Illya Vyacheslavovych Karavashchenko (; born 25 June 2001) is a Ukrainian professional

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who plays as a

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for Kudrivka.

Career

Early Career

Karavashchenko began playing football in Zorya Luhansk academy.Ілля Караващенко: «Після гри з «Колосом» хочу щиро посміхнутися суперникам»
www.desna.football. 24 November 2020 After a short pause, in 2014 he moved to Kyiv to his relatives where he was training in nearby suburbs with KODYuSSh Shchaslyve. In 2015 Karavashchenko finally made it to the academy of the main eastern Ukraine football club

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk () is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club that was based in the city of Donetsk until 2014 when, due to the War in Donbas (2014–2022), War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lvi ...

which just relocated to Shchaslyve and with which he stayed almost until 2020. In 2018 he was on the Shakhtar's roster for 2018–19 UEFA Youth Champions League as a reserve goalkeeper spending all his time on the bench. In February 2020 he was transferred out to the UPL team of

Desna Chernihiv Football Club Desna Chernihiv () is a Ukrainian football club based in Chernihiv. The original name of the club was "Avanhard" (FC Avanhard Chernihiv) during its first year of existence as part of a republican Avanhard sports society. Between ...

, but was listed as a third goalie and did not get much of playtime partially due to injury. After a season he was loaned to the second tier VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka playing in central Ukrainian city of

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. In VPK-Ahro Karavashchenko was struggling to make to a senior squad as well. On 5 October 2021 VPK-Ahro released the player back to Desna.

FSC Mariupol

Due to the full-scale

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in 2022, he transferred to

FSC Mariupol FSC Mariupol () is a Ukrainian professional association football, football club based in the city of Mariupol. The team currently plays in the Ukrainian First League. The club currently plays its home games near Kyiv in Demydiv (Dinaz Stadium, ...

which has relocated to

Boryspil Boryspil (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Boryspil Raion in Kyiv Oblast (region) in northern and central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Boryspil urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population was estimate ...

and was admitted to the second tier (

Persha Liha The Persha Liha ( ) or Ukrainian First League is a Ukrainian football league system, level of national football competitions (second tier) in Ukraine governed by the Professional Football League of Ukraine, Professional Football League at the disc ...

). In his first year for Mariupol's team Karavashchenko was a reserve goalkeeper mostly spending his time on the bench in 10 out of the 22 season's matches. He finally made his debut at professional level on 26 May 2023 in away match against Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni which Mariupol lost 0:1. The next 2023–24 season became a real breakthrough for Karavashchenko who started out in all 18 matches of the first half for Mariupol and recorded 8 clean sheets. Mariupol, which was struggling in previous year, qualified for the Championship group with only 3 matches lost. Mariupol also improved in national cup competitions eliminating

Kolos Kovalivka FC Kolos Kovalivka () is a professional Ukrainian football club from the village of Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast which competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having been promoted from the Ukrainian First League on the 8 June 2019 for the first time ...

in penalty shootout on efforts of Karavashchenko and reaching round of 16 for the first time.

Livyi Bereh Kyiv

In January 2025, he signed for Livyi Bereh Kyiv in

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 ...

Kudrivka

On 30 July 2025 he signed a contract with Kudrivka just promoted to

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

Illya Karavashchenko
ua.tribuna.com. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karavashchenko, Illya 2001 births Living people People from Lutuhyne Footballers from Luhansk Oblast Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers FC Desna Chernihiv players FC Desna-2 Chernihiv players FC VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka players FSC Mariupol players FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv players FC Kudrivka players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Premier League players