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Andrey Tikhonov
Андрей Тихонов
Tikhonov with Spartak Moscow in 2011
Personal information
Full name Andrey Valeryevich Tikhonov
Date of birth (1970-10-16) 16 October 1970 (age 55)
Place of birth Korolyov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991 Vympel Korolyov 32 (33)
1992 Titan Reutov 15 (8)
1992–2000 Spartak Moscow 191 (68)
1992–1995 → Spartak-d Moscow 77 (77)
2000 Maccabi Tel Aviv 8 (1)
2001–2004 Krylia Sovetov Samara 98 (19)
2005–2007 Khimki 111 (41)
2008 Krylia Sovetov Samara 28 (7)
2009 Lokomotiv Astana 25 (12)
2010 Khimki 29 (2)
2011 Spartak Moscow 1 (0)
Total 615 (268)
International career
1996–2000 Russia 29 (1)
Managerial career
2008 Krylia Sovetov Samara (assistant)
2011–2012 Spartak Moscow (assistant)
2012–2013 Sparta Shchyolkovo
2013–2014 Spartak Moscow (assistant)
2014–2016 Krasnodar (assistant)
2016–2017 Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
2017–2018 Krylia Sovetov Samara
2020–2021 Astana
2024–2025 Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrey Valeryevich Tikhonov (Russian: Андрей Валерьевич Тихонов; born 16 October 1970) is a Russian football manager and a former midfielder. Tikhonov is primarily known for having played for Spartak Moscow and the Russia national football team.

Career

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Tikhonov was spotted by the then-Spartak manager Oleg Romantsev, while playing for Titan Reutov, in a game against Spartak Moscow reserves. Tikhonov quickly broke into the starting line-up at his new club, becoming a key player at Spartak soon afterwards.[2] Tikhonov won a total of eight Russian League titles with Spartak, before falling out with Oleg Romantsev. He then had a short loan spell in Israel, before signing a contract with Krylia Sovetov Samara. In February 2001, Tikhonov was training with Southampton, even featuring in one friendly for the club, but no deal was reached, mainly because the player already had a running one-year contract with Krylia Sovetov at the time.[3]

An icon among Spartak fans, Tikhonov is often viewed as an underachiever on the international stage. He made his international debut in 1996, in a friendly against Malta.[citation needed]

In early 2011, he announced that he would be returning to Spartak Moscow but it was initially unconfirmed whether the 40-year-old midfielder would get playing time or whether he would simply be a coach. Later however, it was confirmed that he would be part of the squad.[4]

He then started for the red-and-whites in a cup quarter-final game against Krasnodar on 20 April 2011. He got a warm reception from the home fans and was substituted off in the second half. On 18 September 2011, Tikonov has played his farewell match as Spartak defeated his former team, Krylya Sovetov, 3–0. Tikhonov made an assist and participated in another attack that ended with a goal before being substituted just before the end of the first half.[5]

Coaching career

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On 1 June 2017, he left Yenisey Krasnoyarsk to join Krylia Sovetov Samara as a manager.[6] He returned Krylia Sovetov Samara back to the Russian Premier League at the end of the 2017–18 season. After 9 games in the 2018–19 season, with Krylia in the 15th place, Tikhonov was dismissed from Krylia Sovetov.[7]

On 24 October 2021, the club Tikhonov was managing, Astana, left the field for 20 minutes in a Kazakhstan Premier League game against Kairat to protest the refereeing. Astana returned to the game and the match was finished. On 27 October 2021, Kazakhstan Football Federation banned Tikhonov from any official football activity in Kazakhstan for 2 years.[8]

Controversies

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While serving the mandatory time in the internal troops of the Soviet Army where he worked as a prison guard in Siberia, Tikhonov, according to himself, "Once ate a dog with the prisoners. Literally".[9]

In 2020, when playing in a media football match, Andrey pounced on the cameraman with obscene insults and pushed him away cause the cameraman was filming the aftermath of the incident between the referee and Tikhonov's media-teammate Roman Shirokov[10]. Though after the game, Tikhonov admitted he was wrong and apologized personally to the cameraman[11]

Starting in 2022, Andrey Tikhonov regularly[12][13][14][15] participates as speaker, player and coach in friendly football matches vs OMSDON Division (named after Dzerzhinsky) with "Z" signs in support for Russian war against Ukraine on the kit and in the background. So do other veterans, including Alenichev, Titov, Yuran, Filimonov, Khlestov, Shirko and Vyazmikin.

Records and honours

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Personal life

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His son Mikhail Tikhonov is now a professional footballer.

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Vympel Korolyov 1991 KFK 3233–––3233
Titan Reutov 1992 Russian Second League 15832––1810
Spartak Moscow 1992 Russian Premier League 200000–20
1993 Russian Premier League 72002[a]0–92
1994 Russian Premier League 209407[a]2–3111
1995 Russian Premier League 207106[a]1–278
1996 Russian Premier League 3416306[b]4–4320
1997 Russian Premier League 2410108[c]2–3312
1998 Russian Premier League 3045411[d]4–4612
1999 Russian Premier League 2919109[e]5–3924
2000 Russian Premier League 251402[a]1–312
Total 1916819451190026191
Spartak-d Moscow 1992 Russian Second League 232221––2523
1993 Russian Second League 342912––3531
1994 Russian Third League 1623–––1623
1995 Russian Third League 43–––43
Total 77773300008080
Maccabi Tel Aviv 2000–01 Israeli Premier League 81–––81
Krylia Sovetov Samara 2001 Russian Premier League 29440––334
2002 Russian Premier League 172201[f]0–202
2003 Russian Premier League 29941–1[g]13411
2004 Russian Premier League 23480––314
Total 9819181101111821
Khimki 2005 Russian First League 411574––4819
2006 Russian First League 422210––4322
2007 Russian Premier League 28420––304
Total 11141104000012145
Krylia Sovetov Samara 2008 Russian Premier League 28710––297
Lokomotiv Astana 2009 Kazakhstan Premier League 251230––2812
Khimki 2010 Russian First League 29210––302
Spartak Moscow 2011–12 Russian Premier League 1010––20
Career total 6152685914521911727302
  1. 1 2 3 4 Appearances in the UEFA Champions League
  2. ↑ Two appearances in the UEFA Champions League, four appearances, four goals in the UEFA Cup
  3. ↑ Two appearances in the UEFA Champions League, six appearances, two goals in the UEFA Cup
  4. ↑ Three appearances, one goal in the UEFA Cup, eight appearances, one goal in the UEFA Champions League
  5. ↑ Eight appearances, five goals in the UEFA Champions League, one game in the UEFA Cup
  6. ↑ Appearance in the UEFA Intertoto Cup
  7. ↑ Appearance in the Russian Premier League Cup

International

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Scores and results list Russia's goal tally first.[19][20]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.10 November 1996Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Luxembourg1–04–01998 World Cup qualifier

References

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  1. ↑ Andrey Tikhonov at Sportbox.ru (in Russian)
  2. ↑ "www.KC-CAMAPA.ru". www.kc-camapa.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "Восток – Запад - Блог Андрея Тихонова о футболе - Футбол - Sports.ru". www.sports.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  4. ↑ Тихонов может сыграть за «Спартак»
  5. ↑ ""Спартак" разгромил "Крылья Советов" в прощальном матче Тихонова". Lenta.RU (in Russian). Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  6. ↑ Андрей Тихонов покинул ФК "Енисей" (in Russian). FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk. 1 June 2017. Archived from the original on 4 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Андрей Тихонов покидает "Крылья Советов" (in Russian). Krylia Sovetov Samara. 5 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "ТИХОНОВ И БАРСЕГЯН ПОЛУЧИЛИ НАКАЗАНИЯ: РЕШЕНИЕ КДК" (in Russian). Kazakhstan Football Federation. 27 October 2021.
  9. ↑ "Правила жизни Андрея Тихонова" (in Russian). 10 August 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "Андрея Тихонова вызвали в суд свидетелем по делу Романа Широкова" (in Russian). 7 December 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2025.
  11. ↑ "Тихонов извинился перед оператором за свое грубое поведение после инцидента с Широковым и арбитром" (in Russian). 11 August 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2025.
  12. ↑ "Матч легенд в поддержку военнослужащих прошел в Балашихе" (in Russian). 28 October 2022.
  13. ↑ "Легенды российского футбола провели матч с военнослужащими дивизии им.Дзержинского в честь 78-летия Великой Победы" (in Russian). 5 May 2023.
  14. ↑ "Военнослужащие дивизии имени Ф.Э. Дзержинского сыграли товарищеский матч с легендами футбола в Балашихе" (in Russian). 14 November 2024.
  15. ↑ "Легенды российского футбола сыграли с военнослужащими дивизии имени Дзержинского в Балашихе" (in Russian). 5 May 2025.
  16. ↑ "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ. Второй дивизион. ЮГ• МАСЛОВ ПОВТОРЯЕТ ГОЛЕВОЙ РЕКОРД ТИХОНОВА• РОСТСЕЛЬМАШ-2 - ИРИСТОН - 9:2". sport-express.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  17. ↑ "ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ. Второй дивизион• Игорь КИСЕЛЕВ• ВТОРОЙ РАЗ В ЖИЗНИ ЗАБИЛ ДЕСЯТЬ МЯЧЕЙ ЗА ИГРУ• МАСТЕР НА ВСЕ... НОГИ• КИСЕЛЕВ - НОВЫЙ РЕКОРДСМЕН• ТАК КРУПНО НЕ ВЫИГРЫВАЛИ ДАЖЕ В СОЮЗНОМ ЧЕМПИОНАТЕ". sport-express.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  18. ↑ "http://www.pfl.ru/DESIGN.2001/FFFF/prize2010.htm". www.pfl.ru. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  19. ↑ "Match log for Andrey Tikhonov". eu-football.info. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  20. ↑ Kozlova, Galina (12 November 2013). "Сборная в ноябре: Уэльс, Израиль, Словения…". championat.com (in Russian). Retrieved 4 September 2024.
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