Career
As Nikolov grew up in Sandbach in Hesse, he made his first appearance as a football player in his local club SG Sandbach. His professional career started in 1991 at Eintracht Frankfurt. First, he was the second goalkeeper behind Uli Stein and then later Andreas Köpke. After Köpke left the club because of the relegation to the Second Bundesliga, Nikolov became Frankfurt's new first goalkeeper. In 2002, Dirk Heinen came to Eintracht Frankfurt and Nikolov lost his position once again. However, the season was no success and Frankfurt had to go to the Second Bundesliga. So Nikolov was given another chance.
After the promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2005–06 campaign Nikolov won the goalkeeping spot from Markus Pröll due to an injury. In the 2006–07 season, Pröll was the number-one keeper again, but due to problems caused by his renewed rib injury, Nikolov once again became a regular in February 2007. In January 2010 it was announced that he would not renew his contract with Eintracht Frankfurt that was due to expire in summer 2010 but eventually signed a new contract until 2012 and later until 2013.
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