Yury Syomin

For footballer born in 1968, see Yuri Syomin (footballer, born 1968).

Yuri Semin

Semin with Lokomotiv Moscow in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Yuri Pavlovich Semin
Date of birth	(1947-05-11) 11 May 1947
Place of birth	Orenburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Lokomotiv Moscow (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1965	FC Oryol	16	(6)
1965–1967	Spartak Moscow	43	(6)
1968–1971	Dynamo Moscow	95	(19)
1972–1973	Kairat	43	(5)
1974	Chkalovets Novosibirsk	27	(4)
1975–1977	Lokomotiv Moscow	78	(9)
1978–1980	Kuban	84	(15)
Total		386	(67)
Managerial career
1983–1985	Pomir Dushanbe
1986–1990	Lokomotiv Moscow
1991	New Zealand (olympic)
1992–2005	Lokomotiv Moscow
2005	Russia
2005–2006	Dynamo Moscow
2007–2009	Dynamo Kyiv
2009–2010	Lokomotiv Moscow
2010–2012	Dynamo Kyiv
2013–2014	Gabala
2014–2015	Mordovia Saransk
2015	Anzhi Makhachkala
2016–	Lokomotiv Moscow
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yuri Pavlovich Semin (Template:Lang-ru; born 11 May 1947) is a Russian football coach who works as a manager for Russian Football Premier League side Lokomotiv Moscow. He has managed Lokomotiv Moscow for 4 different stints, for a total of over 23 years.

Biography

Semin was born on 11 May 1947 in Orenburg. His family moved to Oryol some time later. As a child he has showed interest in football, ice hockey, volleyball, and athletics. His son Andrei Semin is also a player and a coach.

Player career

At the age of 16, while still attending school, Semin started his player career at Spartak Oryol, a Soviet Second League club.

One year later he was invited to Spartak Moscow. He has scored two first Spartak's goals in a European competition (in 1966 against OFK Beograd).

At the age of 20, Semin changed club again, this time to Dynamo Moscow. With this club, he won his only player's trophy, the 1970 Soviet Cup. He calls the spell with Dynamo the most successful period of his player career.

Semin left Dynamo due to disagreements with the coach after he was not fielded in a European match. After that he has changed several other clubs. Semin played for Kairat Almaty, Chkalovets Novosibirsk, Lokomotiv Moscow, and Kuban Krasnodar. He ended his career as a player at the age of 33.

Coach career

Semin started his coaching career in 1983, when he was called to save Pamir Dushanbe, a First League team, from relegation. Semin succeeded and was recognized as the honorary coach of Tajik SSR for this achievement.

In 1986 Semin went on to coach FC Lokomotiv Moscow, where he spent 19 years. During the period of his work Lokomotiv transformed from a mid-table club to one of the leaders of Russian football, winning the championship in 2002 and 2004. Semin also enjoyed cup success, winning Russian Cup five times, Russian Super Cup twice and reaching Cup Winners' Cup semifinal twice.

In 2005 Semin left Lokomotiv for the Russia national team to help it reach the 2006 FIFA World Cup final tournament. He failed to achieve that and decided to leave the national team. In November 2005, Semin began coaching Dynamo Moscow, but was sacked in 2006. In 2007, he returned to FC Lokomotiv Moscow as club president, but one year later his contract was terminated due to team's low league position.

Later in 2007 Semin took over the managerial position with FC Dynamo Kyiv in Ukraine and guided the club to a championship in the 2008-09 season as well as a semi-final appearance in the UEFA Cup.

On 26 May 2009 he quit FC Dynamo Kyiv and returned to FC Lokomotiv Moscow. Under the terms of his contract, he should stay in the club until December 2011. Semin replaced Rashid Rakhimov (who had been fired a few weeks before that). He was fired as Lokomotiv manager on November 29, 2010. On 24 December 2010, he signed a new contract with Dynamo Kyiv ending in 2012.

On 29 May 2013 Semin was officially unveiled as manager of Gabala of the Azerbaijani Premier League. After leading Gabala to third in the Premier League and as runners up in the Cup, Semin left Gabala on 23 May 2014.

Semin was announced as Anzhi Makhachkala manager on 18 June 2015, signing a one-year contract with the option of an additional year. After gaining only 6 points in first 10 games of the 2015-16 season and with Anzhi in last place, Syomin left Anzhi on 29 September 2015.

On 26 August 2016, Lokomotiv Moscow announced new appointment of Semin as a manager of the team. He won his third title with the team in the 2017–18 season.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 11 December 2019

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Kuban Krasnodar		1 September 1982	31 December 1982	12	2	2	8	016.67
Pamir Dushanbe		1 January 1983	31 December 1985	143	62	31	50	043.36
Lokomotiv Moscow		1 January 1986	31 December 1990	204	92	55	57	045.10
New Zealand Olympic		1 January 1991	31 December 1991	12	7	3	2	058.33
Lokomotiv Moscow		1 January 1992	18 April 2005	533	281	126	126	052.72
Russia		18 April 2005	9 November 2005	7	3	4	0	042.86
Dynamo Moscow		21 November 2005	7 August 2006	20	4	7	9	020.00
Dynamo Kyiv		8 December 2007	26 May 2009	67	46	11	10	068.66
Lokomotiv Moscow		1 June 2009	29 November 2010	53	24	15	14	045.28
Dynamo Kyiv		24 December 2010	24 September 2012	77	50	13	14	064.94
Gabala		29 May 2013	23 May 2014	42	23	7	12	054.76
Mordovia		27 May 2014	31 May 2015	33	13	5	15	039.39
Anzhi Makhachkala		18 June 2015	29 September 2015	11	2	3	6	018.18
Lokomotiv Moscow		26 August 2016	Present	141	72	28	41	051.06
Total				1,355	681	310	364	050.26

Honours

As a player

Dynamo Moscow

• Soviet Cup: 1970

As a manager

Lokomotiv Moscow

• Russian Premier League: 2002, 2004, 2017–18
• Russian Cup: 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2016–17, 2018–19
• Russian Super Cup: 2003, 2005, 2019

Dynamo Kyiv

• Ukrainian Premier League: 2008–09

External links

• Yuri Semin's Russian hills, by Yury Yarygin, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 15 April 2005 (in Russian)