Due to the sudden change of the weather, the planned test match against Sambenedettese (Seria D, top position in Group 6) was delayed. The decision was taken to have a friendly match against an amateur club Pontevilla, which  ended with big win of Mordovia – 14:0.

FC Mordovia, Saransk – Pontevilla, Italy - 14:0

Goals: Ruslan Mukhametshin - 4, Aslan Dudiev and Anton Bober – 3 goals each, Evgeny Lutsenko - 2, Oleg Vlasov - 1, own goal of the opponent - 1.
FC Mordovia (starting squad): Shebanov, Lomich, Nakhushev, Phibel, Tishkin, Bober, Stevanovic, Vlasov, Dudiev, Rusl.Mukhametshin (c),  Lutsenko.

Head Coach – Andrey Gordeev.

4 February. Italy. Halftime score - 6:0.