Dynamo St. Petersburg

Full name	Football Club Dynamo Saint Petersburg
Nickname(s)	The Blues
Founded	2019
Ground	MCA, Saint Petersburg
Capacity	2,835
Owner	Konstantin Samsonov
Chairman	Konstantin Samsonov (President)
Manager	Aleksandr Fomichyov
League	Russian Second League, Division B, Group 2
2024	9th
Home colours Away colours

FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg, in Northwest Russia. Founded in 1922, the club was one of the oldest in the city. It plays in the fourth-tier Russian Second League Division B.

They were a regular in the Soviet Top League until relegation in 1963. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, their highest status was in the second-level Russian National Football League for several seasons, and the fifth place in the league is their greatest achievement.

In July 2015, the club was purchased by Boris Rotenberg. In June 2018, the team moved to Sochi, becoming PFC Sochi; In Saint Petersburg there remained Dynamo youth team. In 2019, Dynamo was reestablished by Clubs' Veterans on the resources of FC LAZ Luga. From August 2021 to 2023, Chinese trucks manufacturer SAIC Iveco Hongyan was the main sponsor. Since 2023, SETL Group company are the Clubs’ sponsor.

The club was founded in 1922 as part of the All-Union Sport Society "Dinamo" that had clubs in a variety of sports throughout the Soviet Union. The society was the main sponsor of the club. Dinamo debuted in the Soviet Top League in 1936 among the original seven teams in the first edition of the Soviet Top League. The club reentered the Soviet Top League following the end of 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, its record was cause to replace Dynamo with TRL after the team's tenth-place finish in the League. From 1955 to 1961, they had only Jewish striker, Israel "Zolik" Olshanetsky.

The club was resurrected in 1960 in the place of TRL and spent the next two seasons in "the second tier (Class B) of the Soviet league, before making it back to the Top Division.

Dynamo lost its professional status in 2000 with the lack of financing; a local building society stepped in. Professional status was lost in 2004.

FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg

Full name	Football Club Petrotrest Saint Petersburg
Founded	2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Dissolved	2013; 11 years ago (2013)
Home colours Away colours

FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК "Петротрест" Санкт-Петербург) was a former association football club from Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 2001. In 2002 the team played in Amateur Football League (North-West zone), in 2003, 2004, 2006 and since 2011 - in Second Division (West zone), in 2005 - in First Division (was relegated).

From 2007 to 2010 the team played under the name of FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg. After the team was relegated to the Russian Second Division after the 2010 season, the team returned to their previous name FC Petrotrest and another independent team called FC Dynamo was organized to play in the Amateur Football League. In 2012 the club was finished in the 1st place and was promoted to the First division. In 2013 it was merged back into Dynamo Saint Petersburg.

In preparations to 2013–14 season, FC Petrotrest and Dynamo signed on an agreement of merging FC Petrotrest into Dynamo in order to play in the Russian First Division, now called the National Football League.

At the end of the 2014–15 season, the club was relegated to the third level league, the Russian Professional Football League. Following the season, the club was purchased by the billionaire Boris Rotenberg (technically, a new club called FC Dynamo-Saint Petersburg was formed, with SMP Racing becoming the new sponsor) and at the end of June 2015 "Dynamo" has with the new founders and sponsors were allowed to participate in the Second Division.

The first season of the renewed team was not easy - meeting in full strength only a few days before the start of the Championship, Dynamo failed to show good performances in the first round, once in the basement of the standings at the end of the first part of the season. But in spring 2016, thanks to high-quality training in the winter and breeding spot, Dynamo straighten their figures, nearly becoming the best team in the "West" zone on the results of matches of the second stage of the Championship. in November 2016 The team finish in the 1st place in the table standing of Western Zone in the 2nd Division. They secured the top spot in their PFL zone and promotion back to the Russian National Football League on 21 May 2017.^[1]

Dynamo Saint Petersburg was re-established on the base of another Saint Petersburg club, this time it was FC LAZ Luga in 2019, and they won the Champions Cup of North-West Championship.

In May 2020, it was reported that the club will be reorganize as a private football club to compete in the Russian Professional Football League during 2020–21 season. Former Zenit's goalkeeper, Vyacheslav Malafeev, was attached to manage the club.^[2][3][4][5]

Dynamo reentered PFL (which was renamed to FNL 2) for the 2021–22 season.^[6] In August 2021, a Chinese company SAIC Iveco Hongyan has become the main sponsor.

In 2023 the club has introduced a new sponsors: SETL Group. They started to compete in the FNL 2 and signed a new players, such as Aleksey Kazarinov, Mikhail Chernomyrdin and Aleksandr Sapeta.

As of 23 August 2024, according to the Second League website.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  RUS Roman Khadzhiyev 4 DF  RUS Anton Belov 5 DF  RUS Vladislav Masalsky 7 MF  RUS Artyom Pikarev 9 MF  RUS Dmitry Shilov 10 MF  RUS Nikolay Shikov 11 FW  AZE Rizvan Umarov 12 DF  RUS Denis Osokin 13 FW  RUS Vsevolod Bobrov 14 MF  RUS Mikhail Chernomyrdin 15 FW  RUS Nikita Tankov 17 DF  RUS Akim Ustinov 19 DF  RUS Gleb Kombarov 20 MF  RUS Georgy Makarov 21 MF  RUS Nikita Kolganov 22 FW  BLR Dmitry Vashkevich

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 GK  RUS Ivan Zirikov 24 MF  RUS Andrey Orlov 25 FW  RUS Vladislav Kuznetsov 26 DF  RUS Bogdan Samsonov 27 MF  RUS Ilya Vorobyov 28 MF  RUS Ruslan Ibadullayev 30 MF  RUS Nikita Koldunov 36 MF  RUS Ilya Morozov 45 DF  RUS Stanislav Utkin 52 FW  RUS Kirill Fateyev 55 GK  RUS Maksim Neverov 63 DF  RUS Aleksey Kazarinov 77 MF  RUS Artyom Gavrilenko 88 MF  RUS Maksud Dursunov 99 GK  RUS Nikolay Novikov

• Dynamo Leningrad (1936–1990)
• FC Prometey-Dynamo St. Petersburg (1991–1995)
• FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (1995–1999)
• FC Dynamo-Stroyimpuls St. Petersburg (2000)
• FC Dynamo-SPb St. Petersburg (2001–2003)
• FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (2007–2010)
• FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg (2011)
• FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (2013–2018, 2019–)

In 1929, Dinamo gained its own stadium, Dinamo.

The Dynamo Stadium was built and designed by the architects O. Lyalin and Y. Svirskiy. The stadium was located on Krestovsky Island in Leningrad and was the home stadium for Dynamo F.C., the stadium had a capacity of 500 fans.

On May 22, 1936, the stadium hosted 12,000 fans in the first ever game of the Soviet Championship. The game was between Dynamo Leningrad and Lokomotiv Moscow and finished with Lokomotiv winning 1:3. During the Siege of Leningrad, On May 31, 1942, the stadium host The Siege Game, between Dynamo Leningrad and the local football clubs.

Nowadays, the stadium is used as a training compound for Dynamo. In 2007 the Saint Petersburg City Administration announced a project to destroy the stadium and replace it with a housing building and a business center. In 2009 the compound become a full municipal property after the City Administration purchased the ground from Dynamo's owners.

Since the end of the 2000s, Dinamo plays at Sport Complex Petrovsky in Saint Petersburg. The complex consists of two arenas (stadiums): the central sport arena (CSA) and the minor sport arena (MSA). Dinamo shares the complex with four other professional teams. In 2008 Zenit plays at CSA, the MSA is used by Dinamo, Zenit-2, Zenit-D, and Sever (Murmansk). The MSA provides 2,835 seats to its spectators. There are talks that Zenit will move out of this complex to its new stadium that will be built in 2009 in place of the Kirov Stadium. This migration might provide Dinamo with full exploitation of the whole complex.

Year	Competition	Position	Cup	Head Coach	Notes
1992	First League, Western Zone	17		Vladimir Pronin, Vladimir Goncharov	relegated to the Second Division.
1993	Second Division, 5th Zone	10		Vladimir Goncharov	relegated to the Third Division.
1994	Third Division, 4th Zone	6		Aleksandr Fyodorov
1995	Third Division, 4th Zone	2			promoted to Second Division
1996	Second Division, Western Zone	20			transferred to Central Zone
1997	Second Division, Central Zone	18		Mark Rubin	returned to Western Zone
1998	Second Division, Western Zone	8		Boris Rappoport
1999	Second Division, Western Zone	13			lost status as Professional Club and relegated to the Amateur League
2000	Amateur League, North-West Football Championship	2		Sergey Gerasimets, Sergey Lomakin	promoted to Second Division, after winning the Cup of Russian Amateur League.
2001	Russian Professional Football League, Western Zone	1		Sergey Lomakin, Sergey Vedeneyev	promoted to First Division
2002	1st Division	16(4)[7]		Sergey Lomakin, Dmitry Galyamin, Valery Gladilin
2003	1st Division	5	1/8	Oleg Dolmatov, Vladimir Kazachyonok	Dynamo has been demolished due to financial problems
2007	2nd Division, Western Zone	3		Sergey Dmitriev, Yuri Zheludkov, Leonid Tkachenko
2008	2nd Division, Western Zone	7		Leonid Tkachenko, Vyacheslav Melnikov, Eduard Malofeyev
2009	2nd Division, Western Zone	1		Eduard Malofeyev	promoted to First Division
2010	First Division	16		Alexander Averyanov, Grigori Mikhalyuk, Boris Zhuravlyov, Eduard Malofeyev, Sergey Frantsev, Igor Zazulin	relegated to Russian Amateur Football League
2011	Amateur League, North-West Football Championship	?		FC Dynamo dissolved due to bankrupt announcement of the club's sponsor.
2012/13	First Division	17		Pavel Gusev	promoted to Russian National Football League, due to union agreement with FC Petrotrest.
2013/14	First Division	14		Pavel Gusev
2014/15	First Division	18		Adyam Kuzyayev	FC Dynamo dissolved due to bankrupt announcement of the club's sponsor, but before the next season start was reestablish.
2015/16	2nd Division, Western Zone	7		Aleksandr Tochilin
2016/17	2nd Division, Western Zone	1		Aleksandr Tochilin	Promoted to Russian National Football League.
2017/18	1st Division	6	1/8	Aleksandr Tochilin
2018/19	Dissolved
2019/20	Amateur League, North-West Football Championship	2	Won the Saint Petersburg cup and North-West Football Championship cup	Yuri Solntsev
2020/21	Amateur League, North-West Football Championship			Sergei Poltavets

Following Dynamo's promotion to the Russian National Football League at the end of the 2016–17 season, the club organized a farm-club FC Dynamo-2 Saint Petersburg and entered it into the Russian Professional Football League.

These are players who won international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Dynamo.

Name Nationality From To Pavel Batyrev  Soviet Union 1936 1936 Antonín Fivébr  Czech Republic 1936 1936 Mikhail Butusov  Soviet Union 1937 1938 Vasili Zimmerberg  Soviet Union 1939 1939 P. Batyrev  Soviet Union 1939 1939 Mikhail Okun  Soviet Union 1940 1947 M. Butusov  Soviet Union 1948 1953 Vasili Lotkov  Soviet Union 1960 1961 Nikolai Lyukshinov  Soviet Union 1961 1962 Gennadi Bondarenko  Soviet Union 1963 1964 Arkadi Alov  Soviet Union 1965 1966 G. Bondarenko  Soviet Union 1966 1968 Vyacheslav Solovyov  Soviet Union 1969 1971 Valentin Fyodorov  Soviet Union 1971 1972 Anatoli Vasilyev  Soviet Union 1973 1979 Stanislav Belikov  Soviet Union 1979 1983 G. Bondarenko  Soviet Union 1984 1987 Anatoli Zinchenko  Soviet Union 1988 1989 Vladimir Pronin  Soviet Union  Russia 1990 1992 Vladimir Goncharov  Russia 1992 1993 Aleksandr Fyodorov  Russia 1994 1996 Mark Abramovich Rubin  Russia 1997 1997 Boris Rappoport  Russia 1998 1999 Sergei Lomakin  Russia 2001 2001 Sergei Vedeneev  Russia 2001 2001

Name Nationality From To S. Lomakin  Russia 2001 2002 Dmitri Galiamin  Russia 2002 2002 Valeri Gladilin  Russia 2002 2002 Oleg Dolmatov  Russia 2003 2003 Vladimir Kazachyonok  Russia 2003 2003 Sergey Dmitriyev  Russia 2007 2007 Yuri Zheludkov  Russia 2007 2007 Leonid Tkachenko  Russia 2007 2008 Vyacheslav Melnikov  Russia 2008 2008 Eduard Malofeyev  Russia 2008 2009 Aleksandr Averyanov  Russia 2010 2010 Grigori Mikhalyuk  Russia 2010 2010 Boris Zhuravlyov  Russia 2010 2010 E. Malofeyev  Russia 2010 2010 Sergey Frantsev  Russia 2010 2010 Igor Zazulin  Russia 2010 2010 Roman Izrailev  Russia 2011 2011 Boris Zhuravlyov  Russia 2013 2013 Pavel Gusev  Russia 2013 2014 Viktor Demidov  Russia 2014 2014 Adyam Kuzyayev  Russia 2014 2015 Aleksandr Tochilin  Russia 2015 2018 Yuri Solntsev  Russia 2019 2020 Sergei Poltavets  Russia 2020 2020 Dmitri Proshin  Russia 2020 2020 Anatoli Bogdanov  Russia 2020 2021 Dmitri Proshin  Russia 2021 2021 Alexandru Curtianu  Moldova 2021 2022 Baris Haravy  Belarus 2022

Soviet Top League:

• 5th Place: 1940, 1945, 1946, 1952

Soviet Cup:

• Semi-Finals: 1938, 1947, 1952

Russian Cup:

• Eighth final: 2003, 2018

Russian Professional Football League

• Champion (3): 2001, 2009, 2017

City Championship:

• Champion (29): 1926–1927, 1930–1931, 1933, 1935–1936, 1938, 1945, 1948, 1950–1951, 1953, 1963–1964, 1966–1968, 1970–1978, 1980–1981, 1993
• Runner-up (1): 2019, 2020. 2021

City Cup:

• Winner (12): 1943–1944, 1948, 1950, 1969–1971, 1973, 1977–1979, 1983, 2019, 2021

• Saint Petersburg derby
• FC Dinamo Moscow
• FC Dynamo Kyiv
• FC Dinamo Tbilisi
• Dynamo Sports Club
• Petrovsky Stadium

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