Valentin Nikolayev

Personal information
Full name	Valentin Aleksandrovich Nikolayev
Date of birth	August 16, 1921 (1921-08-16)
Place of birth	Yerosovo, Vladimir Governorate, USSR
Date of death	October 9, 2009 (2009-10-10) (aged 88)
Place of death	Moscow
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Kazanka Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1940–1952	CDKA Moscow	187	(79)
1952	Kalinin City Team	4	(2)
1953	MVO Moscow	0
International career
1952	USSR	2	(0)
Managerial career
1964–1965	CSKA Moscow
1967–1968	SKA Khabarovsk
1970–1971	Soviet Union
1970–1973	CSKA Moscow
1974–1985	Soviet Union U-21
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Valentin Aleksandrovich Nikolayev (Russian: Валенти́н Алекса́ндрович Никола́ев; August 16, 1921 in Yerosovo, Vladimir Governorate – October 9, 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet football player and coach.

• Soviet Top League winner: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970 (as manager).
• Soviet Top League runner-up: 1945, 1949.
• Soviet Top League bronze: 1964, 1965 (both as manager).
• Soviet Cup winner: 1945, 1948, 1951.
• Soviet Top League top scorer: 1946 (16 goals), 1947 (14 goals).
• Grigory Fedotov Club member: 111 goals.
• As a manager: Europe U-23 champion: 1976, Europe U-21 champion: 1980.

Nikolayev made his debut for USSR on July 20, 1952 in an Olympics game against Bulgaria. As a manager, he was in charge of USSR national football team from October 1970 until the end of 1971.^[1]

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