Serhiy Mykolayovych Nahornyak ( uk, Сергій Миколайович Нагорняк; born 5 September 1971) is a Ukrainian professional

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coach and former player.

Club career

Nahornyak started his career at local amateur but well established football club Intehral playing at regional level. He made his debut at professional level in April 1993 in the

Ukrainian First League The Persha Liha ( uk, Перша ліга) or Ukrainian First League is a professional football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions pyramid. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. It is th ...

for

FC 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 clu ...

playing against FC Avtomobilist Sumy. In the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League'') ...

Nahornyak debuted for

FC Nyva Vinnytsia FC Nyva Vinnytsia is a professional Ukrainian football club based in the city of Vinnytsia. The name "Nyva" translates to "grain field". The club was originally created in 1958 in the Soviet Union and folded in 2005 and 2012, but was reformed a ...

on 8 August 1993 against

FC Torpedo Zaporizhia FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia is a former professional football team based in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. History Founded in 1982, the club played in the Ukrainian Premier League from 1992 through 1998, after being initially chosen to participate for being ...

. In 1995 another Podolianyn

Vyacheslav Hrozny Vyacheslav Viktorovych Hrozny ( uk, В'ячеслав Вікторович Грозний; born 12 July 1956) is a Ukrainian football player and manager. Career He is a holder of the 1980 KFK Cup of the Ukrainian SSR as a player of FC Nyva Tern ...

invited 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 Dyna ...

, but Nahornyak struggled to stay in the first squad and later after dismissal of Hrozny from Spartak joined

FC 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 ...

, with which reached the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final yielding the main trophy on penalties to

FC 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 ...

. He played a game in the

1995–96 UEFA Champions League The 1995–96 UEFA Champions League was the 41st season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, and the fourth since its rebranding as the UEFA Champions League. The tournament was won by Juventus, who beat defending champions Ajax on ...

for

in a 2:2 tie against

FC Nantes Atlantique Football Club de Nantes (; Gallo: ''Naunnt''), commonly referred to as FC Nantes or simply Nantes (), is a French professional football club based in Nantes in Pays de la Loire. The club was founded on 21 April 1943, during World War II, as ...

. Later Nahornyak also represented

FC Dnipro 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 ...

and

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 ...

recording 5 games in total for this continental cup.

Honours

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

champion: 1996. * Russian Cup finalist: 1996. *

runner-up: 1999. * Ukrainian Premier League bronze: 1996, 1998. *

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� ...

finalist: 1997, 2006.

References

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* 1971 births Living people Footballers from Vinnytsia Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards FC Vorskla Poltava players FC Nyva Vinnytsia players FC Polissya Zhytomyr players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Dnipro players FC Metalurh Novomoskovsk players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players Changsha Ginde players Shandong Taishan F.C. players FC Arsenal Kyiv players Jiangsu F.C. players FC Volyn Lutsk players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players FC Lokomotyv Kyiv players FC Irpin Horenychi players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship players Chinese Super League players China League One players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in China Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Ukrainian football managers FC Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi managers Ukrainian First League managers Doping cases in association football Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases {{Ukraine-footy-forward-1970s-stub