FC Zenit Saint Petersburg

"FC Zenit" redirects here. For other uses, see FC Zenit (disambiguation).

Zenit

Full name

Футбольный клуб Зенит
(Football Club Zenit)

Nickname(s)

Sine-Belo-Golubye (The Blue-White-Sky Blues)
Bomzhi (Homeless, Bums)
Zenitchiki (The Anti-aircraft Gunners)

Founded

30 May 1925

Ground

Petrovsky Stadium

Capacity

21,405

Owner

Gazprom

Chairman

Aleksandr Dyukov

Manager

André Villas-Boas

League

Russian Premier League

2014–15

1st

Website

Club home page

Home colours

Away colours

Football Club Zenit (Russian: Футбо́льный клуб «Зени́т» [fʊdˈbolʲnɨj ˈklup zʲɪˈnʲit], Zenith), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg, is a Russian football club from the city of Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, according to some Russian sources), the club plays in the Russian Premier League. Zenit were the 2007, 2010, 2011–12 and 2014–15 champions of the Russian Premier League and the winners of both the 2007–08 UEFA Cup and the 2008 UEFA Super Cup.

History

Before Zenit

Zenit's history is tightly connected with the political history of Saint Petersburg, Russia (also called "Petrograd" and "Leningrad" at times in its history). In 1897, the first football match in Russia was held in Saint Petersburg on Vasilievsky Island, an unofficial game between the local English team "Ostrov" and the local Russian team "Petrograd," which the English team won, 6–0. The players of those local teams were amateurs and loosely associated with each other. At the same time, several formal football clubs were founded in Saint Petersburg, mainly around large industrial companies. Players' membership was unofficial and very loose, however, sometimes allowing the same players to play for several different teams during the same season.

Formation of Zenit

The original Zenit team stemmed from several football teams, which changed names and owners many times during the Soviet era after the Revolution of 1917, as powerful political forces manipulated the careers of individual players as well as the fate of the whole team. The club was renamed several times and its owners and leaders were under political pressure for many decades. The origins of Zenit date back to the beginning of the 20th century to several predecessor teams in Saint Petersburg that were playing locally. The oldest documented predecessor of Zenit was the team "Murzinka," founded in 1914, which played in the Obukhovsky stadium from 1914 until 1924, when the team came to be known as "Bolshevik" (the new name for Obukhovsky industry and its stadium). The team and stadium survived the drama of World War I, the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War of 1918 to 1922.

In 1925, another predecessor team of Zenit was formed, of workers from the Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (Leningrad Metal Plant); they were called the "Stalinets" in the 1930s. (Stalinets translates literally to English as "Stalinists"; however, in Russian, the name is a play on words as stal means "steel" in that language.) Historians documented that both predecessor teams of Zenit were playing independently until their official merger at the end of 1939. The Stalinets were not the same team named Zenit that took part in the 1938 USSR championship. The current name of FC Zenit was registered in 1936 (as Bolshevik became part of the Zenit sports society and was renamed), three years before the Stalinets merged with it. In 1939, during the rule of Joseph Stalin, Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod became part of the military industry and its sports teams, players, and managers were transferred to the Zenit sports society. FC Zenit was ordered to take in members of the "Stalinets" metallurgical workers' team after the end of the 1939 season.

Zenit in the Soviet League

Zenit won their first honours in 1944, claiming the war-time USSR Cup after defeating CSKA Moscow in the well-attended final. The club was always adored in Leningrad, but was not able to make much of a significant impact in the Soviet League. In 1967, Zenit finished last but were saved from relegation because the Soviet leadership decided it would not be prudent to relegate a Leningrad team during the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, which occurred in the city. Composer Dmitry Shostakovich and film star Kirill Lavrov were well known as ardent supporters of Zenit, a passion that is reflected in their attendance of many games. Zenit won the bronze medal in 1980, also reaching the Soviet Cup Final and winning the Soviet League title in 1984. In 1985, Zenit beat the Soviet Cup holder in the Soviet Super Cup (also called the Season Cup).

Zenit in the Russian League

The LOMO optical plant took up the ownership of the team after the war. In 1990, FC Zenit were re-registered as an independent city-owned professional club. After being relegated in the first year of the Russian League (1992), Zenit returned to the top flight in 1996 and has been decent since. They claimed the 1999 Russian Cup, finished third in the League in 2001, made the Cup final in 2002, became the runners-up in the Premier League and won the Russian Premier League Cup in 2003.

In December 2005, Gazprom took a controlling stake in the club.^[1] The deal was announced by Valentina Matviyenko, the Saint Petersburg governor. Gazprom bought the majority of the club and invested over $100 million, buying new players and building the new stadium.

Andrey Arshavin, one of the best players in Zenit history.

Although Zenit reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in 2006, a mediocre start to the league season led to the summer replacement of coach Vlastimil Petržela. In July 2006, Dick Advocaat ^[2] took over as Zenit's manager. Advocaat worked together with his assistant manager, former Netherlands national youth team coach Cor Pot. Zenit won the 2007 Russian Premier League—their best league achievement since winning the USSR Championship in 1984—allowing them to compete in the group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League.

In 2008, Zenit won the Russian Super Cup and reached the quarter-final of the UEFA Cup for the second time in their history. In the first leg of the quarter-final away game against German side Bayer Leverkusen, the team achieved a 4–1 victory. They qualified for the semi-finals of the competition for the first time in their history, despite a 1–0 home loss to Leverkusen in the second leg, and were drawn to play further German opposition in the semi-final, Bayern Munich, considered the top team remaining.^[3] A battling performance in the first leg of the semi-final earned Zenit a 1–1 draw away against Bayern Munich. In the second leg at home, Zenit won 4–0, defeating Bayern 5–1 on aggregate and going through to the UEFA Cup Final for the first time in club history, where they met Scottish side Rangers at the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester on 14 May. Zenit won 2–0, with goals from Igor Denisov in the 72nd minute and Konstantin Zyryanov in stoppage time, to lift the club's first-ever UEFA Cup. Andrey Arshavin was named man of the match.^[4]

On 29 August 2008, at the Stade Louis II in Monaco, Zenit then defeated Manchester United 2–1 in the 2008 UEFA Super Cup, becoming the first Russian side to win the trophy. Pavel Pogrebnyak scored the first goal and Danny scored the second, the latter being named man of the match in his debut for Zenit.^[5] In the 2008–09 Champions League group stage, Zenit was grouped with Real Madrid, Juventus and BATE Borisov in Group H, which by some was marked as the "group of death." Zenit ultimately finished in third place in the group, behind Juventus and Real Madrid, and was thus unable to progress to the knockout phase of the competition. This position, however, was good enough to earn the club a place in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup last 32, where the team faced VfB Stuttgart for a place in the last 16 of the competition. After defeating Stuttgart on away goals, Zenit went on to lose 2–1 over two legs against Italian club Udinese.

Spalletti era

Zenit against Bayern Munich in 2011.

Luciano Spalletti signed a contract with Zenit in December 2009, with Italian coaches Daniele Baldini, Marco Domenichini and Alberto Bartali also joining the Russian club. The Board of Zenit mandated him to return the Russian Premier League title to Zenit, win the Russian Cup and progress from the group stage of the Champions League in his first year.

Zenit won the Russian Cup on 16 May 2010 after beating Sibir Novosibirsk in the final (previously beating Volga Tver in the quarter-finals and Amkar Perm in the semi-finals). After 16 games in the 2010 Premier League, with 12 wins and four draws, Zenit claimed 40 points, setting a new Russian Premier League record for most points won at that stage of the campaign. In the summer transfer window of 2010, Spalletti made his first signings, securing forward Aleksandr Bukharov and midfielder Sergei Semak from Rubin Kazan; defenders Aleksandar Luković from Udinese and Bruno Alves from Porto.

Hulk.

On 25 August 2010, Zenit lost its first game under Spalletti to French side Auxerre and failed to advance to the Champions League group stage, instead participating in the Europa League. On 3 October, Zenit beat Spartak Nalchik to set another Russian Premier League record for most consecutive games going undefeated, with 21 games since the start of the league season. On 27 October, however, Zenit suffered its first defeat of the season at the hands of rival club Spartak Moscow, just seven games short of finishing the championship undefeated. On 14 November, Zenit defeated Rostov and two games prior to the end of the season won the championship title, the first in Spalletti's managerial career.

Zenit progressed through the knockout stage of the 2010–11 Europa League in first place, then beating Swiss side Young Boys in the Round of 16. On 6 March 2011, Zenit won against CSKA Moscow in the Russian Super Cup, the third Russian trophy won under Spalletti. On 17 March, however, Zenit were knocked out of the Europa League, losing to Dutch team Twente 2–3 on aggregate in the quarter-finals.

In the 2011–12 Champions League, Zenit began the group stage drawn into Group G alongside Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk and APOEL. On 6 December 2011, the team finished the group stage in second place and for the first time in club's history qualified for the spring knockout phase of Champions League. In the Round of 16, Zenit were drawn with Portuguese side Benfica, winning the first leg 3–2 at home through two goals from Roman Shirokov and one from Sergei Semak. In the second leg in Lisbon, however, Zenit lost 2–0 and were thus eliminated from the competition.

In April 2012, Zenit won their second-straight Russian Championship after beating Dynamo Moscow.^[6]

Villas-Boas Era

After a series of disappointing results in both the Champions League and the Premier League, Spalletti was fired on 11 March 2014.^[7] A week later, the club announced they had negotiated a two-year deal with André Villas-Boas, who himself had been released a few months prior after a disappointing stint as manager of English side Tottenham Hotspur.^[8] In the 2014–15 Europa League, Zenit were eliminated in the quarter-finals by eventual champions Sevilla. In May 2015, Zenit won the Russian championship, the first championship title under Villas-Boas and the team's fifth-ever on the eve of its 90th anniversary celebration. Zenit then defeated Lokomotiv Moscow in the 2015 Russian Super Cup 1–1 (4–2 on penalties).

Later in the 2015 calendar year, Villas-Boas said that he would be leaving the club after the 2015–16 season. In the 2015–16 Champions League, Zenit began the competition in the group stage. They were drawn in Group H alongside Valencia, Lyon and Gent. They ended the group stage with their best group stage finish ever, winning five out of six matches and emerging as group winners. They were, however, eliminated from the competition in the Round of 16 by Portuguese side Benfica.

Stadiums

Main article: Petrovsky Stadium

Zenit's home ground is now the 21,500-capacity Petrovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg.^[9] In 2007, the club's former home base at the Kirov Stadium was demolished, to be replaced with a new stadium built for Zenit, Krestovsky Stadium. The new football stadium in Saint Petersburg is currently under construction. Once completed, it will host Zenit's home matches. The stadium will have a capacity of 64,287.^[10]

Achievements

Domestic competitions

Soviet Top League / Russian Premier League^[11]

Champions (5): 1984, 2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15

Runners-up (3): 2003, 2012–13, 2013–14

Soviet Cup / Russian Cup^[12]

Champions (4): 1944, 1998–99, 2009–10, 2015–16

Runners-up (3): 1939, 1984, 2001–02

Soviet Super Cup / Russian Super Cup

Champions (4): 1984, 2008, 2011, 2015

Runners-up (2): 2012, 2013

USSR Federation Cup / Russian Premier League Cup

Champions: 2003

Runners-up: 1986

Progress Cup

Champions: 1980

International competitions

UEFA Champions League

Round of 16: 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16

UEFA Cup

Champions: 2007–08^[13]

UEFA Super Cup

Champions: 2008^[14]

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Runner-up: 2000

Other

Matchworld Cup

Winners (1): 2012

Runners-up (2): 2011, 2013

League and cup history

Soviet Union

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League results

Players

Current squad

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Yuri Lodygin
2	DF	Aleksandr Anyukov
4	DF	Domenico Criscito
6	DF	Nicolas Lombaerts
7	FW	Hulk
8	MF	Maurício
9	FW	Aleksandr Kokorin
10	MF	Danny (captain)
13	DF	Luís Neto
14	MF	Artur Yusupov
16	GK	Vyacheslav Malafeev
17	MF	Oleg Shatov

No.	Position	Player
19	DF	Igor Smolnikov
20	MF	Viktor Fayzulin
21	MF	Javi García
22	FW	Artyom Dzyuba
24	DF	Ezequiel Garay
28	MF	Axel Witsel
41	GK	Mikhail Kerzhakov
70	FW	Dmitri Bogayev
81	MF	Yuri Zhirkov
92	FW	Pavel Dolgov
94	MF	Alexey Yevseyev

Out on loan

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

No.	Position	Player
3	DF	Cristian Ansaldi (at Genoa)
5	MF	Aleksandr Ryazantsev (at Ural)
8	MF	Pavel Mogilevets (at Rostov)
11	FW	Aleksandr Kerzhakov (at Zürich)

No.	Position	Player
48	FW	Aleksei Gasilin (at Schalke 04)
77	FW	Luka Đorđević (at Ponferradina)
78	DF	Dmitri Chistyakov (at Mika)

Youth team and Zenit-2 squad

As of 31 March 2016.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Konstantin Zyryanov
23	DF	Yevgeni Chernov
26	DF	Vukašin Jovanović
30	MF	Nikita Salamatov
31	GK	Mikhail Ponomarenko
32	DF	Artyom Sumin
35	DF	David Mildzikhov
36	FW	Stanislav Krapukhin
37	FW	Artyom Ponikarov
38	MF	Leon Musayev
39	FW	Vasili Zapryagayev
40	MF	Yuri Bavin
42	MF	Konstantin Kotov
43	FW	Pavel Nazimov
45	DF	Artyom Vodyannikov
46	MF	Vitali Gorulyov
47	MF	Valeri Yaroshenko
49	MF	Dmitri Pletnyov
50	DF	Maksim Karpov
51	GK	Maksim Rudakov
52	DF	Andrei Ivanov
53	DF	Mikhail Slashchyov
54	MF	Daniil Zuyev
55	DF	Konstantin Lobov
56	DF	Danil Krugovoy
57	DF	Nikolai Tarasov
58	DF	Ilya Zuyev
59	DF	Sergei Bugriyev
60	MF	Maksim Paliyenko

No.	Position	Player
61	MF	Dmitri Kirillov
62	DF	Stepan Rebenko
63	DF	Daniil Maykov
65	MF	Danila Yashchuk
66	FW	Vadim Romanov
67	MF	Nikita Andreyev
68	MF	Vyacheslav Zinkov
69	DF	Vladislav Nikitin
71	GK	Yegor Baburin
72	DF	Stanislav Mareyev
73	MF	Pavel Osipov
74	MF	Sergei Ivanov
75	DF	Andrei Vasilyev
76	FW	Pavel Kireyenko
80	GK	Mikhail Mzhelsky
82	MF	Ilya Ivanov
83	GK	Igor Obukhov
84	DF	Feliks Shalimov
85	FW	Yuri Kozlov
87	DF	Artyom Vyatkin
88	MF	Artyom Popov
90	FW	Ramil Sheydayev
91	FW	Yegor Denisov
93	GK	Mikhail Kizeyev
95	GK	Aleksandr Vasyutin
96	MF	Ilya Kubyshkin
97	FW	Ruslan Suanov
98	FW	Yevgeni Reutov

Reserve squad

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.

Team captains

Name	Years
Aleksey Naumov	1992
Oleg Dmitriyev	1993–94
Vladimir Kulik	1995–96
Yuriy Vernydub	1997–2000
Andrey Kobelev	2000–01
Aleksei Igonin	2001–03
Vladislav Radimov	2003–07
Andrey Arshavin	2007
Erik Hagen	2007
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	2007–09
Vyacheslav Malafeev	2009
Aleksandr Anyukov	2009–12
Vyacheslav Malafeev	2012
Danny	2012–13
Roman Shirokov	2013
Danny	2014–

Club officials

Board of directors

Position	Name
President	Aleksandr Dyukov
General Director	Maksim Mitrofanov
Sporting Director	Dietmar Beiersdorfer
Deputy General Directors	Dmitri Mankin
Deputy General Directors	Ilya Gerkus
Deputy General Directors	Rosteslav Leontyev
Deputy General Directors	Zhanna Dembo
Deputy General Directors	Yury Andreyevich
Director of the "Smena" study-practice complex	Vasily Kostrovsky

Source: fc-zenit.ru

Management

Position	Name
Head Coach	André Villas-Boas
Assistant Coach	Sergei Semak
Assistant Coach	Daniel Sousa
Goalkeeping Coach	Wil Coort
Physiotherapist	Pavel Pleshkov
Physiotherapist	Eduardo Santos
Fitness Coach	Pedro Silva
Analyst	Sam Dorin
Doctor	Sergey Pukhov
Academy Director	Vladimir Kazachyonok

Source: fc-zenit.ru

Kit makers

Years	Kit manufacturers
1997–2000	Adidas
2001–02	Diadora
2003–04	Umbro
2005–07	Adidas
2008–09	Puma
2010–	Nike

Presidents

Name	Years
Vladislav Gusev	1990–92
Leonid Tufrin	1992–94
Vitaly Mutko	1995–2003
David Traktovenko	2003–05
Sergey Fursenko	2006–08
Alexander Dyukov	2008–

Head coaches

Name	Years
Pyotr Filippov	1936–37
Mikhail Yudenich	1938–39
Konstantin Egorov	1938–39
Pyotr Filippov	1940
Konstantin Lemeshev	1941–45
Mikhail Butusov	1946
Ivan Talanov	1946–48
Konstantin Lemeshev	1948–50
Georgiy Lasin	1950–51
Vladimir Lemeshev	1952–54
Nikolay Lyukshinov	1954–55
Arkadiy Alov	1956–57
Georgiy Zharkov	1957–60
Gennadiy Bondarenko	1960
Evgeniy Eliseev	1961–64
Valentin Fyodorov	1964–66
Arkadiy Alov	1967
Artem Falyan	1968–70
Yevgeniy Goryanskiy	1970–72
German Zonin	1973–77
Yuri Morozov	1977–82
Pavel Sadyrin	Jan 1, 1983 – June 30, 1986

Name	Years
Vladimir Golubev	1987
Stanislav Zavidonov	1988–89
Vladimir Golubev	1989
Anatoliy Konkov	1990
Vyacheslav Bulavin	1990
Yuri Morozov	1991
Vyacheslav Melnikov	1992–94
Pavel Sadyrin	Jan 1, 1995 – Dec 31, 1996
Anatoliy Byshovets	Jan 1, 1997 – July 23, 1998
Anatoli Davydov	1998–00
Yuri Morozov	2000–02
Mikhail Biryukov	2002
Boris Rappoport	2002
Vlastimil Petržela	Jan 1, 2003 – May 14, 2006
Vladimír Borovička (caretaker)	2006
Dick Advocaat	July 13, 2006 – Aug 10, 2009
Anatoli Davydov	Aug 10, 2009 – Dec 11, 2009
Luciano Spalletti	Dec 11, 2009 – March 11, 2014
Sergei Semak (caretaker)	March 11, 2014 – March 20, 2014
André Villas-Boas	March 20, 2014–present

UEFA ranking

As of 15 November 2015^[15]

Rank	Team	Points
13	Valencia	88.085
14	Zenit	85.536
15	Napoli	84.087

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Zenit.

Soviet Union/Russia

Former Soviet Union countries

Ihor Zhabchenko

Europe

South and Central America

Asia

Partnership

Other football clubs

Corporations

Notes

References

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↑ "Gazprom fuels Zenit dream". uefa.com. 19 January 2007. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
↑ "Zenit stuns Bayern in UEFA Cup semi, 4–0". The New York Times.
↑ Ravdin, Eugene (14 May 2008). "Proud Arshavin spent by star turn". uefa.com (Union of European Football Associations). Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
↑ "2008: Zenit claim Russian first". uefa.com.
↑ "The secrets of Zenit's third title success". uefa.com. 28 April 2012.
↑ "Zenit St. Petersburg fires coach Luciano Spalletti". The Moscow News.
↑ "Andre Villas-Boas agrees deal to become Zenit St Petersburg head coach - ESPN FC". ESPNFC.com.
↑ "Petrovsky Stadium". FC Zenit.ru.
↑ "A new stadium for Zenit". FC Zenit.ru.
↑ "Russia – List of Champions". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
↑ "Russia – Cup Finals". rsssf.com. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
↑ "Previous winners". uefa.com. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
↑ "Previous winners". uefa.com. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
↑ UEFA Club Coefficients – UEFA.com
↑ "ФК "Зенит" подписал соглашение о партнерстве с ФК "Шальке 04"". FC Zenit.
↑ "Сергей Фурсенко: Партнерство с "Шахтером" – шаг актуальный и своевременный". FC Zenit.
↑ ""Zenit" has begun a partnership with "MegaFon"". FC Zenit.
↑ "Rossiya Airlines becomes official Zenit partner". FC Zenit.
↑ ""Zenit" has begun a partnership with Nissan".
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↑ "Zenit and Corinthia St. Petersburg 5-star hotel have become partners". FC Zenit.
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↑ "Zenit launches new partnership with YouTube". FC Zenit.

External links

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Presidents	Mutko Fursenko Dyukov

Stadiums	Kirov Stadium St. Petersburg SCC Petrovsky Stadium Piter Arena

Matches	Zenit in Europe 2008 Russian Super Cup 2008 UEFA Cup Final riots 2008 UEFA Super Cup 2011 Russian Super Cup 2012 Russian Super Cup 2013 Russian Super Cup

Seasons	2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Other teams	Zenit-2 Smena-Zenit DYuSSh Smena-Zenit

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2015–16 Russian Premier League teams

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Summer 2015 transfers Foreign players

UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League winners

UEFA Cup	1971–72: Tottenham Hotspur 1972–73: Liverpool 1973–74: Feyenoord 1974–75: Borussia Mönchengladbach 1975–76: Liverpool 1976–77: Juventus 1977–78: PSV 1978–79: Borussia Mönchengladbach 1979–80: Eintracht Frankfurt 1980–81: Ipswich Town 1981–82: IFK Göteborg 1982–83: Anderlecht 1983–84: Tottenham Hotspur 1984–85: Real Madrid 1985–86: Real Madrid 1986–87: IFK Göteborg 1987–88: Bayer Leverkusen 1988–89: Napoli 1989–90: Juventus 1990–91: Internazionale 1991–92: Ajax 1992–93: Juventus 1993–94: Internazionale 1994–95: Parma 1995–96: Bayern Munich 1996–97: Schalke 04 1997–98: Internazionale 1998–99: Parma 1999–2000: Galatasaray 2000–01: Liverpool 2001–02: Feyenoord 2002–03: Porto 2003–04: Valencia 2004–05: CSKA Moscow 2005–06: Sevilla 2006–07: Sevilla 2007–08: Zenit St. Petersburg 2008–09: Shakhtar Donetsk

UEFA Europa League	2009–10: Atlético Madrid 2010–11: Porto 2011–12: Atlético Madrid 2012–13: Chelsea 2013–14: Sevilla 2014–15: Sevilla

UEFA Super Cup winners

UCL vs. CWC	1973: Ajax 1975: Dynamo Kyiv 1976: Anderlecht 1977: Liverpool 1978: Anderlecht 1979: Nottingham Forest 1980: Valencia 1982: Aston Villa 1983: Aberdeen 1984: Juventus 1986: Steaua București 1987: Porto 1988: Mechelen 1989: Milan 1990: Milan 1991: Manchester United 1992: Barcelona 1993: Parma 1994: Milan 1995: Ajax 1996: Juventus 1997: Barcelona 1998: Chelsea 1999: Lazio

UCL vs. UEL	2000: Galatasaray 2001: Liverpool 2002: Real Madrid 2003: Milan 2004: Valencia 2005: Liverpool 2006: Sevilla 2007: Milan 2008: Zenit St. Petersburg 2009: Barcelona 2010: Atlético Madrid 2011: Barcelona 2012: Atlético Madrid 2013: Bayern Munich 2014: Real Madrid 2015: Barcelona

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