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2023–24 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Season
The 2023–24 season is FC Zenit Saint Petersburg's 99th season in existence and 28th consecutive in the Russian Premier League. They will also compete in the Russian Cup and the Russian Super Cup. Management {, class="wikitable" , - ! style="color:#fff; background:#243e9c;", Position ! style="color:#fff; background:#243e9c;", Name , - , Manager , Sergey Semak , - , Assistant managers , William Artur de Oliveira Igor Simutenkov Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Aleksandr Anyukov , - , Goalkeeping coach , Mikhail Biryukov Yuri Zhevnov , - , Fitness coach , Ivan Carminati Andrea Scanavino , - , Doctor , Mikhail Grishin Players First-team squad {, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; width:90%;" , - ! style="background:#348EB9; color:white; text-align:center;", No. ! style="background:#348EB9; color:white; text-align:center;", Name ! style="background:#348EB9; color:white; text-align:center;", Nationality ! style="background:#348EB9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Artur De Oliveira
William Artur de Oliveira (; born 20 October 1982) is a Brazilian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with Zenit St.Petersburg. Career Club Born in São Bernardo do Campo, William Oliveira spent his early career playing with Associação Atlética Caldense with whom he will win the 2002 Campeonato Mineiro. Afterwards he played with Serra Negra in São Paulo, Cascavel Clube Recreativo and Nacional de Rolandia. Then he moved to Mexico to join Puebla F.C. in 2005. That year the club finished top of the Mexican Primera División A becoming the 2005 Apertura champions. In 2006, he was back to Brazil playing with Esporte Clube Águia Negra but by the end of the year he will move again abroad, this time to play with Serbian First League side FK Srem. His good exhibitions called the attention of Serbian SuperLiga club OFK Beograd who brought him in January 2008. He scored seven league goals in 22 matches in the Serbian top flight with OFK and by the winter b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Back
In the sport of association football, a defender is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers, and wing-backs. The centre-back and full-back positions are most common in modern formations. The sweeper and wing-back roles are more specialised, often limited to certain formations dependent on the manager's style of play and tactics. Centre-back The centre-back (also known as a central defender or centre-half, as the modern role of the centre-back arose from the Midfielder#Centre-half, centre-half position) defends in the area directly in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players, particularly Forward (association football)#Centre-forward, centre-forwards, from scoring. Centre-backs accomplish this by blocking Shooting (association football), shots, Tackle (football move)#Assoc ... [...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] |
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] |
PFC Sochi
Football Club Sochi (), is a Russian professional football club based in Sochi. The club is playing its home matches at the 47,000-capacity Fisht Stadium. History FC Sochi was founded on 4 July 2018 after the relocation of FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg to Sochi, thus becoming the only professional football club in the city. On 11 May 2019, the club secured a top-two finish in the 2018–19 Russian National Football League and subsequently promotion to the Russian Premier League for the 2019–20 season for the first time in the club's history. On 20 November 2019, Sochi announced that Aleksandr Tochilin had resigned as manager, with Roman Berezovsky being placed in temporary charge. On 8 December 2019, Sochi announced Vladimir Fedotov as their new permanent manager on a -year contract. On 19 June 2020, Sochi beat FC Rostov 10–1, making it their biggest Premier League win in their history. Rostov missed their full first and second squad (42 players) due to positive COVID-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Adamov
Denis Andreyevich Adamov (; born 20 February 1998) is a Russian football goalkeeper who plays for Zenit Saint Petersburg. Club career Adamov made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for Krasnodar-2 on 17 May 2016 in a game against MITOS Novocherkassk. He made his debut for the main squad of Krasnodar on 20 September 2017 in a Russian Cup game against Tom Tomsk. Adamov made his Russian Football National League debut for Krasnodar-2 on 8 September 2018 in a game against Avangard Kursk. On 4 October 2019, in a PFL game of Krasnodar-3 against Inter Cherkessk Adamov scored a winning goal with a header after a corner kick, deep into added time to establish the final score of 3–2. He made his Russian Premier League debut for Krasnodar on 19 July 2020 in a game against Dynamo Moscow, as a substitute in the 20th minute after Matvei Safonov was sent off. On 25 January 2021, Adamov signed with Sochi. On 25 July 2023, Adamov signed a four-year contract with Z ... [...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] |
Goalkeeper (association Football)
The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a association football positions, position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing football team, team from Scoring in association football, scoring a 'Football pitch#Goals, goal' (i.e. putting the football (ball), ball over the Goal_(sports)#Association_football, goal Goal line (association football), line). This is accomplished by having the goalkeeper move into the trajectory of the ball to either catch it or direct it further from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area, goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands, giving them (outside throw-ins) the sole rights on the field to handle the ball. The goalkeeper is indicated by wearing a different coloured kit (association football), kit from their teammates and opposition. The back-pass rule is a rule that disallows handling passes b ... [...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] |
Yuri Zhevnov
Yuri Zhevnov (; born 17 April 1981) is a Belarusian professional football coach and a former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the goalkeepers' coach with Zenit St. Petersburg. Club career Zhevnov started his career in the third division. In 2000, he signed for BATE Borisov. During a 2004–05 UEFA Cup qualification match against Dinamo Tbilisi he scored a goal from his own half. In 2005, Zhevnov signed for FC Moscow. On 23 February 2010, he moved to Zenit Saint Petersburg from FC Moscow on a four-year deal. International career Zhevnov is a former captain of the Belarus national team and made 58 appearances. On 3 September 2010, he captained Belarus to a surprise 1–0 victory over France at the Stade de France. "This is definitely one of the biggest wins in our history, but it's going to take a bit of time before we realise what we've done," said Zhevnov. "Victories give you strength and confidence, so we hope to build on this." Belarus have never appeared in a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Biryukov (footballer, Born 1958)
Mikhail Yuryevich Biryukov (; born 7 May 1958) is a retired Soviet and Russian football player. He works as an advisor with FC Zenit St. Petersburg. Honours * Soviet Premier League winner: 1984 * Best Soviet Goalkeeper title: 1984 International career Biryukov made his debut for USSR on 19 August 1984 in a friendly against Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar .... External links Profile 1958 births Living people Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Russian men's footballers Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Finland Expatriate men's footballers in Estonia Soviet Top League players Veikkausliiga players FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players Myllykosken Pallo −47 players FC TVMK pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
