Anatoliy Vasilyovych Demyanenko ( uk, Анатолiй Васильович Дем'яненко, born 19 February 1959), sometimes referred to as Anatoli Demianenko, is a Ukrainian

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and former player. As a player, he was deployed at

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and notably represented Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national team.

Playing career

Demyanenko began his football career as a student of the ''Dnipro-75'' football school in his home city of

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.Сборная России по футболу. Демьяненко Анатолий Васильевич.
Profile on rusteam.permian.ru He was added to the squad of the local

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of the

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in the 1975 season. However, he debuted for the main team of Dnipro in the 1978 season. By the end of that season he had played 20 games and scored 1 goal.Profile on UkrSoccerHistory.Com
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at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. Demyanenko was a longtime Dynamo Kyiv captain and a prolific left-footed player for the Soviet Union who could patrol the entire flank from defence to offence. In December 2000 he was voted the 3rd best player in the Ukrainian 'Team of the Century' according to a poll by ''The Ukrainsky Futbol weekly'', behind

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and Oleg Blokhin. Demyanenko is fourth in the all time caps records for the USSR and played in three World Cups for them.

Coaching career

Demyanenko started out his coaching career with

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in 1993. After the ''Army men'' merged with

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became a member of the coaching staff newly formed ''FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv''. Already next season Demyanenko joined Dynamo Kyiv in 1994. Until 2005 he was a regular coach of the Dynamo's big coaching staff then he was offered to become the manager. During this time he won the

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once in 2006–07. He also won the Ukrainian Cups 2005–06, and 2006–07. Following several defeats of Dynamo Kyiv early on in the 2007–08 season, Demyanenko resigned coaching Dynamo in September 2007. In January 2008, Demyanenko became the coach of Neftchi Baku in

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, following the sacking of their coach

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.Demyanenko returns with Neftchi
UEFA.com 5 January 2008 Demyanenko made history in Azerbaijan, making Neftchi become the first club that managed to get to the third round of UEFA Cup Qualification. However, he was sacked after the Azerbaijan Premier League started and he lost the first two games.

Personal life

Anatoliy is a father of a Ukrainian football midfielder Denys Demyanenko (born 2000), currently playing for

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Career statistics

Club

*The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

International

:''Scores and results list the Soviet Union's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Demyanenko goal.''

Honours

Player

;Club * USSR Championship: 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990 * USSR Cup: 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990 * USSR Super Cup: 1980, 1985, 1986 *

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: 1986 * Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu: 1986 * Ukrainian Championship: 1993 * Ukrainian Cup: 1993 ;Individual * UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Golden Player:

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* Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: 1982, 1985 *

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: 1985

Manager

Dynamo Kyiv *

: 2006–07 * Ukrainian Cup: 2005–06, 2006–07 Nasaf Qarshi *

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* Uzbek League runner-up:

* Uzbek Cup runner-up:

References

External links

Demyanenko's Profile on Neftchi Baku Site
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Demyanenko, Anatoliy 1959 births Living people Soviet footballers Soviet expatriate footballers Ukrainian footballers Ukrainian football managers Ukrainian expatriate footballers Soviet expatriate sportspeople in East Germany Expatriate footballers in East Germany Expatriate footballers in Poland Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Poland FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players 1. FC Magdeburg players Widzew Łódź players Soviet Top League players Ukrainian Premier League players Ekstraklasa players 1982 FIFA World Cup players 1986 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1988 players 1990 FIFA World Cup players Soviet Union international footballers FC CSKA Kyiv managers FC Dynamo Kyiv managers FC Dnipro players Neftçi PFK managers Expatriate football managers in Azerbaijan FC Nasaf managers FC Volyn Lutsk managers FC Nitra managers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Uzbekistan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia Expatriate football managers in Uzbekistan Ukrainian Premier League managers Ukrainian Second League managers Azerbaijan Premier League managers Uzbekistan Super League managers Slovak Super Liga managers Footballers from Dnipro Ukrainian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Slovakia DDR-Oberliga players Association football defenders AFC Cup winning managers Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 1st class