Serhiy Serhiyovych Kravchenko ( uk, Сергій Сергійович Кравченко; born 24 April 1983) is a Ukrainian former professional football

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

Career

Kravchenko began his career in the

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 ...

reserves and youth team in 2002.

Qarabağ

For the 2005–06 season, where he played for

Qarabağ FK Qarabağ Futbol Klubu, commonly known as Qarabağ () is an Azerbaijani professional football club, based in Baku, that competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League, the top flight of Azerbaijani football. The club originates from Aghdam but has ...

in the

Azerbaijan Premier League The Azerbaijan Premier League ( az, Azərbaycan Premyer Liqası) is a professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Azerbaijan football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is conteste ...

. His club finished fifth at the end of the season.

Vorskla Poltava

Kravchenko moved to

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 ...

in March 2006. There, when new coach

Mykola Pavlov Mykola Petrovych Pavlov ( uk, Микола Петрович Павлов) (russian: Николай Петрович Павлов; born 20 June 1954 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Ukrainian football defender, and former head-coach of Illyc ...

arrived in 2007, Kravchenko began to shine exceptionally. In the 2007–08 season, the team finished 8th in the

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, which was its best result since the 1999–2000 season. In the first half of the 2008–09 season, Vorksla made it the semifinals of the

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which was their highest result in that competition ever. The team was also 4th in the league table. Kravchenko contributed scored 4 goals in 17 matches as well as several assists during this part of the season.

Dynamo Kyiv

On 28 July 2008, he officially signed with Ukrainian giants

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 ...

, but there is still questions when he will join them in the summer or in the winter when he becomes a free agent. Kravchenko will be entirely owned by the club on 28 January 2009, as reported by the Dynamo Kyiv official website.

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

On 23 December 2009 Kravchenko was sold to Dnipro for an undisclosed fee.

Volyn Lustk

On 6 July 2014 after his contract ran up with

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́», ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club was owned by the Privat Group that also owns BC Dnipro and Budivelnyk Kyiv. In 2018 FC Dnipro was forced in ...

, free agent Serhiy Kravchenko made a transfer to

club

Volyn Lutsk Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...

International

Kravchenko has been a regular for the

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with head coach

Oleksiy Mykhailychenko Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko ( uk, Олексій Олександрович Михайличенко; born 30 March 1963) is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional player. He is a Distinguished Master of Sports of the U ...

since teammate

Oleh Husiev Oleh Anatoliiovych Husiev ( uk, Олег Анатолійович Гусєв; born 25 April 1983) is a retired Ukrainian Association football, football midfielder who played for FC Dynamo Kyiv. He mainly played as a Midfielder, right midfielde ...

got injured. He was called with four other newcomers. He made the most of it when he scored the winning goal in a friendly against Poland.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.''

Personal life

Kravchenko is married to Tatiana. His father is Ukrainian football player and football couch Serhiy Kravchenko. His older brother is Ukrainian racecar driver –

Andriy Kravchenko Andriy Kravchenko ( uk, Андрій Сергійович Кравченко; born 3 December 1980) is a Ukrainian racecar driver, international record holder acting in the drag racing. Multiple winner of the Ukrainian Championship in drag. He is ...

. He greatly admires French star

Zinedine Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached Spanish club Real Madrid and is one of the most ...

.Serhiy Kravchenko: "In Poltava they said that I wasn't Ukrainian".
– Interview of Kravchenko and his wife at their new Kyiv home, Guru.ua

Honors

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. It ...

runner-up (1) 2014–15

References

External links

Kravchenko's Profile on the Dynamo Kyiv website
* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kravchenko, Serhiy 1983 births Living people Footballers from Donetsk Ukrainian footballers FC Vorskla Poltava players Ukraine international footballers FC Shakhtar Luhansk players FC Monolit Kostiantynivka players FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk players FC Dynamo Kyiv players Qarabağ FK players FC Dnipro players FC Volyn Lutsk players SC Dnipro-1 players FC Chornomorets Odesa players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship players Association football midfielders Ukrainian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan