Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)

Leonid Tkachenko

Personal information
Full name	Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko
Date of birth	(1953-10-01) October 1, 1953
Place of birth	Staryi Krym, Crimea Oblast, Russian SFSR
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Coach, former half-back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971	FC Baltika Kaliningrad	?	(?)
1971–1972	FC Mashinostroitel Kaliningrad	?	(?)
1975–1976	FC Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	?	(?)
1978–1984	FC Metalist Kharkiv	181	(20)
Managerial career
1984–1993	FC Metalist Kharkiv / Ukraine
1993–1994	FC Temp Shepetivka
1995–1998	FC Baltika Kaliningrad
1999	FC Sokol Saratov
2001–2002	FC Anzhi Makhachkala
2002–2003	FC Sokol Saratov
2005–2006	FC Baltika Kaliningrad
2007–2008	FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg
2009	FC Baltika Kaliningrad
2010	FC Baltika Kaliningrad (director of sports)
2010	FC Baltika Kaliningrad
2011–2013	FC Petrotrest Saint Petersburg
2013–2014	FC Sever Murmansk
2014–2015	FC Volga Tver
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (Russian: Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; born October 1, 1953 in Staryi Krym, Crimea) is a former Soviet player and the Ukrainian-Russian coach.

Career

Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for FC Metallist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League in 1981.

Together with Mykola Pavlov served as an interim coach for Ukrainian national football team when it traveled to Belarus for a friendly against the Belarusian national football team. Him and Pavlov were assistant coaches to Viktor Prokopenko before that. Sometime in 2000 he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained the Russian citizenship.

Honours

• Russian Second Division Zone West best manager: 2005.