FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg explained

Clubname:Dynamo St. Petersburg
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Fullname:Football Club Dynamo Saint Petersburg
Nickname:The Blues
Founded:2019
Ground:MCA, Saint Petersburg
Capacity:2,835
Chairman:Konstantin Samsonov
(President)
Owner:Konstantin Samsonov
Main Sponsor:SAIC Iveco Hongyan
Manager:Aleksandr Fomichyov
League:Russian Second League,
Division B,
Group 2
Season:2023
Position:9th
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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 third-tier Russian Second League.

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.

History

The glorious past

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.

A resurrection

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.

Loss of professional status

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

Clubname:FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg
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Fullname:Football Club Petrotrest Saint Petersburg
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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.

The United FC 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]

The move to Sochi

See main article: PFC Sochi.

Since 2019

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.

Current squad

As of 26 July 2024, according to the Second League website.

Team name history

Home stadium

Dynamo Stadium

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.

Petrovsky Stadium

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.

League and cup history

Soviet Union

SeasonDivision (Name)Pos./TeamsPl.WDLGSGAPDomestic CupEuropeNotes
1936 (Spring)1st (Group A)6/(7)611451293 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost
1936 (Autumn)1st (Group A)7/(8)713371512¼ finals3 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost
19371st (Group A)7/(9)162952125291/163 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost
19381st (Group A)7/(26)251267523230align=center bgcolor=#deb6781/2shifted to the two point system
19391st (Group A)10/(14)2686124156221/16
19401st (Group A)5/(13)241158474421No competition
1941align=center bgcolor=gray1st (Group A)align=center bgcolor=gray2/(15)align=center bgcolor=gray10align=center bgcolor=gray5align=center bgcolor=gray4align=center bgcolor=gray1align=center bgcolor=gray18align=center bgcolor=gray8align=center bgcolor=gray14align=center bgcolor=grayNo competitionalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayUnofficial (did not finish due to World War II)
1942align=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayWas not played due to World War II
1943align=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayWas not played due to World War II
1944align=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=gray1/4align=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayalign=center bgcolor=grayWas not played due to World War II
19451st (1st Group)5/(12)2211384229251/4
19461st (1st Group)5/(12)2210483735241/8
19471st (1st Group)10/(13)247512324819align=center bgcolor=#deb6781/2
19481st (1st Group)6/(14)26105114247251/8
19491st (1st Group)9/(18)341210125353341/16
19501st (Class A)8/(19)361410126350381/16
19511st (Class A)9/(15)28115124653271/16
19521st (Class A)5/(14)13553171715align=center bgcolor=#deb6781/2
19531st (Class A)10/(11)2054112033141/8
19541st (Class A)4/(13)248106292526?as TRL
19551st (Class A)10/(12)225611284116?as TRL
19561st (Class A)align=center bgcolor=red12/(12)223712254713?align=center bgcolor=redas TRL
relegated
19572nd?as TRL
19582nd?as TRL
19592nd?as TRL
19602nd (II Zone)9289613align=center 46align=center 43align=center 24align=center ?align=center align=center align=center reestablished in place of TRL
19612nd (II Zone)align=center bgcolor=#deb67833018935828451/128align=center bgcolor=greenPromoted
19621st (Class A)163086162749221/16replaced the disbanded FC Admiralteets Leningrad
19631st (Class A)1638715163751291/4relegated

Russia

Yearwidth=200CompetitionPositionCupwidth=335Head CoachNotes
1992First League, Western Zone17Vladimir Pronin, Vladimir Goncharov relegated to the Second Division.
1993Second Division, 5th Zone10Vladimir Goncharov relegated to the Third Division.
1994Third Division, 4th Zone6Aleksandr Fyodorov
1995Third Division, 4th Zonealign=center bgcolor=#C0C0C02 promoted to Second Division
1996Second Division, Western Zone20transferred to Central Zone
1997Second Division, Central Zone18Mark Rubinreturned to Western Zone
1998Second Division, Western Zone8Boris Rappoport
1999Second Division, Western Zone13 lost status as Professional Club and relegated to the Amateur League
2000Amateur League, North-West Football Championshipalign=center bgcolor=#C0C0C02Sergey Gerasimets, Sergey Lomakin promoted to Second Division, after winning the Cup of Russian Amateur League.
2001Russian Professional Football League, Western Zonealign=center bgcolor=#FFD7001Sergey Lomakin, Sergey Vedeneyev promoted to First Division
20021st Division16(4)[7] Sergey Lomakin, Dmitry Galyamin, Valery Gladilin
20031st Division51/8Oleg Dolmatov, Vladimir Kazachyonok Dynamo has been demolished due to financial problems
20072nd Division, Western Zonealign=center bgcolor=#CD7F323Sergey Dmitriev, Yuri Zheludkov, Leonid Tkachenko
20082nd Division, Western Zone7Leonid Tkachenko, Vyacheslav Melnikov, Eduard Malofeyev
20092nd Division, Western Zonealign=center bgcolor=#FFD7001Eduard Malofeyev promoted to First Division
2010First Division16Alexander Averyanov, Grigori Mikhalyuk, Boris Zhuravlyov, Eduard Malofeyev, Sergey Frantsev, Igor Zazulin relegated to Russian Amateur Football League
2011Amateur League, North-West Football Championship? FC Dynamo dissolved due to bankrupt announcement of the club's sponsor.
2012/13First Division17Pavel Gusev promoted to Russian National Football League, due to union agreement with FC Petrotrest.
2013/14First Division14Pavel Gusev
2014/15First Division18Adyam Kuzyayev FC Dynamo dissolved due to bankrupt announcement of the club's sponsor, but before the next season start was reestablish.
2015/162nd Division, Western Zone7 Aleksandr Tochilin
2016/172nd Division, Western Zonealign=center bgcolor=#FFD7001Aleksandr Tochilin Promoted to Russian National Football League.
2017/181st Division6 1/8Aleksandr Tochilin
2018/19Dissolved
2019/20align=center bgcolor=#C0C0C02Won the Saint Petersburg cup and North-West Football Championship cupYuri Solntsev
2020/21align=center Sergei Poltavets

Farm club

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.

Notable players

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.

USSR/Russia
Former USSR countries
Europe
Africa

Coaches

NameNationality From To
1936 1936
1936 1936
1937 1938
1939 1939
19391939
1940 1947
1948 1953
1960 1961
1961 1962
1963 1964
1965 1966
1966 1968
1969 1971
1971 1972
1973 1979
1979 1983
1984 1987
1988 1989

1990 1992
1992 1993
Aleksandr Fyodorov 1994 1996
1997 1997
1998 1999
2001 2001
2001 2001
NameNationality From To
2001 2002
2002 2002
2002 2002
2003 2003
2003 2003
2007 2007
2007 2007
2007 2008
2008 2008
2008 2009
2010 2010
2010 2010
2010 2010
2010 2010
2010 2010
2010 2010
2011 2011
2013 2013
2013 2014
2014 2014
2014 2015
2015 2018
2019 2020
2020 2020
2020 2020
2020 2021
2021 2021
2021 2022
2022

Honours and achievements

Soviet Top League

Soviet Cup

Russian Cup

Russian Professional Football League

City Championship

City Cup

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Russian National Football League. http://1fnl.ru/news/6244/. ru:Питерское «Динамо» и курский «Авангард» вышли в ФНЛ. 21 May 2017. Russian. 30 May 2017. 26 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170526005824/http://www.1fnl.ru/news/6244. live.
  2. Web site: В Петербурге появится частный клуб "Динамо". Малафеев может занять руководящий пост ("Чемпионат"). June 1, 2020. www.sports.ru. ru. December 12, 2023. December 12, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231212101136/https://www.sports.ru/football/1085885560.html. live.
  3. Web site: В Санкт-Петербурге может появиться частный футбольный клуб "Динамо". Андрей. Панков. www.championat.com. December 12, 2023. July 13, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200713115014/https://www.championat.com/football/news-4050767-v-sankt-peterburge-mozhet-pojavitsja-chastnyj-futbolnyj-klub-dinamo.html. live.
  4. Web site: Малафеев в "Динамо"? "Ловите инсайд" – о будущем экс менеджера "Зенита". www.sportsdaily.ru. December 12, 2023. May 15, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230515061045/https://www.sportsdaily.ru/news/malafeev-v-dinamo-lovite. live.
  5. https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3270089 Соседом "Зенита" по Санкт-Петербургу может стать новый клуб "Динамо"
  6. Web site: Russian Football Union. Итоги заседания Комиссии РФС по лицензированию футбольных клубов. 16 June 2021. ru. 20 July 2021. 24 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200132/https://rfs.ru/news/213871. live.
  7. Dynamo finished the season in 4th place, but the Russian Football Federation has decided to give technical losses to Dynamo in some games, due to breaking some regulations in the league. These losses dropped Dynamo to 16th position. Russian Source: Сообщение ЦОС ПФЛ от 27 ноября 2002 года