Valery Nepomnyashchy

Valery Nepomnyashchy

Personal information
Full name	Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy
Date of birth	(1943-08-07) 7 August 1943 (age 81)
Place of birth	Slavgorod, Russian SFSR, USSR
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1961–1965	SKIF Ashgabat
1965–1967	Spartak Samarkand
Managerial career
1982–1983	Kolhozchi Ashkhabad
1988–1990	Cameroon
1991	China (technical consultant)
1992–1993	Gençlerbirliği S.K.
1993–1994	Ankaragücü
1995–1998	Yukong Elephants / Bucheon SK
2000	Shenyang Haishi
2001	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
2002–2003	Shandong Luneng
2004–2005	Shanghai Shenhua
2006	Pakhtakor Tashkent
2006	Uzbekistan
2008–2011	Tom Tomsk
2012–2013	CSKA Moscow (technical consultant)
2014–2016	Tom Tomsk
2018	Baltika Kaliningrad
2018–2019	Baltika Kaliningrad (youth development)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Valery Kuzmich Nepomnyashchy (Russian: Валерий Кузьмич Непомнящий; born 7 August 1943) is a Russian association football manager and a former player.

Most famously he coached the Cameroon national football team when they surprisingly made the quarter-finals in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. From 1992 to 1994 he coached clubs in Turkey. In 1995, he became manager of South Korea's Yukong Elephants (currently Jeju United FC), and in 1996 led them to a victory in League Cup. In 2001, he took over as J. League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima's manager from Eddie Thomson. He has also coached Shanghai Shenhua, (whom he led to a second-place finish for the first time in his career), from 2004 to 2005, and the Uzbekistan national football team in 2006. He worked as a football commentator for a Russian television channel, “NTV-Plus”. In September 2008 he signed a 2-year contract with Russian club Tom Tomsk.^[1]