Aleksei Borisovich Yeryomenko (russian: Алексей Борисович Ерёменко; born 17 January 1964), also known as Alexei Eremenko Sr. is a Russian professional

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manager and a former player who also holds Finnish citizenship. He is the manager of Estonian club

JK Trans Narva JK Narva Trans, commonly known as Narva Trans or just Trans, are a professional Estonian association football club based in Narva that compete in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Narva Kreenholm St ...

Playing career

Yeryomenko made his debut in the

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in 1981 for

FC SKA Rostov-on-Don FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (russian: ФК СКА Ростов-на-Дону) is a Russian association football club based in Rostov-on-Don. The club's history includes becoming runners-up of the Soviet Top League in 1966 and winning the Soviet Cup in 1 ...

Managerial career

Yeryomenko was the manager of the Finnish club

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between August 2009 and June 2016. On 4 August 2016, Yeryomenko was appointed as manager of

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side Shakhter Karagandy, being fired on 29 May 2017. On 8 August 2017, Yeryomenko signed a one-year contract with Armenian side

FC Pyunik Football Club Pyunik Yerevan ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Փյունիկ Երևան, Futbolayin Akumb P’yunik Yerevan), commonly known as Pyunik ("Phoenix (mythology), Phoenix"), is an Armenian professional sports club based in the ...

, but left the club on 31 October 2017. On 22 May 2018, SJK announced that Yeryomenko had replaced

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as their manager after their poor start to the season. On 11 February 2020, FK Spartaks announced that Yeryomenko had been signed as their new manager.

Personal life

He is the father and agent of

Alexei Eremenko Alexei Eremenko (born Aleksei Alekseyevich Yeryomenko; russian: Алексей Алексеевич Ерёменко; born 24 March 1983) is a former professional footballer. He is from a footballing family, with his father, Alexei Eremenko Sr. ...

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and

Sergei Eremenko Sergei Eremenko (russian: Сергей Алексеевич Ерёменко; born 6 January 1999) is a Finnish football player who plays for HIFK. Club career Eremenko made his professional debut in the Veikkausliiga for FF Jaro on 6 July 2014 ...

European club competition appearances

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with

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: 6 games. *

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with

: 4 games. *

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with HJK. *

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with HJK. * UEFA Cup 2001-02 with HJK. *

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with HJK.

References

1964 births People from Novocherkassk Living people Soviet men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Russian men's footballers Russian football managers FF Jaro managers Russian people of Ukrainian descent FC Rostov players FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Torpedo Moscow players FC Dynamo Moscow players FF Jaro players Athinaikos F.C. players Tromsø IL players Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players Soviet Top League players Russian Premier League players Veikkausliiga players Eliteserien players Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Finland Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Finnish people of Russian descent Russian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Kazakhstan FC Shakhter Karagandy managers Expatriate football managers in Armenia FC Pyunik managers JK Narva Trans managers Soviet emigrants to Finland Jakobstads BK players Oulun Luistinseura players Expatriate football managers in Latvia Naturalized citizens of Finland Russian-speaking Finns Footballers from Rostov Oblast Expatriate football managers in Estonia {{Russia-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub