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Ramiz Mikhmanovich Mamedov (; , , , , , , ) is a Russian international footballer.

Biography

Club career
Born to an Azeri father and a Russian mother, Ramiz Mamedov spent his youth in the city of Moscow where he joined the Spartak Moscow training centre in 1979. He played his first game with the professional squad in a Soviet Union Cup match against the Kopetdag Ashkhabad before making his debut in the Russian first division against Lokomotiv Nizhni Novgorod at the age of 19. In all, he played ten games that year, scoring his first professional goal against Spartak Vladikavkaz, while Spartak won the championship at the end of the season.

As a regular player in the club's defence during the mid-1990s, Mamedov took part in the success of the team, which won four other champion titles between 1993 and 1997 and a national cup in 1994. He also played 24 matches in European competitions during this period, scoring two goals in the Champions League in 1995 against Blackburn Rovers and Legia Warsaw.

Unused during the first part of the 1998 season, Mamedov finally left the Spartak after almost 19 years at the club to join the Arsenal Toula in the form of a loan, finishing the year in the second division. He subsequently returned to the elite in the first half of 1999 under the colours of Krylia Sovetov Samara before leaving for Ukraine where he signed in favour of Dynamo Kiev. With the latter club, he won the double after the 1999-2000 exercise by playing fifteen games in the championship and taking part in the cup final against Kryvbass Kryvy Rih.

Subsequently loaned to the Austrian team of Sturm Graz for the 2000-2001 season, Mamedov performed correctly in the championships as well as in the Champions League but was involved in a fake passport business from Portugal at the beginning of 2001 and was denied the right to play for the rest of the season. He subsequently returned to Russia during the summer and signed in Lokomotiv Moscow, where he remained unused for the rest of 2001. In the following year, he joined Sokol Saratov and played no game in the first half of the year because of injury problems and disagreements with coach Leonid Tkatchenko.

Leaving Saratov in the summer of 2002, Mamedov later joined the Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan on the second stage. He spent the end of the 2002 season and the beginning of the 2003 fiscal year before going to the third division at Luch Vladivostok where he finally finished his career at the end of the year at the age of 31.

International career
Ramiz Mamedov was often called to the Russian youth selections between 1993 and 1994 and was also named to the 1994 European Hope Championship, where his team-mate