Dmytro Dmytrovich Semochko (; ; born 25 January 1979) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played in the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( ) or UPL is a professional association football league in Ukraine and the highest level of the Ukrainian football league system. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in ...

with

Karpaty Lviv Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. In 2020–21 the club was reorganized and changed owner. During that period there existed two clubs with the same name, one at professional level competitio ...

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro (, ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club played its last season in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur League. The club was owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi. In 2018, FC Dnipro was forced i ...

and

Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv, also known as Football Club Metalist Kharkov or FC Metalist Kharkov ( ), is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2023–24 season. It was rev ...

and in the

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

with Uralan Elista,

FC Luch Vladivostok FC Luch Vladivostok () was an association football club based in Vladivostok. In 2005, Luch won the Russian First Division and played in the Russian Premier League, Premier League from 2006 to 2008. The club was called Luch-Energiya from 2003 t ...

and

Shinnik Yaroslavl FC Shinnik Yaroslavl () is a Russian football club, based in Yaroslavl. From 1957 to 1960 the team was called Khimik ( - "the chemist"). In 1961, the club became affiliated with the , accordingly changing its name and logo (a football inside a ...

Career

Semochko began his football career in Ukraine, playing as a striker for FC Lviv and

. In 2000, he moved abroad joining Russian Premier League side Uralan Elista, where he was expected to be a top performer. However, the club finished bottom of the league, suffering a 9–0 defeat to

Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three occasions; the Soviet Cup twice; and the Russian Cup (football), Russian Cup a record ...

during the process. Semochko stayed with Uralan as the club secured an immediate return to the Russian Premier League. He scored the first Russian Premier League goal at the

Lokomotiv Stadium Lokomotiv Stadium may refer to: Belarus * Lokomotiv Stadium (Minsk) Bulgaria * Lokomotiv Stadium (Gorna Oryahovitsa) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Mezdra) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Plovdiv) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Sofia) * Lokomotiv Stadium (Stara Zagora) Ge ...

, an own goal in FC Elista's 1–0 loss to FC Lokomotiv Moscow on 5 July 2002.

References

External links

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Player page on the official FC Shinnik Yaroslavl website
* * * 1979 births Living people Footballers from Lviv Oblast Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football defenders FC Lviv (1992) players FC Karpaty Lviv players FC Karpaty-2 Lviv players FC Elista players FC Dnipro players FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk players FC Luch Vladivostok players FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players FC Rostov players FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players FC Khimki players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players FC Nizhny Novgorod (2007) players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Ukrainian sportspeople in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War Expatriate men's footballers in Russia FC Metalist Kharkiv players FC Volyn Lutsk players 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1970s-stub