Sergei Eremenko (russian: Сергей Алексеевич Ерёменко; born 6 January 1999) is a Finnish football player who plays for

HIFK HIFK, the Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Helsingfors (IFK, Helsingfors) rf (officially abbreviated IFK Helsingfors, colloquially often Helsingfors IFK or Helsingin IFK ) is a multi-sport association based in Helsinki, Finland. Formed in 1897 on ...

Club career

Eremenko made his professional debut in the

Veikkausliiga Veikkausliiga (; sv, Tipsligan) is the premier division of Finnish football, the highest tier of the Finnish football league structure, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikka ...

for

FF Jaro FF Jaro is a Finnish football club, based in the bilingual town of Jakobstad. It currently plays in ''Ykkönen''. Home matches are played at the Jakobstads Centralplan. Current squad ''Updated 7 March, 2022.'' Manageme ...

on 6 July 2014 in a game against

Vaasan Palloseura Vaasan Palloseura (or VPS) is a Finnish football club, based in Vaasa. It currently plays in the first tier of Finnish football (''Veikkausliiga''). The club's current manager is Jussi Nuorela. The club plays its home matches at Hietalahti. ...

. On 5 February 2018, he transferred to

FK Spartaks Jūrmala FK Spartaks is a Latvian football club that is based in Sloka, Jūrmala. In 2012, they finished 3rd in the Latvian First League championship and after winning the play-offs against JFK Olimps were promoted to the Latvian Higher League. The clu ...

, who loaned him to

FC Spartak Moscow FC Spartak Moscow (russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dyn ...

until the end of 2018. On 31 December 2018, his loan term expired and he was removed by Spartak from their Premier League registration list without playing any games for the main squad. On 25 January 2019, he joined Finnish club SJK Seinäjoki on loan. On 2 February 2022, Eremenko signed a contract with

for the 2022 season.

International

Eremenko holds a Finnish passport and represented Finland in juniors until March 2018, when the Football Association of Finland announced that Eremenko had informed them of his refusal to represent Finland internationally anymore in hopes of eventually representing

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Personal

Eremenko's older brothers Roman Eremenko and

Alexei Eremenko Alexei Eremenko (born Aleksei Alekseyevich Yeryomenko; russian: Алексей Алексеевич Ерёменко; born 24 March 1983) is a former professional footballer. He is from a footballing family, with his father, Alexei Eremenko Sr. ...

are Finnish international footballers, and his father Alexei Eremenko Sr. is a football manager and former footballer.

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* * 1999 births People from Jakobstad Living people Finnish footballers Finland youth international footballers Russian footballers Finnish people of Russian descent Veikkausliiga players Latvian Higher League players FF Jaro players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Spartak-2 Moscow players FK Spartaks Jūrmala players Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho players FC Orenburg players AC Oulu players HIFK Fotboll players Association football midfielders Finnish expatriate footballers Russian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Latvia Russian First League players Russian Second League players Sportspeople from Ostrobothnia (region) {{Finland-footy-midfielder-stub