Anatoliy Zayaev
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anatoliy Mykolayovych Zayaev | ||
| Date of birth | October 27, 1931 | ||
| Place of birth | Simferopol, Russian SFSR, USSR | ||
| Date of death | December 18, 2012 (aged 81) | ||
| Place of death | near Melitopol, Ukraine | ||
| Playing position | Coach | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Pishchevik Simferopol | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1991–1993 | SC Tavriya Simferopol | ||
| 2001–2002 | FC Cherkasy | ||
| 2002–2003 | SC Tavriya Simferopol | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Anatoliy Zayaev (October 27, 1931 – December 18, 2012) was a Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach. Merited Coach of Ukraine.
Zayaev was born in Simferopol in a big assyrian family. Participant of World War II. His father was shot in 1938, his younger brother Oleksandr was killed during the German occupation of Crimea, and his older brother Oleksiy perished in March 1945 in Germany.
Zayaev graduated from the Simferopol State University and then worked at the city's meat factory. Simultaneously he was a player and administrator of the factory's team "Pishchevik". With his participation the Simferopol's team was accepted to play in the Class B of the Soviet competitions in 1958. In 1962 Tavriya placed third in the final stage of the Ukrainian championship. After that Zayaev left the team. On multiple occasions he was fired many times from the team's staff position.
Tavriya started off very bad the 1963 season and for a long time could not win after which Antonin Sochnev was fired, while Zayaev returned to the team. He was an acting head coach and after his first game away the team won. The team started to revive and was able to avoid relegation. According to own admission Zayaev started to work as a coach since 1973 as he stashed a great deal of knowledge.
During Soviet times Zayaev won the Ukrainian championship on several occasions, the Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, the Ukrainian Spartakiad, led teams to the top of the Soviet First League and semifinals of the Soviet Cup. Until the 1990s he worked for SC Tavriya Simferopol as the team director. In 1992 he became famous by obtaining the national title when SC Tavriya Simferopol beat FC Dynamo Kyiv in Lviv. After 1995 Zayaev once again became not needed.
After that went to Chisinau to coach the local Constructorul Chisinau in 1996-97. The next season Zayaev led MFK Mykolaiv to the top of the Ukrainian First League. In 1998-99 he coached Prykarpattia. After that Zayaev returned to Tavria for couple of more seasons. After being let go in 2005, Zayaev initiated the creation of a new club in Yalta, FC Yalos Yalta, head coach of which was appointed Oleksandr Haydash. Although the team placed fourth in its first season in the Ukrainian Second League, it has folded and did not participated in the following seasons. After that Zayaev created another club near Bakhchisaray, IKS-Academy Kuibysheve.
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