Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Karavayev (, born 2 June 1992) is a Ukrainian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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and the Ukraine national team.

Club career

Karavayev was born in

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, Ukraine. In 2017, he played for Fenerbahçe SK in the

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on loan from

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. He signed six-month loan deal with the club.

International career

Karavayev was a member of different Ukrainian national football teams. He was a member of the Ukraine U21, called up by

Pavlo Yakovenko Pavlo Oleksandrovych Yakovenko () – or Pavel Aleksandrovich Yakovenko (; born 19 December 1964), is a Ukrainian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented the USSR national team at international level. Playing career Yakov ...

for a friendly match against the

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on 17 November 2010.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Karavayev goal''.

Honours

Club

Sevastopol *

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Zorya Luhansk *

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: runner-up 2015–16 Dynamo Kyiv *

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: 2019–20,

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Individual

top scorer: 2015–16

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* * 1992 births Living people Footballers from Kherson Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Ukraine men's international footballers UEFA Euro 2016 players UEFA Euro 2020 players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk players FC Zorya Luhansk players FC Sevastopol players FC Dynamo Kyiv players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Fenerbahçe S.K. footballers Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-forward-1990s-stub