Igor Shkvyrin

Igor Shkvyrin (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Шквырин, Igor Anatolievich Shkvyrin; born 29 April 1963) is an Uzbekistani former professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe and Asia and for the Uzbekistan national team. He was most recently the head coach of Sogdiana Jizzakh.

Igor Shkvyrin

Personal information
Full name	Igor Anatolievich Shkvyrin
Date of birth	(1963-04-29) 29 April 1963 (age 61)[1]
Place of birth	Tashkent, Soviet Union
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Lokomotiv Tashkent
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1983	FK Yangiyer	79	(11)
1983–1985	Pakhtakor Tashkent	66	(13)
1986–1987	SKA-Karpaty Lviv	46	(11)
1988–1989	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	14	(2)
1989–1991	Pakhtakor Tashkent	67	(51)
1992	Spartak Vladikavkaz	10	(5)
1992–1993	Hapoel Tel Aviv	39	(16)
1993–1994	Maccabi Netanya	32	(13)
1995	Pahang FA	18	(15)
1995–1996	Bnei Yehuda	18	(5)
1996	Maccabi Petah Tikva	2	(0)
1996–1997	Maccabi Herzliya	21	(1)
1997–1998	Maccabi Jaffa	?	(3)
1998–1999	Pakhtakor Tashkent	43	(39)
1999–2000	Mohun Bagan	18	(11)
2000	Pakhtakor Tashkent	33	(20)
2000–2001	Churchill Brothers	20	(12)
2001	Pakhtakor Tashkent	26	(7)
Total		394	(219)
International career
1992–2000	Uzbekistan	31	(20)
Managerial career
2003–2004	FC Krylia Sovetov Samara (assistant)
2005–2007	Qizilqum Zarafshon
2007	Uzbekistan U23 (assistant)
2008–2010	Uzbekistan (assistant)
2008–2016	Olmaliq FK
2017	Sogdiana Jizzakh
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Shkvyrin was born in Tashkent. He played several seasons in the Soviet Top League with Pakhtakor Tashkent and moved to Israel where he played for Hapoel Tel Aviv and Malaysia where he played for Pahang FA. With Pahang, he won the 1995 Liga Perdana. With Pakhtakor, he scored 51 goals in 67 league matches between 1989 and 1991. He scored totally 275 goals in career and is member of Club 200 of Berador Abduraimov.^[2]

In 1999–2000 season, Shkvyrin appeared in the National Football League with Mohun Bagan,^[3][4] and scored 11 goals.^[5][6] He emerged as the top scorer in the league that season. Later he moved to another Indian outfit Churchill Brothers and played in the 2000–01 season. He scored 12 goals for the Red Machine and won the Durand Cup in 2001.

The 1994 Asian Games gold medallist Shkvyrin returned to Uzbekistan at the end of the season, and would eventually rack up five separate stints for Pakhtakor Tashkent before finally hanging up his boots at the age of 38 in 2001.^[7]

International career

Shkyrin made his debut for Uzbekistan on 17 June 1992 against Tajikistan in a 2–2 draw match, where he scored his first international goal.^[8]

He made 31 appearances for the Uzbekistan national team and scored 20 goals between 1992 and 2000.^[9] He played in the 1994 Asian Games football tournament in Hiroshima, Japan (the first time Uzbekistan national team participated in an official football tournament following its independence from the Soviet Union, and the team won the gold medal).

Managerial career

In 2002, Shkvyrin began managing career and worked in 2003–04 as assistant coach to Aleksandr Tarkhanov in FC Krylia Sovetov Samara. From 2005 to 2007 he was head coach of Uzbek League club Qizilqum Zarafshon. In 2007, he was appointed as assistant coach to Vadim Abramov for Uzbekistan U-23 national team and in 2008–2010 worked as co-trainer to Rauf Inileev and later Mirjalol Kasymov for Uzbekistan national team.

Since 2008 he is head coach of Olmaliq FK. In season 2009 Olmaliq finished fourth in the league and Shkvyrin was named Football coach of the Year.^[10]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League
		Division	Apps	Goals
FK Yangiyer	1981	Soviet Second League	33	2
	1982	Soviet Second League	34	5
	1983	Soviet Second League	11	4
Pakhtakor Tashkent	1983	Soviet Top League	15	2
	1984	Soviet Top League	25	9
	1985	Soviet First League	26	2
Karpaty Lviv	1986	Soviet First League	8	0
	1987	Soviet First League	38	11
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1988	Soviet Top League	10	2
	1989	Soviet Top League	4	0
Pakhtakor Tashkent	1990	Soviet First LeagueI	37	37
	1989	Soviet First LeagueI	27	6
	1991	Soviet Top League	30	14
Spartak Vladikavkaz	1992	Russian Premier League	10	5
Hapoel Tel Aviv	1992–93	Israeli Premier League	31	15
	1993–94	Israeli Premier League	21	9
Maccabi Netanya	1994–95	Israeli Premier League	21	9
Pahang FA	1995–96	Malaysia Premier League	18	15
Maccabi Petah Tikva	1996–97	Israeli Premier League	18	5
Maccabi Herzliya	1996–97	Israeli Premier League	21	1
Maccabi Jaffa	1997–98	Liga ArtzitI	?	3
Pakhtakor Tashkent	1998	Uzbek League	29	17
	1999	Uzbek League	14	22
Mohun Bagan	1999–2000	National Football League (India)	?	11
Pakhtakor Tashkent	2000	Uzbek League	33	20
Churchill Brothers	2000–01	National Football League (India)	?	12
Pakhtakor Tashkent	2001	Uzbek League	26	7

Honours

As a player

Pahang FA

• Malaysia Super League: 1995

Pakhtakor Tashkent

• Uzbek League: 1998; runner-up 2001
• Uzbek Cup: 2001

Mohun Bagan

• National Football League (India): 1999–2000

Churchill Brothers

• Durand Cup: 2001

Uzbekistan

• Asian Games: 1994^[11]

Individual

• Soviet First League top scorer: 1990 (37 goals)^[12]
• National Football League (India) Golden Boot: 1999–2000 (11 goals)^{[13][14][15][16]}
• Uzbek League top scorer: 1998 (22 goals)
• Club 200 of Berador Abduraimov member: 275 goals
• Uzbekistan Player of the Year: 1994^[17]
• Best Player and top scorer of Asian Games 1994: 8 goals (7 matches)

As a manager

• Uzbek League 4th place: 2009
• Uzbekistan Football Coach of the Year: 2009
• UzPFL Coach of the Month: March 2015

See also

• Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year

References

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10. Журналисты назвали лучшего футболиста и тренера (in Russian). gazeta.uz. 26 December 2009. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
11. 1994 Asian Games (Football) matches and results hiroshima-cu.ac.jp. Retrieved 18 March 2021
12. "Фубольный манеж ЛФК ЦСКА". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
13. "From the History Book". All India Football Federation. the-aiff.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
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External links

• Igor Shkvyrin at National-Football-Teams.com
• Igor Shkvyrin at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)