Eldar Shakhbazovych Kuliyev ( uk, Ельдар Шахбазович Кулієв; born 24 March 2002) is a Ukrainian professional football

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

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origin who plays for Zira in the

Azerbaijan Premier League The Azerbaijan Premier League ( az, Azərbaycan Premyer Liqası) is a professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Azerbaijan football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested ...

Club career

Born in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, Kuliyev is a product of the different Ukrainian sportive school systems. He made his debut for

Mariupol Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast ( Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russi ...

in the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League' ...

as a substituted player in the drawing away match against Inhulets Petrove on 25 October 2020. On 11 February 2023,

club Zira announced the signing of Kuliyev to a three-and-a-half year contract, from Mynai.

International career

On 6 March 2024, Kuliyev was called up by Ruslan Rotan to the

Ukraine Olympic football team The Ukraine Olympic football team ( uk, Олімпійська збірна України з футболу, also known as Ukraine Under-23) represents Ukraine in international football competitions in Olympic Games. The team is one of the Ukr ...

preliminary squad as a preparation to the

2024 Summer Olympics ) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)'' , events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines) , opening = 26 July 2024 , closing = 11 August 2024 , opened_by = , stadium = Stade de France Jardins du Trocadéro and River Seine , summer ...

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* * 2002 births Living people Footballers from Kyiv Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Ukrainian people of Azerbaijani descent FC Mariupol players FC Mynai players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers Ukraine men's under-23 international footballers {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-2000s-stub