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FC Lokomotiv-Zenit-2 St. Petersburg

FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
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Full name Football Club Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg
Nickname(s) The blues
Founded 2001, 2013
Dissolved 2008
Ground MSA Petrovskiy, Saint Petersburg
Ground Capacity 2,809
Owner Gazprombank
Chairman Maksim Mitrofanov
Manager Vladislav Radimov
League Russian Football National League
2015–16 13th

FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК «Зенит-2» Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football team from Saint Petersburg. It plays in the Russian Football National League (second level). It is a farm club for the Russian Premier League team FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Zenit's reserve squad played professionally as Zenit-2 (Russian Second League in 1993, Russian Second Division from 1998 to 2000) and Zenit-d (Russian Third League from 1994 to 1997). Another team that was founded as Lokomotiv-Zenit-2 played as Zenit-2 in the Russian Second Division 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 Russian Second Division 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 FC Spartak-2 Moscow. 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.


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