Sergei Aleksandrovich Kornilenko (; ; born 14 June 1983) is a

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

ian professional

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coach and a former player who played as a striker. In

, both

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and

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s are official. Thus his name, usually transliterated as Sergei Kornilenko (), can be alternatively spelled as Syarhey Karnilenka ().

Career

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (, ; , ; ) is a city in northern Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Vitebsk Region and Vitebsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. As of 2025, it has 358,927 inhabitants, m ...

-born Kornilenko began his career in his native Belarus as a trainee with

FC Dinamo Minsk FC Dinamo Minsk or FK Dynama Minsk (; ) is a Belarusian professional Association football, football club based in the capital city of Minsk. It was founded in 1927 as part of the Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dinamo Sports Society, and was the o ...

before joining his hometown club. After an unsuccessful half a season with Vitebsk he returned to Minsk, where he spent three seasons before moving to Ukraine with

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and

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro (, ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club played its last season in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur League. The club was owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi. In 2018, FC Dnipro was forced i ...

. In 2008, he moved to the

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with

FC Tom Tomsk FC Tom Tomsk () was a Russian professional football club, based in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The team played in Trud Stadium (Tomsk) before being dissolved in 2022. History The team was previously named ''Burevestnik'' (1957), ''Tomich'' (19 ...

, with whom he enjoyed a successful first season. On 19 July 2009

FC Zenit Football Club Zenit (, ), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, according to some Russian sources), the club p ...

signed the striker until December 2013. The Russian club had needed a new striker after a serious injury to

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and after transfer listing

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. On 9 March 2010 Kornilenko was loaned back to Tom Tomsk for the remainder of the 2009–10 season. He returned to Zenit in the summer of 2010 but was loaned out again, this time to

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, until January 2011. On 31 January 2011, Kornilenko signed on loan for English Premier League club

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, turning down a move to

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in the process. In June 2011, he signed a contract with

club

Krylia Sovetov Samara PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara () is a Russian professional football club based in Samara that plays in the Russian Premier League. In 2004, they finished third in the Russian Premier League. History Krylia Sovetov was founded in Kuybyshev (now Sama ...

. He announced his retirement on 10 July 2019. On 17 February 2021, Krylia Sovetov announced that he will be registered as a club player again to play a farewell game at the home field. He scored the last goal of a 6–0 victory over

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on 8 May 2021, one minute after appearing as a substitute in the 83rd minute. Krylia Sovetov had secured their return to the

two games prior to that one.

International career

Kornilenko has been a regular member of the

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, earning his first cap in 2004. On 8 September 2015, Kornilenko captained his side in the absence of suspended

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in the 2:0 win over

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in a Euro 2016 qualifier. In the summer of 2012 he was selected as one of the over aged players to represent Belarus at the

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in London to participate in the Men's football tournament.

International goals

Personal life

Kornilenko is married and has a daughter.Interview with Presball.by
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Honours

Dinamo Minsk *

Belarusian Cup The Belarusian Cup () is an annual association football knock-out cup competition for men's football clubs of Belarus, organized by the Football Federation of Belarus. Belarusian Cup was established in 1992. Each year the winning team qualifies f ...

winner: 2002–03 *

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 ...

top scorer:

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Dynamo Kyiv *

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champion: 2003–04 *

Ukrainian Super Cup The Ukrainian Super Cup () is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football (soccer), football competition season in Ukraine. Originally it was s ...

winner:

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Zenit St. Petersburg * Russian Cup: 2009–10 Krylia Sovetov *

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winner: 2014–15, 2020-21

References

External links

Profile at the official FC Zenit St. Petersburg website
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kornilenko, Sergei 1983 births Living people Footballers from Vitebsk Belarusian men's footballers Belarusian expatriate men's footballers Belarus men's youth international footballers Belarus men's under-21 international footballers 21st-century Belarusian sportsmen Belarus men's international footballers FC Vitebsk players Belarusian Premier League players FC Dnipro players FC Dinamo Minsk players FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv players FC Tom Tomsk players FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Premier League players Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in England FC Rubin Kazan players Blackpool F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in England PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players Olympic footballers for Belarus Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Belarusian people of Ukrainian descent FC Lokomotiv Vitebsk (1986) players FC Dinamo-Juni Minsk players Men's association football forwards