21 📢 teams
Includes the Zenit Basketball Academy currently
At the top of this pyramid is the team Zenit-2, competing in the Superleague. This is the closest reserve for the main team of the blue-whites.
One level below is Zenit U21, representing our club in the VTB Youth United League. In the 2021/22 season, our youth team won the gold medals of the tournament for the first time in its history.
The main supplier of athletes to the youth team is the team Zenit U19, competing in the Children and Youth Basketball League (CYBL) and being the champion of the 2021/22 season.
Another successful and effective experience in joint work to train talented basketball players is the collaboration between Zenit and the Olympic Reserve Sports Schools of St. Petersburg aimed at creating and organizing CYBL departments based on sports schools: ORSS Kalininsky District, ORSS Kupchinsky Olymp, ORSS #1 of Central District, ORSS #1 of Admiralteysky District.
In addition to the CYBL departments, which unite the most promising players of the corresponding age, the club's structure includes 15 groups of initial training, training at the sports schools of St. Petersburg, Voronezh, and Veliky Novgorod regions.
Despite its relatively short history, the Zenit Basketball Academy is already producing noticeable results. Graduates of the Zenit BC system perform in Russian Superleague, a number of players not only compete successfully in competitions but also participate in training sessions with the main team, and some have already participated in the training camps of the national team.
