Andrei Aleksandrovich Nikolayev (russian: Андрей Александрович Николаев; born 30 August 1982) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career

He made his debut in the

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

in 2002 for

FC Zenit St. Petersburg Football Club Zenit (russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб «Зенит» ), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, acco ...

, and played 1 game, scoring 1 goal in the

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for them. In 2006, he was loaned to

FK Rīga FK Rīga was a Latvian football club based in Riga. They played in the Virslīga, the top division in Latvian football. They played their home games at Latvijas Universitātes Stadions. In 1999, its first year of existence, the club won the ...

, playing in the

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. In 2011, he came back to

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

, signing a contract with

Skonto Riga Skonto FC was a Latvian football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption (15 in total), and often provided the core of the Lat ...

Honours

runner-up: 2003.

References

1982 births Footballers from Saint Petersburg Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players FC Moscow players FK Rīga players FC Salyut Belgorod players FC Sibir Novosibirsk players FC Volgar Astrakhan players Skonto FC players FC Novokuznetsk players FC Cherepovets players Russian Premier League players Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Russian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia FC Nizhny Novgorod (2007) players FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg players {{Russia-footy-forward-1980s-stub