Dmitri Kirichenko

Dmitri Kirichenko

Personal information
Full name	Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko
Date of birth	(1977-01-17) 17 January 1977
Place of birth	Novoalexandrovsk, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	FC Mordovia Saransk
Number	10
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1994	Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody	24	(0)
1995	Iskra Novoaleksandrovsk	16	(9)
1996–1997	Taganrog	73	(39)
1998–2001	Rostselmash	108	(38)
2002–2004	CSKA Moscow	75	(29)
2005–2006	Moscow	55	(26)
2007–2010	Saturn Moscow Oblast	99	(26)
2011–2013	Rostov	44	(11)
2013–	Mordovia Saransk	11	(1)
National team
2003–2006	Russia	12	(4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:01, 25 January 2014 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals).

Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko (Russian: Дмитрий Серге́евич Кириченко, born 17 January 1977) is an association footballer – a striker who plays for FC Mordovia Saransk and is a former Russian international.

As of 7 December 2010, he is the 2nd all-time top scorer in the Russian Premier League (119 goals),^[1] and the 6th player by league appearances (336).

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.^[2]

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 the quickest ever goal in the European Football Championship – in the second minute against Greece.^[3]

Career statistics

As of 19 July 2010 ^[4]

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	2004-04-28	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway	Norway	3 – 2	3 – 2	Friendly match
2	2004-06-20	Estádio Algarve, Faro, Portugal	Greece	0 – 1	1 – 2	UEFA Euro 2004
3	2005-10-08	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Luxembourg	4 – 1	5 – 1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	2005-10-08	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Luxembourg	5 – 1	5 – 1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification

References

External links

• Club profile (Russian)
• Player profile (Russian)

v t e Russia squad – UEFA Euro 2004 1 Ovchinnikov 2 Radimov 3 Sychev 4 Smertin (c) 5 Karyaka 6 Semshov 7 Izmailov 8 Gusev 9 Bulykin 10 Mostovoi 11 Kerzhakov 12 Malafeev 13 Sharonov 14 Anyukov 15 Alenichev 16 Evseev 17 Sennikov 18 Kirichenko 19 Bystrov 20 Loskov 21 Bugaev 22 Aldonin 23 Akinfeev Coach: Yartsev