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{{Short description|Footballer (born 1969)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
{{Infobox football biography
| name= Viktor Leonenko
| name = Viktor Leonenko
| fullname = Ві́ктор Євге́нович Лео́ненко
| fullname = Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1969|10|5}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1969|10|5}}
| birth_place = [[Tyumen]], [[RSFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| birth_place = [[Tyumen]], Soviet Union
| height = {{height|m=1.76|precision=0}}
| height = 1.76 m
| currentclub =
| currentclub =
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| position = [[Forward (association football)|Forward]]
| youthyears1 =
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 =
| youthclubs1 = [[FC Geolog Tyumen|Geolog Tyumen]]
| years1 = 1988–1991 | clubs1 = [[FC Tyumen|Geolog Tyumen]] | caps1 = 93 | goals1 = 26
| years1 = 1988-91
| years2 = 1991–1992 | clubs2 = [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] | caps2 = 20 | goals2 = 14
| years2 = 1991-92
| years3 = 1992–1998 | clubs3 = [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]] | caps3 = 98 | goals3 = 61
| years3 = 1992-98
| years4 = 1995–1998 | clubs4 = → [[FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv|Dynamo-2 Kyiv]] | caps4 = 45 | goals4 = 11
| years4 = 1998-00
| years5 = 1997 | clubs5 = → [[FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv|Dynamo-3 Kyiv]] | caps5 = 2 | goals5 = 0
| years5 = 2001-02
| years6 = 1998–2000 | clubs6 = [[FC Arsenal Kyiv|CSKA Kyiv]] | caps6 = 13 | goals6 = 5
| clubs1 = [[FC Geolog Tyumen]]
| years7 = 2001 | clubs7 = [[FC Hoverla Uzhhorod|Zakarpattia Uzhhorod]] | caps7 = 12 | goals7 = 3
| clubs2 = [[FC Dynamo Moscow]]
| totalcaps = 281 | totalgoals = 120
| clubs3 = [[FC Dynamo Kyiv]]
| nationalyears1 = 1992–1996 | nationalteam1 = [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]] | nationalcaps1 = 14 | nationalgoals1 = 6
| clubs4 = [[FC Arsenal Kyiv|CSKA Kyiv]]
| clubs5 = [[FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod]]
| caps1 = 93
| caps2 = 20
| caps3 = 98
| caps4 = 13
| caps5 = 12
| totalcaps = 236
| goals1 = 26
| goals2 = 14
| goals3 = 61
| goals4 = 5
| goals5 = 3
| totalgoals = 109
| nationalyears1 = 1992–1996
| nationalteam1 = [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]
| nationalcaps1 = 14
| nationalgoals1 = 6
| manageryears1 =
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'''Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko''' (born 5 October 1969 in [[Tyumen]], [[Russia]]) is a former footballer and [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]] international. At least since 2006 he is a football commentator and analyst for the televised football forum "3 time" at the Ukrainian TV-network ICTV.<ref>[http://ictv.ua/ru/ether/700682/ 3 taim intro page] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723051910/http://ictv.ua/ru/ether/700682/ |date=23 July 2011 }} {{ru icon}}</ref> He was a highly technical and individual football performer being able to receive a pass while having a limited amount of space available and efficiently converting a goal chance opportunities.
'''Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko''' ({{langx|uk|Ві́ктор Євге́нович Лео́ненко}}; {{langx|ru|Виктор Евгеньевич Леоненко}}; born 5 October 1969) is a former [[association football|footballer]] and [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]] international who played as a [[Forward (association football)|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.<ref>[http://ictv.ua/ru/ether/700682/ 3 taim intro page] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723051910/http://ictv.ua/ru/ether/700682/ |date=23 July 2011 }} {{in lang|ru}}</ref>


==Overview==
==Club career==
Leonenko began his career with stints at Russian clubs such as [[FC Tyumen|Geolog Tyumen]] and [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]], before transferring to [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]] in 1992, where he played until 1998.
Despite being born in Russia, soon after transferring to Dynamo Kyiv, Leonenko chose to play for the Ukraine side. His short stints at [[Russia]]n clubs such as [[FC Tyumen|Geolog Tyumen]] and [[FC Dynamo Moscow]] did not really reflect his playing abilities. On the proposition of Dynamo Kyiv, Leonenko literally ran away from Moscow. That move could have cost him at least two years to lifetime disqualification, however, both Dynamos found a consensus on the issue the transfer was finalized. Later he acknowledged that if a similar proposition would have come from [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]], he might have stayed in the Russian capital. Leonenko considers Dynamo Kyiv and Spartak Moscow the classic clubs of the Soviet Union.


Being a successful striker 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 [[Serhiy Rebrov]] and [[Andriy Shevchenko]]. The contemporary coach of Dynamo at that time [[Yozhef Sabo]] justified his relegation to reserves for being overweight. With appearance of [[Valeriy Lobanovsky]] who is considered the "architect" of Dynamo school and who preferred the football of eleven, simply a teamwork, the individualism of Leonenko did not fit his organizational plans and the Siberian striker eventually not only did not participate in trainings, but eventually was loaned out elsewhere. He joined [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] on trial in November 1996, but injured an ankle on his first day of training.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19961124/ai_n14457651/ REID pounds 7m HOLD-UP] Sunday Mirror, 24 November 1996</ref> In 1998, Leonenko moved to play for [[FC Arsenal Kyiv|CSKA Kyiv]] and ended his career with [[FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod]] in 2001.
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 [[Arsenal Kyiv|CSKA Kyiv]] and ended his career with [[FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod|Zakarpattia Uzhhorod]] in 2001.


==National team==
==International career==
During his four years representing the [[Ukraine national football team|Ukrainian national team]] from 1992 until 1996, Leonenko earned 14 caps and scored 6 goals. All goals were scored in friendlies.
Born in Russia, Leonenko chose to play for the [[Ukraine national football team|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.

==Personal life==
In his explanation why he chose the national team of Ukraine over Russian counterpart he stated that it was not on the grounds of ethnic prerogative or political reasons. Leonenko did not specify what those reasons were, however, he told that his parents are in origin from [[Bryansk]] which in his words contained even more Belorussian nationals, for example, than Russians or Ukrainians. Himself, he considers a Siberian national, Sibiryak.

He does not see himself as a coach. Leonenko perceives Yozhef Sabo as a scout and [[Leonid Buryak]] as a football administrator rather than both working as coaches.


==Career statistics==
==Career statistics==


===Club===
===Club===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%; text-align: center;"
|-
|-
! colspan=3 | Club performance
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
! colspan=2 | League
! colspan=2 | Cup
!colspan="3"|League
!colspan="2"|Cup{{efn|Includes [[Soviet Cup]], [[Russian Cup (football)]], [[Ukrainian Cup|Cup]]}}
! colspan=2 | Continental
! colspan=2 | Total
!colspan="2"|[[UEFA|Europe]]
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
|-
!Division!!width="40"|Apps!!width="40"|Goals!!width="40"|Apps!!width="40"|Goals!!width="40"|Apps!!width="40"|Goals!!width="40"|Apps!!width="40"|Goals
! Season
!width="100"|Club
!width="100"|League
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
!width="40"|Apps
!width="40"|Goals
|-
|-
|rowspan="5"|[[FC Tyumen|Geolog Tyumen]]
! colspan=3 | Soviet Union
! colspan=2 | League
|[[1988 Soviet First League|1988]]
! colspan=2 | [[Soviet Cup|Cup]]
|rowspan="4"|[[Soviet First League]]
! colspan=2 | [[UEFA|Europe]]
|17||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||18||0
! colspan=2 | Total
|-
|-
|[[Soviet First League 1988|1988]]||rowspan="4"|[[FC Tyumen|Geolog Tyumen]]||rowspan="4"|[[Soviet First League|First League]]
|[[1989 Soviet First League|1989]]
||17||0||1||0||-||-||18||0
|35||11||1||0||colspan="2"|–||36||11
|-
|-
|[[Soviet First League 1989|1989]]
|[[1990 Soviet First League|1990]]
||35||11||1||0||-||-||36||11
|33||12||0||0||colspan="2"|–||33||12
|-
|-
|[[Soviet First League 1990|1990]]
|[[1991 Soviet First League|1991]]
||33||12||-||-||-||-||33||12
|8||3||0||0||colspan="2"|–||8||3
|-
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
|[[Soviet First League 1991|1991]]
!93!!26!!2!!0!!0!!0!!95!!26
||8||3||-||-||-||-||8||3
|-
|-
|[[Soviet Top League 1991|1991]]||[[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo (M)]]||[[Soviet Top League|Top League]]
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]
|[[1991 Soviet Top League|1991]]
||16||9||1||0||6||0||23||9
|[[Soviet Top League]]
|16||9||1||0||6||0||23||9
|-
|-
|[[1992 Russian Top League|1992]]
|[[Russian Premier League]]
|4||5||0||0||0||0||4||5
|-
|-
! colspan=3 | Russia
!colspan="2"|Total
!20!!14!!1!!0!!6!!0!!27!!14
! colspan=2 | League
! colspan=2 | [[Russian Cup (football)|Cup]]
! colspan=2 | [[UEFA|Europe]]
! colspan=2 | Total
|-
|-
|[[1992 Russian Top League|1992]]||[[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo (M)]]||[[Russian Premier League|Premier League]]
|rowspan="8"|[[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
|[[1992 Ukrainian Premier League|1992]]
||4||5||-||-||-||-||4||5
|rowspan="7"|[[Ukrainian Premier League]]
|5||3||1||0||colspan="2"|–||6||3
|-
|-
|[[1992–93 Ukrainian Premier League|1992–93]]
|27||16||5||5||4||3||36||24
|-
|-
|[[1993–94 Ukrainian Premier League|1993–94]]
! colspan=3 | Ukraine
|24||15||0||0||2||2||26||17
! colspan=2 | League
! colspan=2 | [[Ukrainian Cup|Cup]]
! colspan=2 | [[UEFA|Europe]]
! colspan=2 | Total
|-
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1992|1992]]||rowspan="7"|[[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo (K)]]||rowspan="9"|[[Ukrainian Premier League|Premier League]]
|[[1994–95 Ukrainian Premier League|1994–95]]
||5||3||1||0||-||-||6||3
|20||17||3||0||6||3||29||20
|-
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1992-93|1992-93]]
|[[1995–96 Ukrainian Premier League|1995–96]]
||27||16||5||5||4||3||36||24
|13||5||4||1||0||0||17||6
|-
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1993-94|1993-94]]
|[[1996–97 Ukrainian Premier League|1996–97]]
||24||15||-||-||2||2||26||17
|9||5||0||0||4||0||13||5
|-
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1994-95|1994-95]]
|[[1997–98 Ukrainian Premier League|1997–98]]
||20||17||3||0||6||3||29||20
|0||0||2||4||0||0||2||4
|-
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1995-96|1995-96]]
!98!!61!!15!!10!!16!!8!!129!!79
||13||5||4||1||-||-||17||6
|-
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Arsenal Kyiv|CSKA Kyiv]]
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1996-97|1996-97]]
|[[1998–99 Ukrainian Premier League|1998–99]]
||9||5||-||-||4||0||13||5
|rowspan="2"|Ukrainian Premier League
|12||5||4||1||4||1||20||7
|-
|-
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1997-98|1997-98]]
|[[1999–2000 Ukrainian Premier League|1999–2000]]
||-||-||2||4||-||-||2||4
|1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||1||0
|-
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
|[[1998–99 Ukrainian Premier League|1998-99]]||rowspan="2"|[[FC Arsenal Kyiv|CSKA Kyiv]]
||12||5||4||1||4||1||20||7
!13!!5!!4!!1!!4!!1!!21!!7
|-
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod|Zakarpattia]]
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 1999-2000|1999-00]]
|[[2000–01 Ukrainian First League|2000–01]]
||1||0||-||-||-||-||1||0
|[[Ukrainian First League]]
|5||2||0||0||colspan="2"|–||5||2
|-
|-
|[[2001–02 Ukrainian Premier League|2001–02]]
|[[Ukrainian First League 2000–01|2000-01]]||rowspan="2"|[[FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod|Zakarpattia]]||rowspan="1"|[[Ukrainian First League|First League]]
|Ukrainian Premier League
||5||2||-||-||-||-||5||2
|7||1||2||1||colspan="2"|–||9||2
|-
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
|[[Ukrainian Premier League 2001-02|2001-02]]||rowspan="1"|[[Ukrainian Premier League|Premier League]]
!12!!3!!2!!1!!0!!0!!14!!4
||7||1||2||1||-||-||9||2
|-
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total
|-
!236!!109!!24!!12!!26!!9!!286!!130
! rowspan=3 | Total
! colspan=2 | Soviet
!109||35||3||0||6||0||118||35
|-
! colspan=2 | Russia
!4||5||-||-||-||-||4||5
|-
! colspan=2 | Ukraine
!123||69||21||12||20||9||164||90
|-
! colspan=3 | Career total
!236||109||24||12||26||9||286||130
|}
|}


{{notelist}}
===International goals===

{| class="wikitable" align=center
===International===
! # !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leonenko goal.''
|-

| 1. || 18 May 1993 || [[Žalgiris Stadium]], [[Vilnius]], [[Lithuania]] || {{fb|Lithuania}} || 1–'''1''' || 1-2 || Friendly
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of international goals scored by Viktor Leonenko<ref>{{cite web |title=Viktor Leonenko, international football player |url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=12062 |website=eu-football.info |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref>
|-
|-
!scope="col"|No.
| 2. || rowspan=2|16 October 1993 || rowspan=2|[[A.J. Simeon Stadium]], [[High Point, North Carolina|High Point]], [[United States]] || rowspan=2|{{fb|United States}} || 1–'''1''' || rowspan=2|1-2 || rowspan=2|Friendly
!scope="col"|Date
!scope="col"|Venue
!scope="col"|Opponent
!scope="col"|Score
!scope="col"|Result
!scope="col"|Competition
|-
|-
| align="center"|1 || 18 May 1993 || [[Žalgiris Stadium]], [[Vilnius]], Lithuania || {{fb|Lithuania}} || align="center"|1–1 || align="center"|2–1 || Friendly
| 3. || 1–'''2'''
|-
|-
| align="center"|2 || rowspan="2"|16 October 1993 || rowspan="2"|[[A.J. Simeon Stadium]], [[High Point, North Carolina|High Point]], United States || rowspan="2"|{{fb|United States}} || align="center"|1–1 || rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|2–1 || rowspan="2"|Friendly
| 4. || 25 May 1994 || [[NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium|Republican Stadium]], [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]] || {{flagicon|Belarus|1991}} [[Belarus national football team|Belarus]] || '''1'''–1 || 3-1 || Friendly
|-
|-
| align="center"|3 || align="center"|2–1
| 5. || rowspan=2|13 August 1996 || rowspan=2|[[NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium|Republican Stadium]], [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]] || rowspan=2|{{fb|Lithuania}} || '''1'''–1 || rowspan=2|5-2 || rowspan=2|Friendly
|-
|-
| align="center"|4 || 25 May 1994 || [[NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium|Republican Stadium]], [[Kyiv]], Ukraine || {{flagicon|Belarus|1991}} [[Belarus national football team|Belarus]] || align="center"|1–1 || align="center"|3–1 || Friendly
| 6. || '''3'''–1
|-
|-
| align="center"|5 || rowspan="2"|13 August 1996 || rowspan="2"|Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine || rowspan="2"|{{fb|Lithuania}} || align="center"|1–1 || rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|5–2 || rowspan="2"|Friendly
| colspan="12"|<small>''Correct as of 1 December 2014''<ref>[http://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=12062 Football PLAYER: Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko]</ref></small>
|-
|-
| align="center"|6 || align="center"|3–1
|}
|}


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
<references/>


==External links==
==External links==
* {{FootballFacts.ru}}
* {{KLISF|id=987673839961602|name=Viktor Leonenko}}
* {{FFU|25962}}
* [http://ffu.org.ua/ukr/tournaments/prof/25962/ Leonenko's profile at FFU website]
* [http://www.fanatukr.com/igrok/leonenko.html List of all National team games]
* [http://www.fanatukr.com/igrok/leonenko.html List of all National team games]
* {{NFT player|pid=19787}}
* {{NFT player|19787}}
* {{ru icon}} [http://www.bulvar.com.ua/arch/2008/11/47e01ffa4aefe/ Interview to the newspaper "Bulvar Gordona"]
* [http://www.bulvar.com.ua/arch/2008/11/47e01ffa4aefe/ Interview to the newspaper "Bulvar Gordona"] {{in lang|ru}}
* {{ru icon}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723105849/http://rutube.ru/tracks/697658.html Interview of Leonenko to "2:1" at Nash football] (video footage)
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723105849/http://rutube.ru/tracks/697658.html |date=23 July 2011 |title=Interview of Leonenko to "2:1" at Nash football (video footage)}} {{in lang|ru}}
* {{ru icon}}/{{uk icon}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110823174133/http://onlinegoal.com.ua/index.php?name=news&op=readfull&news=2312 3 taim of 19 August 2010. The studio guest the Ukrainian coach Serhiy Rebrov] (video footage)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110823174133/http://onlinegoal.com.ua/index.php?name=news&op=readfull&news=2312 3 taim of 19 August 2010. The studio guest the Ukrainian coach Serhiy Rebrov] (video footage) {{in lang|ru|uk}}
* [http://sport.segodnya.ua/blogs/leonenkoblog.html Leonenko's football blog at segodnya.ua]
* [http://sport.segodnya.ua/blogs/leonenkoblog.html Leonenko's football blog at segodnya.ua]


{{Ukrainian Footballer of the Year}}
{{Ukrainian Footballer of the Year}}


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Latest revision as of 06:28, 5 December 2024

Viktor Leonenko
Personal information
Full name Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko
Date of birth (1969-10-05) 5 October 1969 (age 55)
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

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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]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[a] Europe Total
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
  1. ^ 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.
List of international goals scored by Viktor Leonenko[2]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 18 May 1993 Žalgiris Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania  Lithuania 1–1 2–1 Friendly
2 16 October 1993 A.J. Simeon Stadium, High Point, United States  United States 1–1 2–1 Friendly
3 2–1
4 25 May 1994 Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine Belarus Belarus 1–1 3–1 Friendly
5 13 August 1996 Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine  Lithuania 1–1 5–2 Friendly
6 3–1

References

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  1. ^ 3 taim intro page Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  2. ^ "Viktor Leonenko, international football player". eu-football.info. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
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