FC Zenit #1 Met Spalletti op weg naar de titel

[Plato]

Clubgeschiedenis

Before Zenit Zenit's history is tightly connected with the turbulent political history of Saint Petersburg – Petrograd – Leningrad, Russia. In 1897, the first football match in Russia was held in Saint Petersburg on Vasilyevsky Ostrov, an unofficial game between the local English team "Ostrov" and the local Russian team "Petrograd" which the English team won 6–0. The players of those local teams were amateurs and loosely associated with each other. At the same time several formal football clubs were founded in Saint Petersburg, mainly around large industrial companies. However, players' membership was unofficial and very loose, sometimes allowing the same players to play for several different teams during the same season. Formation of Zenit The original team Zenit stemmed from several football teams, which changed names and owners many times during the Soviet era after the Revolution of 1917. Powerful political forces manipulated the careers of individual players as well as the fate of the whole team. The club was renamed several times, and its owners and leaders were under political pressure for many decades. The origins of Zenit date back to the beginning of the 20th century, to several predecessor teams in Saint Petersburg, which were playing locally. The oldest documented predecessor of "Zenit" was team "Murzinka" founded in 1914, which played exactly on the same "Obukhovsky" stadium from 1914 until 1924, when the team became to be called "Bolshevik" (the new name for "Obukhovsky" industry and its stadium). The team and stadium survived the drama of World War I, the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922. In 1925, another predecessor team of Zenit was formed of workers from the Leningrad Metal Plant LMZ, it was called "Stalinets" in the 1930s. Historians had documented that both teams predecessors of "Zenit" were playing independently until their official merger in the end of 1939. "Stalinets" was not the same team, named "Zenit" that took part in the 1938 USSR championship. The current name of FC "Zenit" was registered in 1936 as Bolshevik became part of the Zenit sports society and was renamed to FC Zenit, three years before "Stalinets" was merged with it. In 1939, during the rule of Joseph Stalin, FC Zenit was ordered to take in members of the metallurgical workers' team, called Stalinets Leningrad (translated as "Stalinist" - note the play of words as stal also means "steel" in Russian). At that time the Leningrad Metal Plant (LMZ) became part of the military industry and its sports teams, players and managers were transferred to the Zenit sports society. After the end of the 1939 season, Stalinets was merged with Zenit which played in the second division. Zenit in the Soviet League FC Zenit won their first honours in 1944, claiming the war-time USSR Cup after defeating CSKA in the well-attended final. The club was always adored in Leningrad but wasn't able to make much of an impact in the Soviet League. In 1967, Zenit finished last but were saved from relegation because the powers that were decided it wouldn't be prudent to relegate a Leningrad team during the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, which occurred in the city. Composer Dmitry Shostakovich and film star Kirill Lavrov were well-known as ardent supporters of Zenit, a passion that is reflected in their attendance of many games, personal correspondence as well as official reports. In short, by the wish of the proletariat as all power was in hands of people the club stayed in the League. FC Zenit won the bronze medal in 1980, achieved Soviet Cup Final 1984 and, finally, won the Soviet League title in 1984. Next year, Zenit beat Soviet Cup holder in Soviet Super Cup (also named as Season Cup). Zenit in the Russian League The LOMO optical plant took up the ownership of the team after the war. In 1990 FC Zenit was re-registered as the independent city-owned professional club. After being relegated in the first year of the Russian League (1992), Zenit returned to the top flight in 1996 and has been decent since. They claimed the 1999 Russian Cup, finished third in the League in 2001, made the Cup final in 2002, became the runners-up in the Premier League, and won the Russian Premier League Cup in 2003. Although Zenit reached the quarterfinal of the UEFA Cup in 2006, a mediocre start to the league season led to the summer replacement of coach Vlastimil Petržela. Since July 2006, Zenit has been under the experienced and respected Dick Advocaat[2] Advocaat works together with his Assistant Manager, former Netherlands National Youth Team coach, Cornelius Pot. Zenit won the 2007 Russian Premier League, their best league achievement since winning the USSR Championship in 1984. That allowed them to compete in the group stage of the Champions League 2008–09. In 2008 Zenit won the Russian Super Cup and reached the quarter-final of the UEFA Cup for the second time in their history. In the first leg of the quarter final away against Bayer Leverkusen from Germany, the team achieved a 4–1 victory. They qualified for the semi-finals of the competition for the first time in their history, despite a 1–0 home loss to Bayer Leverkusen in the second leg, and were drawn to play further German opposition in the semi-final, Bayern Munich, considered the top team remaining. A battling performance in the first leg of the semi-final earned Zenit a 1–1 draw away against Bayern Munich. In the second leg at home, Zenit won 4–0, defeating Bayern 5–1 on aggregate and going through to the UEFA Cup final for the first time in the club's history, where they met the Scottish team Rangers at the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester on 14 May. Zenit won 2–0, with goals from Igor Denisov in the 72nd minute and Konstantin Zyryanov in stoppage time, to lift the club's first ever UEFA Cup. Andrei Arshavin was named man of the match. Zenit's Pavel Pogrebnyak became the top scorer of that year's tournament. In 29 August 2008 at the Stade Louis II in Monaco, Zenit defeated Manchester United 2–1 in the 2008 UEFA Super Cup, becoming the first Russian side to win the trophy. Pavel Pogrebnyak scored the first goal and Danny scored the second. Danny was named for man of the match in his debut for Zenit. In the UEFA Champions League 2008–09 group stage Zenit was grouped with Real Madrid, Juventus, and BATE in Group H, which by some was marked as the group of death. Unfortunately the team finished in third place in Group H, behind Juventus and Real Madrid and was unable to progress to the knockout phase of the competition. However this position was good enough to earn the club a place in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup last 32 where the team faced Stuttgart of Germany for a place in the last 16 of the competition. This allowed the club a shot to defend the trophy that they won the previous season in Manchester. However after defeating Stuttgart on away goals, they went on to lose 2–1 over two legs against Udinese. Spalletti Era Spalletti signed a contract with Zenit in the December of 2009 with Italian coaches, Daniele Baldini, Marco Domenichini, and Alberto Bartali who also went to the Russian club. The Board of Zenit wants with him to return the Russian Premier League title, to win the Russian Cup and to go through the group stage of the Champions League in the first year. Zenit won the Russian cup on May 16, beating FC Sibir Novosibirsk in the final (having beaten Volga Tver in the quaterfinal and Amkar Perm in the semifinal). After 13 games in the 2010 Premier League, with 10 wins and 3 draws, Zenit under Spalletti has obtained 33 points. This sets a new Russian Premier League record, for most points won at that stage of the campaign. In the summer transfer window of 2010, Spalletti made his first signings; forward Aleksandr Bukharov from Rubin Kazan and defender Aleksandar Lukovic from Udinese.

Petrovsky Stadion


Het toekomstige stadion, de Gazprom Arena


Selectie 2010
2 Aleksandr Anyukov
3 Bruno Alves
4 Ivica Križanac
5 Fernando Meira
6 Nicolas Lombaerts
7 Radek Šírl
8 Danko Lazović
9 Aleksandr Bukharov
10 Danny
11 Aleksandr Kerzhakov
14 Tomáš Hubočan
15 Roman Shirokov
16 Vyacheslav Malafeev
17 Alessandro Rosina
18 Konstantin Zyryanov
19 Sergei Kornilenko
20 Viktor Fayzulin
22 Dmitri Borodin
23 Szabolcs Huszti
24 Aleksandar Luković
25 Sergei Semak
27 Igor Denisov
30 Yuri Zhevnov
34 Vladimir Bystrov
57 Aleksei Ionov
99 Maksim Kanunnikov

Trainer: Luciano Spalletti

[Boris]

Het moet echt raar lopen als ze geen kampioen worden.

[Plato]

Dat lijkt me ook, gezien de grote voorsprong kan het haast niet meer misgaan.

[Mess]

Hoeveel moeten er in de Gazprom ArenA passen?

[sjimmie]

Toch wel verrassend dat ze Semak hebben gehaald. Al heeft hij het bij Rubin natuurlijk fantastisch gedaan.
Wel mooi dat Kerzhakov weer op het oude nest terug is.

[Dos37]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Mess Hoeveel moeten er in de Gazprom ArenA passen?

67.000

[Plato]

Thuis met 1-1 gelijkgespeeld tegen Dinamo Moskou, maar wel met een doelpunt van Danko Lazović.

[Plato]

ZENIT, Eyes on Padalino Zenit club officials are planning to sign Sampdoria's Swiss right winger Marco Padalino in January after briefly tracking him this past summer.

[Vincent]

Zenit sloopt Saturn even, na ongeveer 85 minuten 6-1.

[Plato]

Weer een stap dichter bij de titel dus. Nu zeven punten voorsprong op Rubin en een wedstrijd minder gespeeld, dat an niet meer fout.

[Boris]

Woensdag kunnen ze thuis tegen CSKA de titel binnen halen.

[Plato]

Mooie wedstrijd om het af te maken.

[Boris]

Uiteindelijk duurde het ietsjes langer en worden ze vandaag kampioen tegen FK Rostov

[Bliksem]

Criscito tekent voor vijf seizoenen bij Zenit Italiaans international Domenico Criscito zet zijn loopbaan voort in Rusland. Zenit Sint-Petersburg heeft de strijd om de Genoa-verdediger gewonnen van Napoli. De Russische club meldt op de officiële website dat het tot een akkoord is gekomen met Criscito over de persoonlijke voorwaarden. Slechts details scheiden Genoa en Zenit nog van een vergelijk. De linksback tekent in Rusland voor vijf seizoenen en zal in die periode naar verluidt acht miljoen euro binnenhalen. Criscito stond in eerste instantie niet open voor een transfer naar Rusland, hij wilde het liefst in Italië blijven. De verdediger sprak ook met Napoli, maar die club was niet bereid aan zijn financiële wensen te voldoen. Bij de Russische kampioen gaat hij werken onder de Italiaanse trainer Luciano Spalletti.