In the SOGAZ-Russian Football Championship MD 14 kick-off match in Ekaterinburg Ural hosted Rubin from Kazan and lost 1:3.
The opener was scored in the 13th minute when Gökdeniz Karadeniz first tried a penalty kick and then scored after the ball was turned away by Ural goalkeeper Nikolay Zabolotnyi. After the halftime Ural goalkeeper saved his team again, it was a penalty kick in the 60th minute which Igor Portnyagin tried to convert. Portnyagin made aments in a couple of minutes by means of scoring, and Magomed Ozdoev nailed the advantage of the team from Kazan in the 64th minute. In the 77th minute Spartak Gogniev managed to get one goal back, but the home team was not able to do anything else.