Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)

Leonid Tkachenko
Personal information
Full name Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko
Date of birth (1953-10-01)1 October 1953
Place of birth Staryi Krym, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death 4 January 2024(2024-01-04) (aged 70)
Place of death Kaliningrad, Russia
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Half-back
Youth career
1966 Baltika Kaliningrad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1970 Baltika Kaliningrad 0 (0)
1971–1972 Mashinostroitel Kaliningrad
1973–1974 Vostok Kaliningrad
1974 Druzhba Kaliningrad
1975–1977 Spartak Zhytomyr 102 (16)
1978–1983 Metalist Kharkiv 220 (23)
Managerial career
1984–1986 Metalist Kharkiv (assistant)
1987–1988 Metalist Kharkiv (director)
1989–1993 Metalist Kharkiv
1992 Ukraine
1993–1994 Temp Shepetivka
1995–1998 Baltika Kaliningrad
1999 Sokol Saratov
2000 Metalist Kharkiv
2001–2002 Anzhi Makhachkala
2002–2003 Sokol Saratov
2005–2007 Baltika Kaliningrad
2007–2008 Dynamo St. Petersburg
2009–2010 Baltika Kaliningrad
2010 Baltika Kaliningrad (director of sports)
2010–2011 Baltika Kaliningrad
2011–2013 Petrotrest St. Petersburg
2013–2014 Sever Murmansk
2014–2015 Volga Tver
2019–2022 Baltika Kaliningrad (consultant)
2022–2024 Baltika Kaliningrad (assistant)[1][2]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (Russian: Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; 1 October 1953[3] – 4 January 2024) was a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a Soviet player.[4]

Career

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Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for Metalist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League in 1981.[5]

Together with Mykola Pavlov he served as an interim coach for Ukraine national team when it contested Belarus in a friendly. He and Pavlov were assistant coaches to Viktor Prokopenko before then. Sometime in 2000, he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained Russian citizenship.

Death

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Tkachenko died on 4 January 2024, at the age of 70.[6]

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ "Леонид Ткаченко вернулся в "Балтику"". 1fnl.ru. 17 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  2. ^ "В тренерский штаб "Балтики" вернулся легендарный экс-наставник команды Леонид Ткаченко". kaliningrad.kp.ru (in Russian). 8 June 2022. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  3. ^ Александр Просветов (19 September 2021). "Леонид Ткаченко: "У нас иные футбольные руководители путают хавбеков с хэтчбеками"". Sportbox.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Балтийцы: Леонид Ткаченко". YouTube (in Russian). 23 August 2022. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Леонид Ткаченко – Вездесущий и всесильный двигатель истории харьковского "Металлиста"!". 9 March 2017.
  6. ^ Огромная утрата (in Russian)
  7. ^ "Заслуженный тренер Украины Леонид Ткаченко: Завершил тренерскую карьеру, потому что пришло какое-то время дураков". Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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