Viktor Onopko

Viktor Onopko
	Onopko honored by UEFA in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Viktor Savelyevich Onopko
Date of birth	14 October 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union; (now Luhansk, Ukraine)
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1986	Stakhanovets Stakhanov
1986–1988	Shakhtar Donetsk
1989	Dynamo Kyiv
1990–1991	Shakhtar Donetsk
1992–1995	Spartak Moscow
1995–2002	Real Oviedo
2002–2003	Rayo Vallecano
2003–2004	Alania Vladikavkaz
2004–2005	Saturn
Total
International career
1992	CIS
1992–2004	Russia
Managerial career
2009–2020	CSKA Moscow (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Savelyevich Onopko (Russian: Виктор Савельевич Онопко) (born 14 October 1969) is a Russian football coach and a former defender of Ukrainian origin. He held the record for most international appearances for the Russian national team until 8 September 2015, when he was overtaken by Sergei Ignashevich.^[1]

Club career

Born in Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk), Soviet Union, Onopko's career as a player started in 1986 and finished in 2005; during this time he played for Shakhtar Donetsk, Spartak Moscow, Real Oviedo, Rayo Vallecano, Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Saturn.

International career

Although he was eligible to play for Ukraine, Onopko chose to play for Russia and amassed 109 caps (plus 4 for the CIS, including the ones in Euro 92), the first coming in 1992. He played in the 1994 and 2002 World Cups, as well as Euro 96. Onopko was in the preliminary squad for Euro 2004 but was dropped due to injury. With the national team, in 2003 he won the Cyprus friendly tournament ^[2]

In 2009, he was part of the Russia squad that won the 2009 Legends Cup.

Personal life

Viktor has a younger brother, Serhiy, who also played as a professional footballer.

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Stakhanovets Stakhanov	1986	4	0	0	0	—		4	0
Shakhtar	1986	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	1987	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	1988	3	0	1	0	—		4	0
	Total	3	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
Dinamo Kyiv	1989	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
Shakhtar	1990	21	0	3	1	—		24	1
	1991	24	1	1	0	—		25	1
	Total	45	1	4	1	0	0	49	2
Spartak	1992	23	6	2	1	7	1	32	8
	1993	30	9	4	0	9	4	43	13
	1994	26	2	3	0	5	0	34	2
	1995	29	6	1	0	6	0	36	6
	Total	108	23	10	1	27	5	145	29
Real Oviedo	1995–96	19	1	—		—		19	1
	1996–97	37	0	1	0	—		38	0
	1997–98	31	0	—		—		31	0
	1998–99	33	0	2	0	—		35	0
	1999-00	31	2	1	0	—		32	2
	2000–01	35	3	1	0	—		36	3
	2001–02	30	1	—		—		30	1
	Total	216	7	5	0	0	0	221	7
Rayo Vallecano	2002–03	28	1	1	0	—		29	1
Alania	2003	7	0	1	0	—		8	0
Saturn	2004	26	1	5	0	—		31	1
	2005	25	0	2	0	—		27	0
	Total	51	1	7	0	0	0	58	1
Career total		458	33	29	2	27	5	514	40

Honours

Club

Spartak Moscow

Russian Premier League champion: 1992, 1993, 1994
Soviet Cup winner: 1992
Russian Cup winner: 1994

Individual

Footballer of the Year in Russia (Futbol magazine): 1992, 1993
Footballer of the Year in Russia (Sport-Express newspaper): 1993

External links

References

^ ИГНАШЕВИЧ ПОБИЛ РЕКОРД ОНОПКО ПО ЧИСЛУ МАТЧЕЙ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport Express. 8 September 2015.
^ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/cypr-intltourn03.html

[1] ИГНАШЕВИЧ ПОБИЛ РЕКОРД ОНОПКО ПО ЧИСЛУ МАТЧЕЙ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport Express. 8 September 2015.

[2] ttp://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/cypr-intltourn03.html

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