Serhiy Heorhiyovych Diryavka (; born 18 April 1971) is a Ukrainian professional soccer coach and a former player.

Club career

Diryavka is a product of the Dnipro city football schools including regional sports college as well as

FC Dnipro 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 ...

football school "Dnipro-75". He joined the senior squad in 1988 and played for its reserve squad for three seasons in 1989–1991. His first games for the senior squad he played in the

1990–91 Soviet Cup The 1990–91 Soviet Cup was cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition CSKA Moscow qualified for the continental tournament. Teams from Lithuania and Georgia withdrew from all of the Soviet competitions. Political backgro ...

in home and away games against

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. The same season he also participated in the

1990 USSR Federation Cup The 1990 USSR Federation Cup was the fifth and the last edition of the USSR Federation Cup and was officially known as ''Cup of the USSR Football Union''. It was brief and took place between 28 May through 6 July. Its final was played at the Black ...

group staged and featured in 4 games for Dnipro. His debut at the

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came about in

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in the game against

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on 5 August 1991. Diryavka managed to play 7 games in Top League for that season which ended up the last one in the

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. He also played a game in the

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against

FC Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv, also known as Football Club Metalist Kharkov or FC Metalist Kharkov ( ), is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2023– ...

. In the Ukrainian national competitions Diryavka debuted in the

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in a home/away playoff against

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on 2 March 1992. Few days later on 7 March 1992 he played his first game at the Ukrainian Top League against FC Zorya-MALS Luhansk. Next season

1992–93 Vyshcha Liha The 1992–93 Vyshcha Liha season was the second since its establishment. Tavriya Simferopol were the defending champions, having won their 1st national league title in history. A total of sixteen teams participated in the competition, fourteen ...

, Diryavka played as a captain for

and managed to score twice scoring his debuting goal Zorya Luhansk. That season the club was also the main contender for the championship title and tying with

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on points for the first, but yielding the title based on additional tiebreaker rules. Diryavka also played at clubs' international level, particularly the

1993–94 UEFA Cup The 1993–94 UEFA Cup was the 23rd season of Europe's then-tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at the Ernst-Happel Stadion, Vienna, Austria, and at San Siro, Milan, Italy. The competition wa ...

debuting for

in the game against FC Admira Wacker Wien. In 1995

made it to the 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final where Diryavka scored against

during post-game penalty shoot-out. He stayed with Dnipro until 1995 before joined the newly created FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv. He had a very good start for his new club scoring twice in his first three games. CSKA-Borysfen finished 4th that season. After the season Diryavka returned to Dnipro, but after only three games he was loaned out to FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. While playing for Dnipro in 1996 he also on a loan played a game for the Dnipro's farm team FC Metalurh Novomoskovsk. In 1997 Diryavka joined Kryvbas as a free agent. Before the 1998–99 Vyshcha Liha season he joined the newly promoted FC Metalurh Mariupol with which stayed until his retirement in 2004.

International career

On 28 October 1992, Diryavka made his debut for the national team in the friendly match against

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zbirna.com but was substituted on 29th minute with Yuriy Sak.

Coaching career

Diryavka started his coaching career in 2006 as an assistant to

Mykola Pavlov Mykola Petrovych Pavlov () ( born 20 June 1954) is a Ukrainian former football defender and manager. He is Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1983) and Merited Coach of Ukraine. Education * Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Physical Culture * ...

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. Later that year he appointed a manager in

FC Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk FC Stal Kamianske () was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. After being relegated to the Ukrainian First League after the 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League season, the club re-registered ...

that played in the

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. He managed to keep the club's mid-table position in the league and reached quarter-finals in the 2006–07 Ukrainian Cup setting the club's record in that competition. After a season in Dniprodzerzhynsk (today

Kamianske Kamianske (, ; ), previously known as Dniprodzerzhynsk from 1936 to 2016, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion and Kamianske ...

), Diryavka again joined the Pavlov's coaching staff first in

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and later Illichivets Mariupol. After the Pavlov's retirement in 2015, Diryavka managed a club in the

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in simultaneously southern, eastern and central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. It was created on February 27, 1932. Dnipropetro ...

competitions. In 2016 he joined the coaching staff of Dmytro Mykhailenko in

that was threatened by FIFA with sanctions. Due to the sanctions along with Mykhailenko he moved to

SC Dnipro-1 SC Dnipro-1 () was a professional Ukrainian football club from Dnipro. While not officially a successor of FC Dnipro, SC Dnipro-1 took over all of the infrastructure of the former club including its academy. Founded in November 2015, SC Dnipr ...

in 2017. Since 2020 Diryavka continues to serve as an assistant coach for club of Ukrainian lower tiers.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

;Dnipro *

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runner-up: 1992–93 *

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finalist:

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diryavka, Serhiy 1971 births Living people Footballers from Dnipro Soviet men's footballers Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's international footballers FC Mariupol players FC Illichivets-2 Mariupol players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Dnipro players FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv players FC Metalurh Novomoskovsk players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian football managers FC Stal Kamianske managers Men's association football defenders FC Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni managers SC Vilkhivtsi managers