Dinamo Saint Petersburg
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| Full name | Football Club Dynamo Saint Petersburg |
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Ground | MSA Petrovskiy, Saint Petersburg |
| Capacity | 2,809 |
| Owner | Boris Rotenberg |
| Chairman | Dmitry Rubashko (Director General) |
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| League | Russian Professional Football League, Zone West |
| 2015–16 | 7th |
| Website | Club home page |
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| Full name | Football Club Petrotrest Saint Petersburg |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Dissolved | 2013 |
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is an association football club from Saint Petersburg, in Northwest Russia. The club is one of the oldest clubs in Saint Petersburg, and until 1984 was the most popular football club in Saint Petersburg.
The club played in the Russian First Division in 2010 after winning the Western zone of the Russian Second Division in 2009. But, the club relegated back to the third level after finishing 16th in 2010. The club that played as Dynamo from 2007 to 2010 returned to their previous name, FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg, and a new Dynamo was organized to play in the Amateur Football League. In 2013 the both clubs was merged under the traditional name of Dynamo and the club was playing in the Russian National Football League. It was relegated back to the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2015–16 season.
Main sponsor is Baltic Marine Group owned by Director-General Dmitry Rubashko. In July 2015, the club was purchased by Boris Rotenberg.
The club was founded in 1922 as part of the All-Union Sport Society "Dinamo" that had its different sport clubs in variety of sports throughout the whole Soviet Union. That society was the main sponsor of the club at that time. Dinamo debuted in the Soviet Top League in 1936 among the original seven teams in the very first edition of the Soviet Top League. The club reentered the Soviet Top League right after 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, however, it was decided to replace Dynamo with another club, TRL, after the people in charge of football in Saint Petersburg were left unimpressed with the team's tenth-place finish in the League. From 1955-1961, they had only Jewish striker, Israel "Zolik" Olshanetsky.
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