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Serhiy Kravchenko
Kravchenko with Ukraine in 2011
Personal information
Full name Serhiy Serhiyovych Kravchenko
Date of birth (1983-04-24) 24 April 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Donetsk, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Oleksandriya (assistant)
Youth career
–2002 Shakhtar Donetsk
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 Shakhtar-2 Donetsk 56 (4)
2002–2004 Shakhtar-3 Donetsk 39 (7)
2005 Qarabağ 12 (3)
2006–2008 Vorskla Poltava 80 (14)
2009 Dynamo Kyiv 12 (2)
2010–2017 Dnipro 117 (7)
2015–2016 → Volyn Lutsk (loan) 24 (1)
2017–2020 Dnipro-1 74 (10)
2021–2022 Chornomorets Odesa 36 (2)
International career
2008–2013 Ukraine 10 (1)
Managerial career
2023– Oleksandriya (assistant)
2023 Ukraine (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 January 2023

Serhiy Serhiyovych Kravchenko (Template:Lang-uk; born 24 April 1983) is a Ukrainian retired professional football midfielder and current coach.

Career

Kravchenko began his career in the Shakhtar Donetsk reserves and youth team in 2002.

Qarabağ

For the 2005–06 season, where he played for Qarabağ FK in the Azerbaijan Premier League. His club finished fifth at the end of the season.

Vorskla Poltava

Kravchenko moved to Vorskla Poltava in March 2006. There, when new coach Mykola Pavlov arrived in 2007, Kravchenko began to shine exceptionally.

In the 2007–08 season, the team finished 8th in the Ukrainian Premier League, which was its best result since the 1999–2000 season.

In the first half of the 2008–09 season, Vorksla made it the semifinals of the Ukrainian Cup which was their highest result in that competition ever. The team was also 4th in the league table. Kravchenko contributed scored 4 goals in 17 matches as well as several assists during this part of the season.

Dynamo Kyiv

On 28 July 2008, he officially signed with Ukrainian giants Dynamo Kyiv, but there is still questions when he will join them in the summer or in the winter when he becomes a free agent. Kravchenko will be entirely owned by the club on 28 January 2009, as reported by the Dynamo Kyiv official website.[1]

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

On 23 December 2009 Kravchenko was sold to Dnipro for an undisclosed fee.[2]

Volyn Lustk

On 6 July 2014 after his contract ran up with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, free agent Serhiy Kravchenko made a transfer to Ukrainian Premier League club Volyn Lutsk.

International

Kravchenko has been a regular for the Ukraine national football team with head coach Oleksiy Mykhailychenko since teammate Oleh Husiev got injured. He was called with four other newcomers.[3] He made the most of it when he scored the winning goal in a friendly against Poland.

International goals

Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 20 August 2008 Ukraina Stadium, Lviv  Poland 1–0 1–0 Friendly

Personal life

Kravchenko is married to Tetiana. His father is Ukrainian football player and football coach Serhiy Kravchenko. His older brother is Ukrainian racecar driver – Andriy Kravchenko. He greatly admires French star Zinedine Zidane.[4]

Honors

UEFA Europa League runner-up (1) 2014–15

References

  1. ^ Сергей Кравченко подписал контракт с "Динамо" 28 July 2008
  2. ^ "Кравченко и Мандзюк – игроки "Днепра" (Kravchenko and Mandziuk – Dnipro players)" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  3. ^ Mykhailychenko named the squad – Sportunion.blox.ua (in Russian) 16–05–08
  4. ^ Serhiy Kravchenko: "In Poltava they said that I wasn't Ukrainian". – Interview of Kravchenko and his wife at their new Kyiv home, Guru.ua (in Russian)
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