Buznikin Maksim Evgenyevich (born March 1, 1977, Krasnodar) is a Russian football player, a forward. He played in the top division of the Russian championship from 1996 to 2008, spending his career with the Moscow clubs Spartak and Lokomotiv, as well as a number of other clubs in the country. He is a four-time champion of Russia. For the Russian national team he played 8 matches and scored 5 goals. In the 2011–2012 season he played for the Nizhny Novgorod club "Nizhny Novgorod" in the First League.[1]
Career
A product of the Krasnodar SDYuSShOR-5 sports school; his first coaches were his father Evgeny Nikolaevich Buznikin, a professional footballer of the 1970s, and Viktor Konstantinovich Koretsky.[1] Buznikin began his professional career at Kuban (Krasnodar) in 1993, then briefly played for Izumrud (Timashevsk) and Lada (Tolyatti).[1]
In 1997 he moved to Moscow's Spartak, where he spent the brightest stretch of his career: in the 1997 season he played 20 league matches and scored 8 goals, becoming one of the team's notable forwards. With Spartak he became champion of Russia in 1997 and 1998 and took part in the UEFA Cup and the Champions League.[2] In 1999 his relationship with head coach Oleg Romantsev broke down; according to Buznikin himself, the coach preferred a different style of play, and the forward moved on, first to Saturn (Ramenskoye) and then to Moscow's Lokomotiv.[1]
At Lokomotiv (2001–2004) Buznikin became a two-time champion of Russia, in 2002 and 2004, and took part in Champions League group stages, including the 2001/02 season, when he scored 3 goals in the tournament.[2] After Lokomotiv he played for Rotor (Volgograd), Rostov, Shinnik (Yaroslavl), and Baltika (Kaliningrad).[1] In the 2008 season, playing for Shinnik, he appeared in 28 Premier League matches and scored 4 goals.[2]
In Nizhny Novgorod
In the 2011–2012 season Buznikin played for the football club "Nizhny Novgorod" in the First League, appearing in 10 matches.[2] After that he moved to Lokomotiv-2 (Moscow), where he spent one more season in the Second League.[1]
End of Career and Activities After Football
His last professional club was GNS-Spartak (Krasnodar) in 2013–2014.[1] In 2022, he took part in a veterans' match playing for "Spartak Legends".[2] In December 2025, he registered and headed the Krasnodar Krai Teqball Federation, becoming its chairman and founder.[3]
Sources
- rusteam.su — Buznikin Maksim Yevgenyevich. Russia national football team
- news.sportbox.ru — Buznikin Maksim Yevgenyevich — Forward
- checko.ru — Buznikin Maksim Yevgenyevich — INN 770870138982