Vera Grigoryevna Djatel ( uk, Віра Григорівна Дятел; also transliterated Dyatel; born 3 March 1984) is a

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who most recently played for

Sporting de Huelva Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's football club from Huelva, Andalusia. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissolved nine years later, ...

. She previously played for Swedish

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

club

Linköpings FC Linköpings Fotboll Club is an association football club from Linköping, Sweden. The club was established in 2003 when Kenty DFF women's football club decided to merge with the premier division ice hockey club Linköpings HC under the new name L ...

Lehenda Chernihiv Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv ( uk, "Легенда-ШВСМ" Чернігів) is a former Ukrainian professional women's football club from Chernihiv, Ukraine. In 2018, it merged with Yednist Plysky as Yednist-ShVSM Plysky. ShVSM abbreviation stands ...

and Zhytlobud Kharkiv in the Ukrainian League, as well as

Zvezda Perm FC Zvezda Perm (russian: link=no, ФК "Звезда" Пермь) was a Russian football team from Perm, established in 1932 and dissolved in 2022. History It played professionally from 1945 to 1949 and 1953 to 1995, and was established first ...

and Zorky Krasnogorsk in the Russian Championship.

Club career

Djatel helped Zvezda reach the 2009 UEFA Women's Cup Final with three goals in the quarter-final and semi-final ties against Brøndby and

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. She won two Russian leagues and three Ukrainian leagues with Zvezda and Zhytlobud respectively. In January 2015 Djatel joined

of Sweden, who had been trying to sign her for several years. She suffered an injury in August 2015 and left Linköpings in July 2016 after failing to reclaim her place in the team. She moved to Spanish

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club

for the 2016–17 season, but agreed to terminate her contract in December 2016 after suffering from tendinitis in her knees.

International career

Djatel debuted for

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against

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in November 2000 and later represented her country at UEFA Women's Euro 2009. A starter in all three games, she assisted

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for Ukraine's first goal in the tournament against

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Official international goals

* 2005 European Championship qualification ** 1 in Ukraine 1–0

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* 2009 European Championship qualification ** 1 in

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0–4 Ukraine ** 1 in Ukraine 2–0

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(play-offs) * 2011 World Cup qualification ** 1 in Ukraine 7–0

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** 1 in Bosnia 0–5 Ukraine * 2013 European Championship qualification ** 2 in

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1–4 Ukraine ** 1 in

0–2 Ukraine ** 1 in

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0–5 Ukraine

Honours

;Lehenda Chernihiv *

Ukrainian Women's League The Ukrainian Women's Professional Football League, WFPL, is part of the Ukrainian football clubs competitions among females that consists of two divisions, the Top League (Vyshcha Liha) which has a professional status and the First League (Persha ...

(3) 2000, 2001, 2002 * Women's Cup (2) 2001, 2002 ;Zvezda Perm * Russian Leagues (2) 2008, 2009 *

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(2) 2007,

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;Linköpings FC *

(1)

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;Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv *

(2) 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20

References

External links

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* 1984 births Living people Footballers from Chernihiv Ukrainian women's footballers WFC Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv players WFC Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv players WFC Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv players Expatriate women's footballers in Russia Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Linköpings FC players Damallsvenskan players Ukrainian expatriate footballers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Zvezda 2005 Perm players FC Zorky Krasnogorsk (women) players Ukraine women's international footballers Women's association football midfielders Sporting de Huelva players Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Liga F players Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan {{Ukraine-women-footy-bio-stub