BK Zenit Saint Petersburg

BK Zenit Saint Petersburg
Founded	2003
Hall	Sibur Arena (7,000 seats)
Homepage	basket.fc-zenit.ru
president	Roman Agapov
Trainer	Vasily Karassev
league	VTB United League
	ULEB Eurocup
Colours	Dark blue white
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The BK Zenit St Petersburg is a Russian professional basketball club from Saint Petersburg . The club currently plays in the VTB United League .

history

The club was founded in 2003 under the name "Dynamo" Moscow Region and played in the Russian Super League. In the summer of 2007 "Dynamo", which resided in Lyubertsy , was dissolved and "Triumph" took its place. After its re-establishment, the club took part in various competitions. The best result in the national championship was third place in the 2011/12 regular season. Internationally, Triumph reached the semi-finals of the EuroChallenge twice (2009 and 2012) . Also in 2012, the team achieved second place in the regular season of the Baltic Basketball League . The greatest success of the club was the entry into the final of the Eurochallenge 2014, which was lost against Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia 65:79.
In the summer of 2014, the government of the Moscow region decided to only finance BK Chimki as a basketball club and to stop funding the region's second club, Triumph. At the same time Spartak's first team was disbanded in Saint Petersburg . So it was decided to move Triumph, including players and coaching staff, to St. Petersburg and let them play under the traditional name “Zenit”.

Season overview

season	National league	Regular	Play-off	Europe	Regional
2007/08	Super League A	4th		ULEB Cup group stage
2008/09	Super League A	5.		EuroChallenge semi-finals
2009/10	Super League A	6th		ULEB Eurocup group stage
2010/11	PBL	10.		EuroChallenge qualification
2011/12	PBL	3.	Semifinals	EuroChallenge semi-finals	Baltic League quarter finals
2012/13	PBL	6th		ULEB Eurocup Last 16	VTB League round of 16
2013/14	VTB League	3. (B)	Quarter finals	EuroChallenge final
2014/15	VTB League	4th	Quarter finals	ULEB Eurocup round of 16
2015/16	VTB League	3.	Semifinals	ULEB Eurocup round of 16
2016/17	VTB League	2.	Semifinals	ULEB Eurocup quarter finals
2017/18	VTB League	4th	3.	ULEB Eurocup quarter finals
2018/19	VTB League	5.	Semifinals	ULEB Eurocup Top 16

Squad

Squad Zenit St. Petersburg in the 2015/2016 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021)
player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 4th Alexei Babushkin 04/04/1994 197 10 Ryan Toolson 03/21/1985 193 CB Málaga 13 Artyom Vikhrov 10/21/1992 193 19th Alexander Karpuchin 10/21/1992 193 BK Ural Yekaterinburg 22nd Zabian Dowdell 09/10/1984 191 Spirou BC Charleroi 55 Dmitri Golovin 07/14/1988 192 BK Nizhny Novgorod Forwards ( SF , PF ) 2 Pavel Antipov 09/19/1991 204 UNICS Kazan 6th Jānis Timma 07/02/1992 201 BK VEF Rīga 7th Andrei Koshheev 02/25/1987 206 8th Artyom Komissarov 12/11/1990 200 Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd 31 Yevgeny Valiev 05/03/1990 205 Center ( C ) 14th Anton Pushkov 11/22/1988 208 Krasnye Krylja Samara 32 Andrei Desjatnikov 05/04/1994 217 33 Kyle Landry 04/04/1986 206 A-Nat	Trainer Nat. Surname position Vasily Karassev boss Yevgeny Kovalenko Co Andrei Zypachev Co Legend Abbr. meaning A-Nat National player swell Team homepage League homepage Status: November 2nd, 2015

successes

• Final EuroChallenge : 2014
• Semifinals Russian Championship 2012

Web links

• Official website of the association (Russian)