Vladimir Beschastnykh

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Yevgenyevich and the family name is Beschastnych.

Vladimir Beschastnykh
Personal information
Beschastnykh in 2008
Full name	Vladimir Yevgenyevich Beschastnykh
Date of birth	(1974-04-01) 1 April 1974
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Forward/Midfielder
Club information
Current team	FC Tosno (asst manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991	Zvezda Moscow	1	(0)
1991–1994	Spartak Moscow	62	(35)
1994–1996	Werder Bremen	56	(11)
1996–2001	Racing Santander	140	(28)
2001–2002	Spartak Moscow	42	(21)
2002–2003	Fenerbahçe	12	(1)
2003–2004	Kuban	21	(8)
2004–2005	Dinamo Moscow	21	(4)
2005	Oryol	22	(3)
2006–2007	Khimki	42	(9)
2007–2008	Volga Tver	8	(0)
2008	Astana	25	(4)
Total		452	(124)
National team
1992–2003	Russia^[1]^[2]	71	(26)
Teams managed
2014–2015	Spartak Moscow (U-21)
2016	FC Torpedo Armavir (assistant)
2016–	FC Tosno (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Vladimir Yevgenyevich Beschastnykh (Russian: Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Бесча́стных; IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr jɪvˈgʲenʲɪvʲɪtɕ bʲɪˈɕːasnɨx]; born 1 April 1974) is a Russian association football manager and a former player who played as forward. He is an assistant manager with FC Tosno.

From 1992 to 2003, he played 71 internationals, and featured at two World Cups and Euro 96. With 26 goals, was the all-time goal leader for the Russian national team until surpassed by Aleksandr Kerzhakov in September 2014.^[3] He is also the record goalscorer in the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup, with 20 goals for FC Spartak Moscow.

Club career

His club career that started in 1991, with Beschastnykh playing for Zvezda Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Werder Bremen, Racing Santander, Fenerbahçe, and Kuban Krasnodar. In the 2004–05 season he played for FC Orel in Russian First Division (second-level division after Premier Liga).

On 15 December 2005, Beschastnykh signed up with another First Division club – FC Khimki, a well-funded football team from a Moscow suburb, competing for a place in the upper echelon of the Russian championship.

In May 2007, FC Khimki released Beschastnykh. After playing for Kazakh Premier League side FC Astana in 2008, he retired from playing.

International career

For Russia, Beschastnykh scored 26 goals in 71 caps, his first coming in 1992. Until Aleksandr Kerzhakov surpassed him in September 2014, he was the top goalscorer for the Russian national team excluding Soviet-era goals (Oleg Blokhin had 42 for the USSR national team). One of these goals came in the 2002 World Cup against Belgium; Beschastnykh also played in the 1994 tournament, as well as in Euro 96.

International goals

№	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	17 August 1994	Wörtherseestadion, Klagenfurt, Austria	Austria	0 – 1	0 – 3	Friendly match
2	26 April 1995	Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece	Greece	0 – 3	0 – 3	UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
3	31 May 1995	Crvena Zvezda Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	1 – 2	1 – 2	Friendly match
4	7 June 1995	Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino	San Marino	0 – 5	0 – 7	UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
5	2 June 1996	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Poland	2 – 0	2 – 0	Friendly match
6	19 June 1996	Anfield Road, Liverpool, England	Czech Republic	3 – 2	3 – 3	UEFA Euro 1996
7	1 September 1996	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Cyprus	4 – 0	4 – 0	1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
8	10 November 1996	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0 – 3	0 – 4	1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
9	22 April 1998	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Turkey	1 – 0	1 – 0	Friendly match
10	27 March 1999	Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia	Armenia	0 – 3	0 – 3	UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
11	31 March 1999	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Andorra	2 – 0	6 – 1	UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
12	31 March 1999	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Andorra	5 – 0	6 – 1	UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
13	18 August 1999	Dinamo Stadium, Minsk, Belarus	Belarus	0 – 1	0 – 2	Friendly match
14	4 September 1999	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Armenia	1 – 0	2 – 0	UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
15	23 February 2000	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa, Israel	Israel	3 – 1	4 – 1	Friendly match
16	31 May 2000	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Slovakia	1 – 1	1 – 1	Friendly match
17	2 September 2000	Hardturm, Zürich, Switzerland	Switzerland	0 – 1	0 – 1	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
18	25 April 2001	Crvena Zvezda Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	0 – 1	0 – 1	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
19	5 September 2001	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands	0 – 1	0 – 3	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
20	5 September 2001	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands	0 – 2	0 – 3	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
21	6 October 2001	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Switzerland	1 – 0	4 – 0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
22	6 October 2001	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Switzerland	2 – 0	4 – 0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
23	6 October 2001	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Switzerland	3 – 0	4 – 0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
24	27 March 2002	A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn, Estonia	Estonia	1 – 1	2 – 1	Friendly match
25	14 June 2002	Ecopa Stadium, Fukuroi, Japan	Belgium	1 – 1	3 – 2	2002 FIFA World Cup
26	7 September 2002	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Republic of Ireland	2 – 0	4 – 2	UEFA Euro 2004 qualification

Family

His identical twin Mikhail Beschastnykh also played football professionally.

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Club	Season
Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Spartak	1992	20	7	2	2	-	-	22	9
	1993	29	18	3	1	6	0	38	19
	1994	13	10	4	1	10	1	27	12
Werder Bremen	1994–95	29	10	2¹	2²	2	2	33	14
	1995–96	24	1	3	4	3	0	30	5
	1996–97	3	0	1	0	2	0	6	0
Racing de Santander	1996–97	35	10	5	0	-	-	40	10
	1997–98	34	10	2	2	-	-	36	12
	1998–99	34	6	7	0	-	-	41	6
	1999-00	24	1	3	2	-	-	27	3
	2000–01	13	1	3	0	-	-	16	1
Spartak	2001	12	9	-	-	6	4	18	13
Spartak	2002	30	12	2	2	6	0	38	14
Fenerbahçe	2002–03	12	1	-	-	-	-	12	1
Kuban	2003	16	8	-	-	-	-	16	8
Kuban	2004	5	0	5	1	-	-	10	1
Dynamo (Moscow)	2004	11	2	-	-	-	-	11	2
Dynamo (Moscow)	2005	10	2	4	2	-	-	14	4
Oryol	2005	22	3	-	-	-	-	22	3
Khimki	2006	42	9	-	-	-	-	42	9
Khimki	2007	2	0	-	-	-	-	2	0
Volga	2007	8	0	-	-	-	-	8	0
Astana	2008	25	4	-	-	-	-	25	4
Career	Total	453	124	46	19	35	7	534	150

¹Including 1 match in the DFL-Supercup 1994

²Including 1 goal in the DFL-Supercup 1994

Honours

Russian Championship: 1992, 1993, 1994, 2001
Bundesliga: runner-up 1994–95
Soviet Cup: 1991–92
Russian Cup: 1993–94, 2002–03
DFB-Supercup: 1994

References

↑ Vladimir Beschastnykh at National-Football-Teams.com
↑ "Vladimir Yevgenyevich Beschastnykh – Goals in International Matches". Retrieved 15 January 2009.
↑ "Kerzhakov breaks record as Russia thrash Azerbaijan in friendly". Fox Sports. Associated Press. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.

External links

Vladimir Beschastnykh at RSSSF
Beschastnykh at Legioner
Player profile (Russian)

Russia squads

Russia squad – 1994 FIFA World Cup

1 Cherchesov 2 Kuznetsov 3 Gorlukovich 4 Galyamin 5 Nikiforov 6 Ternavskiy 7 Pyatnitskiy 8 Popov 9 Salenko 10 Karpin 11 Beschastnykh 12 Tetradze 13 Borodyuk 14 Korneev 15 Radchenko 16 Kharin (c) 17 Tsymbalar 18 Onopko 19 Mostovoi 20 Ledyakhov 21 Khlestov 22 Yuran Coach: Sadyrin

Russia squad – UEFA Euro 1996

1 Kharin 2 Tetradze 3 Nikiforov 4 Tsymbalar 5 Kovtun 6 Karpin 7 Onopko (c) 8 Kanchelskis 9 Kolyvanov 10 Mostovoi 11 Kiriakov 12 Cherchesov 13 Bushmanov 14 Dobrovolski 15 Shalimov 16 Simutenkov 17 Beschastnykh 18 Yanovsky 19 Radimov 20 Gorlukovich 21 Khokhlov 22 Ovchinnikov Coach: Romantsev

Russia squad – 2002 FIFA World Cup

1 Nigmatullin 2 Kovtun 3 Nikiforov 4 Smertin 5 Solomatin 6 Semshov 7 Onopko (c) 8 Karpin 9 Titov 10 Mostovoi 11 Beschastnykh 12 Cherchesov 13 Daev 14 Chugainov 15 Alenichev 16 Kerzhakov 17 Semak 18 Sennikov 19 Pimenov 20 Izmailov 21 Khokhlov 22 Sychev 23 Filimonov Coach: Romantsev

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