Artem Dzyuba

Artem (or Artyom) Sergeyevich Dzyuba (Артём Сергеевич Дзюба, ; born 22 August 1988) is a Russian professional football player who plays as a striker for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russia national football team.

Dzyuba was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, on 22 August 1988.

His father, Sergey, is from Poltava Oblast, Ukraine and worked as a policeman, while his mother, Svetlana, is from Tsivilsk, Chuvashia and worked at a grocery store in Moscow, where she met his father.

He attended Spartak Moscow's football school and started playing for the team's reserves in 2005.

He began his career with Spartak Moscow, debuting in 2006 and making 166 appearances and scoring 38 goals.

In 2006, he first played for the first team in a Russian Cup match against FC Ural, replacing Roman Pavlyuchenko in the 85th minute.

On 7 August 2009, Tom Tomsk signed the striker on loan until December 2009.

Dzyuba made his senior international debut for Russia in 2011.

Dzyuba was a part of the Russia U21 side that was competing in the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualification.

He made his national team debut on 11 November 2011 in a friendly against Greece.

He had his first substitute appearance in the Russian Premier League in the 12th round against Saturn Moscow.

He had 7 substitute appearances in that season, but did not score.

He was called up to the provisional squad for UEFA Euro 2012.

He was not included on the finalized squad that Dick Advocaat chose for the competition.

He also had two loans each at Tom Tomsk and Rostov, winning the 2013–14 Russian Cup with the latter.

In the 2013–14 Russian Premier League, Dzyuba scored 17 goals while loaned to Rostov.

After the 2014 World Cup, which Dzyuba also missed with Fabio Capello preferring Aleksandr Kokorin and Aleksandr Kerzhakov instead, he started to be called up regularly during the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying.

In 2015, he joined Zenit.

He is the record holder for most goals scored in the Russian Premier League with 148.

In 2015, he was signed for Zenit Saint Petersburg by André Villas-Boas.

In the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, Dzyuba managed to score a total of six goals in five consecutive matches.

He represented the nation at UEFA Euro 2016, the 2018 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2020 and is the country's joint-top scorer with 30 goals alongside Aleksandr Kerzhakov.

On 31 January 2018, he joined Arsenal Tula on loan for the remainder of the 2017–18 season.

He became the joint top scorer of the 2019–20 Russian Premier League with 17 goals, tied with his teammate Sardar Azmoun.

That season he also provide the most assists for a second season in a row.

On 25 July 2020, he scored a late penalty to hand Zenit the 2019–20 Russian Cup.

On 7 August 2020, he scored the first goal in a 2–1 victory over Lokomotiv Moscow to win the 2020 Russian Super Cup.

On 2 May 2021, he scored twice as Zenit secured their third title in a row in a 6–1 victory over second-place FC Lokomotiv Moscow.

On the last match day of the 2020–21 league season on 16 May 2021, he scored 4 goals against FC Tambov, bringing his total to 20 and overtaking his teammate Sardar Azmoun (who had 19 goals) as the top goal scorer.

On 16 October 2021 in a game against FC Arsenal Tula he scored his 100th goal for Zenit.

On 29 October 2021 in a game against FC Dynamo Moscow, he scored his 144th goal in the Russian Premier League, becoming the league's record holder for the number of goals scored.

On 22 May 2022, Zenit announced that Dzyuba would leave the club when his contract expired in July.

In July 2022, Dzyuba began training with FC Rubin Kazan to maintain fitness.

Dzyuba ultimately refused a contract offer from the club.

On 18 August 2022, Turkish Süper Lig team Adana Demirspor announced the signing of Artem Dzyuba.

His contract was annulled on 3 November 2022.

On 8 February 2023, Artem Dzyuba signed a contract with Lokomotiv Moscow until the end of the 2022–23 season.

On the same day, Lokomotiv signed Igor Smolnikov, who at that point played over 100 games as Dzyuba's teammate at Zenit and the national team.

In his league debut for Lokomotiv on 4 March 2023, he scored a hat-trick in a 3–1 away victory over FC Rostov.

On 25 May 2023, Dzyuba extended his contract with Lokomotiv for the 2023–24 season, with an option for 2024–25.