Dmitri Kirichenko

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox football biography Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko (Template:Langx; born 17 January 1977) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as a striker. He is the manager of Tekstilshchik Ivanovo.

As of 10 March 2014, he is the 3rd all-time top scorer in the Russian Premier League (129 goals),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the 5th player by league appearances (377).

Club career

Kirichenko started his career playing for small clubs such as Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody, Iskra Novoaleksandrovsk and Torpedo Taganrog. In 1998, he joined Rostselmash, following impressive performance for Taganrog club during the previous year.

He became one of the most promising Russian strikers during the next years, and joined CSKA Moscow in 2002. With the army men Kirichenko managed to become the league top scorer in 2002 (along with his teammate Rolan Gusev), won the Russian Premier League twice, and got the Russian Cup.

In 2005, he left for FC Moscow. Playing for the new team, he repeated his success, becoming the top scorer again.

He played for Saturn from 2007 to 2010. In 2008 in the first match of his team in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, in the victory 7–0, he scored 4 goals. He did not play in the second match of that round. At the next round he scored a goal at the first match in a 1–0 victory against 2007 German champions VfB Stuttgart. With 5 goals at total he became the top scorer of the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2011, after Saturn were dissolved due to financial problems, Kirichenko returned to Rostov, the club where he had made a name for himself back in the 1990s.

International career

He played for his country at Euro 2004, scoring in the second minute against Greece as Russia defeated the eventual European champions 2–1 in a consolation match as Russia were already eliminated. The goal stood as the fastest goal ever in a European Championship until Nedim Bajrami of Albania scored against Italy in 23 seconds at Euro 2024. <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Managerial career

He was appointed the caretaker manager of FC Rostov on 6 August 2016 following the resignation of Kurban Berdyev.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His caretaking spell ended on 9 September 2016.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He was appointed the caretaker manager of FC Ufa on 7 November 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Ufa won their first game under his management against FC Spartak Moscow, but in the next 6 games the club only achieved 2 draws and 4 losses, and on 27 March 2019 Kirichenko left Ufa by mutual consent.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career statistics

Club

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Club	Season	League			Russian Cup		Europe		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Torpedo Taganrog	1996		37	7			–		–		37	7
	1997		36	32			–		–		36	22
	Total		73	39			–		–		73	39
Rostselmash	1998	Russian Top Division	23	5	2	1			–		25	6
	1999		28	6	2	0	6	0	–		36	6
	2000		29	14	1	0	2	1	–		32	15
	2001		28	13			–		–		28	13
	Total		108	38	5	1	8	1	–		121	40
CSKA Moscow	2002	Russian Premier League	26	15	2	0	1	0	–		29	15
	2003		22	5	4	1	2	1	1Template:Efn	0	29	7
	2004		26	9	5	2	3	0	1Template:Efn	1	35	12
	Total		74	29	11	3	6	1	2	1	93	34
Moscow	2005	Russian Premier League	26	14			–		–		26	14
	2006		29	12	4	4	4	0	–		37	16
	Total		55	26	4	4	4	0	–		63	30
Saturn Ramenskoye	2007	Russian Premier League	27	9	2	1	–		–		29	10
	2008		17	1	1	0	3	5	–		21	6
	2009		27	8			–		–		27	8
	2010		28	8			–		–		28	8
	Total		99	26	3	1	3	5	–		105	32
Rostov	2011–12	Russian Premier League	19	5	3	0	–		2	1	24	6
	2012–13		22	5	4	1	–		1	0	27	6
	Total		41	10	7	1	–		3	1	51	12
Mordovia Saransk	2013–14	Russian Football National League	12	1	2	0	–		–		13	1
Career total			462	169	32	10	21	7	5	2	520	188

International

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	Template:Dts	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	Template:Fb	3–2	3–2	Friendly
2	Template:Dts	Estádio Algarve, Faro, Portugal	Template:Fb	0–1	1–2	UEFA Euro 2004
3	Template:Dts	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Template:Fb	4–1	5–1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
4				5–1

Honours

CSKA Moscow

• Russian Premier League: 2003
• Russian Cup: 2001–02
• Russian Super Cup: 2004; runner-up: 2003
• UEFA Cup: 2004–05

External links

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