Victor Aleksandrovich Karpenko (russian: Виктор Александрович Карпенко; born 7 September 1977) is a retired

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

i professional football midfielder, and current coach of

FC Bunyodkor Football Club Bunyodkor ( uz, Bunyodkor futbol klubi) is an Uzbek professional football club based in Tashkent that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Bunyodkor, a relatively unknown club at the time, made international headlines when it ...

Career

Club

Karpenko began his playing career with

FK Buxoro FK Buxoro ( uz, italic=yes, Futbol Klubi Buxoro) is an Uzbek professional football club based in Bukhara. Founded in 1989, the club competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. History The club was founded in 1960 under name ''Bukhoro''. In 1989 ...

in 1997, before moving to

Qizilqum Zarafshon Qizilqum Zarafshon ( uz, Qizilqum Zarafshon futbol klubi, Қизилқум Зарафшон футбол клуби), is an Uzbekistan, Uzbek professional association football, football club based in Zarafshon. They play in the Uzbekistan Super L ...

in 1999.

Bunyodkor

Before joining

Bunyodkor Football Club Bunyodkor ( uz, Bunyodkor futbol klubi) is an Uzbek professional football club based in Tashkent that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Bunyodkor, a relatively unknown club at the time, made international headlines when it ...

in 2007, Karpenko played for several Russian football clubs and in 2005-06 played for

FC Kairat Football Club Kairat ( kk, Qaırat Fýtbol Klýby) is a professional football club based in Almaty, which plays in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Kazakh football. Founded in 1954 as Lokomotiv Alma-Ata, they became Urozhay in ...

. He became one of the leading players and captain of Bunyodkor. Karpenko won 4 championship titles and 3 Uzbek Cups. In 5 seasons he appeared in 202 matches and scored 38 goals for Bunyodkor.

Lokomotiv Tashkent

On 26 January 2013 he signed a contract with

Lokomotiv Tashkent PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent ( uz, Lokomotiv Toshkent Professional Futbol Klubi) is an Uzbek professional football club based in Tashkent. The owner and main sponsor of the club is a state-owned company Uzbek Railways. History Lokomotiv was founded ...

International

Karpenko made his debut in a friendly against Belarus on 2 April 2003. Since his debut in 2003 Karpenko has been capped in 61 matches and has scored 4 goals for the full

Uzbekistan national football team The Uzbekistan national football team ( uz, Ozbekiston milliy futbol terma jamoasi, italic=yes / ) represents Uzbekistan in international football and is controlled by the Uzbekistan Football Association, the governing body for football in U ...

; this includes seven qualifying matches for the

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and seven qualifying matches for the

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. On 29 May 2014 he played his farewell match for the national team in a friendly against

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Coaching

After retiring from football Karpenko became a coach at

Honours

Club

;Bunyodkor *

Uzbek League Uzbekistan Super League ( uz, O'zbekiston Superligasi), also called Coca-Cola Uzbekistan Super League due to sponsorship reasons ( uz, Coca-Cola O'zbekiston Superligasi / Coca-Cola Ўзбекистон Суперлигаси), is the top division ...

(4): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 * Uzbek Cup (3): 2008, 2010, 2012 *

AFC Champions League The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...

semi-finals (2): 2008, 2012 ;Lokomotiv * Uzbek Cup (1):

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runner-up (1): 2013

References

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* 1977 births Living people Uzbekistani people of Ukrainian descent People from Bukhara Uzbekistani footballers Uzbekistan international footballers FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players Russian Premier League players Uzbekistani expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Russia Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Russia FC Kairat players Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan Sportspeople from Tashkent FC Bunyodkor players FC Sokol Saratov players Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan 2007 AFC Asian Cup players 2011 AFC Asian Cup players Buxoro FK players Association football midfielders Uzbekistan Super League players FC Chita players {{Uzbekistan-footy-bio-stub