Anatoli Igorevich Ponomarev (born 12 June 1982) is an Azerbaijani former professional

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who played as a striker.

Career

Ponomarev began his career in 1998 with Swedish club

Reymersholms IK Reymersholms IK is a sports club located in Stockholm and was founded on 1 September 1899. From the 1920s to the 1940s the club was successful in bandy, football and ice hockey. Today football is the only sport in the club. The club is affiliate ...

. He has also played in Sweden for

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is name ...

IK Sirius IK Sirius is a Swedish bandy club located in Uppsala, currently playing in Elitserien. IK Sirius were formed in 1907 and play their home games at Studenternas Idrottsplats. History IK Sirius' first success was becoming Swedish runners-up in ...

, Vallentuna BK, Essinge IK,

Kalmar FF Kalmar Fotbollförening, more commonly known as Kalmar FF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Kalmar. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Guldfågeln Arena. Formed on 15 June 1910, the cl ...

, GAIS,

Östers IF Östers Idrottsförening, commonly known as Östers IF or simply Öster, is a Swedish sports club located in Växjö, specializing in football, and playing in the second tier of Swedish football, Superettan. The club has previously also compet ...

, Degerfors IF and

Vasalunds IF Vasalunds IF is a Swedish football club based in Solna, Stockholm. The club is affiliated with Stockholms Fotbollförbund. History Vasalund was formed in 1934 and play in the Swedish Third Division: Division 1 Norra. In 2002 the club merged wit ...

, in Spain for

RCD Mallorca B RCD Mallorca B, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Palma, Majorca, in the Balearic Islands. Founded in 1967, it is the reserve team of RCD Mallorca and currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 3, holding home matches at '' Est ...

, in Greece for

Skoda Xanthi Xanthi Football Club ( el, Α.Ο. Ξάνθη Π.Α.Ε.) is a Greek professional football club based in Xanthi, Western Thrace and plays at Xanthi FC Arena. The club resigned from the Super League 2 due to financial issues. Founded in 1967, Xa ...

, in Azerbaijan for

Inter Baku Shamakhi FK ( az, Şamaxı Futbol Klubu, ) is an Azerbaijani professional football club based in Shamakhi, that currently competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League. The club has won the Premier League title twice. History Early years (1997– ...

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and

FK Baku FC Baku ( az, "Bakı" Futbol Klubu) is an Azerbaijani football club based in Baku that has been an amateur club since 2016. Prior to that, Baku played 18 seasons in the Azerbaijan Premier League, winning the championship twice and earning the Na ...

and in Switzerland for

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. He last played for

Orduspor Orduspor was a Turkish football club founded in 1967. The club was located in Ordu, Turkey and played their home games at 19 Eylül Stadium. The team managed to qualify for the Turkish Super League again in 2011. But, the last spell in top lev ...

in Turkey. While playing in Sweden, Ponomarev was relegated three times in three seasons – Östers IF (2007), Degerfors IF (2008) and Vasalunds IF (2009).

International career

Ponomarev has made 16 appearances for the

Azerbaijan national football team The Azerbaijan national football team ( az, Azərbaycan milli futbol komandası) is the national football team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan. It represents Azerbaijan in international foot ...

Personal life

His father is

Igor Ponomaryov Igor Anatolyevich Ponomaryov (russian: Игорь Анатольевич Пономарёв; born 24 February 1960 in Baku) is a retired Soviet football player and currently manager of the Khazar Lankaran. Honours * Olympic Champion: 1988 * ...

Career statistics

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year International goals

References

External links

* 1982 births Living people Azerbaijani footballers Azerbaijan international footballers Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players Essinge IK players RCD Mallorca B players Xanthi F.C. players Kalmar FF players GAIS players Östers IF players Degerfors IF players FC Vaduz players Qarabağ FK players FC Baku players Shamakhi FK players Vasalunds IF players Allsvenskan players Azerbaijan Premier League players Super League Greece players TFF First League players Azerbaijani expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Liechtenstein Expatriate footballers in Greece Expatriate footballers in Turkey Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate footballers in Sweden Footballers from Baku IK Sirius Fotboll players Association football forwards Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Azerbaijani expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate footballers in Spain {{Azerbaijan-footy-bio-stub