Nikita Khaykin

Nikita Ilyich Khaykin (or Haikin, Russian: Никита Ильич Хайкин, Hebrew: ניקיטה איליץ' חייקין; born 11 July 1995) is an Israeli-born Russian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Eliteserien club Bodø/Glimt.

Nikita Khaykin
Khaykin in 2021
Personal information
Full name Nikita Ilyich Khaykin
Date of birth (1995-07-11) 11 July 1995
Place of birth Netanya, Israel
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Bodø/Glimt
Number 12
Youth career
2002–2008 FShM Moscow
2009 Dynamo Moscow
2009–2010 Chelsea
2010–2012 Portsmouth
2012–2013 Reading
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2014 C.D. Nacional 0 (0)
2014–2015 Marbella 0 (0)
2015 Mordovia Saransk 0 (0)
2015–2016 Kuban Krasnodar 0 (0)
2016–2017 Bnei Yehuda 2 (0)
2017–2018 Hapoel Kfar Saba 13 (0)
2019– Bodø/Glimt 54 (0)
National team‡
2010 Russia U16 1 (0)
2012 Russia U17 1 (0)
2013 Russia U18 1 (0)
2015–2016 Russia U21 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 April 2022
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 November 2017

Early life

Khaykin was born in Netanya, Israel, to a family of who immigrated to Israel from Russia. His father is businessman Ilya Khaykin. In 1997, as a two year old baby, his family immigrated back with him to Moscow, Russia.

Club career

At age of 7 Khaykin began his youth career at FSHM Torpedo-Moscow. Nikita was also a part of Dinamo Moscow academy before moving to England.

In September 2013, Khaykin went on trial with Reading following his release from Chelsea.[1]

Khaykin made his professional debut in the Israeli Premier League for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv on 25 February 2017 in a game against Maccabi Tel Aviv.[2]

He then ran out of the contract and joined Hapoel Kfar Saba for one season.

In March 2019 he signed a contract with Eliteserien club Bodø/Glimt with whom Nikita became a silver medalist in his first season and won the championship in the following one.

Khaykin also debuted in Europa League qualification in 2020 where Bodø/Glimt got eliminated by Milan at San Siro.

International career

He has been an international youth, including Russia U-21, for Russia since 2010.

He was called up to the senior Russia national football team for the first time in October 2021, as part of their World Cup qualifiers against Cyprus and Croatia. He was included in the extended 41-players list of candidates.[3] He was included in the final squad list for these games and was on the bench in both, backing up Matvei Safonov.

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 24 April 2022[4]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Mordovia Saransk 2014–15 Russian Premier League 0000–00
Kuban Krasnodar 2015–16 Russian Premier League 0000–00
2016–17 FNL 0000–00
Total 00000000
Bnei Yehuda 2016–17 Israeli Premier League 2030–50
Hapoel Kfar Saba 2017–18 Liga Leumit 13020–150
Bodø/Glimt 2019 Eliteserien 1020–30
2020 2000030230
2021 29010140440
2022 402050110
Total 54050220810
Career total 6901002201010

Honours

Bnei Yehuda

Bodø/Glimt

References
  1. "Reading trials for Russian pair Sergey Kundik and Nikita Khaykin". tribal football. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  2. "Game Report by Soccerway". Soccerway. 25 February 2017.
  3. Расширенный состав на Кипр и Хорватию [Expanded squad for Cyprus and Croatia] (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 25 October 2021.
  4. "Nikita Haikin". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
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