Viktor Leonenko

Viktor Leonenko

Personal information
Full name	Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko
Date of birth	(1969-10-05) 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)
1998–2000	CSKA Kyiv	13	(5)
2001–2002	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	12	(3)
Total		281	(120)
International career
1992–1996	Ukraine	14	(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko (Template:Lang-ua; Template:Lang-ru; 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.

Club career

Leonenko began his career with stints at Russian clubs such as Geolog Tyumen and FC Dynamo Moscow, before transferring to FC 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 FC Zakarpattia Uzhhorod in 2001.

International career

Born in Russia, Leonenko chose to play for the Ukraine national football 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

Club

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Soviet Union			League		Cup		Europe		Total
1988	Geolog Tyumen	First League	17	0	1	0	-	-	18	0
1989			35	11	1	0	-	-	36	11
1990			33	12	-	-	-	-	33	12
1991			8	3	-	-	-	-	8	3
1991	Dynamo (M)	Top League	16	9	1	0	6	0	23	9
Russia			League		Cup		Europe		Total
1992	Dynamo (M)	Premier League	4	5	-	-	-	-	4	5
Ukraine			League		Cup		Europe		Total
1992	Dynamo (K)	Premier League	5	3	1	0	-	-	6	3
1992-93			27	16	5	5	4	3	36	24
1993-94			24	15	-	-	2	2	26	17
1994-95			20	17	3	0	6	3	29	20
1995-96			13	5	4	1	-	-	17	6
1996-97			9	5	-	-	4	0	13	5
1997-98			-	-	2	4	-	-	2	4
1998-99	CSKA Kyiv		12	5	4	1	4	1	20	7
1999-00			1	0	-	-	-	-	1	0
2000-01	Zakarpattia	First League	5	2	-	-	-	-	5	2
2001-02		Premier League	7	1	2	1	-	-	9	2
Total	Soviet		109	35	3	0	6	0	118	35
	Russia		4	5	-	-	-	-	4	5
	Ukraine		123	69	21	12	20	9	164	90
Career total			236	109	24	12	26	9	286	130

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	18 May 1993	Žalgiris Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania	Lithuania	1–1	1-2	Friendly
2.	16 October 1993	A.J. Simeon Stadium, High Point, United States	United States	1–1	1-2	Friendly
3.				1–2
4.	25 May 1994	Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine	Belarus	1–1	3-1	Friendly
5.	13 August 1996	Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine	Lithuania	1–1	5-2	Friendly
6.				3–1
Correct as of 1 December 2014

External links

• 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