Andrei Aleksandrovich Nikolayev (; born 30 August 1982) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career

He made his debut in the

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

in 2002 for FC Zenit St. Petersburg, and played 1 game, scoring 1 goal in the

UEFA Cup 2002–03 The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, ...

for them. In 2006, he was loaned to

FK Rīga FK Rīga was a Latvian football club based in Riga. They played in the Virslīga, the top division in Latvian football. They played their home games at Latvijas Universitātes Stadions. In 1999, its first year of existence, the club won the La ...

, playing in the

Latvian Higher League Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Footbal ...

. In 2011, he came back to

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, signing a contract with

Skonto Riga Skonto FC was a Latvian professional football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption (15 in total), and often provided the cor ...

Honours

runner-up: 2003.

References

1982 births Footballers from Saint Petersburg Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players FC Moscow players FK Rīga players FC Salyut Belgorod players FC Sibir Novosibirsk players FC Volgar Astrakhan players Skonto FC players FC Novokuznetsk players FC Cherepovets players Russian Premier League players Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Russian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia FC Nizhny Novgorod (2007) players FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg players 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-forward-1980s-stub