Zenit St Petersburg

It’s reasonably fair to say that the Krestovsky Stadium has endured something of a trouble time since the building of it was announced back in 2006. For starts, it was supposed to open in 2008, yet wasn’t completed until almost a decade later. How the construction of it was funded has also changed numerous times, with Gazprom originally offering said funding in return for sponsorship rights of the new ground. They pulled out in 2009 and the city government of Saint Petersburg took over, only for the construction company to announce that they were owed 1 billion rubles in 2016, ceasing their work never to return. Still, let’s not criticise the stadium for taking so long to get built but instead rejoice that it was able to join the party at all. It is officially called the Krestovsky Stadium and at one point was intended to be named the Gazprom Arena. It is known to fans of the Russian Premier League as Zenit Arena and during the 2017 Confederations Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup it was the Saint Petersburg Stadium. Some football grounds go their entire existence with just the one name, whilst the home of Zenit St. Petersburg had four before it was even properly open.