FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg

FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
Full name Football Club Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg
Nickname(s) The blues
Founded 1993
Ground MSA Petrovskiy, Saint Petersburg
Ground Capacity 2,809[1]
Chairman Maksim Mitrofanov
Manager Vladislav Radimov
League Russian Football National League
2014-15 Russian Professional Football League, Zone West, 2nd, promoted

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 plays in the second-tier competition for the first time in their history in 2015-16.

Current squad

As of 31 March 2016, 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
18 Russia MF Konstantin Zyryanov
23 Russia DF Yevgeni Chernov
26 Serbia DF Vukašin Jovanović
30 Russia MF Nikita Salamatov
35 Russia DF David Mildzikhov
40 Russia MF Yuri Bavin
41 Russia GK Mikhail Kerzhakov
43 Russia FW Pavel Nazimov
50 Russia DF Maksim Karpov
52 Russia DF Andrei Ivanov
55 Russia DF Konstantin Lobov
58 Russia DF Ilya Zuyev
60 Russia MF Maksim Paliyenko
63 Russia DF Daniil Maykov
65 Russia MF Danila Yashchuk
68 Russia MF Vyacheslav Zinkov
70 Russia FW Dmitri Bogayev
No. Position Player
71 Russia GK Yegor Baburin
73 Russia MF Pavel Osipov
74 Russia MF Sergei Ivanov
75 Russia DF Andrei Vasilyev
76 Russia FW Pavel Kireyenko
80 Russia GK Mikhail Mzhelsky
83 Russia GK Igor Obukhov
87 Russia DF Artyom Vyatkin
88 Russia MF Artyom Popov
90 Russia FW Ramil Sheydayev
92 Russia FW Pavel Dolgov
93 Russia GK Mikhail Kizeyev
94 Russia MF Alexey Yevseyev
95 Russia GK Aleksandr Vasyutin
96 Russia MF Ilya Kubyshkin
97 Russia FW Ruslan Suanov

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