Aleksandr Sergeyevich Samedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Самедов, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ sɐˈmʲedəf]; Azerbaijani: Aleksandr Səmədov; born 19 July 1984) is a Russian professional football official and a former player who played as a right winger.
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.
[9] On 16 January 2017, he returned to FC Spartak Moscow, winning the Russian Premier League title at the end of the season.
He restarted his career after Znamya Noginsk was promoted to the third-tier Russian Professional Football League for the 2020–21 season.
[14] In 2003, Samedov first visited Baku to hold discussions on representing the Azerbaijan national football team.
On 7 October 2011, Samedov made his debut for the senior national team of Russia after coming on as a last-minute substitute for Alan Dzagoev in the 1–0 away win against Slovakia in a Euro 2012 qualifier.
Following Russia's 2018 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal loss to Croatia, he announced his retirement from the national team.