FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg (russian: ФК «Зенит-2» Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football team from

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. It plays in the FNL 2 (third level). It is a farm club for the

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team FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.

History

Zenit's reserve squad played professionally as Zenit-2 (

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in 1993,

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from 1998 to 2000) and Zenit-d (

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from 1994 to 1997). Another team that was founded as Lokomotiv-Zenit-2 played as

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in the

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

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

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. 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

As of 8 September 2022, according to th
Second League website

References

External links

* Association football clubs established in 2013 Football clubs in Saint Petersburg FC Zenit Saint Petersburg 2013 establishments in Russia {{Russia-footyclub-stub