Andriy Demchenko
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andriy Anatoliyovych Demchenko | ||
| Date of birth | 20 August 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender/Midfielder/Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Dila Gori (Manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1994 | CSKA Moscow | 0 | (0) |
| 1992–1994 | → CSKA-d Moscow | 53 | (19) |
| 1995–1998 | Ajax | 4 | (0) |
| 1997 | → CSKA Moscow | 9 | (2) |
| 1998–2006 | Metalurh Zaporizhya | 186 | (46) |
| 2007–2008 | Illichivets Mariupol | 18 | (4) |
| 2008–2009 | Obolon Kyiv | 23 | (2) |
| 2009 | Dacia Chişinău | 1 | (0) |
| 2010 | Metalurh Zaporizhya | 1 | (0) |
| 2010 | Helios Kharkiv | 11 | (0) |
| Total | 306 | (73) | |
| International career | |||
| 1994 | Russia U19 | 1 | (1) |
| 1995 | Russia U20 | 2 | (0) |
| 1995–1997 | Russia U21 | 14 | (7) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2012–2015 | Metalurh Zaporizhya (youth) | ||
| 2017–2018 | Obod | ||
| 2018 | Veres Rivne (caretaker) | ||
| 2018 | Lviv | ||
| 2019–2020 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | ||
| 2021– | Dila Gori | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Andriy Anatoliyovych Demchenko (Template:Lang-ua; born 20 August 1976) is a Ukrainian and Russian football coach and a former midfielder.
Club career
Playing football Demchenko started out in his native Zaporizhia where his first coach (trainer) was Borys Zozulya and Viktor Vysochyn. When Demchenko turned 13, his new trainer was Anatoliy Vasyleha who coached him before Demchenko moved to Moscow. During his teenage years Demchenko was spotted by Gennadiy Kostylev, a Soviet Union national football team coach, and Demchenko participated in some international tournaments among junior teams. During dissolution of the Soviet Union, in 1990 Demchenko was invited as a prospect player to play for PFC CSKA Moscow where Kostylev also became the club's manager.
At the 1994 European U-18 Championship Demchenko, playing for the Russia national football team, became a top scorer of the tournament. At that tournament played such football personalities like Raúl, Fernando Morientes, Míchel Salgado, Lars Ricken, Francesco Totti and others. Following the European championship Ajax offered $1 million Moscow team for the 17-year-old Demchenko and both player and club agreed. In Ajax Amsterdam, Demchenko mostly was sitting on a bench and had limited amount of playing experience. Following end of contract with the Dutch club, he returned to Zaporizhia where he joined FC Metalurh Zaporizhia.
Honours
Player
Club
- Ajax
External links
- Demchenko at Ajax Amsterdam
- Derkach, S. Andrei Demchenko: I have nothing to regret (Андрей Демченко: "Я ни о чем не жалею"). Passport (Zaporozhye). 15 September 2011.
- 1976 births
- Footballers from Zaporizhzhia
- Living people
- Ukrainian emigrants to Russia
- Russian emigrants to Ukraine
- Russian footballers
- Ukrainian footballers
- Russia youth international footballers
- FC Obolon-Brovar Kyiv players
- PFC CSKA Moscow players
- AFC Ajax players
- FC Metalurh Zaporizhya players
- FC Torpedo Zaporizhia players
- FC Viktor Zaporizhya players
- FC Mariupol players
- FC Helios Kharkiv players
- FC Dacia Chișinău players
- Russian Premier League players
- Eredivisie players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Russian expatriate footballers
- Ukrainian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
- Expatriate footballers in Moldova
- Ukrainian football managers
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Georgia (country)
- NK Veres Rivne managers
- Soviet footballers
- Association football midfielders
- FC Lviv managers
- FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv managers
- FC Dila Gori managers