Serhiy Serhiyovych Kravchenko (; born 24 April 1983) is a Ukrainian retired professional football

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and current coach.

Career

Kravchenko began his career in the

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 ...

reserves and youth team in 2002.

Qarabağ

For the 2005–06 season, where he played for

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in the

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. His club finished fifth at the end of the season.

Vorskla Poltava

Kravchenko moved to

Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava. The team set to compete in Ukrainian First League, the second tier of Football in Ukraine, Ukrainian football after relegation from Ukrainian Premier League in ...

in March 2006. There, when new coach

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 * ...

arrived in 2007, Kravchenko began to shine exceptionally. In the 2007–08 season, the team finished 8th in the

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, which was its best result since the 1999–2000 season. In the first half of the 2008–09 season, Vorksla made it the semifinals of the

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which was their highest result in that competition ever. The team was also 4th in the league table. Kravchenko contributed scored 4 goals in 17 matches as well as several assists during this part of the season.

Dynamo Kyiv

On 28 July 2008, he officially signed with Ukrainian giants

Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...

, but there is still questions when he will join them in the summer or in the winter when he becomes a free agent. Kravchenko will be entirely owned by the club on 28 January 2009, as reported by the Dynamo Kyiv official website.

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

On 23 December 2009 Kravchenko was sold to Dnipro for an undisclosed fee.

Volyn Lustk

On 6 July 2014 after his contract ran up with

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 ...

, free agent Serhiy Kravchenko made a transfer to

club

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International

Kravchenko has been a regular for the

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with head coach Oleksiy Mykhailychenko since teammate

Oleh Husiev Oleh Anatoliiovych Husiev (; born 25 April 1983) is a retired Ukrainian football midfielder who played for FC Dynamo Kyiv. He mainly played as a right midfielder or a right-back. He made over 250 Ukrainian Premier League appearances for Dyn ...

got injured. He was called with four other newcomers. He made the most of it when he scored the winning goal in a friendly against Poland.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.''

Personal life

Kravchenko is married to Tetiana. His father is Ukrainian football player and football coach Serhiy Kravchenko. His older brother is Ukrainian racecar driver – Andriy Kravchenko. He greatly admires French star

Zinedine Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; ; ''Zineddin Lyazid Zidan''; ; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who played as an attacking midfi ...

.Serhiy Kravchenko: "In Poltava they said that I wasn't Ukrainian".
– Interview of Kravchenko and his wife at their new Kyiv home, Guru.ua

Honors

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European footb ...

runner-up (1) 2014–15

References

External links

Kravchenko's Profile on the Dynamo Kyiv website
* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kravchenko, Serhiy 1983 births Living people Footballers from Donetsk Ukrainian men's footballers FC Vorskla Poltava players Ukraine men's international footballers FC Shakhtar Luhansk players FC Monolit Kostiantynivka players FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk players FC Dynamo Kyiv players Qarabağ FK players FC Dnipro players FC Volyn Lutsk players SC Dnipro-1 players FC Chornomorets Odesa players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship players Men's association football midfielders Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan FC Oleksandriya non-playing staff FC Polissya Zhytomyr non-playing staff Ukrainian football managers