FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
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| Full name | Football Club Dynamo Saint Petersburg | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues | ||
| Founded | 2019 | ||
| Ground | MCA, Saint Petersburg | ||
| Capacity | 2,835 | ||
| Owner | Konstantin Samsonov | ||
| Chairman | Konstantin Samsonov (President) | ||
| Manager | Nikolai Kotovets (acting) | ||
| League | Russian Second League, Division B, Group 2 | ||
| 2023 | 9th | ||
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FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg, in Northwest Russia. Founded in 1922, the club was one of the oldest in the city. It plays in the third-tier Russian Second League.
They were a regular in the
In July 2015, the club was purchased by
History
The glorious past
The club was founded in 1922 as part of the All-Union Sport Society "Dinamo" that had clubs in a variety of sports throughout the Soviet Union. The society was the main sponsor of the club. Dinamo debuted in the Soviet Top League in 1936 among the original seven teams in the first edition of the Soviet Top League. The club reentered the Soviet Top League following the end of World War II as the member of the interrupted edition of 1941. The club then participated in the Top League between 1936 and 1954, finishing in the top five, three times. In 1954, its record was cause to replace Dynamo with TRL after the team's tenth-place finish in the League. From 1955 to 1961, they had only Jewish striker, Israel "Zolik" Olshanetsky.
A resurrection
The club was resurrected in 1960 in the place of TRL and spent the next two seasons in "the second tier (Class B) of the Soviet league, before making it back to the Top Division.
Loss of professional status
Dynamo lost its professional status in 2000 with the lack of financing; a local building society stepped in. Professional status was lost in 2004.
FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg
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| Full name | Football Club Petrotrest Saint Petersburg | ||
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| Founded | 2001 | ||
| Dissolved | 2013 | ||
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FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК "Петротрест" Санкт-Петербург) was a former association football club from Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 2001. In 2002 the team played in Amateur Football League (North-West zone), in 2003, 2004, 2006 and since 2011 - in Second Division (West zone), in 2005 - in First Division (was relegated).
From 2007 to 2010 the team played under the name of FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. After the team was relegated to the
The United FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
In preparations to 2013–14 season, FC Petrotrest and Dynamo signed on an agreement of merging FC Petrotrest into Dynamo in order to play in the
At the end of the 2014–15 season, the club was relegated to the third level league, the
The first season of the renewed team was not easy - meeting in full strength only a few days before the start of the Championship, Dynamo failed to show good performances in the first round, once in the basement of the standings at the end of the first part of the season. But in spring 2016, thanks to high-quality training in the winter and breeding spot, Dynamo straighten their figures, nearly becoming the best team in the "West" zone on the results of matches of the second stage of the Championship. in November 2016 The team finish in the 1st place in the table standing of Western Zone in the
The move to Sochi
Since 2019
Dynamo Saint Petersburg was re-established on the base of another Saint Petersburg club, this time it was FC LAZ Luga in 2019, and they won the Champions Cup of North-West Championship.
In May 2020, it was reported that the club will be reorganize as a private football club to compete in the
Dynamo reentered PFL (which was renamed to FNL 2) for the 2021–22 season.
In 2023 the club has introduced a new sponsors: SETL Group. They started to compete in the FNL 2 and signed a new players, such as Aleksey Kazarinov, Mikhail Chernomyrdin and Aleksandr Sapeta.
Current squad
As of 11 April 2024, according to the Second League website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Team name history
- Dynamo Leningrad (1936–1990)
- FC Prometey-Dynamo St. Petersburg (1991–1995)
- FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (1995–1999)
- FC Dynamo-Stroyimpuls St. Petersburg (2000)
- FC Dynamo-SPb St. Petersburg (2001–2003)
- FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (2007–2010)
- FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg (2011)
- FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (2013–2018, 2019–)
Home stadium
Dynamo Stadium
In 1929, Dinamo gained its own stadium, Dinamo.
The Dynamo Stadium was built and designed by the architects O. Lyalin and Y. Svirskiy. The stadium was located on
On May 22, 1936, the stadium hosted 12,000 fans in the first ever game of the Soviet Championship. The game was between Dynamo Leningrad and
Nowadays, the stadium is used as a training compound for Dynamo. In 2007 the Saint Petersburg City Administration announced a project to destroy the stadium and replace it with a housing building and a business center. In 2009 the compound become a full municipal property after the City Administration purchased the ground from Dynamo's owners.
Petrovsky Stadium
Since the end of the 2000s, Dinamo plays at
League and cup history
Soviet Union
| Season | Division (Name) | Pos./Teams | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Domestic Cup | Europe | Notes | |
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1936 (Spring)
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1st (Group A) | 6/(7) | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 3 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost | |||
1936 (Autumn)
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1st (Group A) | 7/(8) | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 12 | ¼ finals | 3 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost | ||
1937
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1st (Group A) | 7/(9) | 16 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 21 | 25 | 29 | 1/16 | 3 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost | ||
1938
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1st (Group A) | 7/(26) | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 52 | 32 | 30 | 1/2 | shifted to the two point system | ||
1939
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1st (Group A) | 10/(14) | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 41 | 56 | 22 | 1/16 | |||
1940
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1st (Group A) | 5/(13) | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 47 | 44 | 21 | No competition | |||
1941
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1st (Group A) | 2/(15) | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 14 | No competition | Unofficial (did not finish due to World War II) | ||
| 1942 | Was not played due to World War II | ||||||||||||
| 1943 | Was not played due to World War II | ||||||||||||
| 1944 | 1/4 | Was not played due to World War II | |||||||||||
1945
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1st (1st Group) | 5/(12) | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 42 | 29 | 25 | 1/4 | |||
1946
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1st (1st Group) | 5/(12) | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 37 | 35 | 24 | 1/8 | |||
1947
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1st (1st Group) | 10/(13) | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 32 | 48 | 19 | 1/2 | |||
1948
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1st (1st Group) | 6/(14) | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 42 | 47 | 25 | 1/8 | |||
1949
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1st (1st Group) | 9/(18) | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 53 | 53 | 34 | 1/16 | |||
1950
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1st (Class A) | 8/(19) | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 63 | 50 | 38 | 1/16 | |||
1951
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1st (Class A) | 9/(15) | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 46 | 53 | 27 | 1/16 | |||
1952
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1st (Class A) | 5/(14) | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 1/2 | |||
1953
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1st (Class A) | 10/(11) | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 33 | 14 | 1/8 | |||
1954
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1st (Class A) | 4/(13) | 24 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 29 | 25 | 26 | ? | as TRL | ||
1955
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1st (Class A) | 10/(12) | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 41 | 16 | ? | as TRL | ||
1956
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1st (Class A) | 12/(12) | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 47 | 13 | ? | as TRL relegated | ||
| 1957 | 2nd | ? | as TRL | ||||||||||
| 1958 | 2nd | ? | as TRL | ||||||||||
| 1959 | 2nd | ? | as TRL | ||||||||||
| 1960 | 2nd (II Zone) | 9 | 28 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 46 | 43 | 24 | ? | reestablished in place of TRL | ||
| 1961 | 2nd (II Zone) | 3 | 30 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 58 | 28 | 45 | 1/128 | Promoted | ||
1962
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1st (Class A) | 16 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 27 | 49 | 22 | 1/16 | replaced the disbanded FC Admiralteets Leningrad | ||
1963
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1st (Class A) | 16 | 38 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 37 | 51 | 29 | 1/4 | relegated | ||
Russia
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| 1992 | First League , Western Zone
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17 | Vladimir Pronin, Vladimir Goncharov | Second Division .
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| 1993 | Second Division , 5th Zone
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10 | Vladimir Goncharov |  relegated to the Third Division.
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| 1994 | Third Division, 4th Zone | 6 | Aleksandr Fyodorov | ||||||
| 1995 | Third Division, 4th Zone | 2 | Second Division
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| 1996 | Second Division , Western Zone
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20 | transferred to Central Zone | ||||||
| 1997 | Second Division , Central Zone
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18 | Mark Rubin | returned to Western Zone | |||||
| 1998 | Second Division , Western Zone
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8 | Boris Rappoport | ||||||
| 1999 | Second Division , Western Zone
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13 | lost status as Professional Club and relegated to the Amateur League
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| 2000 | Amateur League, North-West Football Championship | 2 | Sergey Gerasimets, Sergey Lomakin
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Second Division, after winning the Cup of Russian Amateur League .
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| 2001 | Russian Professional Football League , Western Zone
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1 | Sergey Lomakin, Sergey Vedeneyev | First Division
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| 2002 | 1st Division
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16(4)[7] | Valery Gladilin
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| 2003 | 1st Division
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5 | 1/8 | Oleg Dolmatov, Vladimir Kazachyonok | Dynamo has been demolished due to financial problems
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| 2007 | 2nd Division , Western Zone
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3 | Sergey Dmitriev, Yuri Zheludkov, Leonid Tkachenko
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| 2008 | 2nd Division , Western Zone
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7 | Leonid Tkachenko, Vyacheslav Melnikov, Eduard Malofeyev | ||||||
| 2009 | 2nd Division , Western Zone
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1 | Eduard Malofeyev | First Division
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| 2010 | First Division
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16 | Alexander Averyanov, Grigori Mikhalyuk, Boris Zhuravlyov, Eduard Malofeyev, Sergey Frantsev, Igor Zazulin | relegated to Russian Amateur Football League
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| 2011 | Amateur League, North-West Football Championship | ? | FC Dynamo dissolved due to bankrupt announcement of the club's sponsor.
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| 2012/13 | First Division
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17 | Pavel Gusev
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Russian National Football League , due to union agreement with FC Petrotrest.
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| 2013/14 | First Division
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14 | Pavel Gusev
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| 2014/15 | First Division
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18 | Adyam Kuzyayev | FC Dynamo dissolved due to bankrupt announcement of the club's sponsor, but before the next season start was reestablish.
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| 2015/16 | 2nd Division , Western Zone
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| 2016/17 | 2nd Division , Western Zone
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1 | Aleksandr Tochilin | Russian National Football League .
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| 2017/18 | 1st Division
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6 | 1/8 | Aleksandr Tochilin | |||||
| 2018/19 | Dissolved | ||||||||
| 2019/20 | Amateur League, North-West Football Championship | 2 | Won the Saint Petersburg cup and North-West Football Championship cup | Yuri Solntsev | |||||
| 2020/21 | Amateur League, North-West Football Championship | Sergei Poltavets | |||||||
Farm club
Following Dynamo's promotion to the
Notable players
These are players who won international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Dynamo.
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Coaches
Honours and achievements
- 5th Place: 1940, 1945, 1946, 1952
- Semi-Finals: 1938, 1947, 1952
- Eighth final: 2003, 2018
Champion (3): 2001, 2009, 2017
- Champion (29): 1926–1927, 1930–1931, 1933, 1935–1936, 1938, 1945, 1948, 1950–1951, 1953, 1963–1964, 1966–1968, 1970–1978, 1980–1981, 1993
Runner-up (1): 2019, 2020. 2021
- Winner (12): 1943–1944, 1948, 1950, 1969–1971, 1973, 1977–1979, 1983, 2019, 2021
See also
- Saint Petersburg derby
- FC Dinamo Moscow
- FC Dynamo Kyiv
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi
- Dynamo Sports Club
- Petrovsky Stadium
References
- Russian National Football League. 21 May 2017.
- ^ "В Петербурге появится частный клуб "Динамо". Малафеев может занять руководящий пост ("Чемпионат")". www.sports.ru (in Russian). June 1, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
- ^ Панков, Андрей. "В Санкт-Петербурге может появиться частный футбольный клуб "Динамо"". www.championat.com. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
- ^ "Малафеев в "Динамо"? "Ловите инсайд" – о будущем экс менеджера "Зенита"". www.sportsdaily.ru. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
- Vesti.ru
- ^ "Итоги заседания Комиссии РФС по лицензированию футбольных клубов" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 16 June 2021.
- ^ Dynamo finished the season in 4th place, but the Russian Football Federation has decided to give technical losses to Dynamo in some games, due to breaking some regulations in the league. These losses dropped Dynamo to 16th position. Russian Source: Сообщение ЦОС ПФЛ от 27 ноября 2002 года Archived 2008-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- {{Official|https://www.fcdynamospb.ru/ (in Russian)
- FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg on VK
- FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg on Instagram
- FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg on Facebook
- FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg on Twitter
