Nikolai Tolstykh


Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstykh is a Russian football administrator and a former player.

Playing career

As a player, he made his professional debut in the Soviet Top League in 1977 for FC Dynamo Moscow.

Later career

He has been the president of the Russian Professional Football League since its founding in 1992. Until 2001 that organization conducted the Russian Top Division competition, and since that year it is limited to Russian First Division and Russian Second Division.
From 2012 to 2015 he served as the president of Russian Football Union.

European club competitions

With FC Dynamo Moscow.