B.C. Zenit Saint Petersburg

Zenit Saint Petersburg
Leagues	VTB United League EuroCup
Founded	2003 (2003)
History	BC Dynamo Moscow Region (2003–2007) BC Triumph Lyubertsy (2007–2014) BC Zenit Saint Petersburg (2014–present)
Arena	Yubileyni Arena
Arena Capacity	7,044[1]
Location	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Team colors	Blue, white
Team manager	Olga Antonova
Head coach	Vasily Karasev
Ownership	Roman Agapov
Website	enbasket.fc-zenit.ru
Uniforms
Home Away

Departments of Zenit Saint Petersburg
Football Basketball Volleyball

BC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russian: БК Зенит Санкт Петербург; formerly known as BC Dynamo Moscow Region and BC Triumph Lyubertsy Moscow Region) is a Russian professional basketball team that is located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The club competes in the VTB United League. Their home court is Yubileyni Arena. The club is sponsored by Gazprom.

Since the team moved to Saint Petersburg in 2014, the team is a part of the multi-sports club Zenit, of which the football club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, is also a part.^[2]

History

The club was originally established in 2003, under the name BC Dynamo Moscow Region, and registered into the Russian Superleague A. The original club was based in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

In June 2007, the basketball club of Dynamo Moscow Region disbanded and became the newly reformed club of BC Triumph Lyubertsy Moscow Region. Triumph Lyubertsy retained all of the history and records of the Dynamo Moscow Region club, through the acquisition of the club's history and rights. In the 2013–14 season, Triumph reached the Final of the EuroChallenge, in which it lost to Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia by a score of 65:79.^[3]

In July 2014, the club announced it was relocating from Lyubertsy to Saint Petersburg, and was changing its name to BC Zenit Saint Petersburg. The club retained the history and rights of BC Triumph Lyubertsy,^[4] and also its place in both the VTB United League and the EuroCup.^[5] While the club was still trying to retain a second club in Lyubertsy, that would compete in the Russian Super League 1.^[6]

Arenas

When the club moved to St. Petersburg, they first played their home games at the 7,044 seat Sibur Arena. They then moved to the newly renovated 7,000 seat^[7] Yubileyni Arena.^[8] When the club was previously based in Lyubertsy, they played their home games at the 4,000 seat^[9][10] Triumph Sports Palace arena.

Honours

European competitions

• FIBA Europe Conference North
  • Winners (2): 2004, 2005
• FIBA EuroCup Challenge
  • Runner-up (1): 2005
• FIBA EuroChallenge
  • Runner-up (1): 2014
  • Third place (2): 2009, 2012

Russian competitions

• Russian Cup
  • Runner-up (1): 2016

Season by season

Players

Current roster

Zenit Saint Petersburg roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. USA ! Whittington, Shayne 7000211000000000000♠2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 7002111000000000000♠111 kg (245 lb) 7001260000000000000♠26 – (1991-03-27)27 March 1991 3.5 !F RUS ! Barinov, Nikita 7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 7001990000000000000♠99 kg (218 lb) 7001260000000000000♠26 – (1991-01-21)21 January 1991 1.5 !G USA ! Reynolds, Scottie 7000188000000000000♠1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 7001870000000000000♠87 kg (192 lb) 7001290000000000000♠29 – (1987-10-10)10 October 1987 4.0 !PF USA ! Gordon, Drew 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7002111000000000000♠111 kg (245 lb) 7001270000000000000♠27 – (1990-08-12)12 August 1990 1.0 !PG ARG ! Laprovíttola, Nicolás 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001820000000000000♠82 kg (181 lb) 7001270000000000000♠27 – (1990-01-31)31 January 1990 2.5 !G/F USA ! SVK ! Kuric, Kyle 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001880000000000000♠88 kg (194 lb) 7001270000000000000♠27 – (1989-08-25)25 August 1989 3.0 !SF SRB ! Simonovic, Marko 7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 7001950000000000000♠95 kg (209 lb) 7001310000000000000♠31 – (1986-05-30)30 May 1986 2.0 !SG RUS ! Voronov, Evgeny 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001950000000000000♠95 kg (209 lb) 7001310000000000000♠31 – (1986-05-07)7 May 1986 3.5 !F 3 RUS ! Voytyuk, Evgeniy 7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001980000000000000♠98 kg (216 lb) 7001250000000000000♠25 – (1991-09-29)29 September 1991 1.5 !G 7 RUS ! Karasev, Sergey 7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001950000000000000♠95 kg (209 lb) 7001230000000000000♠23 – (1993-10-26)26 October 1993 1.5 !G 13 RUS ! Vikhrov, Artem 7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 7001820000000000000♠82 kg (181 lb) 7001240000000000000♠24 – (1992-10-21)21 October 1992 5.0 !C 14 RUS ! Pushkov, Anton 7000208000000000000♠2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 7001980000000000000♠98 kg (216 lb) 7001280000000000000♠28 – (1988-11-22)22 November 1988 2.0 !SG 22 USA ! Harper, Demonte 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001880000000000000♠88 kg (194 lb) 7001280000000000000♠28 – (1989-06-21)21 June 1989 4.0 !PF 24 RUS ! Razumov, Aleksandr 7000204000000000000♠2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 7002108000000000000♠108 kg (238 lb) 7001250000000000000♠25 – (1992-04-22)22 April 1992 1.5 !G 29 KAZ ! Sidorov, Evgeniy 7000189000000000000♠1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 7001220000000000000♠22 – (1995-05-30)30 May 1995 2.0 !SG 30 RUS ! Sergeev, Pavel 7000186000000000000♠1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 7001880000000000000♠88 kg (194 lb) 7001300000000000000♠30 – (1987-07-28)28 July 1987 3.5 !F 31 RUS ! Valiev, Evgeny 7000204999999999999♠2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 7001930000000000000♠93 kg (205 lb) 7001270000000000000♠27 – (1990-05-03)3 May 1990 5.0 !C 32 RUS ! Desyatnikov, Andrei 7000220000000000000♠2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) 7002105000000000000♠105 kg (231 lb) 7001230000000000000♠23 – (1994-05-04)4 May 1994	Head coach Vasiliy Karasev Assistant coach(es) Boris Livanov Yevgeni Kovalenko Andrey Tsypachev Deividas Rinkevicius Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 9 February 2017

Depth chart

Notable players

Notable coaches

• Stanislav Eremin
• Valdemaras Chomičius
• Vasily Karasev

Notes

References

External links

• Official Website
• Eurobasket.com Team Page