Vasili Vladimirovich Ivanov (; born 21 March 1970) is a Russian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

official and a former player. He was widely regarded as one of the most influential foreign signings during his stint in Israel with

Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa () is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football, Basketball, Weightl ...

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

champion: 1991. * Soviet Top League runner-up: 1990. *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...

winner: 1991. * Soviet Cup finalist: 1990. * Russian Cup finalist: 1993, 1994.

European club competitions

* UEFA Cup 1989–90 with FC Zenit Leningrad: 3 games. *

UEFA Champions League 1992–93 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 ...

with

PFC CSKA Moscow Professional Football Club CSKA (, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English language, English: ''Central Sports Club of the Army''), commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or ''CSK ...

: 7 games.

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* 1970 births Footballers from Saint Petersburg Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football defenders Soviet men's footballers Soviet Top League players Russian Premier League players FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players Maccabi Haifa F.C. players Maccabi Herzliya F.C. players Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Israel FC Volgar Astrakhan players 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub