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Support for Sport

Gazprom Neft is implementing a large-scale programme to support and develop sports in Russia. The program is focused on providing and expanding sports facilities for popular sports, promoting professional sports, and supporting sports schools and clubs for children and young people.

Gazprom Neft is a proud sponsor of Russia’s leading sports clubs, including Football Club Zenit (St. Petersburg), Hockey Club Avangard (Omsk Region), and the Serbian football club Crvena Zvezda.

Football Club Zenit

Zenit, one of the leading football clubs in Russia, plays in the Russian Football Premier League. Today, Zenit remains the only winner of all USSR and Russia football super trophies: USSR Championship (1984), USSR Cup (1944), USSR Super Cup (1985), Russian Championship (2007), Russian Cup (1998/99), Premier League Cup (2003), and Russian Super Cup (2008). Over the last ten years, the team has been particularly successful on the international level, winning the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in 2008.

 

Hockey Club Avangard

Avangard is a professional hockey club in the Omsk region, founded more than half a century ago. Since the early 1990s, the team has been gaining momentum and for the last decade the team has had a meteoric rise. In 1996 the “Hawks” won bronze medals in the Russian championship for the first time and a gold medal at the Russian championship in 2004 and at the European championship in 2005 (The 2005 European Champions Cup). Other achievements of the club include silver medals won in 2001 and 2006 and bronze medals won in 2007. In 2011, the Omsk Avangard won the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League for the first time and claimed the Continent Cup.

 

Hockey Club SKA

Hockey Club SKA is the main hockey team in St. Petersburg and one of the oldest hockey clubs in Russia. It was founded in 1946 and took part in the USSR championship during its first season. The club was home to world and Olympic champions, the pride of Russian hockey: Alexei Kasatonov, Nikolai Drozdetsky, Alexei Gusarov, Evgeny Belosheykin, Svyatoslav Khalizov, Sergei Pushkov, Sergei Shendelev, and Maxim Sushinsky.

Today Hockey Club SKA includes the SKA Masters Team, which plays in the Continental Hockey League, and the SKA-1946 team, which takes part in the Russian Championship for Youth Teams.

The team has won numerous domestic and international competitions. In the 2009/2010 season, SKA finished second in the KHL Championship – Open Hockey Championship of Russia based on the results of the regular championship leg, and was the best team in the KHL Western Conference.

Crvena Zvezda Football Club

Crvena Zvezda, a football club with a rich history, is a national brand of former Yugoslavia and present-day Serbia. Since its foundation in 1945, Crvena Zvezda has won 25 Serbian championships and 23 national cups. Among the club's European trophies are Mitropa (Middle European Cup) and Danube Cup. In 1991, Crvena Zvezda won its two most significant trophies: Champions Cup and Intercontinental Cup. The army of the club's fans amounts to 4 million people in the Balkan countries at all levels of society and represents a special social group ("zvezdashi"). The club owns the Maracana stadium. Presently, the construction of a state-of-the-art athletic training complex near Belgrade is being completed.