Zenit's reserve squad played professionally as
Zenit-2 (
Russian Second League in 1993,
Russian Second Division from 1998 to 2000) and
Zenit-d (
Russian Third League from 1994 to 1997). Another team that was founded as
Lokomotiv-Zenit-2 played as
Zenit-2 in the
Russian Second Division from 2001 to 2008. By 2008, there was no relation between that team and FC Zenit. Another farm club called
FC Smena-Zenit debuted in the
Russian Second Division in 2009, taking the spot of the former FC Zenit-2. FC Smena-Zenit was dissolved after the 2009 season because it did not fulfill Zenit's initial expectations. Zenit-2 reentered professional football in the 2013–14 season in the
Russian Professional Football League. In the 2014–15 season, Zenit-2 came in second in its PFL zone behind
FC Spartak-2 Moscow. When
FC Torpedo Armavir (which qualified for promotion from the Zone South) refused to be promoted to
FNL for financial reasons, the league offered the second-placed teams in the PFL an FNL spot. Zenit-2 was the only one who applied and played in the second-tier competition for the first time in their history in 2015–16. Zenit-2 finished the 2017–18 season in the relegation zone, but was saved from going down due to several teams above them failing licensing. At the end of the 2018–19 season it was relegated back to the PFL. ==Current squad==