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[1]
21,405
Owner Gazprombank
Chairman Sergey Fursenko
Manager Vladislav Radimov
League Russian Football National League
2017–18 16th

FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК «Зенит-2» Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football team from Saint Petersburg. It plays in the Russian Football National League (second 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.

Current squad

As of 30 August 2018, according to the FNL website.

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

No. Position Player
2 Russia DF Aleksandr Anyukov
3 Russia DF Denis Terentyev
28 Russia DF Yevgeni Chernov
29 Russia FW Anton Zabolotny
31 Russia GK Mikhail Ponomarenko
32 Russia FW Nikolai Prudnikov
37 Russia MF Vadim Simutenkov
38 Russia MF Leon Musayev
39 Russia DF Vasili Zapryagayev
45 Russia DF Dmitri Sergeyev
47 Russia MF Ruslan Kazakov
49 Russia MF Dmitri Pletnyov
50 Russia DF Vladislav Molchan
53 Russia DF Kirill Aloyan
54 Russia DF Nikita Kakkoyev
55 Russia MF Kirill Kaplenko
59 Russia DF Sergei Bugriyev
61 Russia MF Dmitri Kirillov
62 Russia MF Maksim Levin
No. Position Player
63 Russia DF Maksim Smirnov
65 Russia FW Maksim Bachinsky
66 Russia DF Samir Bayramov
70 Russia GK Nikita Goylo
72 Russia DF Anton Sinyak
73 Russia DF Aleksey Plotnikov
74 Russia MF Sergei Ivanov
76 Russia FW Kirill Makeyev
79 Russia DF Daniil Penchikov
80 Russia DF Ilya Skrobotov
81 Latvia MF Vladislavs Soloveičiks
82 Russia FW Ivan Tarasov
84 Russia FW Ilya Vorobyov
86 Russia GK Nikolai Rybikov
88 Russia MF Dmitry Bogayev
93 Russia GK Mikhail Kizeyev
96 Lithuania DF Tomas Rukas
97 Russia MF Ilya Kamyshev
98 Russia FW Aleksandr Yelovskikh

References

  1. ↑ Stadium characteristics on the official web-site
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