FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
Full nameFootball Club Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg
Nickname(s)Sine-Belo-Golubye (The Blue-White-Sky Blues)
Founded2013
GroundMSA Petrovskiy, Saint Petersburg
Petrovsky, Saint Petersburg
Capacity2,809[1]
21,405
OwnerGazprombank
ChairmanAlexander Medvedev
ManagerAndrei Pocheptsov
LeagueRussian Second League,
Division B,
Group 2
20232nd

FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК «Зенит-2» Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football team from Saint Petersburg. It plays in the Russian Second League (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 December 2023[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF Russia RUS Aleksandr Kovalenko
21 MF Russia RUS Aleksandr Yerokhin
35 MF Russia RUS Vladislav Saus
36 DF Russia RUS Dmitry Bykov
42 MF Russia RUS Andrei Orlov
43 DF Russia RUS Artyom Kasimov
45 MF Russia RUS Kirill Glazunov
47 DF Russia RUS Serafim Abzalilov
48 DF Russia RUS Maksim Sharov
49 FW Russia RUS Igor Kozlov
50 DF Russia RUS Arseny Abzalilov
51 DF Russia RUS Yelisey Yemelyanov
52 FW Russia RUS Timur Ivanov
53 DF Russia RUS Matvey Bardachyov
57 DF Russia RUS Nikita Lobov
58 MF Russia RUS Roman Nogtev
59 DF Russia RUS Yevgeny Tonevitsky
60 FW Russia RUS Igor Bugayenko
61 GK Russia RUS Bogdan Moskvichyov
64 FW Russia RUS Konstantin Voinkov
65 DF Russia RUS Vitaly Frantsuzov
68 FW Russia RUS Dmitry Samartsev
69 FW Russia RUS Ilya Rodionov
70 MF Russia RUS Nikita Vershinin
71 MF Russia RUS Maksim Khalilov
No. Pos. Nation Player
72 MF Russia RUS Yevgeny Kim
73 DF Russia RUS Artur Chyorny (on loan from Khimki)
74 MF Russia RUS Denis Mushkarin
76 FW Russia RUS Roman Kolmakov (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow)
78 FW Russia RUS Aleksandr Shirokov
79 MF Russia RUS Dmitri Vasilyev
80 DF Russia RUS Artemy Kosogorov
81 FW Russia RUS Nikita Bazilevsky
82 GK Russia RUS Arkhip Laks
83 FW Russia RUS Akim Belokhonov
84 FW Russia RUS Nikita Tereshchuk
85 GK Russia RUS Sergey Butyrya
86 FW Russia RUS Yevgeny Pshennikov
87 MF Russia RUS Savely Nikiforov
88 GK Russia RUS Vladimir Pavlov
89 FW Russia RUS Stanislav Lapinsky
90 DF Russia RUS Maksim Polyakov
91 GK Russia RUS David Byazrov
92 DF Russia RUS Ivan Shilyonok
93 GK Russia RUS Maksim Shichanin
94 MF Russia RUS Danila Kozlov
95 GK Russia RUS Georgi Korolyov
96 FW Russia RUS Aleksey Baranovsky
97 MF Russia RUS Ivan Pichugin
98 DF Russia RUS Stefan Kalinov

References

  1. Stadium characteristics on the official web-site
  2. "Zenit-2 roster" (in Russian). Russian Second League. Retrieved 23 July 2023.


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