FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg

Dynamo Saint Petersburg

Full name	Football Club Dynamo Saint Petersburg
Founded	1922, 1960 (reestablished I), 2000 (reestablished II), 2007 (reestablished III)
Dissolved	1954, 2000, 2003
Ground	MSA Petrovskiy, Saint Petersburg (Capacity: 2809[1])
League	Amateur Football League
2010	Russian First Division, 16th
Home colours Away colours

See also: Dynamo Saint Petersburg

FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is an association football club from Saint Petersburg, Russia. The club played in the Russian First Division in 2010 after winning the Western zone of the Russian Second Division in 2009. But, the club relegated back to the third level after finishing 16th in 2010. The club that played as Dynamo from 2007 to 2010 returned to their previous name, FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg, and a new Dynamo was organized to play in the Amateur Football League.

History

The glorious past

The club was founded in 1922 as part of the All-Union Sport Society "Dinamo" that had its different sport clubs in variety of sports throughout the whole Soviet Union. That society was the main sposor of the club at that time. Dinamo debuted in the Soviet Top League in 1936 among the original seven teams in the very first edition of the Soviet Top League. The club reenter the Soviet Top League right after the 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, however, it was decided to replace Dynamo with another club, TRL, after the people in charge of football in Saint Petersburg were left unimpressed with the team's tenth place finish in the League. From 1955-1961, they had only Jewish striker, Israel "Zolik" Olshanetsky.

The new beginning

Coincidentally, the club was resurrected in 1960 in place of the TRL and spent the next two seasons in "Class B", the second tier of the Soviet league pyramid, before finding its way back to the Top Division.

The other Dark Ages

Dynamo lost its professional status in 2000, because of the lack of financing. The club, however, was immediately re-established by a local building society, but lost its professional status once again in 2004.

FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg

The new Dynamo Saint Petersburg was established on the base of another Saint Petersburg club FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg in 2007. After their relegation from the Russian First Division in 2010, they returned to the name Petrotrest and a new team was established as FC Dynamo to play in the Amateur Football League.

Team name history

Dynamo in action

FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg

• Dynamo Leningrad (1936-90)
• FC Prometey-Dynamo St. Petersburg (1991-95)
• FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (1995-99)
• FC Dynamo-Stroyimpuls St. Petersburg (2000)
• FC Dynamo-SPb St. Petersburg (2001-03)
• FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (2007-2010)
• dissolved
• FC Dynamo St. Petersburg (2011-)

Stadium

In 1929, Dinamo gained its own stadium, Dinamo.

Currently, end of 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 prefessional teams. In 2008 Zenit plays at CSA, the MSA is used by Dinamo, Zenit-2, Zenit-D, and Sever (Murmansk). The MSA provides 2835 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

Season	Division (Name)	Pos./Teams	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1936 (Spring)	1st (Group A)	6/(7)	6	1	1	4	5	12	9				3 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost
1936 (Autumn)	1st (Group A)	7/(8)	7	1	3	3	7	15	12	1/4 finals			3 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost
1937	1st (Group A)	7/(9)	16	2	9	5	21	25	29	1/16			3 pts for win, 2 - draw, 1 – lost
1938	1st (Group A)	7/(26)	25	12	6	7	52	32	30	1/2			shifted to the two point system
1939	1st (Group A)	10/(14)	26	8	6	12	41	56	22	1/16
1940	1st (Group A)	5/(13)	24	11	5	8	47	44	21	No competition
1941	1st (Group A)	2/(15)	10	5	4	1	18	8	14	No competition			Non-Official (did not finish due to World War II)
1942													Did not played due to World War II
1943													Did not played due to World War II
1944										1/4			Did not played due to World War II
1945	1st (1st Group)	5/(12)	22	11	3	8	42	29	25	1/4
1946	1st (1st Group)	5/(12)	22	10	4	8	37	35	24	1/8
1947	1st (1st Group)	10/(13)	24	7	5	12	32	48	19	1/2
1948	1st (1st Group)	6/(14)	26	10	5	11	42	47	25	1/8
1949	1st (1st Group)	9/(18)	34	12	10	12	53	53	34	1/16
1950	1st (Class A)	8/(19)	36	14	10	12	63	50	38	1/16
1951	1st (Class A)	9/(15)	28	11	5	12	46	53	27	1/16
1952	1st (Class A)	5/(14)	13	5	5	3	17	17	15	1/2
1953	1st (Class A)	10/(11)	20	5	4	11	20	33	14	1/8
1954	1st (Class A)	4/(13)	24	8	10	6	29	25	26	?			as TRL
1955	1st (Class A)	10/(12)	22	5	6	11	28	41	16	?			as TRL
1956	1st (Class A)	12/(12)	22	3	7	12	25	47	13	?			as TRL relegated
1957	2nd									?			as TRL
1958	2nd									?			as TRL
1959	2nd									?			as TRL
1960	2nd (II Zone)	9	28	9	6	13	46	43	24	?			reestablished in place of TRL
1961	2nd (II Zone)	3	30	18	9	3	58	28	45	1/128			Promoted
1962	1st (Class A)	16	30	8	6	16	27	49	22	1/16			replaced the disbanded FC Admiralteets Leningrad
1963	1st (Class A)	16	38	7	15	16	37	51	29	1/4			relegated

not finished

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Dynamo.

USSR/Russia Sergey Dmitriev Aleksandr Khapsalis Nikolay Larionov Fridrikh Maryutin / Dmitri Radchenko Aleksandr Tenyagin Gennady Yevriuzhikin Anatoli Zinchenko Ilshat Faizulin Sergei Filippenkov

Lyubomir Kantonistov Andrei Kondrashov Aleksandr Panov Former USSR countries Vyaçeslav Lıçkin Dzmitry Aharodnik Alyaksandr Chayka Syarhyey Hyerasimets Andrei Lavrik Yuri Shukanov

Mark Švets Rimantas Žvingilas Andrei Maţiura Evgheni Hmaruc Serghei Rogaciov Oleg Shishkin Andrei Manannikov Oleksandr Kyryukhin Europe Saša Ilić

Coaches

• Vladimir Goncharov (-1994)
• Aleksandr Fyodorov (1994–97)
• Mark Rubin (1997)
• Boris Rappoport (1997-2000)
• Sergei Lomakin (2000–2003)
• Oleg Dolmatov (2003)
• Leonid Tkachenko (2007-May 2008)
• Vyacheslav Melnikov (May 2008-September 2008)
• Eduard Malofeev (September 2008-2009)
• Aleksandr Averyanov (March-April 2010)
• Boris Zhuravlyov (May-July 2010)
• Eduard Malofeev (July-August 2010)
• Sergey Frantsev (August-December 2010)

See also

• FC Dinamo Moscow
• FC Dynamo Kyiv
• FC Dinamo Tbilisi
• Dynamo Sports Club
• Petrovsky Stadium

References

1. ^ Stadium characteristics on the official web-site

External links

• Official website (Russian)
• Stadium website (Russian)/(English)