Daryna Apanashchenko ( uk, Дарина Олександрівна Апанащенко; born 16 May 1986) is a

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, who plays as a striker for Ankara BB Fomget GSK and the

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. For 14 years she played in Russia for

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teams

Energiya Voronezh FC Energy Voronezh (Russian: «Энергия» Воронеж) was a women's football club from Voronezh, Russia. The club holds the most championships in Russian, having 5 championships to its name. In 1994 the team won the vice championship be ...

Ryazan VDV Ryazan-VDV (Рязань-ВДВ) is a Russian women's football team from Ryazan. History Founded in 1996, it won two league titles and one cup in the last years of the twentieth century. Ryazan-VDV was the first team to represent Russia in the U ...

, and Zvezda Perm.

Club career

Apanashchenko started her career at the capital team Kyivska Rus when she was 15 years old in 2001.Nikolai Kizilov.
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'. Sport.ua (Komanda magazine). 2 September 2010 In a 2010 interview Apanashchenko stated that women's football was completely ignored in Ukraine at that time. In the

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semi-final second leg at

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she scored two goals that sealed Zvezda's surprising qualification for the final. She also scored Zvezda's only goal in the two-legged

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. In March 2022, she moved to Turkey and joined

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-based club Fomget FSK to play in the second half of the 2021-22 Women's Super League. She scored three goals in ten league matches of the 2021-22 season.

International career

Apanashchenko won her first

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for the Ukraine national team on 12 May 2002, as an 88th-minute substitute in a 1–1

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draw with

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. She scored three goals in the

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for

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, including winners against

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and

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, and contributed further to Ukraine's qualification for the tournament scoring three more goals in the play-off against

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. In the final tournament she scored again against Denmark, but that time it was not enough to win the match. In 2013 she was appointed national team

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. By June 2019 Apanashchenko had amassed over 100 international appearances and more than 50 goals. In April 2021, she scored in Ukraine's

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tie against

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– her 61st goal in her 122nd appearance – but Ukraine were beaten 4–1 on aggregate.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.''

Honours

;Lehenda Chernihiv *

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(2) 2001, 2002 * Women's Cup (2) 2001, 2002 ;Zvezda Perm * Russian Women's Leagues (3) 2014, 2015, 2017 *

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(4)

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, 2013, 2015, 2016, ;Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv *

(4)

(1) 2018 Individual * Russian Women's Leagues Top Scorer (3)

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, 2014, 2015 * Ukrainian Woman Footballer of the Year: (6) 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 *

Footballer of the Year: 2018

References

External links

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