page_title: Aleksandr Samedov
section_title: Club career
hierarchical_section_title: Aleksandr Samedov / Club career
caption_attribution_description: English: Aleksandr Samedov with FC Lokomotiv Moscow Русский: Александр Самедов в игре за ФК «Локомотив»
context_page_description: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Samedov is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Znamya Noginsk. He has played for the Russia national football team since 2011 and was selected for the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
context_section_description: He was a student of the Spartak Moscow academy and was considered one of their most talented youngsters. He was a regular in the first team under Nevio Scala but when Aleksandrs Starkovs came he lost his place in the first team. Spartak Moscow then purchased Vladimir Bystrov, and in the summer of 2005 Samedov left for Lokomotiv Moscow for €3.4 million. However, Samedov failed to succeed in Loko, and in 2008 joined FC Moscow. Having shown great progress under direction of Miodrag Božović, he chose to become part of a bigger club and went to Dynamo Moscow during the 2009–10 winter transfer period. On 27 June 2012, Samedov moved to Lokomotiv, where he played earlier. According to the source close to the club, Lokomotiv paid about 8.2 million € for his services.
  During his second spell at Lokomotiv, Samedov established himself as starting XI fixture at right wing. In May 2013, when he added some goals to his usual good amount of assistances, he managed to win monthly poll among Loko fans in the social networks for the best player of the month. He won this poll for the second time in April 2014. After the end of 2013–14 season, club organized new poll among Loko fans in the social networks to name the best player of the season. The award went to Samedov with 32.3 percent of votes.
  On 16 January 2017, he returned to FC Spartak Moscow, winning the Russian Premier League title at the end of the season. He was released from his Spartak contract by mutual consent on 5 January 2019.
  On 13 January 2019, he signed with Krylia Sovetov Samara.
  On 28 August 2019, he signed with semi-professional side Znamya Noginsk.
  On 27 October 2019, he retired from football. He restarted his career after Znamya Noginsk was promoted to the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2020–21 season.
caption: Samedov with Lokomotiv in 2012
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