The Leningradets Chronicle
Match30 Sep 2026
Leningradets bow out of the cup
Lokomotiv Moscow go through and Leningradets go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nikita Tereschuk breaks a bone — 15 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Maxim Sidelnikov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94
A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Danila Yemeljanov beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Leningradets
Alexey Kuznetsov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Leningradets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anatoliy Makarov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 831% of everything Leningradets earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match5 Oct 2026
Leningradets at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 2, 14 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Player of the month: Ilja Stefanovich
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Leningradets prefer.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Eldiyar Zarypbekov
- Boardroom Leningradets counting the cost
- The dugout Timofey Gordeev: “We have to be better”