Imran Firou

Imran Firov is a product of CSKA Moscow's own academy, joining as a child in Kakhun, in Kabardino-Balkaria. He scored the decisive goal in the final of the Moscow Cup named after R. Fulda in 2021, playing for CSKA's 2008-born team.

He signed his first professional contract with the club in October 2024, aged 16, and extended it in December 2025, tying him to CSKA until 2029. In February 2025 he was central to Russia's U17 side winning the Development Cup in Minsk, scoring twice in the final against Belarus.

His path to the first team ran through the Winter Cup, where he was handed a debut off the bench against Krasnodar in early February 2026. The competitive debuts followed in May: first in the Russian Cup against Spartak Moscow, then in the Premier League against Pari Nizhny Novgorod on 11 May. That second appearance was significant — sent on in the 58th minute, he set up a goal in the 88th and struck the winner himself in the 90th, becoming the youngest player in Russian Premier League history to score and assist on his league debut.

By mid-September 2026 he had made seven league appearances with two goals, alongside two cup outings. At youth international level he has been capped for Russia's U17, U18 and U19 sides, scoring four times for the U17s and once for the U19s. He has not yet been called into the senior national team.