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{{Short description|Russian footballer and manager}}
{{family name hatnote|Georgiyevich|Gazzaev|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox football biography
 | name                 = Valery Gazzaev
 | image                = Valery Gazzaev 2019.jpg
 | image_size           = 
 | caption              = Gazzaev in 2019
 | fullname             = Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev
 | height               = {{convert|1.73|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}
 | birth_date           = {{Birth date and age|1954|8|7|df=y}}
 | birth_place          = [[Vladikavkaz|Ordzhonikidze]], [[Soviet Union]]
 | position             = [[Forward (association football)#Striker|Striker]]
 | currentclub          = 
 | youthyears1   = 1966–1969 | youthclubs1   = [[Spartak Ordzhonikidze]]
 | years1   = 1970–1973 | clubs1   = [[Spartak Ordzhonikidze]] | caps1   = 53 | goals1   = 9
 | years2   = 1974 | clubs2   = [[SKA Rostov-on-Don]] | caps2   = 12 | goals2   = 1
 | years3   = 1975 | clubs3   = [[Spartak Ordzhonikidze]] | caps3   = 33 | goals3   = 14
 | years4   = 1976–1978 | clubs4   = [[FC Lokomotiv Moscow|Lokomotiv Moscow]] | caps4   = 72 | goals4   = 14
 | years5   = 1979–1985 | clubs5   = [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] | caps5   = 197 | goals5   = 70
 | years6   = 1986 | clubs6   = [[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]] | caps6   = 14 | goals6   = 5
 | totalcaps = 381 | totalgoals = 113
 | nationalyears1   = 1978–1980 | nationalteam1   = [[USSR national football team|USSR]] | nationalcaps1   = 8 | nationalgoals1   = 4
 | nationalyears2   = 1980–1983 | nationalteam2   = USSR (Olympic) | nationalcaps2   = 11 | nationalgoals2   = 2
 | manageryears1   = 1989–1991 | managerclubs1   = [[Spartak Ordzhonikidze]]
 | manageryears2   = 1991–1993 | managerclubs2   = [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]
 | manageryears3   = 1994–1999 | managerclubs3   = [[FC Alania Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]]
 | manageryears4   = 1999–2001 | managerclubs4   = [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]
 | manageryears5   = 2001–2003 | managerclubs5   = [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]
 | manageryears6   = 2001–2002 | managerclubs6   = [[Russia national under-21 football team|Russia U21]]
 | manageryears7   = 2002–2003 | managerclubs7   = [[Russia national football team|Russia]]
 | manageryears8   = 2004–2008 | managerclubs8   = [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]
 | manageryears9   = 2009–2010 | managerclubs9   = [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
 | manageryears10  = 2011–2014     | managerclubs10  = [[FC Alania Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]] (president)
 | manageryears11  = 2012–2013     | managerclubs11  = [[FC Alania Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]] (president and manager)
| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{URS}}}}
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] | [[football at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Team Competition]]}}
}}
'''Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev''' ({{langx|ru|Вале́рий Гео́ргиевич Газза́ев}}; {{langx|os|Гæззаты Георгийы фырт Валери|translit=Gæzzaty Georgijy fyrt Valeri}}; born 7 August 1954) is a Russian politician, [[Association football|football]] [[manager (football)|manager]] and former footballer of [[Ossetians|Ossetian]] descent. As a Soviet footballer he played the position of a [[Forward (association football)#Striker|striker]] enjoying successes with his team [[FC Dynamo Moscow]] as well as the [[USSR national football team]] in the [[Olympics]].

Gazzaev became a coach in 1989. He was most successful when he was in charge in [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] from 2004 to 2008. There Gazzaev won every possible Russian title three times each, as well as the [[2005 UEFA Cup Final|2005 UEFA Cup]]. He is considered one of the best football coaches to have emerged from the former [[Soviet Union]] because of these achievements.

== Playing career ==

=== Soviet First League ===

Gazzaev was born 7 August 1954 in Ordzhonikidze, [[USSR]], now [[Vladikavkaz]], [[Russia]]. He started his playing career as a forward for his native [[Spartak Ordzhonikidze]] in the [[Soviet First League]]. In 1974, he moved to [[SKA Rostov-on-Don]], which got promoted from the Soviet First League to the [[Soviet Top League]] after a second-place finish at the end of the season. However, Gazzaev was left behind in the first league in [[Spartak Ordzhonikidze]], as he wasn't one of the main players of the SKA Rostov-on-Don.

=== Soviet Top League ===
In the Soviet Top League, Gazzaev played in [[FC Lokomotiv Moscow|Lokomotiv Moscow]], [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]], and [[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]].

Gazzaev is a [[Soviet Cup]] winner with [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] in 1984. During his career he scored 89 goals in 283 matches in [[Soviet Top League]], and was the top goal scorer of the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1984–85]].<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec2tops.html RSSF Stats]. Rsssf.com (18 December 2003). Retrieved 26 August 2011.</ref>

== International career ==
He became the [[UEFA European Under-21 Championship|under-23 European champion]] with USSR in 1976 and under-21 European champion [[UEFA U-21 Championship 1980|in 1980]]. He also won the bronze medal with USSR at the [[1980 Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics in Moscow]].

== Coaching career ==

After finishing his playing career in 1986 Gazzaev coached the youth team of Dynamo Moscow before moving to work with professional clubs. His first major success as a manager was winning the [[Russian Premier League|Russian championship]] with [[Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz]] in 1995.

More titles followed after Gazzaev moved to coach [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]. With them he won the [[2004–05 UEFA Cup]], as well as the Russian Premier League in 2003, 2005 and 2006 and the [[Russian Cup (football)|Russian Cup]] in 2002, 2005, and 2006, on 5 December 2008 left [[PFC CSKA Moscow]].<ref>[http://www.pfc-cska.com/press.php?lg=en&type=1&id=4482 Valery Gazzaev has left PFC CSKA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207233832/http://www.pfc-cska.com/press.php?lg=en&type=1&id=4482 |date=7 December 2008 }}. Pfc-cska.com. Retrieved 26 August 2011.</ref> Gazzaev's [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] team was the first side from the [[Russian Federation]] to win a European competition since the fall of the [[Soviet Union]].

On 26 May 2009, the former [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] coach was named as the new head coach of [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]], who signed a three years contract also until 2012.

After a spell as [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]] head coach he returned to Vladikavkaz and became president (2011) and then also manager (November 2012) of [[FC Alania Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]]. In February 2014, the football club "Alania", led by Gazzaev, ceased to exist and pulled out of the 2013–14 Russia First Division, due to financial liquidation and sponsorship problems, and the club was dissolved.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Футбольный клуб "Алания" прекратил свое существование|url=http://www.rg.ru/2014/02/11/alaniya-site-anons.html|work=rg.ru|access-date=10 February 2014|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Russia's Bankrupt Ex-Champions Alania Vladikavkaz Pull Out of League |url=http://en.rsport.ru/football/20140211/723346960.html |publisher=Rsport |access-date=11 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222070541/http://en.rsport.ru/football/20140211/723346960.html |archive-date=22 February 2014 }}</ref>

==Managerial statistics==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"				
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Nat
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="8"|Record	
|-	
!{{Tooltip|G|Games managed}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Games won}}
!{{Tooltip|D|Games drawn}}
!{{Tooltip|L|Games lost}}	
!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Spartak Vladikavkaz|Spartak Ordzonikidze]]
|{{Flagicon|USSR}}	
|align=left|1 January 1989
|align=left|2 April 1991
{{WDL|86|36|22|28}}
|-
|align="left"|[[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]
|{{Flagicon|USSR}}{{Flagicon|Russia}}	
|align=left|3 April 1991
|align=left|15 September 1993
{{WDL|106|59|22|25}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Spartak Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]]
|{{Flagicon|Russia}}	
|align=left|1 January 1994
|align=left|31 December 1999
{{WDL|215|103|45|67}}
|-
|align="left"|[[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]
|{{Flagicon|Russia}}	
|align=left|1 January 2000
|align=left|16 April 2001
{{WDL|40|17|9|14}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Russia national under-21 football team|Russia U-21]]
|{{Flagicon|Russia}}	
|align=left|15 May 2001
|align=left|10 November 2001
{{WDL|4|3|1|0}}
|-
|align="left"|[[CSKA Moscow]]
|{{Flagicon|Russia}}	
|align=left|11 November 2001
|align=left|13 November 2003
{{WDL|69|41|13|15}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Russia national football team|Russia]]
|{{Flagicon|Russia}}	
|align=left|8 July 2002
|align=left|25 August 2003
{{WDL|10|4|3|3}}
|-
|align="left"|[[CSKA Moscow]]
|{{Flagicon|Russia}}	
|align=left|13 July 2004
|align=left|5 December 2008
{{WDL|188|103|46|39}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Dynamo Kyiv]]
|{{Flagicon|Ukraine}}
|align=left|1 June 2009
|align=left|1 October 2010
{{WDL|59|38|11|10}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Spartak Vladikavkaz|Alania Vladikavkaz]]
|{{Flagicon|Russia}}
|align=left|16 November 2012
|align=left|10 June 2013
{{WDL|15|2|3|10}}
|-
!colspan="4"|Total
{{WDLtot|792|406|175|211}}
|}

==Politics==
In 2016, he was [[2016 Russian legislative election|elected]] to the [[State Duma]] as a member of [[A Just Russia]] party.

== Personal life ==
He is a cousin of [[Yuri Gazzaev]] and father of [[Vladimir Gazzayev]], both of them football coaches as well.

== Honours ==

=== Player ===
'''Dynamo Moscow'''
*[[Soviet Top League]]: [[1976 Soviet Top League|1976]]
*[[Soviet Cup]]: [[1977 Soviet Cup|1977]], [[1984 Soviet Cup|1984]]
*[[Soviet Super Cup]]: [[1977 Season's Cup|1977]]
*[[Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy]]: 1976

=== Manager ===
'''Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz'''
* [[Russian Premier League|Russian Top League]]: [[1995 Russian Top League|1995]]

'''PFC CSKA Moscow'''
* [[Russian Premier League]]: [[2003 Russian Premier League|2003]], [[2005 Russian Premier League|2005]], [[2006 Russian Premier League|2006]]
* [[Russian Cup (football)|Russian Cup]]: 2001–02, [[2005 Russian Cup Final|2004–05]], [[2006 Russian Cup Final|2005–06]]
* [[Russian Super Cup]]: [[2004 Russian Super Cup|2004]], [[2006 Russian Super Cup|2006]], [[2007 Russian Super Cup|2007]]
* [[UEFA Cup]]: [[2004–05 UEFA Cup|2004–05]]

'''FC Dynamo Kyiv'''
* [[Ukrainian Super Cup]]: [[2009 Ukrainian Super Cup|2009]]

'''Individual'''
*[[Order of Friendship]]
*[[Order of Honor (Russian Federation)|Order of Honour]]

==See also==
*[[List of UEFA Cup winning managers]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{FootballFacts.ru}}
* {{Sportbox.ru}}
* [https://archive.today/20120524111457/http://rusteam.permian.ru/players/gazzaev.html Profile at RussiaTeam] {{in lang|ru}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825094359/http://www.biograph.ru/bank/gazzaev_vg.htm |title=Biography by International united biographical centre}} {{in lang|ru}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|valeri-gazzaev}}

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