Ivan Ponomarenko ( uk, Іван Володимирович Пономаренко; born 10 May 1998) is a

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professional

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who plays as

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for

Bukovyna Chernivtsi Football Sports Club Bukovyna Chernivtsi is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Chernivtsi. History The club was established in 1958 as Avanhard Chernivtsi (Avangard Chernovtsy) for republican competitions and became the first club f ...

Career

Born in

Saky Raion Saky Raion ( uk, Сакський район, russian: Сакский район, crh, Saq rayonı) is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorpora ...

, Ponomarenko is a product of the DVUFK and FC Dnipro youth academy systems from

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

. Ponomarenko made his debut at professional level in 2017 when Dnipro was in crisis and relegated to the Ukrainian Second League (tier 3) due to administrative sanctions from FFU (later UAF), pressured by

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due to the club's financial obligations. Next season he moved to his native

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

and participated in the local tier-2 competitions for reserves of Krymteplytsia as well as a village team Uyutne. Because of that fact, in 2023 a public scandal took place when it was announced that

Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ( uk, ФК «Во́рскла» Полта́ва ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top flight of Ukrainian football. History Kolos Poltava The club ...

signed him.ВІДЕО. Новачок Ворскли грав за клуби в окупованому Криму
/ref> It also became known that to justify his playing statistics in football competitions on the territory of Crimea in 2019, Ponomarenko made a following comment to the FC Lviv press service: In 2020 Ponomarenko played in the

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. He spent a season in the

2020 Tajikistan Higher League The 2020 Ligai Olii Tojikiston (''Tajik: 2020 Лигаи Олии Тоҷикистон''), ( fa, لیگ عالی تاجیکستان ۲۰۲۰), or 2020 Tajikistan Higher League is the 29th season of Ligai Olii Tojikiston, Tajikistan's top division ...

playing for

CSKA Pamir Dushanbe CSKA Pamir Dushanbe ( tg, Клуби футболи ЦСКА-Помир Душанбе, Klubi Futboli CSKA Pomir Dushanbe; fa, زسکا پامیر دوشنبه) is a professional football club based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan that currently plays in ...

. During the 2020–21 winter break transfer window, he signed with Bukovyna which played in the

2020–21 Ukrainian Second League The 2020–21 Ukrainian Second League is the 30th since its establishment. The football competitions in the Second League kicked off on 6 September 2020, about half a month after promotion/relegation playoffs. The planned 12th week of the season t ...

(tier 3). In December 2021 he signed with

FC Lviv FC Lviv ( uk, ФК «Львів», pl, FK Lwów) is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Lviv, that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League. While the first president of FC Lviv Oleksandr Didenko insisted that FC Lviv of 1 ...

in the Ukrainian Premier League. His contract was termed for 2.5 years. Ponomarenko made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League on 25 September 2022 in an away match against

FC Mynai FC Mynai or FC Minaj ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Минай», Futbolnyi klub Mynai) is a Ukrainian football club from Mynai, a suburb of Uzhhorod in the Zakarpattia Oblast. The club currently competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, d ...

which FC Lviv won 1:0 while due to ejection were playing a man down during the course of the game. After a little bit more than a year, in February of 2023 he was transferred to

. In July of 2023 he returned to Bukovyna.Іван Пономаренко повернувся у «Буковину»
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* * 1998 births Living people People from Saky Raion Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers FC Dnipro players FC Krymteplytsia Molodizhne players CSKA Pamir Dushanbe players FSC Bukovyna Chernivtsi players FC Lviv players FC Vorskla Poltava players Ukrainian Premier League players Tajikistan Higher League players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Tajikistan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Tajikistan {{Use dmy dates, date=December 2021