Oleksiy Mykolayovych Shevchenko ( ua, Олексій Миколайович Шевченко; born 24 February 1992) is a Ukrainian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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' ...

club

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 ...

Career

Shevchenko is product of youth team system FC Inter Dnipropetrovsk. Made his debut for FC Metalurh entering as a full-time playing against

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on 13 October 2011 in

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. On 30 August 2013, Oleksiy had signed a 5-year contract with the Ukrainian giants

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. On 17 June 2018, Oleksiy had signed a 5-year contract with the Ukrainian giants

International career

Shevchenko got his first call up to the senior

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side for

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qualifiers against

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and

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in October 2016.

Honours

;Shakhtar Donetsk *

: 2018–19 *

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: 2018–19

Career statistics

Club

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* * 1992 births Living people Footballers from Dnipro Ukrainian men's footballers Ukraine men's student international footballers Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers Ukraine men's youth international footballers Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players FC Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia players FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players FC Olimpik Donetsk players Men's association football goalkeepers FC Torpedo Kutaisi players FC Dila Gori players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Georgia (country) Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Georgia (country) FC Zorya Luhansk players FC Karpaty Lviv players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players {{Ukraine-footy-goalkeeper-1990s-stub