Viktor Leonenko
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko | ||
Date of birth | 5 October 1969 | ||
Place of birth | Tyumen, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Geolog Tyumen | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1988–1991 | Geolog Tyumen | 93 | (26) |
1991–1992 | Dynamo Moscow | 20 | (14) |
1992–1998 | Dynamo Kyiv | 98 | (61) |
1995–1998 | → Dynamo-2 Kyiv | 45 | (11) |
1997 | → Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 2 | (0) |
1998–2000 | CSKA Kyiv | 13 | (5) |
2001 | Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | 12 | (3) |
Total | 281 | (120) | |
International career | |||
1992–1996 | Ukraine | 14 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko (Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Євге́нович Лео́ненко; Russian: Виктор Евгеньевич Леоненко; born 5 October 1969) is a former footballer and Ukraine international who played as a forward. At least since 2006 he is a football commentator and analyst for the televised football forum "3 time" at the Ukrainian TV-network ICTV.[1]
Club career
[edit]Leonenko began his career with stints at Russian clubs such as Geolog Tyumen and Dynamo Moscow, before transferring to Dynamo Kyiv in 1992, where he played until 1998.
A successful forward for Dynamo in the early to mid 1990s – Leonenko was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year in 1992, 1993, and 1994 – Leonenko was eventually forced to the bench with the emergence of the striker partnership of Serhii Rebrov and Andriy Shevchenko. In 1998, he moved to play for CSKA Kyiv and ended his career with Zakarpattia Uzhhorod in 2001.
International career
[edit]Born in Russia, Leonenko chose to play for the Ukraine national team soon after transferring to Dynamo Kyiv. During his four years representing Ukraine from 1992 until 1996, Leonenko earned 14 caps and scored 6 goals.
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Europe | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Geolog Tyumen | 1988 | Soviet First League | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 18 | 0 | |
1989 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 0 | – | 36 | 11 | |||
1990 | 33 | 12 | 0 | 0 | – | 33 | 12 | |||
1991 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | 3 | |||
Total | 93 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 26 | ||
Dynamo Moscow | 1991 | Soviet Top League | 16 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 23 | 9 |
1992 | Russian Premier League | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
Total | 20 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 27 | 14 | ||
Dynamo Kyiv | 1992 | Ukrainian Premier League | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 6 | 3 | |
1992–93 | 27 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 24 | ||
1993–94 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 17 | ||
1994–95 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 20 | ||
1995–96 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6 | ||
1996–97 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 5 | ||
1997–98 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||
Total | 98 | 61 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 129 | 79 | ||
CSKA Kyiv | 1998–99 | Ukrainian Premier League | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 7 |
1999–2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 7 | ||
Zakarpattia | 2000–01 | Ukrainian First League | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | 2 | |
2001–02 | Ukrainian Premier League | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 9 | 2 | ||
Total | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | ||
Career total | 236 | 109 | 24 | 12 | 26 | 9 | 286 | 130 |
- ^ Includes Soviet Cup, Russian Cup (football), Cup
International
[edit]- Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leonenko goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 18 May 1993 | Žalgiris Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania | ![]() | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
2 | 16 October 1993 | A.J. Simeon Stadium, High Point, United States | ![]() | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
3 | 2–1 | |||||
4 | 25 May 1994 | Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine | ![]() | 1–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
5 | 13 August 1996 | Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine | ![]() | 1–1 | 5–2 | Friendly |
6 | 3–1 |
References
[edit]- ^ 3 taim intro page Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ "Viktor Leonenko, international football player". eu-football.info. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
External links
[edit]- Viktor Leonenko at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- Viktor Leonenko at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
- List of all National team games
- Viktor Leonenko at National-Football-Teams.com
- Interview to the newspaper "Bulvar Gordona" (in Russian)
- Interview of Leonenko to "2:1" at Nash football (video footage) at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 July 2011) (in Russian)
- 3 taim of 19 August 2010. The studio guest the Ukrainian coach Serhiy Rebrov (video footage) (in Russian and Ukrainian)
- Leonenko's football blog at segodnya.ua