Ground and Club Culture
Due to armed conflict in Dagestan, the club’s players live and train in a village near Moscow, at a training base previously used by Saturn Moscow. The club fly in for home matches, which have a heavy security presence.
The club's 15,200-seat Dynamo Stadium was built in 1927, and due to its facilities is not used in European competition, for which Anzhi have used the Saturn Stadium in Ramenskoye and Lokomotiv Stadium in Moscow. A high-priority goal of Kerimov when he purchased the club was the construction of a new 40,000 seater ground.
The club are hated by radical elements of support from Moscow-based sides and Zenit St Petersburg due to jealousy of finances; and ethnic and cultural hatred of the peoples of the Northern Caucasus.
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