Igor Shkvyrin


Igor Shkvyrin is a retired Uzbek professional footballer who played for several clubs in Europe and Asia and the Uzbekistan national football team. He was most recently the head coach of Sogdiana Jizzakh.

Playing career

He played several seasons in the Soviet Top League with FC Pakhtakor Tashkent and moved to Israel where he played for Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. and Malaysia where he played for Pahang FA. He scored totally 275 goals in career and is member of Club 200 of Berador Abduraimov.

International

Shkyrin made 31 appearances for the Uzbekistan national football team and scored 20 goals from 1992 and 2000. He played in the 1994 Asian Games football tournament in Hiroshima, Japan.

Managing career

In 2002, he began managing career and worked in 2003-04 as assistant coach to Aleksandr Tarkhanov in FC Krylia Sovetov Samara.
From 2005 to 2007 he was head coach of Uzbek League club Qizilqum Zarafshon. In 2007, he was appointed as assistant coach to Vadim Abramov for Uzbekistan U-23 national team and in 2008-2010 worked as co-trainer to Rauf Inileev and later Mirjalol Kasymov for Uzbekistan national team.
Since 2008 he is head coach of Olmaliq FK. In season 2009 Olmaliq finished fourth in the league and Shkvyrin was named Football coach of the Year.

Honours

Club

YearClubLevelAppsGoals
2001Pakhtakor TashkentI267
2000-2001Churchill BrothersI?12
2000Pakhtakor TashkentI3320
1999-2000Mohun BaganI?11
1998Pakhtakor TashkentI2917
1999Pakhtakor TashkentI1422
1997-98Maccabi JaffaII?3
1996-1997Maccabi Petah TikbaI185
1996-97Maccabi HerzliyaI211
1995-96Pahang FAI1815
1994-95Maccabi NetanyaI219
1993-94Hapoel Tel AvivI219
1992-93Hapoel Tel AvivI3115
1992Spartak VladikavkazI105
1991Pakhtakor TashkentI3014
1990Pakhtakor TashkentII3737
1989Pakhtakor TashkentII276
1989DniproI40
1988DniproI102
1987Karpaty LvivII3811
1986Karpaty LvivII80
1985Pakhtakor TashkentII262
1984Pakhtakor TashkentI259
1983Pakhtakor TashkentI152
1983FK YangiyerIII114
1982FK YangiyerIII345
1981FK YangiyerIII332