The football match between the national teams of Montenegro and Russia as part of the selection for the European Football Championship 2016 began at 22:40 on March 27, 2015 Moscow time at the Gradski stadium in Podgorica ( Montenegro ) and was interrupted in the 68th minute [2] when fans of the Montenegrin team began throwing unknown objects at football players .
| Unrest at the football match "Montenegro - Russia" | |||||||||||||
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| Parties to the conflict | |||||||||||||
| Montenegrin fans | Russian national football team | ||||||||||||
| Key figures | |||||||||||||
 Luka Lazarevich |  Igor Akinfeev Dmitry Kombarov | ||||||||||||
| Losses | |||||||||||||
| 1 fan arrested [1] | 2 players hit | ||||||||||||
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The course of events
The riots began already in the 1st minute of the match, when the goalkeeper of the Russian national team Igor Akinfeev hit a fighter from behind the goal from the tribune of Montenegro fans. The goalkeeper fell on the lawn and was urgently hospitalized (he was taken away in an electric vehicle ) [2] , the doctors diagnosed a neck burn and a concussion [2] . The game was stopped for 35 minutes [2] , and the audience was warned that in the event of a repeated incident from either side, the match would be completed [2] .
After Roman Shirokov missed a penalty in the gates of the national team of Montenegro, foreign objects flew onto the field, and a scuffle broke out again between the parties [2] . Meeting judge Deniz Aytekin led the Russian team into the locker room [2] . Aytekin made the decision to interrupt the game when the Russian player Dmitry Kombarov showed damage resulting from being hit by foreign objects [2] . The Montenegrin fan Luka Lazarevich, who threw a fire at Akinfeev, voluntarily surrendered to the police after the match ended and was taken to the police station in the morning of March 3 [3] .
Victims
Akinfeev's diagnosis was initially unknown. The Russian side was talking about a concussion, Montenegrin declared a neck burn. On March 28, the doctor of the Montenegrin Clinical Center, where Milin Zindovich Akinfeev was delivered, gave an interview on the air of the Montenegrin television and radio company RTCG , in which he said the following:
The goalkeeper of the Russian team was adopted with damage to the right side of the neck. It was a small burn [2] .
He also said that there were no threats to Akinfeev’s life [2] , and subsequently all medical reports came together to a burn. Soon, Akinfeev again attended the matches and even spent the day with his disabled fan on behalf of the Vera Charitable Foundation . On March 28, fans of the Montenegrin national team apologized to the Russian national team and Russian fans, and Montenegro national coach Branko Brnovic joined them. On the morning of March 29, Luka Lazarevich gave an interview in which he apologized to the players and fans of both countries.
Consequences [4]
Russia demanded that Montenegro should be counted as a technical defeat, Montenegro insisted on replaying the match in a neutral field with empty stands. On March 28, UEFA announced that it would deliver a verdict on March 30 , but the final decision was postponed. On March 30, UEFA announced that it could also punish Russian fans, since during the match the flag of the DPR and the Russian imperial black-and-yellow-white flag were hung on their stands, and the fans themselves burned the NATO flag on the stands in protest against the bombings of Yugoslavia in 1999 .
On April 8 at the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee meeting the following decisions were taken:
- to the national team of Montenegro to count technical defeat with a score of 0: 3, as well as to award the conduct of two subsequent home matches without spectators;
- Football Union of Montenegro to punish with a fine of € 50,000;
- Russian Football Union to punish with a fine of € 25,000.