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2022–23 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Season
The 2022–23 season was the 98th season in the existence of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and the club's 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Russian football. In addition to the domestic league, Zenit Saint Petersburg participated in this season's editions of the Russian Cup. The club won the Russian Super Cup before the season with their participation in the UEFA Champions League still on hold due to the ongoing Russian conflict with Ukraine. Squad Transfers In Loans in Out Loans out Competitions Overall record Super Cup Premier League League table Results summary Results Russian Cup On 12 August 2022, the Russian Football Union announced a new format with modifications to both the group and knockout phases. As Zenit have previously been involved in European completion, the new format change marked the club's first participation in the (now-expanded) group stage since its addition to the competition in 2020. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Russian Premier League
The 2022–23 Russian Premier League (known as the Mir Russian Premier League, also written as Mir Russian Premier Liga for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 21st under the current Russian Premier League name. Teams As in the previous season, 16 teams played in the 2022–23 season. After the 2021–22 season, Arsenal Tula, Rubin Kazan and Ufa were all relegated to the 2022–23 Russian Football National League. They were replaced by Torpedo Moscow, Fakel Voronezh and Orenburg. FC Nizhny Novgorod was renamed to FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod for sponsorship reason. Venues Personnel and kits Managerial changes Tournament format and regulations The 16 teams play a round-robin tournament whereby each team plays each one of the other teams twice, once at home and once away. Thus, a total of 240 matches played, with 30 matches played by each team. The season started 15 July, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021–22 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Season
The 2021–22 season was the 97th season in the existence of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg and the club's 26th consecutive season in the top flight of Russian football. In addition to the domestic league, Zenit Saint Petersburg are participating in this season's editions of the Russian Cup, the Russian Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League. Season events On 3 June, Zenit announced the permanent signing of Dmitri Chistyakov from Rostov on a four-year contract. On 19 July, Emanuel Mammana returned to Sochi on loan for the season. Two days later, 21 July, Daniil Shamkin left the club to join Baltika Kaliningrad on a season-long loan deal. On 26 July, Sebastián Driussi bought out the remaining year of his contract with Zenit St.Petersburg, and left the club. On 13 August, Zenit announced the permanent signing of Claudinho from Red Bull Bragantino on a five-year contract. On 2 September, Zenit announced the signing of Stanislav Kritsyuk to a one-year contract, with the optio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Santos (footballer, Born 1994)
Douglas dos Santos Justino de Melo (; born 22 March 1994), known as Douglas Santos or simply Douglas, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg. Club career Náutico In 2011, after an unsuccessful trial at Corinthians, Douglas was signed by Náutico. A year later, he was called up to first team. On 15 February 2012, Douglas Santos made his first team debut, in a 2–0 home win over Central. On the 26th, he scored his first professional goal, the second of a 3–1 home win over Belo Jardim. On 18 July, he made his Série A debut, in a 3–0 home win over Ponte Preta. On 10 October, he scored his first top flight goal, in a 1–2 away defeat against Ponte Preta. Granada and Udinese On 12 July 2013, Douglas Santos signed a five-year deal with La Liga side Granada CF, for an undisclosed fee. On 2 September, he joined Udinese Calcio in a season-long loan deal. Douglas Santos made his Serie A debut o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Rostov
FC Rostov () is a Russian professionalism in association football, professional football club based in Rostov-on-Don. The club competes in the Russian Premier League, playing their home matches at the Rostov Arena. History Soviet era (1930-1991) The club was established on 10 May 1930, and was initially named Selmashstroy (Сельмашстрой). They were renamed Selmash in 1936 and Traktor in 1941. In 1950, the club joined the South Zone of the Azov-Don group of the Russian SFSR Championship. The following season they were placed in Group B of the championship. After finishing first in their group, they played in Group A in 1952. A third-place finish meant the club were promoted to the Soviet Second League, Class B for the Soviet Second League 1953, 1953 season, during which they were renamed again, becoming Torpedo. In 1958, they were renamed Rostselmash. In Soviet Second League 1964, 1964 the club won their Division of Class B. In the Russian-zone play-offs they finished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Chistyakov
Dmitri Yuryevich Chistyakov (; born 13 January 1994) is a Russian football player who plays as a centre-back for Rostov. Club career He made his professional debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg on 15 July 2013 in a game against FC Tosno. On 7 June 2019, he signed a 4-year contract with FC Rostov. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for Rostov on 13 July 2019 in a game against FC Orenburg. On 15 October 2020 he returned to Zenit St. Petersburg on loan. On 3 June 2021, he moved to Zenit on a permanent basis and signed a 4-year contract with the club. On 14 January 2024, Chistyakov moved to Sochi on loan until the end of the season. On 22 June 2025, Chistyakov returned to Rostov. International career He was called up to the Russia national football team for the first time for UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches against Scotland and Cyprus, on 10 and 13 October 2019. On 11 May 2021, he was named as a back-up player for R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniil Odoyevsky
Daniil Sergeyevich Odoyevsky (; born 22 January 2003) is a Russian football player who plays for Rostov on loan from Zenit Saint Petersburg. Club career He made his debut in the Russian Premier League for Zenit Saint Petersburg on 16 May 2021 in a game against Tambov. On 3 July 2023, Odoyevsky extended his contract with Zenit until June 2027. On 12 July 2023, Odoyevsky moved on loan to Volgar Astrakhan. On 19 July 2024, he was loaned to Rostov for the 2024–25 season. On 22 June 2025, the loan was renewed for the 2025–26 season. Career statistics Club Honours Club ;Zenit Saint Petersburg *Russian Premier League: 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 * Russian Super Cup: 2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ... References External links * * 2003 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Anzhi Makhachkala
Football Club Anzhi Makhachkala (, ), known simply as FC Anji, was a Russian professional Association football, football club based in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala. Founded in 1991, the club last competed in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2. In January 2011, Anzhi Makhachkala was purchased by billionaire Suleyman Kerimov, and subsequently made numerous high-profile signings, including those of striker Samuel Eto'o and defender Roberto Carlos. Following severe budget cuts ahead of the 2013–14 Russian Premier League season, the club lost most of its key players and went on to finish bottom of the table, which resulted in relegation to the Russian National Football League at the end of the season. History The club was founded in 1991 by former Dinamo Makhachkala player Aleksandr Markarov with the head of Dagnefteprodukt – Magomed-Sultan Magomedov and took part in its first season in the Dagestan League the same year. The club's name Anzhi means ''pearl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kerzhakov
Mikhail Anatolyevich Kerzhakov (; born 28 January 1987) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Zenit St. Petersburg. He is the younger brother of striker Aleksandr Kerzhakov. Club career On 10 February 2017, he joined Orenburg on loan until the end of the 2016–17 season. On 15 June 2022, Kerzhakov extended his contract with Zenit St. Petersburg for the 2022–23 season. On 3 June 2023, he extended it for the 2023–24 season. On 3 June 2024, Kerzhakov extended his contract for the 2024–25 season. On 17 June 2025, he extended his contract for the 2025–26 season. International career Kerzhakov was called up to the Russia national football team for the first time for a friendly against Kyrgyzstan in September 2022. Career statistics ;Notes Honours ;Zenit Saint Petersburg *Russian Premier League: 2007, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 * Russian Cup: 2015–16, 2019–20, 2023–24 *Russian Super Cup: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarpsborg 08 FF
Sarpsborg 08 Fotballforening, commonly known as Sarpsborg 08 or simply Sarpsborg (), is a Norwegian professional football club based in Sarpsborg, playing in Eliteserien. Sarpsborg 08 and its predecessors played in 1. divisjon from 2005 to 2010. In 2010, the club was promoted to the Tippeligaen, the top league in Norway, but finished last and was relegated back to 1. divisjon in 2011. In 2012, they were promoted again and 6 years after, they qualified for their first Europa League group stage. They play their home games at Sarpsborg Stadion. History Pre-existence Football in Sarpsborg has traditionally been dominated by Sarpsborg FK (SFK), which won the Norwegian Cup six times and played 20 seasons in the top division, and to a lesser extent IL Sparta, which won the Norwegian Cup in 1952 and played nine seasons in the top division. However, after SFK's relegation from the 1974, no teams from Sarpsborg played in the top division for the next two decades. In 1999, 16 teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Vasyutin
Aleksandr Yuryevich Vasyutin (; born 4 March 1995) is a Russian football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Akron Tolyatti. Club career In Vasyutin's first game for Lahti on 13 August 2016 against PK-35 Vantaa, he scored a last-minute equalizer for his team. He won FC Lahti's player of the year, FC Lahti fans' player of the year and Finnish league goalkeeper of the year awards in 2017. Vasyutin rejoined Lahti on a new loan in April 2018. On 5 July 2018 he joined Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08, signing a 2.5-year contract. On 23 July 2019, Vasyutin returned to Zenit, signing a four-year contract. He made his first competitive appearance for Zenit's senior squad on 30 October 2019 in a Russian Cup game against Tom Tomsk. He made his Russian Premier League debut for Zenit on 15 July 2020, when he started the game against Orenburg. On 11 February 2021, he joined Swedish club Djurgårdens IF on loan. The club had an option to make the transfer permanent after the loan period. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russo-Ukrainian War
The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, Russian paramilitaries who began a War in Donbas, war in the eastern Donbas region against Ukraine's military. In 2018, Ukraine declared the region to be Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied by Russia. These first eight years of conflict also included List of Black Sea incidents involving Russia and Ukraine, naval incidents and Russo-Ukrainian cyberwarfare, cyberwarfare. In February 2022, Russia launched a Russian invasion of Ukraine, full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began occupying more of the country, starting the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. The war has resulted in a Ukrainian refugee crisis, refugee crisis and hundreds of thousands of deaths. In early 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021–22 UEFA Champions League
The 2021–22 UEFA Champions League was the 67th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 30th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. Real Madrid defeated Liverpool 1–0 in the final, which was played at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, for a record-extending 14th European Cup title, and their fifth in nine years. It was originally scheduled to be played at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. However, due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final, the hosts were shifted back a year, with Saint Petersburg, Russia scheduled to host the 2022 final. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine which commenced in February 2022, the final was eventually moved to Saint-Denis. As the winners, Real Madrid automatically qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage, as well as earning the right to play against the winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
