Vasyl Ruslanovych Kravets ( ua, Василь Русланович Кравець; born 20 August 1997) is a Ukrainian professional

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who plays as a

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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 ...

Club career

Born in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

, Kravets is a product of the FC Karpaty Lviv School System. His first trainer was Vasyl Leskiv. He made his debut for FC Karpaty entering as a second-half substitute against

FC Chornomorets Odesa FC Chornomorets Odesa ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 capacity Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 a ...

on 10 May 2015 in

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'') ...

. On 24 January 2017, Kravets was loaned to Spanish

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side

CD Lugo Club Deportivo Lugo is a Spanish football team based in Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Founded on 8 July 1953, it plays in Segunda División, holding home games at '' Estadio Anxo Carro''. History The new board of directors was o ...

until the end of the season, with a buyout clause. 12 June, Lugo announced that buyout option was activated. On 13 January 2019, Kravets agreed to a four-and-a-half-year contract with

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side

CD Leganés Club Deportivo Leganés, S.A.D. is a football club based in Leganés, Community of Madrid, Spain, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league system. It was founded on 23 June 1928. It holds home games at ...

. He made his debut in the competition on 24 February, starting in a 1–1 home draw against

Valencia CF Valencia Club de Fútbol (, ca-valencia, València Club de Futbol ), commonly referred to as Valencia CF (or simply Valencia) is a professional football club based in Valencia, Spain, that currently plays in La Liga, the top flight of the Spa ...

. On 15 January 2020, after appearing in only one cup match for ''Lega'' during the campaign, Kravets was loaned to his former side Lugo until June. On 11 September 2020, Kravets moved to

Lech Poznań Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań S.A., commonly referred to as KKS Lech Poznań or simply Lech Poznań (), is a Polish professional association football, football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation' ...

on a season long loan. The following 13 July, he moved to

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting (although in an international context this can lead to confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal) is a Spanish football club from Gijón, P ...

also in a temporary deal. On 1 September 2022, Kravets was transferred to

in his home country.

International career

Kravets also plays for Ukrainian under-18 national football team and was called up for other age level representations.

Career statistics

Club

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kravets, Vasyl 1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Lviv Ukrainian footballers Association football defenders FC Karpaty Lviv players FC Vorskla Poltava players CD Lugo players CD Leganés players Lech Poznań players Lech Poznań II players Sporting de Gijón players Ukrainian Premier League players La Liga players Segunda División players Ekstraklasa players II liga players Ukraine youth international footballers Ukraine under-21 international footballers Ukrainian expatriate footballers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate footballers in Spain Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate footballers in Poland