Yevhen Lemeshko

Yevhen Lemeshko

Personal information
Full name	Yevhen Pylypovych Lemeshko
Date of birth	(1930-12-11)11 December 1930
Place of birth	Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death	2 June 2016(2016-06-02) (aged 85)
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1956	Ukraine	2	(-2)
Managerial career
1960–1966	FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi
1967	FC Karpaty Lviv
1968–1970	FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi
1971–1974	FC Sudobudivnyk Mykolaiv
1977–1988	FC Metalist Kharkiv
1989–1993	FC Torpedo Zaporizhia
1993	FC Metalist Kharkiv

Yevhen Lemeshko (Ukrainian: Євген Пилипович Лемешко; 11 December 1930 – 2 June 2016) was a Ukrainian football coach and chairman of the Council of Veteran Footballers. He started his football career as a player for FC Dynamo Kyiv, but due to an injury he continued his football career as a coach. In 1980, he became a Merited Coach of Ukraine. He died on 2 June 2016 at the age of 85.

International career

In 1956 Lemeshko played couple of games for the Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.

Honors

Coach

• Champion of Ukraine
  • Winners (3): 1974 (Sudnobudivnyk), 1978 (Metalist), 1990 (Torpedo Zap.)

Personal information

Lemeshko is a father-in-law of Oleh Protasov.

External links

• (in Russian) Lemeshko only five years younger than Metalist (Obozrevatel, December 14, 2005)
• (in Russian) Brief profile at klisf
• (in Ukrainian) History of Karpaty Lviv
• (in Ukrainian) Interview to the Ukrainian daily "Den" (July 23, 1998)
• Lemeshko runs out of the coach seats as his team Metalist scored the winning goal and became the 1988 Soviet Cup holder (video) on YouTube
• (in Russian) Interview of Volodymyr Danylyuk when he's mentioning Lemeshko as the coach of Karpaty (Sport-glavred, July 29, 2010)
• (in Russian) Interview of Volodymyr Linke (Metlaist's all-time top scorer) who talks about Lemeshko (March 27, 2008)