga Ulyanovsk at home: 7 matches, 2 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses, goals 7—9, 0.86 points per match.

Spartak Kostroma away: 6 matches, 4 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss, goals 7—4, 2.17 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

1 Volga Ulyanovsk win 1 draw 0 Spartak Kostroma wins goals 2:1 Volga Ulyanovsk — Spartak Kostroma

28/03/2026	Volga Ulyanovsk — Spartak Kostroma	1:0	Russian First League
29/09/2025	Spartak Kostroma — Volga Ulyanovsk	1:1	Russian First League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
2	Ural	12	7	4	1	20—6	25
3	Spartak Kostroma	12	7	3	2	16—10	24
4	Sochi	12	7	2	3	21—14	23
…
14	Chelyabinsk	12	3	3	6	13—19	12
15	Volga Ulyanovsk	12	3	2	7	14—18	11
16	KAMAZ	12	2	3	7	11—19	9

Full Russian First League table