Serhiy Serhiyovich Shmatovalenko (or Sergei Sergeyevich Shmatovalenko) (; born 20 January 1967) is a retired

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and

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n football player and a current coach.

Honours

1990 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship The 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1988–90), had 30 entrants. San Marino competed for the first time. USSR U-21s won the competition. The 30 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + t ...

winner. *

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...

winner: 1990. *

runner-up: 1988. *

bronze: 1989. *

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...

winner: 1990. *

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 ...

winner: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998. *

runner-up: 1992. *

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winner: 1993, 1996. *

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runner-up: 2000.

International career

Shmatovalenko made his debut for

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on 21 September 1988 in a friendly against

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in which he scored an own goal. Until 1990 Shmatovalenko still was a member of the

Soviet Union national under-21 football team The Soviet national youth football team was the under-21 association football, football team of the Soviet Union. Before 1978 it was known as under-23 team. It ceased to exist on the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, breakup of the Union. Followin ...

for which he capped 11 games. On 26 August 1992 he started to play for

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when he participated in a friendly against

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References

1967 births Living people Footballers from Odesa Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Soviet Union men's under-21 international footballers Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's international footballers Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova Ukrainian football managers Dual internationalists (men's football) FC Chornomorets Odesa players SC Odesa players PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Dynamo Kyiv players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players FC Sheriff Tiraspol players Soviet Top League players Ukrainian Premier League players Russian Premier League players Moldovan Super Liga players Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Men's association football defenders FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv players 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1960s-stub