Maksym Valeriyovych Solovyov (; born 22 February 2002) is a Ukrainian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

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for Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk.

Career

Born in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

, Solovyov is a product of the local

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 also

Dnipro Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

academies and in August 2019 he signed a contract with Ukrainian side Dnipro-1 and played for its in the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and Under 19 Championship. Starting from July 2021, he played on loan first as a main choice midfielder of Nikopol in the

Ukrainian Second League The Ukrainian Second League (, ''Druha Liha'') is a professional football league in Ukraine which is part of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, a collective member of the Ukrainian Association of Football. As the third tier it was establ ...

, and later in Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk in the

Ukrainian First League 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 ...

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* 2002 births Living people Footballers from Kharkiv Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's youth international footballers 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen Men's association football midfielders SC Dnipro-1 players FC Nikopol players FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk (1998) players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-stub