Aleksandr Vasilyevich Novikov (; born 14 June 1955) is a Russian football coach and a former

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and

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n player. He works at the academy of

FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', , ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Footba ...

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

winner: 1976 (spring). *

runner-up: 1986. *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...

winner: 1977, 1984. *

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

runner-up (as a manager): 1992. * All-time most league appearances for

: 395.

International career

Novikov made his debut for

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on 20 March 1977 in a friendly against

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. He played in a

1978 FIFA World Cup The 1978 FIFA World Cup was the 11th edition of the FIFA World Cup, a Anniversary#Latin-derived numerical names, quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament among the men's senior national teams. It wa ...

qualifier.

Personal life

His son Kirill Novikov played football professionally as well, and then became a coach. In 2019, Kirill was appointed manager of

, with Aleksandr working as his assistant.

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