FC Dynamo-SPb St. 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 National Football League |
| 2016–17 | PFL, Zone West, 1st (promoted) |
| 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.
They will play in the second-level Russian National Football League in the 2017–18 after being promoted from the Russian Professional Football League.
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.
Coincidentally, the club was resurrected in 1960 in place of the TRL and spent the next two seasons in "Class B", the second tier of the Soviet league pyramid, before finding its way back to the Top Division.
Dynamo lost its professional status in 2000, because of the lack of financing. The club, however, was immediately re-established by a local building society, but lost its professional status once again in 2004.
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