Yuriy Ovcharenko ( uk, Овчаренко Юрий Николаевич) is a Ukrainian retired footballer.

Career

He began his football career in 1990 as part of the Ukrainian Second League in

Desna Chernihiv Football Club Desna Chernihiv ( uk, ФК «Десна» Чернігів) is a Ukrainian football club based in Chernihiv. The original name of the club was "Avanhard" (FC Avanhard Chernihiv) during its first year of existence as part of a repu ...

. He did not play often that season, played 3 matches and scored 1 goal. The following year he became the main player of the team. On February 16, 1992, he made his debut in

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� ...

, in the lost (0: 1) away match of the 1/32 final against Poltava's Vorskla. Yuri came on the field in the starting lineup and played the whole match. In the first league of the championship of Ukraine he made his debut on March 14, 1992, in the lost (0: 1) away match of the 1st round of subgroup 1 against Sevastopol "Seagull". Ovcharenko came out in the starting lineup and played the whole match. He scored his debut goal for Desna on May 9, 1992, in the 48th minute of the victorious (1: 0) home match of the 15th round of subgroup 1 against

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 ...

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

. Ovcharenko came on in the 29th minute, replacing Odeksandr Likhobytsky. In the T-shirt of the Chernihiv team in the championships of Ukraine and the USSR he played 87 matches and scored 29 goals, played another match in the

. During the winter break of the 1992–93 season, he moved to the first-league Vinnytsia's Niva. He made his debut for the new team on March 27, 1993, in a victorious (3-0) home match of the 23rd round against Stryi's Skala. Yuri went on the field in the starting lineup and played the whole match. He scored his debut goal in the

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 ag ...

team's T-shirt on March 30, 1993, in the 11th minute of the winning (3: 1) home match of the 24th round against Uzhhorod's Zakarpattia. Ovcharenko went on the field in the starting lineup and played the whole match. As part of Niva, he played 42 matches in the Ukrainian championship and scored 14 goals, and played 4 more matches (1 goal) in the Ukrainian Cup.

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allplayers.in.ua 1968 births Living people FC Desna Chernihiv players Ukrainian footballers Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players Men's association football midfielders {{Ukraine-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub