Illia Shkuryn (; , ''Ilya Shkurin''; born 17 August 1999) is a Belarusian professional

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who plays as a

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for

Ekstraklasa (; meaning "Extra Class" in Polish), officially known as PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa due to its Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is a professional association football league in Poland and the highest level of the Polish foo ...

club

Legia Warsaw Legia Warszawa (), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning a record 15 champions titles, a record 2 ...

Club career

In the 2019 season, he became the top scorer of the

Belarusian Premier League The Belarusian Premier League (, ''Vyšejšaja Liha'' or ''Vysheyshaya Liga''; ; "Top League"), also called the BETERA Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Belarus and the highest level of the B ...

with 19 goals scored. On 8 January 2020, Shkuryn was transferred to

FC Dynamo Brest FC Dynamo Brest (, ''FK Dynama Brest''; ) is a Belarusian professional football club based in Brest. The club plays in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football. In 2019, Dynamo won its first Belarusian Premier L ...

, and the next day he was re-sold by Dynamo to the

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club

PFC CSKA Moscow Professional Football Club CSKA (, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English language, English: ''Central Sports Club of the Army''), commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow or ''CSK ...

. He signed a 4,5-year contract with CSKA. Shkuryn was handed the number 99 shirt until the end of the 2019–20 season, due to

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rules stipulating he couldn't use the number 11 as it had previously been used by

Lucas Santos Lucas Santos da Silva, known as Lucas Santos or Lucas Silva (born 7 March 1999) is a Brazilian soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Bahia de Feira. Club career He made his professional debut in the Campeonato Car ...

that season. On 9 July 2021, he joined

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on a season-long loan. On 27 February 2022, he was loaned to Polish

side

Raków Częstochowa Robotniczy Klub Sportowy Raków Częstochowa Spółka Akcyjna (commonly referred to as Raków Częstochowa, or simply Raków) is a Polish professional football club, based in Częstochowa, that competes in the Ekstraklasa, the top tier of natio ...

until the end of the year. On 5 September 2022, Shkuryn's loan spell with Raków Częstochowa was terminated, and he suspended his contract with CSKA Moscow for the 2022–23 season, having taken advantage of the

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ruling relating to the

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. On the same day, he joined Maccabi Petah Tikva in Israel for the 2022–23 season. On 5 July 2023, Shkuryn returned to Poland to join

Stal Mielec FKS Stal Mielec, commonly known as Stal Mielec (), is a Polish professional football club based in Mielec. The team competes in the I liga, the second level of the Polish football league system. The club was established on 10 April 1939. Histori ...

until the end of the season. On 8 January 2024, Shkuryn signed a one-year deal with Stal, with an option for another year, and joined them permanently on 1 July once his contract with CSKA expired. On 20 February 2025, Shkuryn joined fellow Ekstraklasa club

on a three-year contract for a reported fee of €1.5 million.

International career

Amid the 2020 Belarusian protests, Shkuryn refused to play for the national team until the resignation of president

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...

Career statistics

Honours

Legia Warsaw *

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: 2024–25 Individual *

top goalscorer:

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Player of the Month: November 2023 * Polish Union of Footballers' Ekstraklasa Team of the Season: 2023–24

References

External links

* *
Profile at FC Vitebsk website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shkuryn, Illia 1999 births Living people Footballers from Vitebsk Belarusian men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Vitebsk players FC Energetik-BGU Minsk players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Dynamo Kyiv players Raków Częstochowa players Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players Stal Mielec players Legia Warsaw players Belarusian Premier League players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Ekstraklasa players Liga Leumit players Belarusian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Israel 21st-century Belarusian sportsmen