Oleg Veretennikov

Oleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov (Russian: Олег Александрович Веретенников; born 5 January 1970) is a professional Russian association football coach and a former international footballer. He is an assistant coach with Rubin Kazan. He is the top goalscorer in the history of Russian Premier League, and holds several other goalscoring records.

Oleg Veretennikov

Veretennikov as Rotor Volgograd manager in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Oleg Aleksandrovich Veretennikov
Date of birth	(1970-01-05) 5 January 1970
Place of birth	Revda, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Rubin Kazan (assistant manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1987	Uralmash	10	(1)
1988	Uralets Nizhny Tagil	0	(0)
1988	Uralmash	29	(2)
1989	Metallurg Sverdlovsk	7	(0)
1989	CSKA Moscow	8	(0)
1989–1990	SKA Rostov	57	(27)
1991–1992	Uralmash	42	(14)
1992–1999	Rotor Volgograd	247	(141)
2000	Aris	7	(1)
2000–2001	Lierse	18	(3)
2001–2002	Sokol	27	(2)
2002	SKA Rostov	10	(2)
2003	Lisma-Mordovia Saransk	40	(18)
2004	Uralan Elista	19	(2)
2004	Zhenis Astana	14	(4)
2005–2007	Rotor Volgograd	66	(29)
2007	Irtysh	13	(2)
2008	Astana	30	(7)
2009	Volgograd	33	(7)
Total		677	(262)
National team
1996	Russia	4	(0)
Teams managed
2010–2014	Rotor Volgograd (assistant)
2014–2015	Rotor Volgograd
2015	Luch-Energiya
2016–2017	Orenburg (U-21)
2017	Tobol (assistant)
2019–2020	Rotor-2 Volograd
2020–	Rubin Kazan (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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, Aleksandr Kerzhakov, has 139 goals). 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 4 April 1998 against Shinnik).

Despite impressive goalscoring record, Oleg Veretennikov played only four unimportant matches for the national team.

In 2000–2001 Veretennikov had two short spells with foreign clubs, and then played in several First Division teams. In 2005, he returned to Rotor, playing in the 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.