Myron Bohdanovych Markevych ( uk, Мирон Богданович Маркевич; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former

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. He worked as a manager in the

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and the

Ukrainian national football team The Ukraine national football team ( uk, Збірна України з футболу) represents Ukraine in men's international football and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. U ...

. He holds the record for coaching the most matches (500 as on August 15, 2011) in the Ukrainian Premier League.Information on Official Metalist Kharkiv website

Career

Playing

He played as a

for

FC Karpaty Lviv Football Club Karpaty Lviv ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Lviv. History Early years (1963–68) The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January, 1963. In 1961 Silmash Lviv won the championship of Lviv Oblast but lost its p ...

(reserves), SCA Lviv, FC Spartak Ordzhinikidze, and FC Torpedo Lutsk.

Coaching

He graduated from the Institute of Physical Education (

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) and the Supreme school of coaches in

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in 1983. He has managed a number of teams, devoting most of his career to Karpaty Lviv and

Metalist Kharkiv Football Club Metalist Kharkiv ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб Металі́ст Ха́рків ) is a Ukrainian football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2021–22 season. It was revived 5 years ...

. He last served as manager of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Markevych was appointed head coach of Ukraine's national football team in early February 2010, but left six months later,Markevich leaves Ukraine helm
,

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(August 25, 2010) submitting his resignation to the

Football Federation of Ukraine The Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) ( uk, Українська асоціяція футболу, Ukrayins'ka Asotsiyatsiya Futbolu) is the governing body of football in Ukraine. Before 2019 it was known as the Football Federation of Ukr ...

(FFU) by fax on 21 August 2010. Initially, the legal department of FFU stated that such a document could only be submitted in its original form and the fax copy could not be accepted. Ultimately, the FFU accepted his resignation and appointed Yuriy Kalitvintsev as caretaker manager.

Personal information

Markevych is of Polish descent by maternal grandfather.Мирон Маркевич: "І тут іде до мене чорт і простягає різку"
/ref> He is fluent in

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and

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. He is married and is the father of two sons, Ostap Markevych and Yuriy Markevych.

Career record

Honours

Manager

Club

;Karpaty Lviv *

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

runners-up (2): 1993, 1999 *

3rd place: 1998 ;Metalist Kharkiv *

runners-up: 2013 *

3rd place (6) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 ;Dnipro *

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...

runners-up (1): 2014–15 *

3rd place: 2015

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Markevych, Myron 1951 births Living people People from Vynnyky Lviv State University of Physical Culture alumni Higher School of Coaches alumni Soviet footballers Association football midfielders Ukrainian people of Polish descent FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players FC Volyn Lutsk players Soviet Second League players Soviet football managers Ukrainian football managers FC Volyn Lutsk managers FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi managers FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih managers FC Karpaty Lviv managers FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia managers FC Anzhi Makhachkala managers FC Metalist Kharkiv managers Ukraine national football team managers FC Dnipro managers Soviet Second League managers Ukrainian Premier League managers Russian Premier League managers Ukrainian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Russia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Football Federation of Ukraine officials