Petrov Ilya Alekseyevich (born June 27, 1995, Nizhny Novgorod) is a Russian footballer, a midfielder. A product of Nizhny Novgorod football, since 2025 he has played for Kaliningrad's Baltika in the Premier League.[1]

Career

He began his professional career in the system of the Krasnodar club, where in the 2011–2013 seasons he played for Krasnodar's youth team.[1] He then moved to Nizhny Novgorod's Volga, for whose youth squad he played 29 matches and scored 8 goals in the 2013/14 season, and in 2014–2016 he played 57 matches for the first team in the First League, scoring 2 goals.[1] In the 2015/16 season he was called up to the Russia youth national team (U-21), taking part in the qualifying tournament for the European Championship and in the Commonwealth Cup.[1]

After Volga, Petrov played for Mordovia (2016–2019, with a one-season break at Avangard of Krasnodar in 2017/18), Nizhnekamsk's Neftekhimik (2019–2021), and Krasnodar's Kuban (2021/22). In the 2020/21 season he played 37 matches for Neftekhimik and scored 10 goals, the most productive season of his career.[1] In 2022–2024 he played for SKA-Khabarovsk in the First League, scoring 7 goals in the 2022/23 season (6 of them from penalties).[1]

In the 2024/25 season he played for Baltika in the First League (30 matches, 2 goals), after which he helped the team earn promotion to the Premier League. In the 2025/26 season he played 27 matches in the top division, scoring 1 goal.[1] In total, as of the start of the 2026/27 season, he has played more than 450 matches and scored 65 goals in all competitions.[1]

In Nizhny Novgorod

Petrov was born in Nizhny Novgorod and is a product of local football. In 2013–2016 he played for Volga, the main Nizhny Novgorod club of that time, which competed in the First League. With Volga he spent two full seasons in the starting lineup, and also played one match for the FNL national team in a friendly game.[1]

Links

  • Wikidata (Q18001560 — an entry in the free knowledge base)

Sources

  1. news.sportbox.ru — Ilya Alekseyevich Petrov — Midfielder — Baltika — Petrov Ilya
  2. checko.ru — LLC "KHOREKAKHIM" — Yaroslavl — TIN 7604276332 — Director I. A. Petrov
  3. dissercat.com — Dissertation on the topic "The state of the ovaries in functional cysts and their electrosurgical treatment (clinical and experimental study)", download the abstract for free…
  4. egripru.com — Individual Entrepreneur Ilya Alekseyevich Petrov, Danilovsky Municipal District, Danilov Urban Settlement of Danilovsky Municipal District, Yaroslavl Region: contacts, phone number, address, job openings…
  5. ssmu.ru — Detailed staff member page
  6. ibiit.ru — Institute of Business and Innovative Technologies