Ramiz Mamedov ( az, Ramiz Məmmədov; russian: Рамиз Мамедов; born 21 August 1972) is a retired

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and

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n football player of Azerbaijani descent, best known as a defender for

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in the 1990s.

Club career

Mamedov's career as player started in 1991 and finished in 2003, during this time he played for

, Arsenal Tula, Krylia Sovetov, FC Dynamo Kyiv,

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, Volgar-Gazprom and Luch-Energiya.

International career

As a member of the

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, Mamedov competed at the 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in France. They were defeated in the quarter-final by the

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. On 17 August 1994, he was called up for the first time to the

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in a friendly against

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Club statistics

Honours

Club

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 ...

: 1992,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

, 1996,

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS ( Moldov ...

: 1991–92 * Russian Cup: 1993–94, 1997–98 * CIS Cup:

Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officia ...

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League' ...

: 1999–00 *

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: 1999–00

Individual

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s Best right defender of

: 1994, 1995 *''Mamedov became the first five-time champion of Russia Premier League (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997) *''Mamedov became the first player to become the champion of Russia and Ukraine, with teams of Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Kyiv.

References

External links

RussiaTeam biography and profile

Video about career of Ramiz MamedovBiography at Krylia Sovetov's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mamedov, Ramiz 1972 births Living people Soviet footballers Russian footballers Russian sportspeople of Azerbaijani descent Russia international footballers Russia under-21 international footballers Russian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Russian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate footballers in Austria FC Spartak Moscow players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players FC Dynamo Kyiv players SK Sturm Graz players FC Luch Vladivostok players FC Volgar Astrakhan players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Austrian Football Bundesliga players FC Arsenal Tula players FC Lokomotiv Moscow players Association football defenders FC Sokol Saratov players