FC Zenit Penza

FC Zenit Penza

Full name	Football Club Zenit Penza
Founded	1918
Ground	Stadium 1st May
Ground Capacity	5,100
Owner	Penza
Chairman	Viktor Smagin
Manager	Artyom Kulikov
League	Russian Professional Football League, Zone Center
2016–17	11th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Zenit Penza (Russian: «Зенит» (Пенза)) is a Russian football team from Penza. It played professionally in 1948–1949, 1961–1973, 1990–1999, 2002–2008 and from 2010. It played on the second-highest level in the Soviet First League in 1948–1949 and 1960–1962, where its best result was 8th place in Zone 3 in 1961. In 2009, it played in the Amateur Football League which it won and was promoted to the Russian Second Division for 2010.

Team name history

• 1918–1926: KLS Penza (Klub Lyubiteley Sporta – Sport Lovers Club)
• 1927: Rabochiy Klub Penza
• 1927–1929: Zavod N50 Penza
• 1930–1935: ZIF Penza
• 1936–1947: FC Zenit Penza
• 1948–1959: FC Spartak Penza
• 1960–1963: FC Zarya Penza
• 1964–1965: FC Trud Penza
• 1966: FC Velozavodets Penza
• 1967–1971: FC Khimmashevets Penza
• 1972–1973: FC Sura Penza
• 1973–1978: FC Granit Penza
• 1979: FC SKA Penza
• 1980–1991: FC Granit Penza
• 1992–present: FC Zenit Penza

Current squad

As of 27 July 2017, according to the PFL website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Maksim Staroverov GK Oleg Suvorov GK Pavel Veselov DF Aleksandr Astashkin DF Artyom Lednev DF Roman Manuylov DF Dmitri Nikitinsky DF Dmitri Pikatov DF Artur Yefremenko MF Mikhail Belov MF Denis Bulatov

No. Position Player MF Yuri Dorofeyev MF Maksim Gaidukov MF Nikolai Kiritsa MF Sergei Koksin MF Aleksandr Kuznetsov MF Kirill Muromtsev MF Vladislav Oslonovskiy MF Sergei Podoksyonov MF Roman Urkhov FW David Gatikoyev FW Sergei Sipatov

References

External links

• (in Russian) Official site
• (in Russian) Team history at KLISF