Rustam Makhmudkulovych Khudzhamov ( uk, Рустам Махмудкулович Худжамов; born 5 October 1982, in

Skvyra Skvyra ( uk, Скви́ра, ; Yiddish: skver, סקווער) is a city in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast (region) of central Ukraine. Skvyra has an area of . It hosts the administration of Skvyra urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. I ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, Soviet Union) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

retired

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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 ...

Club career

On 25 May 2008, Rustam signed a 5-year contract with Shakhtar Donetsk for a fee of 582,000 hryvnia (approximately 80,000 euro). His first action at the club was replacing former No.1

Andriy Pyatov Andriy Valeriyovych Pyatov ( uk, Андрій Валерійович П'ятов; born 28 June 1984) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk. Club career Artemida K ...

as the starting goalkeeper and saving a penalty in the 5–3 penalty win over

Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Union, Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dynamo Sports Soc ...

in the

Ukrainian Super Cup The Ukrainian Super Cup ( uk , Суперкубок України) is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football (soccer), football competiti ...

final. But lost it after conceding two questionable goals versus Premier League new-boys

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 ...

, and is restricted to only cup matches. In May 2020 he announced his retirement from a playing career due a prolonged knee injury.

International career

Rustam Khudzhamov made his debut for the

Ukraine 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. Ukr ...

in a friendly on 11 February 2009 against

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

which Ukraine won 1–0.

Personal life

Khudzhamov is an ethnic Crimean Tatar. His name in

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

is Rüstam Mahmüdkuli Hucamov.

Honours

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was f ...

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� ...

: 2011 *

: 2008 *

UEFA Cup A cup is an open-top used to hold hot or cold liquids for pouring or drinking; while mainly used for drinking, it also can be used to store Solid, solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). Cups may be made of glass, metal, porcela ...

: 2008–09

References

External links

Official FC Kharkiv Website Profile
1982 births Living people People from Skvyra Ukrainian people of Crimean Tatar descent Crimean Tatar sportspeople Ukrainian footballers Ukraine international footballers Ukraine under-21 international footballers Association football goalkeepers Ukrainian Premier League players FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Kharkiv players FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players FC Metalurh Donetsk players FC Mariupol players FC Zorya Luhansk players FC Metalist Kharkiv players Sportspeople from Kyiv Oblast {{Ukraine-footy-goalkeeper-1980s-stub