Denis Aleksandrovich Popov (; born 4 February 1979) is an association football manager and a former player who played

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Honours

Russian First Division The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Russian football league system. The Russian Professional Football League (PFL) used to ...

top scorer: 2008 (24 goals). *

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Zone 2 top scorer: 1997 (16 goals).

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* 1979 births Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Russia men's under-21 international footballers Russia men's international footballers Russian Premier League players Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players FC Slavyansk Slavyansk-na-Kubani players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Kuban Krasnodar players FC Dinamo Minsk players PFC Spartak Nalchik players FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Khimki players Russian football managers FC SKA Rostov-on-Don managers FC Ufa managers Footballers from Novorossiysk 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-forward-1970s-stub