FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg
Full name | Football Club Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | ||
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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 | ||
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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 Professional Football League
.
In the 2014–15 season, Zenit-2 came in second in its PFL zone behind
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 4 April 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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References
- ^ Stadium characteristics on the official web-site
- ^ "Zenit-2 roster" (in Russian). Russian Second League. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
External links
- (in Russian) Official website