Coaching career
1Every stint in Nikita Simonyan's managerial and playing career, in chronological order. Club names link through to team pages with recent form, squad, and head-to-head stats.
Spartak Moscow?–present
Playing career
4FC Dinamo Sukhumi1944–1945
FC Krylya Sovetov Moscow1946–1948
Spartak Moscow1949–1959
Soviet Union national association football team1954–1958
Awards & honours
19Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"2019
Honoured coach of the RSFSR1968
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1957
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class2011
Order of the Badge of Honour2011
Medal "For Labour Valour"
Order of Friendship1995
Order of Honour and Glory2022
Merited Coach of the USSR1970
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR1954
Silver Olympic Order1996
Khorenatsi medal
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class2000
Q163641902013
Honored Physical Culture Worker of the Russian Federation2019
Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude1997
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"1970
Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation2025