Aleksandr Vasilyevich Novikov (russian: Александр Васильевич Новиков; 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'', russian: Дина́мо Москва́ ) is a Russian 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 Fo ...

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

winner: 1976 (spring). *

runner-up: 1986. *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS ( Moldov ...

winner: 1977, 1984. *

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

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 quadrennial international football world championship tournament among the men's senior national teams. It was held in Argentina between 1 and 25 June. The Cup was won by ...

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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