Yury Morozov (footballer)

Yury Morozov

Personal information
Full name	Yury Andreyevich Morozov
Date of birth	(1934-05-13)13 May 1934
Place of birth	Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death	St. Petersburg, Russia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954	Zenit Leningrad
1955–1956	FShM Leningrad
1957–1958	Zenit Leningrad
1958–1961	Admiralteyets
1962–1964	Dinamo Leningrad
Managerial career
1974–1976	USSR (assistant coach)
1976–1977	Spartak Moscow (assistant coach)
1977–1982	Zenit Leningrad
1983	USSR (assistant coach)
1983–1984	Dynamo Kyiv
1984–1987	CSKA Moscow
1986–1990	USSR (assistant coach)
1988	USSR
1990	Iraq
1991	Zenit Leningrad
1992–1993	Sharjah FC
1994–1995	Kuwait (assistant coach)
1995–1997	Zenit St. Petersburg (sports director)
2000–2002	Zenit St. Petersburg
2002–2003	FC Petrotrest St. Peterburg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yury Andreyevich Morozov (Russian: Ю́рий Андре́евич Моро́зов; 13 May 1934 – 15 February 2005) was one of the best football coaches from the Soviet Union.

He made his name as a midfielder in the 1950s and 1960s with his hometown clubs FC Zenit, Admiralteyets and FC Dinamo Leningrad, earning himself a call-up to the USSR 'B' team.

Plaque in memory of Morozov in Saint Petersburg

He retired from playing at the age of 31 and worked at FC Zenit's youth academy and became a dean of football science at the Lesgaft Academy of Physical Education. He then joined Valery Lobanovsky's USSR coaching staff, assisting the famous coach at the 1976 Olympics, where they won bronze, and in their run to the 1988 UEFA European Championship final. He also worked with Lobanovsky at clubs in the Middle East at the helm of the Kuwaiti national side.

In 1977, having previously been part of the coachings staff at Spartak Moscow, he took on his first head coach's job with former club Zenit leading them to third place in the Soviet Supreme League in 1980, their highest-ever finish at the time. He had three spells as head coach at FC Zenit over a 15-year period and in 1984 the team he built became Soviet champions for the only time. He left the club for the final time in 2002 due to ill health but returned to coaching at FC Petrotrest St. Peterburg.

External links

• (Russian) Career details