The Leningradets Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Leningradets
Alexey Kuznetsov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Yefrem Kerzhakov joins the Leningradets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yefrem Kerzhakov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Rostislav Afanasyev joins the Leningradets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rostislav Afanasyev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Vlad Zorin joins the Leningradets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vlad Zorin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Leningradets promote Rostislav Dudko from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rostislav Dudko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match8 Aug 2026
Volgar snatch it back from Leningradets
A goal on 87 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ilja Stefanovich takes the honours
Marked 7.54 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Leningradets had the best player on the pitch.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ilja Stefanovich rescues a point for Leningradets
It needed Ilja Stefanovich to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Volgar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Alexandr Pushkin: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
In brief
- Looking ahead A test against the best for Leningradets
- Squad Ilja Stefanovich named player of the week
- Player ratings Maxim Sidelnikov was unplayable