Serhiy Mykolayovych Nahornyak (; born 5 September 1971) is a Ukrainian professional

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coach and former player.

Club career

Nahornyak started his career at local amateur but well established football club Intehral playing at regional level. He made his debut at professional level in April 1993 in the

Ukrainian First League The Persha Liha ( ) or Ukrainian First League is a Ukrainian football league system, level of national football competitions (second tier) in Ukraine governed by the Professional Football League of Ukraine, Professional Football League at the disc ...

for

FC 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 ...

playing against

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. In the

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Nahornyak debuted for

FC Nyva Vinnytsia FC Nyva Vinnytsia is a Ukrainian professional association football, football club based in the city of Vinnytsia. The name "Nyva" translates to "grain field". The club was originally created in 1958 in the Soviet Union and folded in 2005 and 201 ...

on 8 August 1993 against

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. In 1995 another Podolianyn

Vyacheslav Hrozny Vyacheslav Viktorovych Hrozny (; born 12 July 1956) is a Ukrainian football player and manager. Career He is a holder of the 1980 KFK Cup of the Ukrainian SSR as a player of FC Nyva Ternopil when it used to play in Pidhaitsi. Hrozny is a gra ...

invited him to

FC Spartak Moscow FC Spartak Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet Top League, Soviet championships (second only to FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv) and 10 Russian Premier League, Russian champ ...

, but Nahornyak struggled to stay in the first squad and later after dismissal of Hrozny from Spartak joined

FC 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 ...

, with which reached the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final yielding the main trophy on penalties to

FC 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 ...

. He played a game in the

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for

in a 2:2 tie against

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. Later Nahornyak also represented

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 ...

and

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recording 5 games in total for this continental cup.

Honours

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

champion: 1996. * Russian Cup finalist: 1996. *

runner-up: 1999. * Ukrainian Premier League bronze: 1996, 1998. *

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( ) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003–04 season, the Cup winner qu ...

finalist: 1997, 2006.

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* 1971 births Living people Footballers from Vinnytsia Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards FC Vorskla Poltava players FC Nyva Vinnytsia players FC Polissya Zhytomyr players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Dnipro players FC Metalurh Novomoskovsk players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players Guangzhou City F.C. players Shandong Taishan F.C. players FC Arsenal Kyiv players Jiangsu F.C. players FC Volyn Lutsk players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players FC Lokomotyv Kyiv players FC Irpin Horenychi players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship players Chinese Super League players China League One players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in China Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Ukrainian football managers FC Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi managers Ukrainian First League managers Doping cases in association football Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-forward-1970s-stub