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Sergei Bogdanovich Semak (Russian: Серге́й Богда́нович Сема́к [sʲɪrˈɡʲej bɐɡˈdanəvʲɪtɕ sʲɪˈmak]; Ukrainian: Сергій Богданович Семак; born 27 February 1976) is a Russian football manager and a former international midfielder who currently manages Russian Premier League side FC Zenit.

Sergei Semak
Сергей Семак

Semak in 2018 with Zenit
Personal information
Full name	Sergei Bogdanovich Semak
Date of birth	(1976-02-27) 27 February 1976 (age 46)
Place of birth	Sychanske, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Zenit Saint Petersburg (manager)
Youth career
	Luhansk Football Academy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992	Presnya Moscow	19	(4)
1992	Karelia Petrozavodsk	3	(0)
1993–1994	Asmaral Moscow	21	(3)
1994–2004	CSKA Moscow	289	(69)
2005–2006	Paris Saint-Germain	26	(1)
2006–2007	Moscow	64	(13)
2008–2010	Rubin Kazan	61	(12)
2010–2013	Zenit Saint Petersburg	49	(10)
Total		532	(112)
National team
1995	Russia U-20	4	(1)
1995–1996	Russia U-21	12	(3)
1997–2010[1]	Russia	65	(4)
Teams managed
2013–2016	Zenit Saint Petersburg (assistant)
2014	Zenit Saint Petersburg (caretaker)
2014–2016	Russia (assistant)
2017–2018	Ufa
2018–	Zenit Saint Petersburg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Early life

Semak was born in the selo Sychanskoye in the Voroshilovgradskaya Oblast into a peasant family of modest economical background. He was an excellent student and had an ideal behavior. When he was a child his teachers would argue as to whether he would become a mathematician or a football player.[2]

He left Ukraine shortly before the USSR fall, but his parents stayed there. He would become a Russian naturalized citizen, but until today he uses to visit his bornland; he had declared that he misses Ukraine.[3][4][5]

His older brother Andrei Semak and younger brother Nikolai Semak were also professional footballers.

Club career

Semak started training football at the Luhansk football school.^{[citation needed]} In 1992, he signed in Presnya Moscow who played in the Russian Top Division. After 19 matches scoring 4 goals he was sold to Karelia Petrozavodsk, but in 1993 returned to Presnya Moscow, which had changed its name to Asmaral Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994, he was noted and signed by CSKA Moscow. He became the club's captain and leader. With the club he won the Russian Premier League in 2003, the Russian Cup in 2002 and 2005. He left the club after it finished third in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2004–05 and did not move on to the knockout stage. This was despite his hat-trick against Paris Saint-Germain in the final group game.[6]

In 2005, he then moved to the team he scored the hat-trick against, Paris Saint-Germain, but failed to settle, scoring just one goal. After just one season he returned to Russia.

In 2006, he signed for FC Moscow, where he stayed until 2008 when he moved to Rubin Kazan. In Rubin Semak was moved from the positions of striker and attacking midfielder to the position of a defensive midfielder.^{[citation needed]} At Rubin Kazan he became the captain and leader of the team, and led it to its first two championship titles in 2008 and 2009.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2010, he transferred to Zenit Saint Petersburg.[7]

International career

Semak made his international debut for the Russia national team in 1997 and took part in the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan.^{[citation needed]}

Having lost his place in the national team with the arrival of Guus Hiddink in 2006, Semak missed out on Russia's Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, but was recalled to the national team, just prior to the Euro 2008 finals. Semak captained the Russia national team in their first Euro 2008 warm-up friendly against Kazakhstan, and during the rest of the campaign.^{[citation needed]} Semak had a good performance in the crucial match against Greece and provided an assist for the only goal Russia scored with a skilled bicycle kick pass from a wide angle. Another notable performance in Euro 2008 came in the quarter-finals during which he was playing his 50th game for his country, when his precise left-wing cross was volleyed in by Roman Pavlyuchenko against the Netherlands.^{[citation needed]}

Managerial career

After his retirement, Semak was named as assistant coach of Zenit Saint Petersburg. He was appointed interim coach of the club after the sacking of Luciano Spalletti on 10 March 2014.[8] He held the position until 18 March when André Villas-Boas was appointed as the team manager.[3][4][5]

On 30 December 2016, he was appointed a manager of the Russian Premier League club FC Ufa.[9]

On 29 May 2018, he returned to Zenit St. Petersburg, signing a two-year contract with one-year extension option.[10] In his first year, he won the 2018–19 Russian Premier League. He led Zenit to the title again in the 2019–20 Russian Premier League.[11] On 25 July 2020, he sealed the double for the club by winning the 2019–20 Russian Cup.[12] On 2 May 2021, Zenit secured their third title in a row in a 6-1 victory over second-place FC Lokomotiv Moscow.[13] On 30 April 2022, Zenit secured their fourth title in a row.[14]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Russia[15]	1997	1	0
	1998	9	0
	1999	5	0
	2000	6	0
	2001	8	1
	2002	5	2
	2003	4	1
	2005	4	0
	2006	1	0
	2008	12	0
	2009	9	0
	2010	1	0
Total		65	4

Scores and results list Russia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Semak goal.

List of international goals scored by Sergei Semak

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	6 June 2001	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	2–1	2–1	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
2	16 October 2002	Central Stadium, Volgograd, Russia	Albania	2–1	4–1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
3				4–1
4	20 August 2003	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Israel	1–2	1–2	Friendly

Managerial statistics

As of match played 12 November 2022

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record
			M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	Ref.
Zenit St. Petersburg	10 March 2014	19 March 2014	2	1	0	1	2	2	+0	050.00	[8]
Ufa	1 January 2017	29 May 2018	48	17	16	15	48	46	+2	035.42	—
Zenit St. Petersburg	30 May 2018	present	189	114	37	38	378	176	+202	060.32	—
Total			239	132	53	54	428	224	+204	055.23

Honours

Player

CSKA Moscow

• Russian Premier League: 2003
• Russian Cup: 2001–02
• Russian Super Cup: 2004

Paris Saint-Germain

• Coupe de France: 2005–06

Rubin Kazan

• Russian Premier League: 2008, 2009
• Russian Super Cup: 2010

Zenit

• Russian Premier League: 2010, 2011–12
• Russian Super Cup: 2011

Russia

• UEFA European Championship: 2008 bronze medalist

Individual

• In the list of 33 best football players of the championship of Russia (8): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2009
• Member of Grigory Fedotov club

Manager

Zenit

• Russian Premier League: 2018–19, 2019–20,[16] 2020–21, 2021–22[17]
• Russian Cup: 2019–20[12]
• Russian Super Cup: 2020,[18] 2021,[19] 2022

Individual

• Russian Premier League Coach of the Season: 2020–21,[20] 2021–22[21]
• Russian Premier League Coach of the Month: August 2022.[22]

References

External links

• Profile at the FC Zenit Saint Petersburg website at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 February 2012)
• Sergei Semak at National-Football-Teams.com
• Profile at RussiaTeam (in Russian)
• Sergei Semak – FIFA competition record (archived)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Aleksei Berezutski	Russia national football team captain 2008–2009	Succeeded by Andrei Arshavin

На других языках

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[de] Sergei Bogdanowitsch Semak

Sergei Bogdanowitsch Semak (russisch Сергей Богданович Семак; * 27. Februar 1976 in Sytschanske, Oblast Luhansk, Ukrainische SSR, Sowjetunion) ist ein russischer Fußballtrainer und ehemaliger -spieler. Bei der Endrunde der EM 2008 war er Kapitän der russischen Nationalmannschaft. Er ist seit Mai 2018 Trainer von Zenit St. Petersburg.[1]

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- [en] Sergei Semak

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[es] Serguéi Semak

Serguéi Bogdánovich Semak (en ruso: Серге́й Богда́нович Сема́к; Sychanske, Óblast de Lugansk, RSS de Ucrania, Unión Soviética, actual Ucrania, 27 de febrero de 1976) es un entrenador y exfutbolista ruso. Jugaba de centrocampista y actualmente es el entrenador del FC Zenit de la Liga Premier de Rusia.

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[fr] Sergueï Semak

Sergueï Bogdanovitch Semak (en russe : Сергей Богданович Семак), né le 27 février 1976 à Sytchanske (en) dans l'oblast de Louhansk, est un footballeur russe ayant évolué au milieu de terrain entre 1992 et 2013 avant de se reconvertir comme entraîneur.

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[it] Sergej Semak

Sergej Bogdanovič Semak (in russo: Сергей Богданович Семак?; Syčanske, 27 febbraio 1976) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore russo, di ruolo centrocampista, tecnico dello Zenit San Pietroburgo.

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[ru] Семак, Сергей Богданович

Серге́й Богда́нович Сема́к (род. 27 февраля 1976[1][2], Сычанское, Ворошиловградская область[3]) — российский футболист и футбольный тренер. Главный тренер клуба «Зенит» с 29 мая 2018 года. Девятикратный чемпион России: пять раз как игрок и четыре раза — как тренер. При этом в качестве игрока — единственный, кто стал чемпионом в составе трёх команд (ЦСКА, «Рубин», «Зенит»)[4]. Бронзовый призёр чемпионата Европы 2008. Заслуженный мастер спорта (2005).

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