Tomorrow, on January 15th, 2016, vacations of the Bulls lasting more than a month are coming to an end. The team will start its preparation for the spring part of the season 2015/16 at the Chetuk training ground.
On January 15th and 16th the players and coaching staff will undergo a usual medical check in the morning, while in the afternoon on the dates mentioned FC Krasnodar will hold its sessions on the pitches of the training ground.
The training period at Chetuk will last until January 19th, as the black-greens will be leaving for the first winter training camp in the United Arabian Emirates on Tuesday evening. The team will spend 11 days in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, holding two friendly matches there. A scrimmage vs. FC Zhetysu, a Kazakhstan Premier League representative from Taldykorgan, is scheduled for January 25th, while the last day of the training camp, January 29th, will be the date of a friendly vs. Henan Jianye F.C. from Zhengzhou that ranked fifth following the results of the 2015 Chinese Super League.
During the second training camp taking place from 2 to 16 January at Puerto Banús, a small town about 10 km away from Marbella, Spain, three friendly games are considered by the black-greens. On February 4th the Bulls are to meet SK Slavia Prague that is currently the fifth in the Czech First League; on February 8th they will test their skills against FC Spartak Moscow; and the opposition for the scrimmage on February 12th is still to be determined.
On February 16th FC Krasnodar will fly directly from Spain to the capital of the Czech Republic for the first leg match of the UEL Round of 32 vs. AC Sparta Prague. As for the second leg match that will be held in Krasnodar on February 25th, the black-greens will be preparing for it at the Chetuk training ground.