2007 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg season explained

Club:	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
Season:	2007-08
Manager:	Dick Advocaat
Chairman:	Aleksandr Dyukov
Stadium:	Petrovsky Stadium
League:	Premier League
League Result:	1st (winners)
Cup1:	2006–07 Russian Cup
Cup1 Result:	Quarter-finals vs Spartak Moscow
Cup2:	2007–08 Russian Cup
Cup2 Result:	Quarter-finals vs Tom Tomsk
Cup3:	UEFA Cup
Cup3 Result:	Progresses to 2008 season
League Topscorer:	Pavel Pogrebnyak (11)
Season Topscorer:	Pavel Pogrebnyak (16)
Prevseason:	2006
Nextseason:	2008

The 2007 Zenit St.Petersburg season was the club's thirteenth season in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. Zenit won the Russian Premier League for the first time in their history, whilst reaching the Quarterfinal of both the 2006–07 and 2007–08 Russian Cups. In Europe, Zenit entered the UEFA Cup at the first round stage, before finishing third in their group, advancing to the Round of 32 which would take place during their 2008 season.

Squad

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No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of birth (Age)^[2]	Signed from	Signed in	Contract ends	Apps.	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	Kamil Čontofalský		GK	2007 12, df=yes	Bohemians 1905	2003		72	0
16	Vyacheslav Malafeev		GK	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	1999		229	0
41	Mikhail Kerzhakov		GK	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2004		0	0
90	Nikolai Zabolotny		GK	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2007		0	0
Defenders
3	Martin Škrtel		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Trenčín	2004		113	5
4	Ivica Križanac		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski	2005		61	2
5	Kim Dong-jin		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Seoul	2006		51	3
6	Nicolas Lombaerts		DF	2007 12, df=yes	KAA Gent	2007		21	2
14	Erik Hagen		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Vålerenga	2005	2008^[3]	97	3
21	Sergei Gorbunov		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Sportakademklub Moscow	2007		0	0
22	Aleksandr Anyukov		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Krylia Sovetov	2005		92	4
25	Fernando Ricksen		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Rangers	2006^[4]	2009	34	2
40	Ivan Lapin		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Sportakademklub Moscow	2007		1	0
42	Boris Rotenberg		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Klubi-04	2006		0	0
55	Yan Bobrovsky		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2007		0	0
75	Yuri Lebedev		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2007		2	0
Midfielders
2	Vladislav Radimov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Krylia Sovetov	2003		148	12
7	Alejandro Domínguez		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Rubin Kazan	2007	2009	34	14
10	Andrey Arshavin		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	1999		267	62
11	Radek Šírl		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Sparta Prague	2003		121	7
17	Lee Ho		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Ulsan Hyundai	2006		23	1
18	Konstantin Zyryanov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Torpedo Moscow	2007	2009	38	13
27	Igor Denisov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2002		146	23
28	Pavel Zubov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Sportakademklub Moscow	2007		0	0
35	Anton Sosnin		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2007		0	0
37	German Pyatnikov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		0	0
44	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Shakhtar Donetsk	2007		40	9
45	Yegor Okorokov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2006		1	0
50	Sergey Mironov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2005		0	0
53	Pavel Mochalin		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2008		0	0
57	Aleksei Ionov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2007		2	1
77	Alexander Petrov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2007		0	0
87	Ilya Maksimov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2006		21	1
88	Oleksandr Horshkov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Saturn-REN TV	2004
Forwards
8	Pavel Pogrebnyak		FW	2007 12, df=yes	Tom Tomsk	2007		33	8
9	Fatih Tekke		FW	2007 12, df=yes	Trabzonspor	2006		39	10
89	Denis Minkov		FW	2007 12, df=yes	Trainee	2007		0	0
Away on loan
7	Oleg Trifonov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Rotor Volgograd	2005		17	1
20	Oleg Kozhanov		FW	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2004		15	1
30	Semyon Melnikov		FW	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2005	2009^[5]	0	0
31	Jaroslav Nesvadba		DF	2007 12, df=yes	Jablonec	2006		1	0
32	Robertas Poškus		FW	2007 12, df=yes	Krylia Sovetov	2005		32	4
44	Alan Kasaev		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Shinnik Yaroslavl	2005		3	0
77	Oleg Samsonov		MF	2007 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		0	0
78	Aleksandr Panov		FW	2007 12, df=yes	Torpedo Moscow	2006
Left during the season
21	Dragan Čadikovski		FW	2007 12, df=yes	NK Celje	2005		9	1

Out on loan

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
18 December 2006	MF		Alejandro Domínguez	Rubin Kazan	Undisclosed	^[6]
1 March 2007	MF		Konstantin Zyryanov	Torpedo Moscow	Undisclosed	^[7]
Winter 2007	DF		Sergei Gorbunov	Sportakademklub Moscow	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	DF		Ivan Lapin	Sportakademklub Moscow	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	MF		Pavel Zubov	Sportakademklub Moscow	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	MF		Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	Shakhtar Donetsk	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	FW		Pavel Pogrebnyak	Tom Tomsk	Undisclosed
6 July 2007	DF		Nicolas Lombaerts	Gent	Undisclosed	^[8]

Out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
28 December 2006	FW		Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Sevilla	Undisclosed	^[9]
20 January 2007	DF		Pavel Mareš	Sparta Prague	Undisclosed	^[10]
Winter 2007	DF		Jan Flachbart	Jablonec 97	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	DF		Sergey Grigoryev	Zenit-2 St.Petersburg	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	DF		Aleksandr Korotkov	Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	DF		Viktor Stroyev	Tom Tomsk	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	DF		Milan Vještica	Rostov	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	MF		Hyun Young-min	Ulsan Hyundai Horangi	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	MF		Aleksandr Burakov	Sportakademklub Moscow	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	MF		Aleksandr Yevstafyev	Khimki	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	DF		Andrei Nagumanov	Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	FW		Mikhail Kozlov	Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	FW		Yuri Rodenkov	Spartak Nalchik	Undisclosed
Winter 2007	FW		Maksim Rogov	Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk	Undisclosed
Summer 2007	FW		Dragan Čadikovski	Maribor	Undisclosed

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date to	Ref.
Summer 2006	DF		Jaroslav Nesvadba	Mladá Boleslav	End of Season
8 August 2006	FW		Dragan Čadikovski	Publikum Celje	Summer 2007	^[11]
Summer 2006	FW		Oleg Kozhanov	Ural Sverdlovsk	End of Season
Winter 2007	FW		Robertas Poškus	Rostov	End of Season
	MF		Alan Kasaev	Alania Vladikavkaz
	MF		Oleg Samsonov	Spartak Nalchik
	MF		Oleg Trifonov	Krylia Sovetov
	FW		Semyon Melnikov	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
	FW		Aleksandr Panov	Torpedo Moscow

Released

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Joined	Date	Ref.
Winter 2007	GK		Ruslan Mukhamedzyanov
Winter 2007	MF		Oleksandr Spivak	Retired
Winter 2007	FW		Yuriy Rodenkov

Competitions

Premier League

See main article: 2007 Russian Premier League.

League table

Russian Cup

2006–07

See main article: article and 2006–07 Russian Cup. ^[12]

2007–08

See main article: article and 2007–08 Russian Cup. ^[13]

UEFA Cup

2007–08

See main article: article and 2007–08 UEFA Cup.

Group stage

See main article: article.

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goal scorers

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1	FW		8	Pavel Pogrebnyak	11	2	0	3	16
2	MF		18	Konstantin Zyryanov	9	0	3	1	13
3	FW		10	Andrey Arshavin	9	0	1	2	12
4	MF		44	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	3	0	5	1	9
5	FW		9	Fatih Tekke	4	1	0	1	6
	MF		7	Alejandro Domínguez	3	0	3	0	6
7	MF		27	Igor Denisov	3	0	0	0	3
	DF		5	Kim Dong-jin	2	0	0	1	3
9	DF		6	Nicolas Lombaerts	2	0	0	0	2
	DF		22	Aleksandr Anyukov	2	0	0	0	2
	MF		11	Radek Šírl	1	0	1	0	2
12	DF		3	Martin Škrtel	1	0	0	0	1
	MF		2	Vladislav Radimov	1	0	0	0	1
	MF		88	Oleksandr Horshkov	0	1	0	0	1
	MF		57	Aleksei Ionov	0	0	0	1	1
				Awarded	3	0	0	0	3
				TOTALS	54	4	13	10	81

Clean sheets

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1	GK		16	Vyacheslav Malafeev	7	1	0	0	8
2	GK		1	Kamil Čontofalský	2	0	1	1	4
				TOTALS	10	2	0	2	14

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Premier League		2006–07 Russian Cup		2007–08 Russian Cup		UEFA Cup		Total
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1		GK	Kamil Čontofalský	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
2		MF	Vladislav Radimov	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
3		DF	Martin Škrtel	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	10	0
4		DF	Ivica Križanac	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	1
5		DF	Kim Dong-jin	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	9	1
6		DF	Nicolas Lombaerts	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	1
7		MF	Alejandro Domínguez	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
8		FW	Pavel Pogrebnyak	11	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	14	2
9		FW	Fatih Tekke	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
10		MF	Andrey Arshavin	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	6	0
11		MF	Radek Šírl	7	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	10	1
14		DF	Erik Hagen	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	7	1
16		GK	Vyacheslav Malafeev	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
18		MF	Konstantin Zyryanov	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
22		DF	Aleksandr Anyukov	8	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	11	0
25		MF	Fernando Ricksen	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	8	0
27		MF	Igor Denisov	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	5	1
44		MF	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	0
88		MF	Oleksandr Horshkov	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
			TOTALS	85	7	13	0	8	1	11	2	117	10

Notes and References

1. Web site: Russian Premier League Final Stats 2007.
2. Age as of the end of the season
3. Web site: Хаген продлил контракт . https://web.archive.org/web/20070202024500/http://www.fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 2 February 2007 . fc-zenit.ru/ . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 9 May 2019 . Russian . 1 February 2007 .
4. Web site: Ricksen makes £1m Russian switch . bbc.co.uk/ . BBC Sport . 19 April 2019 . 29 November 2006.
5. Web site: Семен Мельников продлил контракт с клубом . https://web.archive.org/web/20070210022523/http://www.fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 10 February 2007 . fc-zenit.ru/ . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 9 May 2019 . Russian . 6 February 2007 .
6. Web site: Домингес подписал личный контракт с Зенитом . https://web.archive.org/web/20061223182424/http://www.fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 23 December 2006 . fc-zenit.ru/ . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 9 May 2019 . Russian . 18 December 2006 .
7. Web site: Зенит подписал контракт с Зыряновым . https://web.archive.org/web/20070308025114/http://www.fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 8 March 2007 . fc-zenit.ru/ . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 9 May 2019 . Russian . 1 March 2007 .
8. Web site: Зенит подписал контракт с бельгийцем Ломбертсом . https://web.archive.org/web/20070707173312/http://www.fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 7 July 2007 . fc-zenit.ru/ . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 9 May 2019 . Russian . 6 July 2007 .
9. Web site: Кержаков - игрок Севильи . https://web.archive.org/web/20070101185608/http://fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 1 January 2007 . fc-zenit.ru/ . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 9 May 2019 . Russian . 28 December 2006 .
10. Web site: Мареш - игрок Спарты . https://web.archive.org/web/20070123133717/http://fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 23 January 2007 . fc-zenit.ru/ . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 9 May 2019 . Russian . 20 January 2007 .
11. Web site: Новости за Август 2006 года . https://web.archive.org/web/20060830172056/http://fc-zenit.ru/info/news.phtml . dead . 30 August 2006 . fc-zenit.ru . FC Zenit Saint Petersburg . 20 April 2019 . 30 August 2006.
12. Web site: Russia Cups 2006/07. RSSSF. 27 August 2013.
13. Web site: Russia Cups 2007/08. RSSSF. 27 August 2013.