Aleksandr Trofimov (footballer)

Aleksandr Trofimov

Personal information
Full name	Aleksandr Mihaylovich Trofimov
Date of birth	(1937-09-11)11 September 1937
Place of birth	Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death	5 September 2002(2002-09-05) (aged 64)
Place of death	Lipetsk, Russia
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Trudovye Reservy Lipetsk
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1957–1960	Trudovye Reservy Lipetsk
1961–1969	Neftchi Baku	257	(9)
Managerial career
1973–1974	Neftchi Baku (assistant)
1977	Araz Nakhchivan (assistant)
1978	Karabakh Stepanakert (assistant)
1987	Avtomobilist Mingechevir
1992	Plastik Salyan FK
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aleksandr Mihaylovich Trofimov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Трофимов; 11 September 1937 – 6 September 2002) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani footballer who played midfield 11 years for Neftchi Baku PFC. Trofimov later coached Neftchi and Araz Nakhchivan in the 1970s.

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Trofimov began playing professional football with FC Trudovye Reservy Lipetsk in the Soviet Second League and the Soviet First League from 1957 to 1960.

He was classified as a Master of Sport of the USSR in 1963 and was a member of the Neftchi squad that finished third in the Soviet Top League in 1966.

After he retired from playing, Trofimov coached his former club Neftchi before becoming a manager. He led Avtomobilist Mingechevir in the Soviet Second League during 1987 and Plastik Salyan FK in the Azerbaijan Top League during 1992.

He would return to Lipetsk, where he worked with a local club FC Spartak Kazinka before he died in 2002.

External links

• Aleksandr Trofimov at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
• "Player stats on KLISF". Archived from the original on May 9, 2006. Retrieved November 13, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Lipetsk News: Trofimov, Flying Azerbaijani (in Russian) at archive.today (archived 17 April 2013)