FC Zenit Penza

FC Zenit Penza
Full nameFootball Club Zenit Penza
Founded1918; 108 years ago (1918)
GroundZenit Stadium
Capacity960
OwnerPenza
ChairmanDmitry Sergeyev
ManagerMaksim Igoshin
LeagueRussian Second League,
Division B,
Group 3
202511th
Websitezenit-penza.ru

FC Zenit Penza (Russian: «Зенит» (Пенза)) is a Russian football club based in Penza. It played professionally in 1948–49, 1961–1973, 1990–1999, 2002–2008, 2010–2017 and from 2021. It played on the second-highest level in the Soviet First League in 1948–1949 and 1960–1962, where its best result was 8th place in Zone 3 in 1961. In 2009, it played in the Amateur Football League which it won and was promoted to the Russian Second Division for 2010. It dropped out the third-tier PFL during the winter break of the 2017–18 season. It re-entered the third tier for the 2021–22 season.

Current squad

As of 11 September 2026, according to the Second League website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  RUS Timur Zaynullin
2 DF  RUS Zakhar Kostyukhin
3 DF  RUS Gleb Geykin
5 MF  RUS Ilya Kurakin
6 MF  RUS Dmitry Bitel
7 MF  RUS Elkhan Shamsudinov
8 MF  RUS Artyom Serebryakov
9 FW  RUS Aleksandr Kukharchuk
10 MF  RUS Denis Skrypnikov
11 FW  RUS Nikita Kolesin
16 GK  RUS Ilya Gorunov
17 MF  RUS Yevgeny Yegorov
18 MF  RUS Sergei Peterson
19 MF  RUS Daniil Kashmin
20 DF  RUS Aleksandr Dementyev
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF  RUS Aleksandr Vezikov
25 MF  RUS Oleg Sarinov
26 DF  RUS Yevgeny Aleksandrov
38 FW  RUS Maksim Poptsov
39 MF  RUS Yegor Kolodyazhny
45 MF  RUS Artyom Erdenko
55 DF  RUS Kirill Gorbatov
58 GK  RUS Semyon Abramov
64 DF  RUS Anton Yegorushkin (on loan from Sokol Saratov)
69 DF  RUS Yaroslav Terechev
71 FW  RUS Aleksandr Rodionov
73 MF  RUS Grigory Loskov
77 DF  RUS Ivan Belik
88 MF  RUS Maksim Krasnopyorov
99 FW  RUS Ivan Polumysko

Team name history

References

  1. ↑ Пензенский "Зенит" и зеленодольский "Анжи-Юниор" снялись с участия в ПФЛ (in Russian). TASS. 30 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Итоги заседания Комиссии РФС по лицензированию футбольных клубов" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 16 June 2021.