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Nikolai Pisarev
2026-11-15 20:01:51 · Cedar Herald Index
Nikolai Nikolayevich Pisarev (; born 23 November 1968) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of Krasnodar-2 and an assistant coach with Russia national football team.
International career
Pisarev played his first game for Russia on 8 March 1995 in a friendly against Slovakia. He scored a goal in the UEFA Euro 1996 qualifier against Faroe Islands.

Coaching career
On 26 July 2021, he was hired as an assistant to Valeri Karpin in the Russia national football team. On 10 August 2022, Pisarev was hired as a manager by Russian Premier League club Khimki, also keeping his national team position (the national team was banned by FIFA at the time due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and was not playing any competitive games). Pisarev was dismissed by Khimki on 2 September 2022, after the team lost all four games since his appointment.

On 11 August 2023, Pisarev was hired as the manager of Krasnodar-2, while also keeping his national team position.

Career statistics
Scores and results list Russia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Pisarev goal.
Honours
Spartak Moscow
Russian Premier League: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001
Russian Cup: 1994
Russia U21
UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 1990
References
External links
Player profile
Living people
1968 births
Footballers from Moscow
Men's association football forwards
Soviet men's footballers
Russian men's footballers
Soviet Union men's under-21 international footballers
Russia men's international footballers
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Winterthur players
FC Spartak Moscow players
CP Mérida footballers
FC St. Pauli players
FC Dynamo Moscow players
FC Moscow players
Soviet Top League players
Russian Premier League players
La Liga players
Bundesliga players
Russian football managers
FC Kuban Krasnodar (2018) managers
FC Khimki managers
Russian Premier League managers
Soviet expatriate men's footballers
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany