Anatoli Davydov

Anatoli Davydov
	With Tom in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Anatoli Viktorovich Davydov
Date of birth	13 November 1953 (age 70)
Place of birth	Tula, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defender, midfielder
Team information
Current team	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (academy director)
Youth career
	Torpedo Tula
Senior career*
Years	Team
1971–1975	FC Mashinostroitel Tula
1975–1988	FC Zenit Leningrad
1989	FC Torpedo Togliatti
1989	FC Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev
1990	Helsingin Ponnistus
1991	FC Lokomotiv St. Petersburg (amateur)
1992–1995	Helsingin Ponnistus
1996	Foshan Fosti
1997	FC Zenit St. Petersburg
Managerial career
1995	Helsingin Ponnistus
1997–1998	FC Zenit St. Petersburg (assistant)
1998–2000	FC Zenit St. Petersburg
2000	FC Zenit-2 St. Petersburg (assistant)
2001	FC Zenit St. Petersburg (reserves)
2002–2005	FC Metallurg Lipetsk
2005–2006	FC Sibir Novosibirsk
2007	FC Tekstilshchik-Telekom Ivanovo
2008–2009	FC Zenit St. Petersburg (reserves)
2009	FC Zenit St. Petersburg
2010–2013	FC Zenit St. Petersburg (reserves)
2013	FC Tom Tomsk
2017	FC Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg
2017–	FC Zenit St. Petersburg (academy director)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anatoli Viktorovich Davydov (Russian: Анатолий Викторович Давыдов; born 13 November 1953) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the director of the academy for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Career[edit]

Davydov made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1971 for FC Metallurg Tula.^[1] He played two games in the UEFA Cup 1987–88 for FC Zenit Leningrad, the former name of Zenit Saint Petersburg. Davydov was one of the most respected and influential players during Zenit's golden era in the 1980s, and continued to play top-level competitive football until the record age of 43, then becoming a Zenit's coach. He also holds the club record for the most first team appearances - 454 official games, 53 games in Soviet Cup.

Davydov played for Chinese side Foshan Fosti in 1996. He hold the record for being the oldest person to have played in a professional Chinese football match aged 42 years and 348 days, as well as the oldest person to have scored in a professional Chinese football match aged 42 years and 292 days before 2018 when Zhuang Yi broke his records.^[2]^[3]