Russian Premier League with its general partner Winline betting company present second Winline RPL Winter Cup, which will be held again in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

In 2024 the tournament will be international, as RPL teams Spartak Moscow and FC Rostov will be joined by Kairat Almaty from Kazakhstan and Shabab Al Ahli from UAE.

Spartak and Rostov were the participants of the first RPL Winter Cup in February 2023; the Red-Whites won the trophy, while Valery Karpin team finished bottom.

Kairat are ten-time Kazakhstan champions, they were fourth in the past season of Premier League. Shabab Al Ahli have seven UAE Pro League titles, they became first in 2022/23 season, and their head coach is Marko Nikolic, who had been working in RPL with Lokomotiv Moscow since 2020 to 2021.

Matches will take place between 2 & 14 February at Al Nahyan Stadium, this venue hosted five matches during previous RPL Winter Cup. Al Nahyan is home arena for Al Wahda club, this season they loaned Zelimkhan Bakaev from Zenit St. Petersburg. RPL and Winline will be pleased to see Zelimkhan at Winter Cup matches.

All teams will face each other once, and the club with most points after three matches will become tournament winners. The winter break is the time of experiments; in 2023, for example, the referees commented the video review live. During the next tournament the organizers plan to use innovations, which will help to create the presence effect for the fans.

Special attention will be paid to the media promotion of the tournament. Exclusive content will be made with the players, coaches, bloggers, and celebrity guests, this will be posted at different media platforms and will be available for all fans.

The schedule and other details on tournament will be announced later.