Mykhaylo Hryhorovych Sokolovskyi (; born 15 November 1951) is a Ukrainian professional

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coach and a former player. Currently, he works as a scout for

FC Metalurh Donetsk Football Club Metalurh Donetsk (, ) was a Ukrainian professional football club based in Donetsk that went bankrupt in July 2015. History Club predecessor Football came to the Donetsk region in the time of the Russian Empire when the industr ...

. For the big number of games played for

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 ...

he received the Club Loyalty Award in 1987. He was the most titled player of

during the

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, and he is considered to be one of the most legendary players in the history of the club.

Personal life

His son Denys Sokolovskyi was also a professional footballer.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

runner-up: 1975, 1979. * Soviet Top League bronze: 1978. *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...

winner: 1980, 1983. * Soviet Cup finalist: 1986.

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Career summary by KLISF
1951 births Living people People from Sloviansk Soviet men's footballers Ukrainian men's footballers Soviet Top League players FC Kramatorsk players SKA Kiev players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Krystal Kherson players Ukrainian football managers FC Shakhtar Donetsk non-playing staff FC Metalurh Donetsk managers Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Donetsk Oblast 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{USSR-footy-midfielder-stub