Murad Olegovich Musayev (russian: Мурад Олегович Мусаев; born 10 November 1983) is a Russian football coach. He is the manager of Azerbaijani club

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Club career

He led the Under-19 team of

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to the 2017–18 UEFA Youth League knockout phase, where they were eliminated by Real Madrid only in a shootout in front of the sold-out

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. On 3 April 2018, following the firing of Igor Shalimov, he was appointed the caretaker manager of

. After his caretaking spell was over in early May, he could not be registered as manager with the

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due to lack of

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(Musayev only held UEFA B Licence at the time), so Oleg Fomenko was formally registered with the league as head coach and Musayev as his senior assistant coach, but Musayev de facto continued to manage the team. He received his UEFA A Licence later in 2018, but that still didn't make him eligible to be registered as the head coach. Before the 2019–20 season, Fomenko moved to

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and Sergey Matveyev was hired by

as head coach. Musayev passed his

exam in the summer of 2020 and was officially registered with the league as Krasnodar's manager on 20 June 2020. He led Krasnodar to their first qualification to the group stage of the

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in the 2020–21 season. He resigned from Krasnodar on 3 April 2021 following a string of bad results after 2020–21 season was resumed after a winter break, including a biggest ever club defeat (1–6 to

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away) and a biggest ever home loss (0–5 to

FC Akhmat Grozny Republican Football Club Akhmat ( ce, футболан клуб Ахмат Соьлжа-ГӀала; russian: Республиканский футбольный клуб Ахмат Грозный), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, is a Russian ...

). On 30 October 2021, he signed a two-year contract with Azerbaijan Premier League club

Personal life

On his father's side, he is of Uzbek and

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descent, the grandson of Uzbek from Bukhara, and on his mother's side, he is Russian.

References

External links

Profile by Russian Football Premier League
1983 births Sportspeople from Krasnodar Russian Muslims Avar people Living people Russian football managers FC Krasnodar managers Russian Premier League managers Azerbaijan Premier League managers Russian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Azerbaijan Russian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan {{Russia-footy-bio-stub