Maksim Sergeyevich Grigoryev (russian: Максим Сергеевич Григорьев; born 6 July 1990) is a Russian professional footballer. He plays for

FC Metallurg Lipetsk FC Metallurg Lipetsk (russian: Футбольный клуб «Металлург» Липецк) is an association football club in Lipetsk, Russia, formed in 1957. Their home, Metallurg Stadium, is located on Pervomayskaya Street, 59, in Lipetsk ...

Club career

Spartak

Grigoryev made his debut in the

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on 21 March 2009 in a game against

FC Kuban Krasnodar FC Kuban (russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Кубань" Краснодар) was a Russian football club based in Krasnodar. The team began playing in the Russian Premier League in 2011, after it was promoted for winning the Ru ...

.Game report on the Russian Football Premier League site
He played two games in the

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for

FC Spartak Moscow FC Spartak Moscow (russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dyna ...

against

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and

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Rostov

In early 2011, his contract with

expired, and he decided to switch to

FC Rostov FC Rostov (russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб Ростов) is a Russian professional football club based in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast. The club are members of the Russian Premier League, and play at the Rostov Arena. After the 20 ...

. According to Russian football regulations, when a player under 23 years of age who was raised in the club system transfers to a different club after his contract expires, his old club is due compensation from his new club. If the new club plays on the third level (

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), the compensation is the player's previous 5 years' salary multiplied by 1, if his new club is in the

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, it's multiplied by 2 and if it's a

club, it's multiplied by 3. Grigoryev and two other Spartak alumni,

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and Yevgeni Filippov, signed with a

team

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who immediately loaned them to the

team

. Spartak lodged a complaint with the

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, claiming this was not a fair transfer as the only reason for it was to lower the compensation that FC Rostov was due to pay Spartak. After the protest was declined on 29 March 2011, Grigoryev was registered for FC Rostov and scored a goal on his debut against

FC Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (''FC Lokomotiv Moskva'', russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб "Локомотив" Москва, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three oc ...

on 2 April 2011. FC Lokomotiv's president, Olga Smorodskaya, filed a complaint with the Russian Football Union and Premier League, claiming Grigoryev was not eligible to be registered and play for FC Rostov. Lokomotiv's protest was eventually denied.

Lokomotiv

In January 2012, Grigoryev signed three-and-a-half-year deal with

Rostov (third spell)

Grigoryev left Rostov by mutual consent on 17 July 2017.

Career statistics

Notes

International career

Grigoryev made his debut for Russia under-21 football team against Poland under-21 team on 6 September 2011. He was called up by

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to the

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for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against

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and against

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in October 2012. He made his debut for the main squad in a friendly against the

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on 14 November 2012.

References

External links

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Profile on the FC Spartak Moscow site
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