Irina Grigorieva (footballer)

This article is about the footballer. For the physics professor, see Irina Grigorieva (academic).

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Olegovna and the family name is Grigorieva.
Irina Grigorieva
Personal information
Full name Irina Olegovna Grigorieva
Date of birth (1970-02-21) 21 February 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Moscow, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1991 Stankoagregat Moscow
1992 Interros Moscow
1993 FC Lyon
1994 → 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (loan)
1994–2004 CSK VVS Samara 181 (77)
2005–2006 Spartak Moscow
2007 Nadezhda Noginsk
International career
1990–1991[2] Soviet Union
1992 CIS
1992–2002[3] Russia 43 (9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Irina Olegovna Grigorieva (Russian: Ирина Олеговна Григорьева) is a Russian former footballer who played as a midfielder.[3] She played for FC Lyon,[4] Spartak Moscow, CSK VVS Samara and Nadezhda Noginsk.[5]

Internationally, Grigorieva represented three different teams. She first played for the Soviet Union in 1990, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. During 1992, she played for the CIS, a brief association of former Soviet republics. Subsequently, she represented Russia.

She captained Russia at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, where she scored in the third match against Canada,[6] as well as at the 1997 and 2001 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship.

The Russian Football Union has described her as: "the best football player in the history of Russia".[7]

  1. ^ "GRIGORIEVA Irina". FIFA. Archived from the original on 21 February 2001. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  2. ^ "FIFA Century Club" (PDF). FIFA. 9 February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Irina Grigorieva". rfs.ru. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Lyon, l'intuition féminine - Dossier - Lyon, terre de foot féminin - 05 Juil. 2019 - SO FOOT.com". 5 March 2023. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023.
  5. ^ Cherniavsky, Gleb (27 July 2022). "Суперзвезда женской сборной из 90-х: брала чемпионат Франции, забивала на ЧМ пушкой страшной, играла за сборную мира". Sports.ru (in Russian).
  6. ^ "Russia Has Enough to Beat Heat". Los Angeles Times. 27 June 1999.
  7. ^ ""КУБАНСКАЯ ВЕСНА"" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.