title: Nikolai Gontar
text: # Nikolai Gontar
  
  Nikolai Pavlovich Gontar (Russian: Николай Павлович Гонтарь; born 29 April 1949) is a Russian football coach and a former player.
  
  ## Honours
  
  * Soviet Top League winner: 1976 (spring)
  * Soviet Top League bronze: 1975
  * Top 33 players year-end list: 1976
  
  ## International career
  
  Gontar made his debut for the USSR on 28 November 1976 in a friendly against Argentina. He played in the UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers (the USSR did not qualify for the final tournament).
  
  