Roman Kanafotskyi

Roman Kanafotskyi

Personal information
Full name	Roman Andriyovych Kanafotskyi
Date of birth	(1938-02-04)4 February 1938
Place of birth	Horodok Yahaylivskyi, Polish Second Republic (present day Ukraine)
Date of death	9 April 2021(2021-04-09) (aged 83)
Place of death	Dnipro, Ukraine
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
195?–1958	Youth Sportive School Horodok
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1959	Avanhard Horodok (amateurs)
1959	Avanhard Ternopil	19	(0)
1960–1962	Naftovyk Drohobych	69	(1)
1963–1968	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	139	(2)
1969	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	28	(0)
1970	Trubnyk Nikopol
Managerial career
1972–2017	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (administrator)
2017–2021	SC Dnipro-1 (administrator)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roman Kanafotskyi (Ukrainian: Роман Андрійович Канафоцький; 4 February 1938 – 9 April 2021) was a Ukrainian professional football administrator and player.

Playing and chairman career

Born in Horodok, Western Ukraine, Kanafotskyi was a product of the local youth sportive school. His first trained was S. Nyrko. He made his professional career in the different football teams of the Ukrainian SSR.

Since 1972 he worked as an administrator with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and after that, with SC Dnipro-1.

Death

Kanafotskyi died on 9 April 2021 at the age of 83.