Ahmet Didarovich Atayev or Ahmet Didarowiç Ataýew (Turkmen Cyrillic: Ахмет Дидарович Атаев; ; born 19 September 1990) is a Turkmen professional

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who plays as a

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for

Ýokary Liga The Turkmenistan Higher League, also called Türkmenistan Ýokary Liga ( Turkmen: ''Ýokary liga futbol klublarynyň arasyndaky futbol boýunça Türkmenistanyň çempionaty''), is the top division of professional football in Turkmenistan, operat ...

club FK Arkadag and the Turkmenistan national team.

Club career

He started playing football at 6 years old. His first coach was Atamyrat Jumamuradov, in Youth sport school of Bagyr (

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). He began his professional career in

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; from 2007 to 2010 he played for

FC Talyp Sporty Talyp Sporty Aşgabat is a Turkmen football club based in Aşgabat. They play in the top division in Turkmenistani football, the Turkmenistan Higher League. Their home stadium is Köpetdag Stadium Köpetdag Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium i ...

. The first half of the 2011 season was held in

FC Aşgabat Ashgabat Futbol Kluby is a Turkmenistan, Turkmen professional association football, football club based in Ashgabat. They play in the top division of Turkmenistan football, Ýokary Liga. Their home stadium is Nisa-Çandybil Stadium, Nisa Stadium. ...

. The second part of the 2011 season, he played for

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, which included winning the Cup of Turkmenistan for the first time. In 2013, he became the first champion

2013 Ýokary Liga 2013 Ýokary Liga season was the 21st edition of the top tier professional Yokary Liga football annual competition in Turkmenistan administered by the Football Federation of Turkmenistan. It began on 12 April 2013 with the first round and ended ...

. Since 2014, Ataýew has played for

Altyn Asyr FK Football Club Altyn Asyr (), also known as Altyn Asyr Ashgabat or simply Altyn Asyr, which translates to ''Golden Century'', is a Turkmen professional football club based in Ashgabat. Founded in 2008, the club competes in the Ýokary Liga, the to ...

. As part of the team, he won the title of champion of Turkmenistan in 2014 and 2015, the

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, and the 2015

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. At the end of the 2015 season, Ataýew was voted the best player of

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. From August 2017, he began performing in Indonesia's Super League for the Arema, which included 25 games and scored 3 goals. In June 2018 moved to the new Indonesian club

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, which he played for until the end of the 2018 year. On 15 May 2019, Ataýew signed by Malaysian Premier League club

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as one of two imports to fill their vacant player slots. Ataýew became part of the team squad that emerged as the champion of

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since the team last lifted their old first division title back in 1996, subsequently qualifying them into the

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. In the team match against

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, Ataýew notably scored the winning goal from a ball given by his teammate through

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in the 58th minute.

International career

He played for the Olympic team of Turkmenistan in the Asian Football Confederation's Pre-Olympic Tournament. Ataýew made his senior national team debut on 27 January 2012, in an friendly match against

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. The captain of the national team from 2015.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Turkmenistan's goal tally first.''

Honors

Altyn Asyr *

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, 2015 *

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: 2015 *

: 2015 HTTU *

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: 2011 Sabah *

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FK Arkadag *

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: 2024–25 Turkmenistan *

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runner-up:

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Individual * Best player of

: 2015

References

External links

*
Ahmet ATAYEV at FIFA.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Atayew, Ahmet Turkmenistan men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Living people Turkmenistan men's footballers 21st-century Turkmenistan sportsmen 1982 births FC Aşgabat players FC Altyn Asyr players Arema F.C. players Persela Lamongan players Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) players Footballers from Ashgabat Turkmenistan expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia Turkmenistan expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia Expatriate men's footballers in Malaysia Turkmenistan expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia 2019 AFC Asian Cup players Liga 1 (Indonesia) players Malaysia Premier League players