Valeriy Yuriyovych Fedorchuk (; born 5 October 1988) is a retired Ukrainian professional

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who played as a

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Career

Fedorchuk was born in

Netishyn Netishyn ( ; ) is a city in Shepetivka Raion of Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province), in the west of Ukraine. It is located on the Horyn River. Netishyn hosts the administration of Netishyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: N ...

Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast (), also known as Khmelnychchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in western Ukraine covering portions of the historical regions of western Podolia and southern Volhynia. The Capital (political) ...

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. He began his career in the youth side for Svitanok Vinnytsia under head coach Sergey Verich, who scored in his first season 25 goals in the Duflo 71 and in 2005 signed his first professional contract for

FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih () is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kryvyi Rih. Until 2013 the club participated in professional competitions. In June 2013 the club went bankrupt and was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier League. Ther ...

, here earned his first seven professional matches over two years. In January 2007 Fedorchuk left Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih and signed for

FC Lviv FC Lviv () is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv. The history of the club is very controversial and was interrupted on numerous occasions. The first club under such name entered professional competitions back in 199 ...

who played 29 games, two Cup Matches and scored three goals. On 1 March 2010, he joined

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 ...

side

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 ...

for €480,000 transfer fee, but was initially loaned back to Kryvbas. On 4 February 2016, Fedorchuk signed a contract with Ukrainian champions

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 ...

until the end of the 2015–16 season, signing as a free agent after his contract with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk had expired. On 21 August 2020, Fedorchuk signed a contract with Ukrainian club Rukh Lviv as a free agent after his contract with Mariupol had expired. Valeriy announced the end of playing career on 13 March 2023 after 296 total appearances in

International career

On 27 May 2008, he earned his first international match for the

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and presented the team between now in 12 matches and scored one goal.

Personal life

In June 2011, Fedorchuk married broadcaster Olena Kindzerska, daughter of

's President

Yuriy Kindzerskyi Jury, Jurij, Iurii, Iouri, Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy or Yurij is the Slavic (, or , or , or ) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy, Czech Jiří, and Slovak ...

.Валерій Федорчук став зятем президента ФК "Львів" Юрія Кіндзерського
(Ukrainian)

Honors

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk *

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 2014–15 Dynamo Kyiv *

: 2015–16 *

Ukrainian Super Cup The Ukrainian Super Cup () is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football (soccer), football competition season in Ukraine. Originally it was s ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

References

External links

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Profile on Football Squads
1988 births Living people People from Netishyn Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Latvian Higher League players FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi players FC Lviv players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Dnipro players FC Karpaty Lviv players FC Volyn Lutsk players FC Dynamo Kyiv players NK Veres Rivne players FC Mariupol players FC Rukh Lviv players Men's association football midfielders Riga FC players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Footballers from Khmelnytskyi Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub