UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Petrovskiy - St Petersburg Thursday 3 November 2016 19.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Zenit Group D - Matchday 4 Dundalk FC Last updated 01/12/2016 21:17CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 1 FC Zenit - Dundalk FC Thursday 3 November 2016 - 19.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Benson 52; Mak 71, 20/10/2016 GS Dundalk FC - FC Zenit 1-2 Dublin Giuliano 77 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 Dundalk FC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 FC Zenit - Record versus clubs from opponents' country FC Zenit have not played against a club from their opponents' country Dundalk FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Dundalk FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country 2 FC Zenit - Dundalk FC Thursday 3 November 2016 - 19.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Match background Zenit have made a storming start in UEFA Europa League Group D and will be certain of a place in the round of 32 if they avoid defeat against Irish champions Dundalk. Previous meetings • The Russian team came from behind to win 2-1 when the clubs met for the first time in UEFA competition on matchday three. • Only seven games have been played between Russian and Irish sides in UEFA club competition, with the Russians winning six to the Irish representatives' one. • Dublin outfit Shamrock Rovers lost 3-0 at home and 4-1 away to Rubin Kazan in their pioneering 2011/12 UEFA Europa League campaign. Form guide • Zenit, Shakhtar Donetsk and Schalke come into matchday four with nine points. • Zenit are the group stage's top scorers with 11 goals – an average of 3.67 per game. • Zenit are 15 home matches unbeaten in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League (W13 D2) since a 1-0 quarter- final defeat by Bayer Leverkusen in April 2008. They have never lost a UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League group stage home fixture (W7 D3). • Dundalk have not won in four European away games this term, though three of those fixtures ended in creditable draws. • UEFA Cup winners in 2008, Zenit have progressed in three of their four previous UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group campaigns. In 2010/11 they won all six matches. • Dundalk are making their UEFA group stage debut. The lone Irish side to have previously graced a UEFA Europa League group stage were Shamrock Rovers, who lost all six of their fixtures in 2011/12. Dundalk were thus the first Irish side to draw, and then win, a UEFA group stage match at this level. Links and trivia • The journey from Dundalk to St Petersburg is about 2,300km. • This will be Zenit's 150th UEFA club competition game; the previous 149 ended W77 D28 L44. • Zenit boast two of the group stage's three-goal top scorers in Giuliano and Aleksandar Kokorin. Giuliano leads the golden boot race since he has the most assists: four. • Dundalk clinched a third consecutive Irish title on 23 October, with a 2-1 win against Bohemians guaranteeing them top spot with two games to spare. They will secure a second successive double if they beat Cork City in the Irish Cup final on 6 November. • Dundalk defender Brian Gartland turns 30 the day after the match. The coaches • Mircea Lucescu took charge of Zenit this summer, the 71-year-old Romanian ending a 12-year spell at Shakhtar in which he picked up eight Ukrainian titles and the 2008/09 UEFA Cup. He previously won Turkish championships with Beşiktaş and Galatasaray. • Lucescu is the most experienced coach in the 2016/17 competition; this will be his 218th UEFA club fixture. • Dundalk boss Stephen Kenny started his managerial career with Longford Town, aged 27, and landed a league title with Bohemians in 2002/03, aged 32. Hired by Dundalk in 2013, he steered the club to Irish championships in 2014 and 2015. 3 FC Zenit - Dundalk FC Thursday 3 November 2016 - 19.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Team facts FC Zenit Formed: 1925 Nickname: Sine-belo-golubye (Blue-White-Sky Blues) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup (1): 2008 • UEFA Super Cup (1): 2008 Domestic honours (latest triumph in brackets) League title: 5 (2015) USSR/Russian Cup: 4 (2016) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless otherwise indicated) 2015/16: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2014/15: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2012/13: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2011/12: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2010/11: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2009/10: play-offs 2008/09: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2007/08: winners 2006/07: did not compete in UEFA club competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 8-0: Zenit v FC Encamp 29/08/02, UEFA Cup qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: FC Encamp v Zenit 15/08/02, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Zenit v Bologna FC 16/09/99, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 twice, most recently v VfB Stuttgart 01/11/89, UEFA Cup second round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 8-0: Zenit v FC Encamp (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: FC Encamp v Zenit (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Zenit v Bologna FC (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: VfB Stuttgart v Zenit (see above) Dundalk FC Formed: 1903 Nickname: Lilywhites UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 11 (2015) Irish Cup: 10 (2015) 4 FC Zenit - Dundalk FC Thursday 3 November 2016 - 19.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Ten-year record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2015/16: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2014/15: second qualifying round 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: second qualifying round 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 4-0: Dundalk v Fram Reykjavík 30/09/81, European Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-2: AS Jeunesse Esch v Dundalk 01/07/14, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg 0-2: Linfield FC v Dundalk 05/09/79, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Dundalk v FK Crvena zvezda 07/09/88, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 8-1: Vasas SC v Dundalk 11/10/67, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League (group stage to final) • Biggest home win 3-1: Dundalk v AS Jeunesse Esch 10/07/14, first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-2: AS Jeunesse Esch v Dundalk (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Dundalk v NK Varaždin 29/08/02, qualifying round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: PFC Levski Sofia 6-0 Dundalk 15/07/10, second qualifying round first leg 5 FC Zenit - Dundalk FC Thursday 3 November 2016 - 19.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Squad list FC Zenit Current season All-time UEL League UEL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Yuri Lodygin RUS 26/05/1990 26 - 3 - 7 - 9 - 36 - 41 Mikhail Kerzhakov RUS 28/01/1987 29 - - - 5 - 7 - 9 - 71 Egor Baburin RUS 09/08/1993 23 - - - - - - - - - 83 Igor Obukhov RUS 29/05/1996 20 - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Aleksandr Anyukov RUS 28/09/1982 34 - 1 - 4 - 41 1 91 1 3 Ivan Novoseltsev RUS 25/08/1991 25 - 1 - 3 - 1 - 5 - 4 Domenico Criscito ITA 30/12/1986 29 - 3 1 11 3 12 2 47 3 6 Nicolas Lombaerts BEL 20/03/1985 31 - 2 - 3 - 21 1 81 2 13 Luís Neto POR 26/05/1988 28 * 3 - 11 - 12 - 28 - 19 Igor Smolnikov RUS 08/08/1988 28 - 2 - 9 - 7 - 28 - 26 Vukašin Jovanović SRB 17/05/1996 20 - - - - - - - 1 - 50 Maksim Karpov RUS 17/03/1995 21 - - - - - - - - - 56 Danil Krugovoi RUS 28/05/1998 18 - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 5 Aleksandr Ryazantsev RUS 05/09/1986 30 - - - - - 24 5 56 7 7 Giuliano BRA 31/05/1990 26 - 3 3 10 6 15 4 20 5 8 Maurício BRA 21/10/1988 28 - 3 1 9 - 3 1 5 1 14 Artur Yusupov RUS 01/09/1989 27 - - - 7 1 7 1 16 2 15 Pavel Mogilevets RUS 25/01/1993 23 - - - 1 - 2 - 5 - 17 Oleg Shatov RUS 29/07/1990 26 - 2 1 9 1 16 1 46 7 21 Javi García ESP 08/02/1987 29 S 3 - 11 - 27 1 73 3 28 Axel Witsel BEL 12/01/1989 27 - 3 - 12 1 30 6 83 12 29 Róbert Mak SVK 08/03/1991 25 - 3 1 8 3 11 4 19 11 38 Leon Musaev RUS 25/01/1999 17 - - - - - - - - - 46 Vitali Gorulev RUS 30/07/1998 18 - - - - - - - - - 65 Danila Yaschuk RUS 13/03/1995 21 - - - - - - - - - 81 Yuri Zhirkov RUS 20/08/1983 33 - 1 - 8 1 40 5 84 7 Forwards 9 Aleksandr Kokorin RUS 19/03/1991 25 - 3 3 12 2 11 5 23 9 10 Danny POR 07/08/1983 33 - - - - - 25 1 73 14 11 Aleksandr Kerzhakov RUS 27/11/1982 33 - 1 - 6 1 36 18 77 28 22 Artem Dzyuba RUS 22/08/1988 28 - 2 - 9 5 17 6 36 13 48 Aleksei Gasilin RUS 01/03/1996 20 - - - - - - - - - 77 Luka Djordjević MNE 09/07/1994 22 - 3 1 7 1 3 1 5 1 92 Pavel Dolgov RUS 16/08/1996 20 - - - - - - - 1 - Coach - Mircea Lucescu ROU 29/07/1945 71 - 3 - - - 58 - 217 - 6 FC Zenit - Dundalk FC Thursday 3 November 2016 - 19.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Dundalk FC Current season All-time UCL UEL League UEL UEFA No.