David Viktorovich Yurchenko ( hy, Դավիթ Յուրչենկո; russian: Давид Викторович Юрченко; born 27 March 1986) is a football

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

. Born in Turkmenistan, Yurchenko represents the

Armenia national football team The Armenia national football team ( hy, Հայաստանի ֆուտբոլի ազգային հավաքական, ''Hayastani futboli azgayin havak'akan'') represents Armenia in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of ...

Career

Club

On 17 June 2017, Yurchenko signed a two-year contract with

FC Tosno FC Tosno (russian: ФК Тосно) was a professional Russian football club based in Tosno. On 6 May 2017, Tosno won promotion to the 2017–18 Russian Premier League for the first time after securing second place in the Russian National Football ...

. He played as Tosno won the

2017–18 Russian Cup The 2017–18 Russian Cup was the 26th season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of Soviet Union. The competition started on 14 July 2017 and finished on 9 May 2018. The winners, FC Tosno, could have earned a spo ...

final against

FC Avangard Kursk FC Avangard Kursk is an association football club based in Kursk, Russia, currently playing in the third tier of Russian football. The team's colors are: home all blue, and away all white. History The club has been known under the following nam ...

on 9 May 2018 in the

Volgograd Arena The Volgograd Arena (russian: «Волгоград Арена») is a association football, football stadium in Volgograd, Russia. The stadium was one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Rotor Volgograd. It has a capacity o ...

. On 18 June 2018, Yurchenko signed with

FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk FK Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (ФК Енисей Красноярск) is a Russian football club based in Krasnoyarsk. The club plays in the Russian First League. History The club was founded in 1937 as ''Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk'' and spent one season i ...

. On 22 January 2020, Yurchenko signed for

Kazakhstan Premier League The Kazakhstan Professional Football League ( kk, Қазақстан Премьер Лигасы, ''Qazaqstan Premer Ligasy''), commonly referred to as Kazakh Premier League or simply Premier League, is the top division of football in Kazakhstan ...

club

Shakhter Karagandy Football Club Shakhter ( kk, "Шахтер" футбол клубы, Shakhter fýtbol klýby), commonly referred to as FC Shakhter Karagandy ( kk, Қарағанды/Qarağandı ;Russian: Караганда/Karaganda), is a professional footbal ...

. On 14 January 2021, Yurchenko signed for

Armenian Premier League The Armenian Premier League ( hy, VBET Հայաստանի Պրեմիեր Լիգա, known as the VBET Armenian Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the top association football, football competition in Armenia. From 1936 to 1991, the compet ...

club Alashkert. On 1 February 2022, Pyunik announced the signing of Yurchenko. On 24 December 2022, Pyunik announced that Yurchenko had left the club.

International career

Yurchenko was born in

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

and raised in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, and is of

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

descent through his mother - he was eligible for all three national teams. He debuted with the

in a 2-1

UEFA Nations League The UEFA Nations League is a biennial international football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA, the sport's European governing body. The first tournament began in September 2018. The ...

loss to

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

on 5 September 2020.

Career statistics

Club

International

''Statistics accurate as of match played on 27 September 2022''

Honours

Club

;Tosno * Russian Cup: 2017–18 ;Alashkert *

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

;Pyunik *

: 2021–22

References

External links

Profile at Krylia Sovetov Samara website
* * 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Ashgabat Armenian footballers Armenia international footballers Turkmenistan footballers Russian footballers Armenian people of Ukrainian descent Armenian people of Russian descent Turkmenistan people of Ukrainian descent Turkmenistan people of Armenian descent Citizens of Armenia through descent Turkmenistan people of Russian descent Russian people of Armenian descent Russian people of Ukrainian descent Association football goalkeepers Turkmenistan expatriate footballers Russian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Latvia Expatriate footballers in Belarus Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan Russian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Russian Premier League players FK Liepājas Metalurgs players FC Dinamo Minsk players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players FC Volgar Astrakhan players FC Mordovia Saransk players FC Ufa players FC Anzhi Makhachkala players FC Tosno players FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players FC Shakhter Karagandy players FC Alashkert players {{Russia-footy-goalkeeper-stub