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Dmitri Kirichenko

Dmitri Kirichenko
Dmitri Kirichenko 2016.jpg
Managing Rostov in 2016
Personal information
Full name Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko
Date of birth (1977-01-17) 17 January 1977 (age 40)
Place of birth Novoalexandrovsk, Soviet Union
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
FC Rostov (assistant)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994 Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody 24 (0)
1995 Iskra Novoaleksandrovsk 16 (9)
1996–1997 Taganrog 73 (39)
1998–2001 Rostselmash 108 (38)
2002–2004 CSKA Moscow 75 (29)
2005–2006 Moscow 55 (26)
2007–2010 Saturn Moscow Oblast 99 (26)
2011–2013 Rostov 44 (11)
2013 Mordovia Saransk 11 (1)
Total 505 (179)
National team
2003–2006 Russia 12 (4)
Teams managed
2014– FC Rostov (assistant)
2016 FC Rostov (caretaker)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Dmitri Sergeyevich Kirichenko (Russian: Дмитрий Серге́евич Кириченко, born 17 January 1977) is an association football coach and a former player – a striker, he is a former Russian international. He is an assistant manager for FC Rostov.

As of 10 March 2014, he is the 3rd all-time top scorer in the Russian Premier League (129 goals), and the 5th player by league appearances (377).

Kirichenko started his career playing for small clubs such as Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody, Iskra Novoaleksandrovsk and Torpedo Taganrog. In 1998, he joined Rostselmash, following impressive performance for Taganrog club during the previous year.

He became one of the most promising Russian strikers during the next years, and joined CSKA Moscow in 2002. With the army men Kirichenko managed to become the league top scorer in 2002 (along with his teammate Rolan Gusev), won the Russian Premier League twice, and got the Russian Cup.

In 2005 he left for FC Moscow. Playing for the new team, he repeated his success, becoming the top scorer again.

He played for Saturn from 2007 to 2010. In 2008 in the first match of his team in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, in the victory 7–0, he scored 4 goals. He did not play in the second match of that round. At the next round he scored a goal at the first match in a 1–0 victory against 2007 German champions VfB Stuttgart. With 5 goals at total he became the top scorer of the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008.


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