Before the kick-off of the match against Krylia Sovetov from Samara  Zenit forward  Hulk received an honorary award of the Russian Football Premier League as the best goal scorer of the SOGAZ-Russian Football Championship 2014-2015.

We would like to remind that in the previous Championship Hulk got the top position in the goal scorers list with 15 scored goals, he was two goals ahead of Roman Eremenko from PFC  CSKA, Quincy Promes from Spartak and his ex-clubmate Salomon Rondon.