Serhiy Saveliyovych Onopko (; born 26 October 1973) is a Ukrainian retired professional
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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.
Club career
During his career Onopko played for
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 ...
,
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv ( ), also known as Nikolaev ( ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and a hromada (municipality) in southern Ukraine. Mykolaiv is the Administrative centre, administrative center of Mykolaiv Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) and Myk ...
,
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 ...
,
Inter Baku,
Dnipro Cherkasy and
Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih.
Personal life
He is a younger brother of
Viktor Onopko
Viktor Savelyevich Onopko (; born 14 October 1969) is a former Russian Association football, football Defender (association football), defender. He is the assistant manager of both FC Rostov in the Russian Premier League and the Russia national ...
.
Honours
Shakhtar Donetsk
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Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League ( ) or UPL is a professional association football league in Ukraine and the highest level of the Ukrainian football league system.
Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in ...
runner-up:
1993–94,
1996–97,
1997–98
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Ukrainian Cup
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:
1994–95,
1996–97
External links
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Serhiy Onopko: Nobody was inviting my brother to the Ukrainian national team, yet to the Russian they called right away'. UA-Football. 27 December 2007
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1973 births
Living people
Footballers from Luhansk
Soviet men's footballers
Ukrainian men's footballers
Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers
FC Shakhtar Donetsk players
FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players
Soviet Top League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Ukrainian Second League players
MFC Mykolaiv players
FC Vorskla Poltava players
FC Vorskla-2 Poltava players
Shamakhi FK players
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan
FC Dnipro Cherkasy players
FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih players
Men's association football midfielders
20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen
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