Sergey Borodin

Sergey Borodin took the long route to a first-team career, coming through Krasnodar's academy and spending years in the club's reserve and third sides before a loan to Ufa in 2020-21 yielded a single appearance before the move was cut short. He finally broke into Krasnodar's first team in 2021, making 14 appearances and scoring once, and a loan to Beitar Jerusalem in the 2022/23 season proved the more productive spell: he made 17 appearances there and won the Israel State Cup.

At Torpedo, Borodin has become a key player and was made captain, a status underlined in August 2025 when he signed a contract extension running until June 2028. He was part of the Torpedo side that finished as silver medallists in the 2024/25 Russian First League, and in August 2026 he reached his 100th appearance for the club.

Borodin came through Russia's youth international set-up from under-15 to under-19 level, and earned a senior call-up, making his debut for Russia in a friendly against Kyrgyzstan on 24 September 2022. Further back, he won the Russian Youth Championship with Krasnodar in the 2017/18 season.