Anatoliy Banishevskiy

Anatoliy Banishevskiy
Personal information
Full name Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy
Date of birth (1946-02-23)23 February 1946
Place of birth Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan, USSR
Date of death 10 December 1997(1997-12-10) (aged 51)
Place of death Baku, Azerbaijan
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Neftçi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1978 Neftçi 288 (121)
International career
1965–1972 USSR 50 (20)
Managerial career
1984–1987 Automobilist Mingachevir
1987–1988 Burkina Faso (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy (Azerbaijani: Anatoli Andreyeviç Banişevski; Russian: Анатолий Андреевич Банишевский; 23 February 1946, in Baku – 10 December 1997, in Baku) was an Azerbaijani footballer who played as a forward. Throughout most of his playing and coaching career, Banishevskiy was committed to his originally domestic club, Neftçi. He is widely considered the greatest Azerbaijani footballer of all time. He played for the Soviet Union national football team, winning 51 caps and scoring 20 goals. Banishevskiy played for the Soviet side in the 1966 FIFA World Cup,[1] as well as in European Championship 1968 and 1972. His club team was Neftçi, and he scored 136 goals in Soviet Top League competition.[1] The striker was unofficially named Azerbaijan's Player of the Year three times-in 1966, 1967, and 1978.[2]

In November 2003, as part of the celebration of UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player for Azerbaijan by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan as the country's most outstanding player over the past 50 years.

  1. ^ a b "Development of various kinds of Azeri sport". National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan. Archived from the original on 7 August 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2008.
  2. ^ Movsumov, Rasim (15 January 2006). "Azerbaijan – Player of the Year Awards". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2008.