Stanislav Salamovich Cherchesov (, ; ; born 2 September 1963) is a Russian professional

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and former

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. In August 2016, he was appointed as head coach of the Russia national team and led them to the quarter-finals of the

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. He was dismissed after the team was eliminated in the

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group stage. He took charge of Hungarian side

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in 2021, winning two consecutive

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titles before being sacked in July 2023. From June 2024 to January 2025, he was also the head coach of the Kazakhstan national team.

Club career

The goalkeeper played 57 matches in the German top-flight for former

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powerhouse

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a couple of years after reunification between East and West. Cherchesov (transcribed in Austrian German as Tschertschessow) celebrated his biggest successes at the club level in the Austrian premiere Soccer League with FC Tirol (Innsbruck), winning three championship titles in his time there between 1996 and 2002. In Innsbruck Cherchesov is affectionately known as "Stani" to this day.

International career

Cherchesov played for

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at the

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and

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. He also was named in the squad for the

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, but was an unused substitute. In total, he made 39 appearances for the team after the

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. Cherchesov also made one appearance for the FIFA team in the charity game against America in 1995, and for Europe vs Africa in 1997.8

Managerial career

Cherchesov was the manager of Austrian soccer third-tier club

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from January to November 2004 and the manager of Wacker Tirol from November 2004 to May 2006. In June 2006 – June 2007 he was the sporting director of

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. From 19 June 2007 to 14 August 2008 he was the manager of Spartak Moscow. On 12 July 2008, Spartak suffered a historic crushing 5–1 defeat against

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. On 13 August 2008, Spartak lost another crucial match to Dynamo Kyiv 4–1 in UEFA Champions League qualification. The next day, Cherchesov was sacked by Spartak. In June 2023, Cherchesov was appointed the manager of

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. On 8 April 2014, he left the club. On 9 April 2014, he was named as manager of

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replacing Dan Petrescu. He left Dynamo by mutual consent on 13 July 2015. On 6 October 2015, he became the manager of Polish side

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. That season, he won a league and cup double.

Russia

In August 2016, Cherchesov was named as the new head coach of

on a two-year contract through to the

. Under his management Russia would beat

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5–0,

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3–1, and

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1–1 ( pen. 4-3), reaching the quarter-finals for the first time since 1970. He has become the first ever Russian manager, since the collapse of USSR, to bring Russia into the knockout stage of a major tournament for the second time (Dutchman

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led Russia to the

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semi-finals), which others like Pavel Sadyrin,

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, Georgi Yartsev and Leonid Slutsky have failed to do. On 27 July 2018, he signed a new contract with the Russian national team, on a two-year term with a further two-year extension option. On 12 March 2020, he extended the contract until 30 December 2022. It would be extended to 31 July 2024 if Russia qualifies for the knockout stage at the

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. Following the failure to advance from the group stage at the

which was played in June 2021, the

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dismissed Cherchesov on 8 July 2021.

Ferencváros

On 20 December 2021, he was appointed as the manager of the

club

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. On 5 May 2023, he won the 2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I with

, after

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lost 1–0 to Honvéd at the Bozsik Aréna on the 30th matchday. However, on 19 July 2023, he was sacked from his management role after losing 3-0 at the Ferencváros Stadion to

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in the first round of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round.

Kazakhstan

On 3 June 2024, Cherchesov was hired to manage the Kazakhstan national team. At the end of June of the same year, Cherchesov became the subject of a controversy. During a press conference, he objected to a journalist asking several questions in a row in Kazakh. A couple of days later, Cherchesov began attending Kazakh language courses, and has said that he plans to master the language by the end of the year. Under Cherchesov, Kazakhstan had a catastrophic 2024–25 UEFA Nations League B campaign, as Kazakhstan got relegated in a humiliating fashion with no goal to their name and only one point, paradoxically, obtained from

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, the team that would later get promoted to League A next season.

Personal life

Cherchesov is married and has two children. His son, Stanislav, is also a goalkeeper. As he spent much time in Germany and Austria during his career, he is fluent in

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and has taken up coaching education in Germany. In the year 2018, Cherchesov was named "Coach of the Year" in the nomination "Pride of Russia" by the Ministry of Sport of Russia.Церемония награждения лауреатов Национальной спортивной премии за 2018 год
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Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Spartak Moscow *

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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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Tirol Innsbruck *

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: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02 Individual *Soviet Top League Best Goalkeeper: 1989,

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, 1992

Manager

Legia Warsaw *

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: 2015–16 *

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: 2015–16 Ferencváros *

: 2021–22, 2022–23 *

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: 2021–22

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