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{{Eastern Slavic name|Oleksandrovych|Aliyev}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name        = Oleksandr Aliyev
| image       = Oleksandr Aliyev Anzhi - Genk 20.02.14.jpg
| fullname    = Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Aliyev
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1985|2|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Khabarovsk]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| height      = {{convert|1.73|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| currentclub = [[Unattached]]
| clubnumber  = 
| position    = [[Right midfielder]] <br> [[Central midfielder]]
| youthyears1 = 1998–1999 | youthyears2 =1999–2001
| youthclubs1 = [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]] | youthclubs2 =[[Dynamo Kyiv]]
| years1 = 2001–2002 | clubs1 = [[FC Borysfen Boryspil|Borysfen Boryspil-2]]            | caps1 = 10 | goals1 =  4 
| years2 = 2002–2010 | clubs2 = [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]                          | caps2 = 51 | goals2 = 17
| years3 = 2002–2008 | clubs3 = → [[FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv|Dynamo-2 Kyiv]]                    | caps3 = 99 | goals3 = 53
| years4 = 2005–2006 | clubs4 = → [[FC Metalurh Zaporizhya|Metalurh Zaporizhya]] (loan) | caps4 =  8 | goals4 =  1 
| years5 = 2010–2011 | clubs5 = [[FC Lokomotiv Moscow|Lokomotiv Moscow]]                | caps5 = 25 | goals5 = 14 
| years6 = 2011–2013 | clubs6 = [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]                          | caps6 = 35 | goals6 =  7
| years7 = 2012-2013 | clubs7 = → [[FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk|Dnipro]] (loan)            | caps7 = 12 | goals7 =  2 
| years8 = 2014–2015 | clubs8 = [[FC Anzhi Makhachkala|Anzhi Makhachkala]]              | caps8 = 22 | goals8 =  3
| years9 = 2015      | clubs9 = [[FC Rukh Vynnyky|Rukh Vynnyky]] (amateur)              | caps9 =    | goals9 =  
| years10 = 2016–    | clubs10 = Katandzaro Kyiv (amateur)                              | caps10 =   | goals10 = 
| years11 = 2016    | clubs11 = [[FC Taraz|Taraz]]                                      | caps11 = 9 | goals11 = 1
| nationalyears1 = 2001–2002 | nationalteam1 = [[Ukraine national under-17 football team|Ukraine U17]]
| nationalyears2 = 2003–2006 | nationalteam2 = [[Ukraine national under-21 football team|Ukraine U21]]  
| nationalyears3 = 2008–2012 | nationalteam3 = [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]
| nationalcaps1 = 8  | nationalgoals1 = 5  
| nationalcaps2 = 30 | nationalgoals2 = 8 
| nationalcaps3 = 28 | nationalgoals3 = 6
| pcupdate = 5 October 2016
| ntupdate = 5 October 2016
}}

'''Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Aliyev''' ({{lang-ua|Олександр Олександрович Алієв}}); born 3 February 1985 in [[Khabarovsk]], [[Soviet Union]]) is a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] [[football (soccer)|footballer]] of [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] origin.<ref>[http://www.peoples.ru/sport/football/alexander_aliev/interview8.html Александр Александрович Алиев: Хочу, чтобы Милевский наконец-то женился] {{ru icon}}</ref> He plays as a [[right midfielder]] or [[central midfielder]]. Known for his spectacular goals from [[Direct free kick|direct free-kicks]], his former [[FC Dynamo Kyiv]] coach [[Yuri Syomin]]described him as "...the best free-kick taker in Europe".

==Club career==

===Dynamo Kyiv===
Aliyev began his career in Borysfen-2 [[Boryspil]] (a second team of [[FC Borysfen Boryspil]]) in [[Druha Liha A]]. It was a youth club that was participating on the professional level similar to [[FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv]] and Aliyev at that time was a [[Minor (law)|minor]] (underage). In 2002, he joined Dynamo Kyiv where he was featured mostly in [[Dynamo-2 Kyiv]] in the [[Ukrainian First League]]. He was really successful in the Dynamo-2 so he was loaned of to [[Ukrainian Premier League]] side [[Metalurh Zaporizhya]]. With Zaporizhya, he managed to get to the [[Ukrainian Cup]] finals.

After his loan ended, Aliyev was promoted to the main team of Dynamo, where he began to shine especially under new [[Russians|Russian]] head coach [[Yuri Semin]] during the [[Ukrainian Premier League 2008–09|2008–09 season]]. In September 2008 Ukraine legend [[Serhiy Rebrov]] hailed Aliyev's transformation into a "team player", when he thought "Aliyev was just about fun". He was key in Dynamo's campaign in the [[2008–09 UEFA Champions League]]. On 21 October 2008 he scored a beautifully flighted free kick from at least 30 yards out to give [[Dynamo Kiev]] the win against [[FC Porto]]. On 25 November, at the end of the game against [[Arsenal FC|Arsenal]], Aliyev pushed the referee, [[Alain Hamer]], and received a red card for his action. Later, during the interview he called Hamer a "[[kozel (disambiguation)|kozel]]" (the goat -eng.) which means similarly to "idiot" in this context.<ref>[http://football.ua/champions_league/news/53023/page24.html] Алиев: "Повторяю: судья – козел!" Aliyev: I repeat: referee – idiot! {{ru icon}}</ref> 
Dynamo Kyiv finished third in their Champions League group, moving down to the [[2008–09 UEFA Cup]] after the winter break. Aliyev was an instrumental player throughout the campaign here too. He played in most of the games, helping Dynamo get to the semi-finals, where they were eliminated by fellow Ukrainian rivals, and eventual UEFA Cup Champions [[Shakhtar Donetsk]]. Dynamo also won the [[2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League]] that season. Later in 2009–10 season he was a part of starting lineup for Ukrainian Super Cup match against Vorskla Poltava. After a few minutes in that game he got injured and missed few months of the starting season. On recovery Aliyev was not able to secure a starting position and asked for a transfer during the winter break.

===Lokomotiv Moscow===

As soon as the first half of [[Ukrainian Premier League 2009-10]] Aliyev began negotiations with [[Lokomotiv Moscow]] in the [[Russian Premier League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/news/4b3b1deb.html|title=Алиев подпишет контракт с "Локо" после нового года (Aliyev will sign a new contract with "Lokomotiv" in the new year")|publisher=ua-football.com|accessdate=30 December 2009|date=30 December 2009|language=ru}}</ref> These negotiations failed and Aliyev remained a Dynamo player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/4b479532.html|title=Александр Алиев: "Остаюсь в "Динамо" (Aliyev: "I remain with Dynamo")|publisher=ua-football.com|accessdate=10 January 2010|date=10 January 2010|language=ru}}</ref> until 1 February 2010, when Lokomotiv officially announced the signing of Aliyev to a three-year contract.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/4b66e3e9.html|title=Александр Алиев – игрок "Локомотива" (Oleksandr Aliyev – "Lokomotiv" player)|publisher=ua-football.com|accessdate=1 February 2010|date=1 February 2010|language=ru}}</ref>

===Anzhi Makhachkala===
In January 2014 Aliyev moved from [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]] to [[FC Anzhi Makhachkala|Anzhi Makhachkala]] on a 2.5-year contract.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alexander Aliev moves to Anji (VIDEO)|url=http://fc-anji.ru/news/en/fc_anji_news/alexander_aliev_moves_to_anji_video160114/|publisher=http://fc-anji.ru/news/en/|accessdate=18 July 2014}}</ref> Aliyev left Anzhi at the end of the 2013-14 by mutual consent. Shortly thereafter, he re-signed with Anzhi, before having his contract terminated by mutually consent in January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Анжи расторг контракт с Алиевым|url=http://www.sports.ru/football/1026511345.html|website=http://www.sports.ru/|publisher=sports.ru/|accessdate=16 January 2015|language=Russian|date=16 January 2015}}</ref>

===Taraz===
In June 2016, after eighteen-months without a professional club, Aliyev signed for [[FC Taraz]] of the [[Kazakhstan Premier League]] until the end of the [[2016 Kazakhstan Premier League|2016]] season.<ref>{{cite web|title=РЕСЕЙЛІК ҚОРҒАУШЫ АНТОН ГРИГОРЬЕВ ТАРАЗДЫҢ НАМЫСЫН ҚОРҒАЙДЫ|url=http://www.fctaraz.kz/ru/latest/resejlik-or-aushy-anton-grigorev-tarazdy-namysyn-or-ajdy|website=fctaraz.kz|publisher=FC Taraz|accessdate=15 June 2016|language=Kazakh|date=11 June 2016}}</ref> Aliyev left Taraz prior to the expiration of his contract on 6 October 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=АЛЕКСАНДР АЛИЕВ «ТАРАЗ» КОМАНДАСЫНАН КЕТТІ|url=http://www.fctaraz.kz/ru/latest/aleksandr-aliev-taraz-komandasynan-ketti|website=fctaraz.kz|publisher=FC Taraz|accessdate=6 October 2016|language=Kazakh|date=6 October 2016}}</ref>

==International career==
[[File:Oleksandr Aliyev2.JPG|right|thumb|175px|Aliyev playing for [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]] in 2009.]]
Aliyev played the under-20 [[2005 FIFA World Youth Championship]] in Netherlands. He was one of the top scorers of the tournament with five goals, one less than [[Lionel Messi]], the top scorer.
Aliyev also played in the [[Ukraine national under-21 football team]] in the [[2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship]], helping his side reach the final. His set piece goal from more than 40 yards that hit the cross-bar and went in  against Turkey in the U-21 Championship has been regarded as one of the best goals in U-21 Football history. He is the current top goalscorer of the Ukrainian under-21 team with eight goals.

On 6 September 2008, Aliyev got his first senior cap for [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]. He was substituted on for [[Maksym Kalynychenko]] starting from the second half.

=== International goals ===
{{updated|11 November 2011}}

<!---DO ''not'' DELETE REPEAT ENTRIES!!! REPEAT ENTRIES REPRESENT Aliyev SCORING MULTIPLE GOALS IN A GAME!!!--->
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
|-
! # !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
|-
| 1. ||rowspan="2"| 25 May 2010 ||rowspan="2"| [[Kharkiv]], [[Ukraine]] ||rowspan="2"| {{fb|LTU}} ||rowspan="2"| 4–0 ||rowspan="2"| Won ||rowspan="2"|Friendly
|-
| 2.
|-
| 3. || 29 May 2010 || [[Lviv]], Ukraine  || {{fb|ROM}} || 3–2 || Won || Friendly
|-
| 4. || 11 August 2010 || [[Donetsk]], Ukraine  || {{fb|NED}} || 1–1 || Draw || Friendly
|-
| 5. || 7 September 2010 || [[Kiev]], Ukraine  || {{fb|CHI}} || 2–1 || Won || Friendly
|-
| 6. || 11 October 2011  || [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]] || {{fb|Estonia}} || 0–2 || Won || Friendly
|}

==Career statistics==
===Club===
:''{{As of|2017|02|10}}''
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%; text-align: center;"
|-
!rowspan="2" width="100"|Club
!rowspan="2" width="60"|Season
!colspan="2"|League
!colspan="2"|Cup
!colspan="2"|[[UEFA|Europe]]
!colspan="2"|Super Cup
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
|-
||[[FC Borysfen Boryspil|Borysfen Boryspil-2]]
|[[Ukrainian Second League 2001–02|2001–02]]
|10||4||0||0||0||0||0||0||10||4
|-
|rowspan="4"|[[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2002-03|2002–03]]
|2||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||4||0
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2003–04|2003–04]]
|2||0||1||0||0||0||0||0||3||0
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2004–05|2004–05]]
|0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06|2005–06]]
|5||1||3||1||1||0||1||0||10||2
|-
||[[FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhya|Metalurh Z]] (loan)
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2005–06|2005–06]]
|8||1||3||1||0||0||0||0||11||2
|-
|rowspan="4"|[[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2006–07|2006–07]]
|3||0||2||0||1||0||0||0||6||0
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2007–08|2007–08]]
|10||3||3||1||0||0||1||0||14||4
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2008–09|2008–09]]
|26||13||1||0||16||4||1||0||44||17
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2009–10|2009–10]]
|3||0||1||0||1||0||1||0||6||0
|-
||[[FC Lokomotiv Moscow|Lokomotiv M]]
|[[2010 Russian Premier League|2010]]
|25||14||0||0||2||1||0||0||27||15
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
|[[2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League|2010–11]]
|6||2||2||0||0||0||0||0||8||2
|-
|[[2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League|2011–12]]
|26||5||1||0||9||0||1||0||37||5
|-
|[[2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League|2012–13]]
|3||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||3||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total (Dynamo)
!86!!24!!16!!2!!28!!4!!5!!0!!135!!30
|-
|rowspan="1"|[[FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk|Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk]] (loan)
|[[2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League|2012–13]]
|12||2||1||0||5||2||0||0||18||4
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[FC Anzhi Makhachkala|Anzhi Makhachkala]]
|[[2013–14 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season|2013–14]]
|7||0||0||0||4||1||0||0||11||1
|-
|[[2014–15 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season|2014–15]]
|15||3||1||0||0||0||0||0||16||3
|-
!colspan="2"|Total (Anzhi)
!22!!3!!1!!0!!4!!1!!0!!0!!27!!4
|-
|rowspan="1"|[[FC Taraz|Taraz]]
|[[2016 FC Taraz season|2016]]
|9||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||9||1
|-
!Career!!Total
!172!!49!!21!!3!!39!!8!!5!!0!!237!!60
|}

==Honours==

=== Club ===
;{{flagicon|Ukraine}} [[Dynamo Kyiv]]
* [[Ukrainian Premier League]] (4): [[2003–04 Vyshcha Liha|2002–03]], [[2003–04 Vyshcha Liha|2003–04]], [[2006–07 Vyshcha Liha|2006–07]], [[2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League|2008–09]]
* [[Ukrainian Cup]] (4): [[2002–03 Ukrainian Cup|2002–03]], [[2004–05 Ukrainian Cup|2004–05]], [[2005–06 Ukrainian Cup|2005–06]], [[2006–07 Ukrainian Cup|2006–07]]
* [[Ukrainian Super Cup]] (4): [[Ukrainian Super Cup|2004]], [[Ukrainian Super Cup|2006]], [[Ukrainian Super Cup|2007]], [[Ukrainian Super Cup|2009]]

=== Individual ===
* Top assister of the [[Ukraine Premier League]]: 2008/2009<ref>http://www.championat.ru/football/_ukraine/53/statistic/player/assistent.html</ref>
* [[2005 FIFA World Youth Championship]]:  [[2005 FIFA World Youth Championship#Goalscorers|Silver Shoe]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/en/dynamo/players/?player=32 Profile on Official Dynamo Kyiv website]
* [http://ukrainiansoccer.net/upl/onevsall.asp?champID=15&Team=Dynamo Stats about Dynamo Kyiv players on Ukrainiansoccer.net]
* {{KLISF|id=547948327316730}}

{{Ukrainian First League top scorers}}
{{Ukraine squad UEFA Euro 2012}}

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