Aleksei Arefyev (russian: Алексей Арефьев; born 9 March 1971) is a Russian retired professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

er. He made his professional debut in the

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

in 1989 for

FC Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pr ...

. He played 4 games in the UEFA Cup 1992–93 for

Honours

bronze: 1991. * Russian Cup winner: 1993.

References

1971 births Footballers from Moscow Living people Soviet footballers Russian footballers Soviet Top League players Russian Premier League players Russian expatriate sportspeople in Bangladesh FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Torpedo-2 players FC Ural Yekaterinburg players FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players Expatriate footballers in Bangladesh {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub Association football midfielders Association football defenders