Mykyta Tkachov (born August 15, 1993) is a Ukrainian

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who plays with Toronto Falcons in the

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Career

Ukraine

Tkachov began playing at the academy level in 2010 with

FC Helios Kharkiv FC Helios Kharkiv (FC Gelios) is a Ukrainian association football, football club located in Kharkiv, Ukraine. From 2003 to 2018 the club competed at professional level. In 2018 it was expected to be succeeded by FC Kobra Kharkiv, but unsuccessfu ...

academy team. In 2012, he signed with FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih in the

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but failed to make an appearance for the senior team. The following season he played 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 ...

with

PFC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk Shakhtar Sverdlovsk () was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Luhansk oblast's Sverdlovsk city (Dovzhansk). The club competed in the Ukrainian Second League but was suspended after the 2013–14 amid the Russian aggression against ...

. In his debut season in the third tier, he played in 15 matches and recorded 4 goals. After a season in eastern Ukraine, he continued playing in the third tier in the southern region with Krystal Kherson. In his single season in Kherson, he played in 15 matches and scored 1 goal. For the remainder of the 2014-15 season, he played in the

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with

FC Poltava FC Poltava () was a Ukrainian association football, football club based in Poltava in 2007–2018. History The club was created by the newly elected mayor of the Poltava city Andriy Matkovsky (2006–2010) who was the club's Honorary President ...

. In 2015, he returned to the third-tier league to secure a contract with Veres Rivne. He would serve as the team captain and assist the club in securing promotion to the second tier. In total, he played in 11 matches for Veres. He initially remained with Veres during the club's preseason camp in preparation for the 2016-17 season but ultimately departed to seek other playing options. The next season he returned to the second tier to play with Inhulets Petrove. In his return season to the second division, he appeared in 19 matches and scored 1 goal.

Canada

He played abroad in the winter of 2017 in the Canadian-based Arena Premier League with Ukraine AC at the indoor level. In 2020, he signed a two-year contract with

FC Vorkuta FC Continentals is a Canadian soccer club founded in 2008. The team is currently a member of the Canadian Soccer League, a non-FIFA international football, non-FIFA sanctioned league. The club originally played under the name FC Vorkuta and wa ...

in the

. In his debut season in the southern Ontario circuit, he assisted Vorkuta in securing the

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against

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. The following season he helped the club win their third regular season title. Vorkuta would also go on to claim the ProSound Cup against Scarborough in a penalty shootout. He also made his second championship final appearance throughout the 2021 season where Vorkuta was defeated by Scarborough. In 2022, Vorkuta was renamed FC Continentals and he re-signed with the club for the season. Throughout the 2022 season, he helped the Continentals to secure a playoff berth by finishing fourth in the standings. Tkachov made his third consecutive championship final appearance against Scarborough once more where he won his second championship title. After the hiatus of FC Continentals for the 2023 season, he joined league rivals Toronto Falcons. Tkachov would help the Falcons finish third in the standings.

Honors

FC Vorkuta *

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Regular Season:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tkachov, Mykyta 1993 births Living people Men's association football defenders Ukrainian men's footballers PFC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk players FC Krystal Kherson players FC Poltava players NK Veres Rivne players FC Inhulets Petrove players FC Inhulets-2 Petrove players Toronto Atomic FC players FC Continentals players Toronto Falcons (2022–present) players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian First League players Canadian Soccer League (1998–present) players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Canada