Anatoli Viktorovich Davydov (; born 13 November 1953) is a Russian professional
football
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coach and a former player. He is the director of the academy for
Zenit St. Petersburg.
Career
Davydov made his professional debut in the
Soviet Second League
The Soviet Second League (, Soviet football championship (Second League)) was the third highest division of Soviet Union, Soviet football (soccer), football, below the Soviet First League. The league was formed in 1971 in place of the Class A Se ...
in 1971 for
Metallurg Tula.
He played two games in the
UEFA Cup 1987–88 for
Zenit Leningrad, the former name of Zenit Saint Petersburg. Davydov was one of the most respected and influential players during Zenit's golden era in the 1980s, and continued to play top-level competitive football until the record age of 43, then becoming a Zenit's coach. He also holds the club record for the most first team appearances - 454 official games, 53 games in Soviet Cup.
Davydov played for Chinese side
Foshan Fosti in 1996. He hold the record for being the oldest person to have played in a professional Chinese football match aged 42 years and 348 days, as well as the oldest person to have scored in a professional Chinese football match aged 42 years and 292 days before 2018 when
Zhuang Yi broke his records.
Personal life
His son
Dmitri Davydov is a professional footballer.
Honours
Player
Zenit Leningrad
*
Soviet Top League
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:
1984
Events
January
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Soviet Super Cup
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: 1985
Manager
Zenit Saint Petersburg
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Russian Cup:
1998–99
References
1953 births
Footballers from Tula, Russia
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
FC Arsenal Tula players
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players
FC Lada-Tolyatti players
PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players
Helsingin Ponnistus players
FC Lokomotiv Saint Petersburg players
Foshan Fosti F.C. players
Soviet Second League players
Soviet Top League players
Russian Premier League players
Veikkausliiga players
Ykkönen players
Soviet expatriate men's footballers
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
Soviet expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Russian expatriate sportspeople in China
Russian football managers
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg managers
FC Metallurg Lipetsk managers
FC Sibir Novosibirsk managers
FC Tom Tomsk managers
Veikkausliiga managers
Russian Premier League managers
Russian First League managers
Russian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Finland
20th-century Russian sportsmen
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