Hennadiy Orbu

Hennadiy Orbu
Personal information
Full name	Hennadiy Hryhorovych Orbu
Date of birth	23 July 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth	Makiivka, Ukrainian SSR
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Zvezda St. Petersburg (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1992	Bazhanovets Makiivka
1993–1996	Shakhtar Donetsk
1996–1997	Rotor Volgograd
1997–2000	Shakhtar Donetsk
1997–2000	→ Shakhtar-2 Donetsk
2000	Vorskla Poltava
2001–2002	Sokol Saratov
International career
1994–1997	Ukraine
Managerial career
2003–2009	Shakhtar Donetsk (staff)
2009–2010	Zorya Luhansk (assistant)
2010–2012	Illichivets Mariupol (assistant)
2013	Shakhtar Donetsk (reserve)
2013	Sevastopol (reserve)
2013	Sevastopol (caretaker)
2013	Sevastopol
2014	Daugava
2017–2019	Mariupol (U19)
2022–2024	Kolkheti-1913 Poti (assistant)
2024–	Zvezda St. Petersburg
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hennadiy Hryhorovych Orbu (Ukrainian: Геннадій Григорович Орбу; born 23 July 1970) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player who is the manager of Russian Second League club Zvezda St. Petersburg.

Playing career

He made his professional debut in the Ukrainian Premier League in 1991 for Shakhtar Donetsk.^[1] He played 7 games and scored 1 goal in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996 for Rotor Volgograd.

It was in this team that Orbu began his professional career in the Second League in 1992. In the fall of the same year, he was invited to Shakhtar Donetsk,^[2] where he played for four seasons, playing 106 matches in the Ukrainian top flight and scoring 12 goals.

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Bazhanovets	1992	14	5	-	-	-	-	14	1
Bazhanovets	1992–93	6	2	1	0	-	-	7	2
Shakhtar	1992–93	18	0	1	0	-	-	19	0
	1993–94	32	2	4	1	-	-	36	3
	1994–95	30	3	8	0	2	1	40	4
	1995–96	27	7	4	0	4	2	35	9
Rotor	1996	20	2	-	-	7	1	27	3
Rotor	1997	1	0	-	-	-	-	1	0
Shakhtar	1996–97	13	6	1	0	-	-	14	6
	1997–98	29	9	4	1	6	2	39	12
	1998–99	20	5	2	0	4	2	26	7
	1999–00	22	7	2	1	3	0	27	8
	2000–01	2	0	-	-	-	-	2	0
Vorskla	2000–01	3	1	-	-	2	0	5	1
Sokol	2001	26	2	2	0	-	-	28	2
Sokol	2002	11	0	2	0	-	-	13	0
Total for Shakhtar		193	39	26	3	19	7	238	49
Career totals		274	51	31	3	28	8	333	62

Honours

Ukrainian Premier League runner-up: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Russian Premier League runner-up: 1997.
Russian Premier League bronze: 1996.
Ukrainian Cup winner: 1995, 1997.

References

^ Hennadiy Orbu at National-Football-Teams.com
^ "Геннадій ОРБУ: «Ринат Леонідович особисто контролював повернення додому колишніх гравців»". shakhtar.info. 15 April 2016. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.

External links

Hennadiy Orbu at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
Hennadiy Orbu at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)

[career-1] Hennadiy Orbu at National-Football-Teams.com

[2] "Геннадій ОРБУ: «Ринат Леонідович особисто контролював повернення додому колишніх гравців»". shakhtar.info. 15 April 2016. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.

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