Yuri Nikiforov

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Yuri Nikiforov
Personal information
Full name	Yuri Valeryevich Nikiforov
Date of birth	September 16, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Odessa, Ukraine
Height	1.85 m
Playing position	defender midfielder striker
Youth clubs
	Chornomorets Odessa
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986 1987 1988 1988–1989 1989 1993–1996 1996–1998 1998–2002 2003–2004	Chornomorets Odessa SKA Odessa Chornomorets Odessa Dynamo Kyiv Chornomorets Odessa Spartak Moscow Sporting de Gijón PSV Eindhoven Urawa Red Diamonds	1 0 65 (4) 85 (16) 65 (3) 96 (5) 12 (0)
National team
1992 1992 1992–2002	CIS Ukraine Russia	4 3 55
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Yuri Nikiforov (Russian: Юрий Валерьевич Никифоров) (born 16 September 1970 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian-Russian former football player.

He played for Dinamo Kiev (only for reserve team), Chernomorets Odessa, FC Spartak Moscow, Sporting de Gijón (Spain), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), RKC Waalwijk (Netherlands) and Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan).

He played for USSR, briefly for the Ukraine and later for the Russia national football team and was a participant at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

[edit] Honours

• World Under-16 champion in 1987
• European Under-19 champion in 1988
• Ukrainian Cup winner in 1992
• Russian Premier League champion in 1993, 1994, 1996
• Russian Cup winner in 1994
• Eredivisie champion in 2000, 2001
• Emperor's Cup winner in 2003

[edit] External links

• Yury Nikiforov - International Appearances at RSSSF
• Profile at RussiaTeam (Russian)
• Statistics at KLISF
• National Football Teams

	Russia squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup
1 Cherchesov | 2 Kuznetsov | 3 Gorlukovich | 4 Galiamin | 5 Nikiforov | 6 Ternavski | 7 Piatnitski | 8 Popov | 9 Salenko | 10 Karpin | 11 Beschastnykh | 12 Tetradze | 13 Borodyuk | 14 Korneyev | 15 Radchenko | 16 Kharine | 17 Tsymbalar | 18 Onopko | 19 Mostovoi | 20 Lediakhov | 21 Khlestov | 22 Yuran | Coach: Sadyrin

	Russia squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Nigmatullin | 2 Kovtun | 3 Nikiforov | 4 Smertin | 5 Solomatin | 6 Semshov | 7 Onopko | 8 Karpin | 9 Titov | 10 Mostovoi | 11 Beschastnykh | 12 Cherchesov | 13 Dayev | 14 Chugainov | 15 Alenichev | 16 Kerzhakov | 17 Semak | 18 Sennikov | 19 Pimenov | 20 Izmailov | 21 Khokhlov | 22 Sychev | 23 Filimonov | Coach: Romantsev