FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg

FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg

Full name	Football Club Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg
Nickname(s)	Sine-Belo-Golubye (The Blue-White-Sky Blues)
Founded	2013
Ground	MSA Petrovskiy, Saint Petersburg Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg
Capacity	2,809 21,405
Owner	Gazprombank
Chairman	Alexander Medvedev
Manager	Dmitri Davydov
League	FNL 2, Group 2
2021–22	15th
Home colours Away colours

FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК «Зенит-2» Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football team from Saint Petersburg. It plays in the FNL 2 (third level). It is a farm club for the Russian Premier League team FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.

History

Zenit's reserve squad played professionally as Zenit-2 (Russian Second League in 1993, Russian Second Division from 1998 to 2000) and Zenit-d (Russian Third League from 1994 to 1997). Another team that was founded as Lokomotiv-Zenit-2 played as Zenit-2 in the Russian Second Division from 2001 to 2008. By 2008, there was no relation between that team and FC Zenit. Another farm club called FC Smena-Zenit debuted in the Russian Second Division in 2009, taking the spot of the former FC Zenit-2. FC Smena-Zenit was dissolved after the 2009 season because it did not fulfill Zenit's initial expectations. Zenit-2 reentered professional football in the 2013–14 season in the Russian Professional Football League.

In the 2014–15 season, Zenit-2 came in second in its PFL zone behind FC Spartak-2 Moscow. When FC Torpedo Armavir (which qualified for promotion from the Zone South) refused to be promoted to FNL for financial reasons, the league offered the second-placed teams in the PFL an FNL spot. Zenit-2 was the only one who applied and played in the second-tier competition for the first time in their history in 2015–16. Zenit-2 finished the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, but was saved from going down due to several teams above them failing licensing. At the end of the 2018–19 season it was relegated back to the PFL.

Current squad

As of 8 September 2022, according to the Second League website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 35 MF RUS Vladislav Saus 38 FW RUS Savva Kotov 40 DF RUS Ilya Vakhaniya 42 DF RUS Damir Shaykhtdinov 43 DF RUS Artyom Kasimov 45 MF RUS Dmitry Sergeyev 46 DF BLR Ilya Moskalenchik 51 DF RUS Yelisey Yemelyanov 52 FW RUS Kirill Fateyev 54 DF RUS Ilya Kirsh 58 MF RUS Roman Nogtev 60 MF RUS Kirill Stolbov 69 FW RUS Ilya Rodionov

No. Pos. Nation Player 72 MF RUS Yevgeny Kim 74 FW RUS Nikita Tereshchuk 75 MF RUS Ruslan Khayloyev 78 MF RUS Mikhail Chernomyrdin 80 DF RUS Ilya Skrobotov 83 FW RUS Akim Belokhonov 84 DF RUS Viktor Kovrizhnikov 88 GK RUS Vladimir Pavlov 89 GK RUS Maksim Timofeyev 90 DF RUS Danil Savinykh 91 GK RUS David Byazrov 95 GK RUS Georgi Korolyov 97 MF RUS Konstantin Troyanov

External links

• (in Russian) Official website