The squad meet up at the Gazprom Training Centre in the morning and met Mr. Mancini and his new coaching staff. Roberto Mancini will be assisted by assistant coach Fausto Salsano, Angelo Gregucci, Anatoliy Tymoschuk and Igor Simutenkov. His fitness coaches will be Ivan Carminati, Andrea Scanavino,  Mikhail Biryukov and Tomislav Rogich as goalkeeping coaches and Maxim Gaydovsky doing analytics. 

Also working with the team will be deputy sporting director Oreste Chinkvini. 

Zenit will be in Austria for two weeks and will play a series of friendlies. Further information will be published separately.