Mykhaylo Starostyak

Mykhaylo Starostyak

Personal information
Full name	Mykhaylo Volodymyrovych Starostyak
Date of birth	(1973-10-13) 13 October 1973
Place of birth	Hrusiatychi, Lviv Oblast, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Nyva Vinnytsia (assistant)
Youth career
1990–1992	Ivano-Frankivsk Sports Technical School
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–1993	Sokil Berezhany	29	(0)
1993–1995	Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk	97	(0)
1995–2004	Shakhtar Donetsk	244	(1)
1995–2001	→ Shakhtar-2 Donetsk	13	(0)
2003	→ Shakhtar-3 Donetsk	1	(0)
2004–2006	Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	(0)
2006–2007	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	10	(0)
2007–2009	Simurq	67	(0)
Total		502	(1)
International career‡
1997–2004	Ukraine	17	(0)
Managerial career
2015–2016	Illichivets Mariupol (assistant)
2019–2021	Shakhtar Donetsk (U19) (assistant)
2021–2022	Mynai (assistant)
2022–	Nyva Vinnytsia (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 August 2008 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 August 2008

Mykhaylo Volodymyrovych Starostyak (Ukrainian: Михайло Старостяк, born 13 October 1973) is a Ukrainian former football player. He started off as a right back, but mostly played as a center back.

Player's career

He started playing football as a member of a children's team from his native village. After completing the 9th grade at school, he moved to Ivano-Frankivsk, where he entered the local college of physical education, majoring in football. Since 1992, he played in the Transitional League of the Ukrainian Championship as a member of the Sokil team (Berezhany). At the beginning of the 1993-1994 season, he joined the Ivano-Frankivsk-based Prykarpattia, and two years later, Shakhtar Donetsk. He made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League on July 29, 1995, in a game against IFC Mykolaiv (0-0 draw).

After playing nine seasons at Shakhtar, he moved to Russia, where he defended the colors of Shinnik Yaroslavl. In 2006, he returned to Ukraine and played 10 matches for Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. He ended his football career with performances in the top division of the Azerbaijani championship, where he played in 2007-2009 as part of the Simurgh team.

Appearances for the national team

He made his debut for the national team of Ukraine on March 23, 1997 in a game against the national team of Moldova (victory 1: 0). In total, over 7 years (from 1997 to 2004), he appeared in 17 matches for the national team.

External links

• ukrsoccerhistory.com
• Mykhaylo Starostyak at National-Football-Teams.com
• Ukrainian National Team – Starostiak Mykhailo at archive.today (archived 12 August 2007)
• Ukrainian Premier League statistics at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-29)
• Russian Premier League Squads & Final Stats 2005
• Russian Premier League Squads & Final Stats 2004
• Mykhaylo Starostyak at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
• Mykhaylo Starostyak at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)