Belarusian officials to referee St. Gallen vs. Valencia Europa League tie

      Belarusian referees have been appointed for the Europa League match between Switzerland’s St Gallen and Spain’s Valencia in tour 4 of the group stage round.
      The Group A meeting between St Gallen and Valencia, which will be held in Switzerland on 7 November, will be refereed by the FIFA referee from Belarus Alexei Kulbakov. Dmitry Zhuk and Andrei Getikov will be the assistant referees. Additional two assistant referees are Denis Shcherbakov and Sergei Tsinkevich, while Vitaly Malyutin is the fourth official. The match inspector will be Eugen Strigel of Germany.
Russia’s FC Kuban coached by the Belarusian manager Viktor Goncharenko will take on Swansea City at home. In the first two tours FC Kuban lost against St. Gallen away 0-2 and Valencia at home 0-2. Viktor Goncharenko’s side held Swansea City in the first match in Wales 1-1.
Swansea top the Group A table with 7 points (goal difference 5-1), Valencia sit second with 6 points (7-4), St. Gallen are third with three points (3-6), while Kuban prop up the table with one point and a goal difference of 1-5.