Andrei Kanchelskis

Andrei Kanchelskis

Kanchelskis in 2001
Personal information
Full name	Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis
Date of birth	(1969-01-23) 23 January 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Kirovohrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine)
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s)	Winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1987	Zirka Kirovohrad	68	(5)
1988–1990	Dynamo Kyiv	22	(1)
1990–1991	Shakhtar Donetsk	21	(3)
1991–1995	Manchester United	123	(28)
1996–1997	Everton	52	(19)
1997–1998	Fiorentina	26	(2)
1998–2002	Rangers	76	(13)
2001	→ Manchester City (loan)	10	(0)
2002–2003	Southampton	1	(0)
2003	Al Hilal	3	(0)
2004	Dynamo Moscow	0	(0)
2004–2005	Saturn Ramenskoye	32	(3)
2006	Krylia Sovetov	22	(1)
Total		456	(76)
International career
1989–1990	Soviet Union U21	8	(1)
1989–1991	Soviet Union	17	(3)
1992	CIS	6	(0)
1992–1998	Russia	36	(4)
Managerial career
2010	Torpedo-ZIL Moscow
2011–2012	Ufa
2013–2014	Volga Nizhny Novgorod (assistant)
2014	Jūrmala
2016	Solyaris Moscow
2018–2019	Navbahor Namangan
2019–2020	Navbahor Namangan
2023–	Muras United
Medal record Men's football Representing  Soviet Union UEFA European Under-21 Championship Winner 1990 U21 Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis (Ukrainian: Андрій Антанасович Канчельскіс; Russian: Андрей Антанасович Канчельскис; born 23 January 1969) is a professional football manager and former player. He currently manages Kyrgyz Premier League side FC Muras United.^[1][2] During his playing career he won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup, the Football League Cup, two FA Charity Shields and the European Super Cup with Manchester United, before going on to win the Scottish Premier League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup twice each with Glasgow Rangers.

Kanchelskis began his career with his hometown team Zirka Kropyvnytskyi in 1986, before transferring to Dynamo Kyiv in the Soviet Top League, and later to rivals Shakhtar Donetsk. He then moved abroad, signing for English club Manchester United, where he helped the team win their first league championship in 26 years. He moved to Everton in 1995 where he spent 18 months, before transferring to Italian club Fiorentina for a record fee for a Soviet-born player. Following an injury-marred spell in Italy, Kanchelskis moved to Scottish club Rangers, where he won a domestic treble in his first season. After falling out of favour, his career became nomadic, playing for Manchester City and Southampton in England, and Saudi club Al Hilal, before playing in Russia for the first time for Saturn Ramenskoye and Krylia Sovetov, where he played his last games before retiring in 2007. Kanchelskis is the only player to have scored in each of the Manchester, Merseyside, and Old Firm derbies.

After his playing career had finished, Kanchelskis became the general director of Nosta Novotroitsk in 2008, before moving into club management in 2010, managing Torpedo-ZIL Moscow and Ufa in Russia, and then Latvian team Jūrmala in 2014 for three months. In 2016, Kanchelskis returned to management with Solyaris Moscow, and between 2018 and 2020, he had two spells in charge of Navbahor Namangan in Uzbekistan.

Internationally, Kanchelskis represented three different teams. He first played for the Soviet Union in 1989, and scored the nations' last ever goal before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. During 1992, he played for the CIS, a brief association of former Soviet republics, who he represented at UEFA Euro 1992. Following the tournament, he elected to represent Russia rather than Ukraine, the country of his birth. After boycotting the team for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, he returned and played for Russia during Euro 1996, and won his last cap in 1998. Overall, Kanchelskis was capped 59 times, scoring seven goals. In his youth career for the Soviet Union U21 team, he won the European U21 Championship in 1990.