Nikita Simonyan

Nikita Simonyan
Simonyan in 2017
Personal information
Full name Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan
Date of birth (1926-10-12)12 October 1926
Place of birth Armavir, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR
Date of death 23 November 2025(2025-11-23) (aged 99)
Place of death Moscow, Russia
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Dynamo Sukhumi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1946–1948 Krylya Sovetov Moscow 52 (9)
1949–1959 Spartak Moscow 233 (133)
Total 285 (142)
International career
1954–1958 USSR 20 (10)
Managerial career
1960–1965 Spartak Moscow
1963 USSR
1964 USSR
1967–1972 Spartak Moscow
1973–1974 Ararat Yerevan
1977–1979 USSR
1980–1981 Chornomorets
1984–1985 Ararat Yerevan
1988 USSR
Medal record
Soviet Union
Gold medal – first placeOlympic Games1956
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan (Russian: Никита Павлович Симонян, Armenian: Նիկիտա Պողոսի Սիմոնյան; 12 October 1926 – 23 November 2025) was a Soviet and Russian football striker and coach. He spent most of his career at Spartak Moscow. There, he was the top scorer of all time with 160 goals.[1] He played for the Soviet Union national team, winning the gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.

Simonyan was the Russian football First Vice-president of the Russian Football Union.[2]

On 20 November 2025, Simonyan was hospitalized in Moscow, Russia after falling and breaking his leg.[3] He died three days later on 23 November 2025 at the age of 99.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Игроки ФК Спартак Москва за всю историю. Матчасть Спартака. (in Russian). www.spartakmoskva.ru. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  2. ↑ Management of the Russian Football Union
  3. ↑ "Колосков рассказал, что Симонян незадолго до смерти сломал ногу". TACC (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-11-24.
  4. ↑ "Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan dies at 99". Sport Aran. 23 November 2025. Retrieved 23 November 2025.

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