Here we tell you about all the victories of Sergey Semak in the Russian Super Cup.

Sergey Semak won the Russian Super Cup for the first time in 2004 as a CSKA player. Then the Armymen met Spartak at Lokomotiv stadium. The Red-Blues conceded first, but Semak first equalized – he was first to react after Sergey Ignashevich's missed penalty - before supplying two assists in extra time. In the 111th minute he set up Daniel Carvalho, and two minutes later repeated the feat for Dmitry Kirichenko.

He won his second Super Cup exactly six years later, on 7 March 2010. By then he was already playing for Rubin, and faced his old side CSKA at the Luzhniki. 

However, the midfielder did not participate in that match. "Semak has a severe bruise. He got it in Hungary, but continued the match there. Sergey really wanted to play, but we considered the risk unjustified," said Rubin coach Kurban Berdyev after the match. Nevertheless, the player was present at that clash and together with the team received an award.

A year later, Semak became a three-time winner of the Super Cup, and again won the trophy with another club: Zenit. Then the St. Petersburg team beat CSKA in Krasnodar, and the midfielder in the 73rd minute provided another assist, converted by Aleksey Ionov. Semak remains the only player who has won the trophy with three different clubs.

After the end of his playing career, Semak took the Super Cup twice as an assistant coach. In 2015, when Zenit beat Lokomotiv 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw, the former Zenit midfielder assisted  Portuguese head coach André Villas-Boas, and a year later he helped Romanian Mircea Lucescu, when the Blue-White-Blues beat CSKA by the narrowest of margins to edge home 1-0.

Since becoming head coach of Zenit in May 2018, Semak has led the team in two Super Cups. In 2019, Zenit lost 3-2 to Lokomotiv, but in August 2020 they took revenge with a 2-1 win. In doing so, he accomplished two achievements at once: he became the first to win the Super Cup as a player and head coach, and also as a head and assistant coach.

If he is victorious on 17 July in Kaliningrad, he can become the fifth head coach to win the Super Cup twice. Leonid Slutsky, Kurban Berdyev, Valery Gazzaev and Yuri Semin are the others to have managed to do this. The former Lokomotiv head coach remains the record holder of the tournament, having won the trophy three times.

Photo: Vyacheslav Evdokimov/Zenit, CSKA