Zenit St. Petersburg
Fixtures
| VTB United League | 04/22 16:30 | 3 |
Zenit St. Petersburg
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Uralmash Ekaterinburg
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| VTB United League | 04/24 15:30 | 3 |
Zenit St. Petersburg
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Uralmash Ekaterinburg
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| VTB United League | 04/27 16:00 | 3 |
Uralmash Ekaterinburg
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Zenit St. Petersburg
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Results
| VTB United League | 04/14 13:00 | - |
Zenit St. Petersburg
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Parma Perm
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W | 77-66 | |
| VTB United League | 04/09 17:00 | - |
Lokomotiv Kuban
v
Zenit St. Petersburg
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W | 86-91 | |
| VTB United League | 04/05 16:30 | - |
Zenit St. Petersburg
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Unics Kazan
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W | 91-87 | |
| VTB United League | 03/31 11:00 | - |
Enisey Krasnoyarsk
v
Zenit St. Petersburg
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W | 79-98 | |
| VTB United League | 03/28 17:00 | - |
CSKA Moskva
v
Zenit St. Petersburg
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W | 91-92 | |
| VTB United League | 03/25 16:30 | - |
CSKA Moskva
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Zenit St. Petersburg
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| VTB United League | 03/21 16:00 | - |
Unics Kazan
v
Zenit St. Petersburg
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L | 91-90 | |
| Ryssland - Cup | 03/17 14:00 | - |
Zenit St. Petersburg
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Nizhny Novgorod
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W | 64-55 | |
| Ryssland - Cup | 03/15 15:00 | - |
Zenit St. Petersburg
v
Uralmash Ekaterinburg
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W | 78-58 | |
| VTB United League | 03/10 13:00 | - |
Zenit St. Petersburg
v
Enisey Krasnoyarsk
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W | 98-91 | |
| VTB United League | 03/06 15:00 | - |
Parma Perm
v
Zenit St. Petersburg
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W | 73-83 | |
| VTB United League | 03/01 16:30 | - |
Zenit St. Petersburg
v
CSKA Moskva
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W | 81-71 |
Wikipedia - BC Zenit Saint Petersburg
BC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russian: БК Зенит Санкт Петербург), formerly known as BC Dynamo Moscow Region (2003–2007) and BC Triumph Lyubertsy (2007–2014), is a Russian professional basketball team that is located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, since 2014. The club competes domestically in the VTB United League, and competed in the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended the team because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Their home court is Sibur Arena. The club is sponsored by Gazprom. Since the team moved to Saint Petersburg in 2014, the team is a part of the multi-sports club Zenit, of which the football club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, is also a part. Alexander Tserkovny is a general manager of the club since July 16, 2018.
History
Dynamo Moscow
The club was originally established in 2003, under the name BC Dynamo Moscow Region, and registered into the Russian Superleague A.[]
Triumph Lyubertsy
In 2007, the basketball club of Dynamo Moscow Region disbanded and became the newly reformed club of BC Triumph Lyubertsy Moscow Region. Triumph Lyubertsy retained all the records of the Dynamo Moscow Region club, through the acquisition of the club's rights.[] In the 2013–14 season, Triumph reached the final of the EuroChallenge, in which it lost to Reggio Emilia by a score of 65–79.
Zenit
2014-2019
In July 2014, the club announced it was relocating from Lyubertsy to Saint Petersburg, and was changing its name to BC Zenit Saint Petersburg. The club retained the rights of BC Triumph Lyubertsy, and also its place in both the VTB United League and the EuroCup. Meanwhile, the club tried to retain a second club in Lyubertsy, that would compete in the Russian Super League 1. As a result, the basketball club became a section of the Zenit sports club, which already contained Zenit FC, a football club.[]
The team finished fifth in the 2014–15 season, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals. In 2016, Zenit moved from the Sibur Arena to the Yubileyni Arena. In the following four seasons, Zenit qualified for the semi-finals every time, but never reached the league finals.[]
On 27 June 2019, EuroLeague Basketball awarded Zenit a wild card for the 2019–20 EuroLeague. This would mark Zenit's debut in the highest European tier.[]
2020-present
In early 2022, in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, American-Puerto Rican Shabazz Napier left the team. Also leaving the team were Americans Billy Baron, Alex Poythress, Conner Frankamp, Tyson Carter, Jordan Mickey, and Jordan Loyd, as well as Lithuanians Arturas Gudaitis and Mindaugas Kuzminskas, and Polish player Mateusz Ponitka.
On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended the team because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On June 5, 2022 BC Zenit has become VTB United League champion beating CSKA Moscow in 7 games.
Zenit grundades 2000 och har vunnit ett rysk mästerskap (2022) och två ryska cuper (2010 och 2016). Klubben spelar sina hemmamatcher i Sibur Arena, med en kapacitet på 7 120 åskådare.
Zenits nuvarande huvudtränare är Xavier Pascual och lagets kapten är Andrey Zubkov. Några av de mest kända spelarna som har spelat för Zenit inkluderar:
* Alexey Shved
* Evgeny Voronov
* Will Thomas
* Kevin Pangos
* Shabazz Napier
Zenit är ett av de ledande lagen i rysk basket och har etablerat sig som en regelbunden deltagare i EuroLeague. Klubben har också en stark ungdomsverksamhet och är känd för att utveckla unga talanger.