Alpatov, Alexander Afanasyevich

Player Career

A pupil of Lugansk football, Alexander Alpatov, began to play football in 1943, for the team of the plant named after the October Revolution. In 1943–1946, he played for the local Dzerzhinets , from where a young midfielder was invited to Dynamo (Voroshilovgrad) where he spent three seasons. In 1949, Alpatov moved to Kiev , briefly played for the local Spartak, after which he received an invitation to Dynamo Kyiv, where he became the main player in the middle line of the team, having played 29 matches in the 1950 season.

But in 1951, he left the Dynamo team, moving to Shakhtar from Stalino . In his very first season for the miner's club became the bronze medalist of the USSR championship . Later Alpatov was one of the leaders of the team of the 1950s. In total, for the team of Stalino, Alexander played eight and a half years, completing his playing career in 1959.

Career Coach

After hanging the boots on a nail, Alexander Afanasyevich trained Gorlovsky Shakhtar and Khimik from Severodonetsk . In May 1964, he was invited to the post of senior coach to Luhansk Zarya , with whom he worked until the end of the season, after which he returned to Donetsk, where he coached the local Dynamo. From October 12, 1967, Alpatov was appointed the senior trainer of the Poltava Kolos , speaking in class “B” ^[1] . The following season, at the request of the city administration, the team was included in Class 2 “A” group, transferred to the care of the regional department of rural construction and renamed “Selstroy” ^[2] . Alpatov was given the task of retaining his place in the country's second-most powerful football division. Before the season, the team was staffed with experienced players and in general quite successfully spent the season, eleven rounds before the end of the championship, even claimed to enter the top division, but failing the championship ending, finished in the final 5th place. Since 1969, the Poltava team changed its name again, becoming the “Builder” . Alpatov's team did not have a smooth season, eventually taking only 10th place ^[2] . The next, 1970, began for the Poltava citizens with a tragedy. Returning from the training camp, held in the Crimea , the bus with the team had an accident, the driver and young football player Alexander Kolesnikov were killed ^[3] . Many football players were injured and bruised. Poltava team started the season uncertainly and by the end of the first round came in 16th place. In the second round, Alexander Alpatov was replaced on the coaching bridge by Yuri Voinov .

After a year and a half, in August 1972, Alexander Afanasyevich returns to the post of senior coach of the Poltava “Builder” , replacing the same Voinov on this post. He worked with the team, once again changing its name, again becoming the “Ear” until July 1973 ^[2] . Later he headed Lokomotiv from Zhdanov and Gorlovsky Shakhtyor .

From 1974 to 1986, Alexander Afanasevich Alpatov headed the Donetsk Football Federation.

• Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship : (1951)
• Winner of the USSR Championship in Class B: (1954)
• In the lists of "33 best" in the USSR: (№ 3-1951)

• Site "Dawn" (Lugansk). History and statistics. Alpatov Alexander Afanasyevich (Neopr.) . Archived December 11, 2012.