FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg

Football club

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| Alexander Medvedev
Manager| Andrei Pocheptsov
League| Russian Second League,
Division B,
Group 2
2023| 2nd

Home colours

Away colours

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Departments of Zenit Saint Petersburg

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Football
(Men)| Football
(Reserve)| Football
(Women)| Basketball
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Basketball
(Reserve)| Volleyball| Handball|

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[edit]

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[edit]

As of 7 February 2024[2]

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

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14  | MF |  RUS | Aleksandr Kovalenko
21  | MF |  RUS | Aleksandr Yerokhin
36  | DF |  RUS | Dmitry Bykov
42  | MF |  RUS | Andrei Orlov
45  | MF |  RUS | Kirill Glazunov
47  | DF |  RUS | Serafim Abzalilov
48  | DF |  RUS | Maksim Sharov
49  | FW |  RUS | Igor Kozlov
51  | DF |  RUS | Yelisey Yemelyanov
52  | FW |  RUS | Timur Ivanov
53  | DF |  RUS | Matvey Bardachyov
57  | DF |  RUS | Nikita Lobov
58  | MF |  RUS | Roman Nogtev
59  | DF |  RUS | Yevgeny Tonevitsky
60  | FW |  RUS | Igor Bugayenko
61  | GK |  RUS | Bogdan Moskvichyov
64  | FW |  RUS | Konstantin Voinkov
65  | DF |  RUS | Vitaly Frantsuzov
68  | FW |  RUS | Dmitry Samartsev
70  | MF |  RUS | Nikita Vershinin
71  | MF |  RUS | Maksim Khalilov
72  | MF |  RUS | Yevgeny Kim
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73  | DF |  RUS | Artur Chyorny (on loan from Khimki)
74  | MF |  RUS | Denis Mushkarin
76  | FW |  RUS | Roman Kolmakov (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow)
78  | FW |  RUS | Aleksandr Shirokov
79  | MF |  RUS | Dmitri Vasilyev
80  | DF |  RUS | Artemy Kosogorov
81  | FW |  RUS | Nikita Bazilevsky
82  | GK |  RUS | Arkhip Laks
83  | FW |  RUS | Akim Belokhonov
84  | FW |  RUS | Nikita Tereshchuk
86  | FW |  RUS | Yevgeny Pshennikov
87  | MF |  RUS | Savely Nikiforov
88  | GK |  RUS | Vladimir Pavlov
89  | FW |  RUS | Stanislav Lapinsky
91  | GK |  RUS | David Byazrov
92  | DF |  RUS | Ivan Shilyonok
93  | GK |  RUS | Maksim Shichanin
95  | GK |  RUS | Georgi Korolyov
96  | FW |  RUS | Aleksey Baranovsky
97  | MF |  RUS | Ivan Pichugin
98  | DF |  RUS | Stefan Kalinov

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* (in Russian) Official website

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Russian Second League teams

2023–24 Division A

Gold Group|

* Chayka Peschanokopskoye
* Chelyabinsk
* Krasnodar-2
* Metallurg Lipetsk
* Murom
* Novosibirsk
* Rodina-2 Moscow
* Rotor Volgograd
* Ufa
* Veles Moscow

Silver Group|

* Avangard Kursk
* Dynamo Bryansk
* Irtysh Omsk
* Kaluga
* Khimik Dzerzhinsk
* Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk
* Spartak Kostroma
* Tekstilshchik Ivanovo
* Torpedo Miass
* Volga Ulyanovsk

2024 Division B

Group 1|

* Alania-2 Vladikavkaz
* Astrakhan
* Biolog-Novokubansk
* Druzhba Maykop
* Dynamo-2 Makhachkala
* Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya
* Legion Makhachkala
* Rubin Yalta
* Sevastopol
* Spartak Nalchik

Group 2|

* Baltika-BFU Kaliningrad
* Dynamo Kirov
* Dynamo St. Petersburg
* Dynamo Vologda
* Dynamo-2 Moscow
* Irkutsk
* Luki-Energiya Velikiye Luki
* Rodina-M Moscow
* Torpedo Vladimir
* Tver
* Yenisey-2 Krasnoyarsk
* Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
* Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo
* Zorkiy Krasnogorsk
* Zvezda St. Petersburg

Group 3|

* Arsenal-2 Tula
* Dynamo Vladivostok
* Khimki-M
* Kompozit Pavlovsky Posad
* Kosmos Dolgoprudny
* Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk
* Kvant Obninsk
* Leon Saturn Ramenskoye
* Ryazan
* Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
* Sakhalinets Moscow
* SKA-Khabarovsk-2
* Spartak Tambov
* Strogino Moscow
* Zenit Penza

Group 4|

* Dynamo Barnaul
* Nosta Novotroitsk
* Rubin-2 Kazan
* Ural-2 Yekaterinburg
* Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil

Group TBD|

* Amkar Perm
* Chertanovo Moscow
* Forte Taganrog
* Salyut Belgorod

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