FC Zenit Penza

FC Zenit Penza

Full name	Football Club Zenit Penza
Founded	1918
Ground	Stadium 1st May
Capacity	5,100
Owner	Penza
League	Russian Amateur Football League
2017–18	PFL, Zone Center, 14th (dropped out)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Zenit Penza (Russian: «Зенит» (Пенза)) is a Russian football team from Penza. It played professionally in 1948–1949, 1961–1973, 1990–1999, 2002–2008 and 2010–2017. It played on the second-highest level in the Soviet First League in 1948–1949 and 1960–1962, where its best result was 8th place in Zone 3 in 1961. In 2009, it played in the Amateur Football League which it won and was promoted to the Russian Second Division for 2010. It dropped out the third-tier PFL during the winter break of the 2017–18 season.^[1]

Team name history

• 1918–1926: KLS Penza (Klub Lyubiteley Sporta – Sport Lovers Club)
• 1927: Rabochiy Klub Penza
• 1927–1929: Zavod N50 Penza
• 1930–1935: ZIF Penza
• 1936–1947: FC Zenit Penza
• 1948–1959: FC Spartak Penza
• 1960–1963: FC Zarya Penza
• 1964–1965: FC Trud Penza
• 1966: FC Velozavodets Penza
• 1967–1971: FC Khimmashevets Penza
• 1972–1973: FC Sura Penza
• 1973–1978: FC Granit Penza
• 1979: FC SKA Penza
• 1980–1991: FC Granit Penza
• 1992–present: FC Zenit Penza

Current squad

As of 22 February 2018, according to the PFL website.

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

No. Position Player GK Maksim Staroverov DF Aleksandr Astashkin DF Artyom Lednev DF Dmitri Nikitinsky DF Artur Yefremenko MF Sergei Agrafonov MF Mikhail Belov MF Nikolai Kiritsa MF Kirill Kiselyov

No. Position Player MF Sergei Koksin MF Aleksandr Kuznetsov MF Ruslan Lyovkin MF Kirill Muromtsev MF Mikhail Sherstobitov MF Yegor Taragara FW Denis Klyuyev FW Sergei Sipatov

References

External links

• (in Russian) Official site
• (in Russian) Team history at KLISF