Aleksandr Vladimirovich Maksimenko (; born 19 March 1998) is a Russian
football
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player who plays for
Spartak Moscow and the
Russia national team.
Club career
Maksimenko made his debut in the
Russian Football National League
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for
Spartak-2 Moscow on 13 August 2016 in a game against
Tyumen
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. He made his debut for the main Spartak squad on 25 October 2017 in a
Russian Cup game against
Spartak Nalchik. He made his debut in the
Russian Premier League
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Spartak Moscow on 28 July 2018 in a game against
Orenburg
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Maksimienko became the starting Spartak goalkeeper after that in the beginning of the 2018–19 season over
Artyom Rebrov as
Aleksandr Selikhov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Selikhov (; born 7 April 1994) is a Russian association football, football player who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Ural Yekaterinburg and the Russian national football team.
Club career F ...
was suffering from a tendon injury, and later became the joint-first choice keeper along with Selikhov.
Maksimenko won the
Russian Cup in
2022
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In 2025, as Selikhov left Spartak, Maksimienko became the sole first-choice goalkeeper.
International career
He played in the
2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and
2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup
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Host selection
The following four countries bid to host the tournament:
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Venues
Along with proposing ...
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Russia national under-17 football team.
On 11 May 2021, he was named as a back-up player for the Russia's
UEFA Euro 2020
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squad.
Maksimenko made his senior team debut on 7 June 2024 in a friendly against
Belarus
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, coming on as a half-time substitute in a 4–0 Russian victory.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
;Spartak Moscow
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Russian Cup:
2021–22
References
External links
Profile by Russian Football National League
1998 births
Footballers from Rostov-on-Don
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Russia men's youth international footballers
Russia men's under-21 international footballers
Russia men's international footballers
FC Spartak-2 Moscow players
FC Spartak Moscow players
Russian Premier League players
Russian First League players
21st-century Russian sportsmen
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