FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
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| Full name | Football Club Dynamo Saint Petersburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| League | Russian Second Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg. The club currently plays in the Western zone of the Russian Second Division.
[edit] History
The club was founded in 1922 and debuted in the Soviet Top League in 1941, but the season was left unfinished because of the Second World War. The club then participated in the Top League between 1941 and 1954, finishing in the top five, three times. In 1954, however, it was decided to replace Dynamo with another club, after the people in charge of football in Saint Petersburg were left unimpressed with the team's tenth place finish in the League.
The club was resurrected in 1960 and spent the next two seasons in "Class B", the second tier of the Soviet league pyramid, before finding it's way back to the Top Division.
Dynamo lost its professional status in 2000, because of the lack of financing. The club, however, was immideately re-established by a local building society, but lost its professional status once again in 2004.
The current Dynamo Saint Petersburg was established on the base of another Saint Petersburg club Petrotrest in 2007.
[edit] External links
- Official Website (Russian)
