Andrey Semenov joins the coaching staff of Zenit-2

Russian basketball player Andrey Semenov will become an assistant to Zenit-2 head coach Oliver Popovic in the upcoming 2025/26 season. For the 35-year-old former player, this will be his first coaching experience in his professional career.

Andrey Semenov was born on March 20, 1990, in St. Petersburg and is a graduate of the Kalinin sports school. At the age of 15, he moved to the United States, where he continued his basketball career. From 2008 to 2014, Semenov played in the NCAA for James Madison University, with which he made it to the March Madness tournament.

In Russia, he played for Saratov’s Avtodor, Moscow’s Runa, Ryazan, Yaroslavl’s Burevestnik, Yekaterinburg’s Uralmash, Barnaul, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk’s Chelbasket, as well as St. Petersburg’s Spartak, with which he became a champion and a bronze medalist of the Super League-2. The forward finished the 2024/25 season in Chelyabinsk.

Now Andrey Semenov is returning to St. Petersburg, as a coach!