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{{Eastern Slavic name|Aleksandrovich|Veretennikov}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Oleg Veretennikov
| image = Oleg Veretennikov 01.jpg
| caption = Veretennikov as [[Rotor Volgograd]] manager in 2013
| fullname = Oleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov
| height = {{convert|1.85|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1970|1|5|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast|Revda]], [[Soviet Union]]
| currentclub = [[FC Orenburg]] (U-21 manager)
| clubnumber =
| position = [[Midfielder]]
| years1 = 1986–1987
| years2 = 1988
| years3 = 1988
| years4 = 1989
| years5 = 1989
| years6 = 1989–1990
| years7 = 1991–1992
| years8 = 1992–1999
| years9 = 2000
| years10 = 2000–2001
| years11 = 2001–2002
| years12 = 2002
| years13 = 2003
| years14 = 2004
| years15 = 2004
| years16 = 2005–2007
| years17 = 2007
| years18 = 2008
| years19 = 2009
| clubs1 = [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg]]
| clubs2 = [[FC Uralets Nizhny Tagil]]
| clubs3 = [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg]]
| clubs4 = [[FC Metallurg Verkhnyaya Pyshma]]
| clubs5 = [[FC Chayka-CSKA Moscow]]
| clubs6 = [[FC SKA Rostov-on-Don]]
| clubs7 = [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg]]
| clubs8 = [[SC Rotor Volgograd]]
| clubs9 = [[Aris Thessaloniki F.C.]]
| clubs10 = [[Lierse S.K.]]
| clubs11 = [[FC Sokol Saratov]]
| clubs12 = [[FC SKA Rostov-on-Don]]
| clubs13 = [[FC Lisma-Mordovia Saransk]]
| clubs14 = [[FC Uralan Elista]]
| clubs15 = [[FC Astana-64|FC Astana]]
| clubs16 = [[SC Rotor Volgograd]]
| clubs17 = [[FC Irtysh Pavlodar]]
| clubs18 = [[FC Astana-64|FC Astana]]
| clubs19 = [[FC Volgograd]]
| caps1 = 10
| caps2 = 0
| caps3 = 29
| caps4 = 7
| caps5 = 8
| caps6 = 57
| caps7 = 42
| caps8 = 247
| caps9 = 7
| caps10 = 18
| caps11 = 27
| caps12 = 10
| caps13 = 40
| caps14 = 19
| caps15 = 14
| caps16 = 66
| caps17 = 13
| caps18 = 30
| caps19 = 33
| goals1 = 1
| goals2 = 0
| goals3 = 2
| goals4 = 0
| goals5 = 0
| goals6 = 27
| goals7 = 14
| goals8 = 141
| goals9 = 1
| goals10 = 3
| goals11 = 2
| goals12 = 2
| goals13 = 18
| goals14 = 2
| goals15 = 4
| goals16 = 29
| goals17 = 2
| goals18 = 7
| goals19 = 7
| totalcaps = 677
| totalgoals = 262
| nationalyears1 = 1996
| nationalteam1 = [[Russia national football team|Russia]]
| nationalcaps1 = 4
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| manageryears1 = 2010–2014
| manageryears2 = 2014–2015
| manageryears3 = 2015
| manageryears4 = 2016–
| managerclubs1 = [[FC Rotor Volgograd]] (assistant)
| managerclubs2 = [[FC Rotor Volgograd]]
| managerclubs3 = [[FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok]]
| managerclubs4 = [[FC Orenburg]] (U-21)
| pcupdate =
| ntupdate =
}}

'''Oleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov''' ({{lang-ru|Олег Александрович Веретенников}}) (born January 5, 1970 in [[Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast]]) is a professional association football coach and a former [[Russia national football team|international]] footballer. He manages the Under-21 team of [[FC Orenburg]]. He is the top goalscorer in the history of [[Russian Premier League]], and holds several other goalscoring records.

Most of Veretennikov's successes have come with [[SC Rotor Volgograd]], for whom he played in 1992–1999. During that time he scored 143 goals, which makes him the best goalscorer in the Russian Premier League history (the next best goalscorer, [[Dmitry Loskov]], has 109 goals as of January 1, 2007). He has also become the season's top goalscorer three times (in 1995, 1997, and 1998), which is also an unbeaten record. Veretennikov also holds a record for the most goals scored in one season (25 in 1995). He is also one of only two players (along with Victor Panchenko) to score five goals in a league match (on April 4, 1998 against [[FC Shinnik Yaroslavl|Shinnik]]).

Despite impressive goalscoring record, Oleg Veretennikov played only four unimportant matches for the [[Russia national football team|national team]].

In 2000–2001 Veretennikov had two short spells with foreign clubs, and then played in several [[Russian First Division|First Division]] teams. In 2005, he returned to Rotor, playing in the [[Russian Second Division|Second Division]]. In 2009, he played in FC Volgograd. In the end of 2009 Veretennikov retired from playing and became a coach.

His son [[Pavel Veretennikov]] is a professional footballer now.

==Honours==
* 1993 – [[Russian Premier League]], runner-up
* 1995 – [[Russian Premier League]], top scorer (25 goals)
* 1996 – [[Russian Premier League]], 3rd position
* 1997 – [[Russian Premier League]], runner-up
* 1997 – [[Russian Premier League]], top scorer (22 goals)
* 1998 – [[Russian Premier League]], top scorer (22 goals)
* 1993 – best attacking midfielder according to [[Sport-Express]]
* 1995 – best attacking midfielder according to [[Sport-Express]]
* 1997 – best attacking midfielder according to [[Sport-Express]]
* 1998 – best central midfielder according to [[Sport-Express]]
* 2005 – best player and best midfielder in the South Zone of [[Russian Second Division|Second Division]] according to Professional Football League.<ref>[http://www.pfl.ru/DESIGN.2001/LAUR05/05ANKT2ug.HTM Honours of 2005]</ref>
* 2009 – best player and best midfielder of [[Russian Second Division]], Zone South<ref name=prize2009>[http://www.pfl.ru/DESIGN.2001/FFFF/prize2009.htm Honours of 2009 season]</ref>

==Playing career==
{|
| 1986 || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg|Uralmash Sverdlovsk]] || [[Soviet Second League|Second League]] || 3rd level || 11/2
|-
| 1987 || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg|Uralmash Sverdlovsk]] || [[Soviet Second League|Second League]] || 3rd level ||{{0}}9/1
|-
| 1988 || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC Uralets Nizhny Tagil]] || [[Soviet Second League|Second League]] || 3rd level || {{0}}0/0
|-
|  || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg|Uralmash Sverdlovsk]] || [[Soviet Second League|Second League]] || 3rd level || 26/2
|-
| 1989 || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC Metallurg Verkhnyaya Pyshma|Metallurg Sverdlovsk]] || [[Soviet Second League|Second League]] || 3rd level||{{0}}7/0
|-
|  || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC Chayka-CSKA Moscow]] || [[Soviet Second League|Second League]] || 3rd level||{{0}}8/0
|-
|  || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC SKA Rostov-on-Don]] || [[Soviet First League|First League]] || 2nd level || 16/1
|-
| 1990 || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC SKA Rostov-on-Don]] || [[Soviet Second League|Second League]] || 3rd level|| 41/26
|-
| 1991 || {{flagicon|USSR}} [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg]] || [[Soviet First League|First League]] || 2nd level || 42/14
|-
| 1992 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level ||{{0}}0/0
|-
| || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 28/10
|-
| 1993 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 33/19
|-
| || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor-2 Volgograd]] || [[Russian Second Division|Second League]] || 3rd level ||{{0}}1/0
|-
| 1994 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 30/12
|-
| 1995 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 29/25
|-
| 1996 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 33/19
|-
| 1997 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 34/22
|-
| 1998 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 30/22
|-
| 1999 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Premier League|Top League]] || 1st level || 29/12
|-
| || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor-2 Volgograd]] || [[Russian Second Division|Second Division]] || 3rd level ||{{0}}3/1
|-
| 1999-00 || {{flagicon|Greece}} [[Aris Thessaloniki F.C.|Aris]] || [[Super League Greece|Super League]] || 1st level ||{{0}}7/0
|-
| 2000–01 || {{flagicon|Belgium}} [[Lierse S.K.]] || [[Belgian First Division|First Division]] || 1st level || 18/3
|-
| 2001 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[FC Sokol Saratov]] || [[Russian Premier League|Premier League]] || 1st level || 15/2
|-
| 2002 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[FC Sokol Saratov]] || [[Russian Premier League|Premier League]] || 1st level || 12/0
|-
| || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[FC SKA Rostov-on-Don]] || [[Russian First Division|First Division]] || 2nd level ||{{0}}9/2
|-
| 2003 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[FC Lisma-Mordovia Saransk]] || [[Russian First Division|First Division]] || 2nd level || 40/18
|-
| 2004 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[FC Uralan Elista]] || [[Russian First Division|First Division]] || 2nd level || 19/2
|-
| || {{flagicon|Kazakhstan}} [[FC Astana-64|Zhenis Astana]] || [[Kazakhstan Premier League|Premier League]] || 1st level || 14/4
|-
| 2005 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Second Division|Second Division]] || 3rd level || 23/14
|-
| 2006 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Second Division|Second Division]] || 3rd level || 30/11
|-
| 2007 || {{flagicon|Russia}} [[SC Rotor Volgograd]] || [[Russian Second Division|Second Division]] || 3rd level || 13/4
|-
| || {{flagicon|Kazakhstan}} [[FC Irtysh Pavlodar]] || [[Kazakhstan Premier League|Premier League]] || 1st level || 13/2
|-
| 2008 || {{flagicon|Kazakhstan}} [[FC Astana-64|FC Astana]] || [[Kazakhstan Premier League|Premier League]] || 1st level || 30/7
|}

<small>* – played games and goals</small>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!width=20 abbr="Level"          |Level
!width=20 abbr="Games"          |Games
!width=20 abbr="Goals"          |Goals
|-
||I
|355||159
|-
||II
|126||37
|-
||III
|172||61
|-
||Total
|653||257
|}

==References==
* [http://www.rotor-volgograd.ru/history/oleg/ Dreaming to enter the field in Rotor shirt], Roman Savyolov, ''Football Weekly'' (Еженедельник "Футбол"), 47, 2003 {{ru icon}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122704/www.klisf.info/numeric/index.app?cmd=ln&lang=en&id=071209366806332 Web archive of Statistics at KLISF]
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== External links ==
* [http://veretennikov.net Fan club] {{ru icon}}
* [http://www.rotor-volgograd.ru/team/info/?player=4 Club profile]
* [http://veretenn.narod.ru Fans' website] {{ru icon}}

{{FC Rotor Volgograd managers}}
{{FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok managers}}
{{Russian Premier League top scorers}}
{{Club Loyalty Award}}

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