Nazim Suleymanov (; ; born 17 February 1965) is a Soviet and Azerbaijani football coach and a former player best known as a striker for

Alania Vladikavkaz FC Alania Vladikavkaz (, ) is a Russian association football, football team from Vladikavkaz. Founded in 1921, the club played in the Soviet Top League during the communist era, and won its first and only league title in the 1995 Russian Top Leag ...

in the 1990s. He is the manager of the Under-19 squad of the Russian club

Khimki Khimki (, ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located approximately northwest from central Moscow, and is part of the Moscow metropolitan area. History Origins and formation Khimki was initially a railway station that had existed sin ...

. Suleymanov was the first player ever to score for

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

in international football, in a friendly against

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of pe ...

in 1992. Despite a second goal from Suleymanov and one from

Vidadi Rzayev Vidadi Rzayev (; born 4 September 1967) is a retired football midfielder from Azerbaijan. On 31 August 1996, Rzayev's goal gave to Azerbaijan the first victory ever in European qualifying tournament, when Azerbaijan defeated Switzerland 1–0 in ...

, they lost 6–3.

International goals

Honours

Alania Vladikavkaz *

Russian Top 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 ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

; runners-up:

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Individual

* Most overall goals scored for

: 60 * Best 33 players of the Russia Top League season, No. 3:

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

References

External links

Biography of the Player
{{DEFAULTSORT:Suleymanov, Nazim 1965 births Living people Azerbaijani men's footballers Azerbaijani expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi players Soviet Top League players Russian Premier League players Soviet men's footballers Azerbaijani football managers Azerbaijani expatriate football managers FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi managers Expatriate football managers in Russia Khazar Lankaran FK managers Footballers from Sumgait Soviet Azerbaijani people FC Spartak Moscow players Men's association football forwards Azerbaijan men's international footballers Neftçi PFK players Sumgayit FK managers Azerbaijan Premier League managers 20th-century Azerbaijani sportsmen