Serhiy Yashchenko

{{Short description|Ukrainian footballer (born 1959)}}

{{BLP sources|date=May 2017}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Serhiy Yashchenko

| image =

| full_name = Serhiy Volodymyrovych Yashchenko

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1959|06|25}}

| birth_place = Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

| height = 1.74 m

| position = Midfielder

| currentclub =

| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1981 | clubs1 = CSKA Moscow | caps1 = 3 | goals1 = 0

| years2 = 1982–1995 | clubs2 = Shakhtar Donetsk | caps2 = 384 | goals2 = 32

| years3 = 1995–1999 | clubs3 = → Shakhtar-2 Donetsk | caps3 = 74 | goals3 = 13

| nationalyears1 = 1986 | nationalteam1 = Soviet Union (olympic) | nationalcaps1 = 2 | nationalgoals1 = 0

| manageryears1 = 1996–1999 | managerclubs1 = Shakhtar-2 Donetsk (assistant)

| manageryears2 = 1999–2000 | managerclubs2 = Shakhtar Donetsk (assistant)

| manageryears3 = 2000–2002 | managerclubs3 = Metalurh Donetsk (assistant)

| manageryears4 = 2002 | managerclubs4 = Stal Alchevsk

| manageryears5 = 2002–2004 | managerclubs5 = Metalurh Donetsk (assistant)

| manageryears6 = 2004–2005 | managerclubs6 = Metalurh Donetsk (reserves)

| manageryears7 = 2005–2006 | managerclubs7 = Metalurh Zaporizhzhia (assistant)

| manageryears8 = 2006–2007 | managerclubs8 = Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

| manageryears9 = 2007 | managerclubs9 = Metalurh Donetsk (reserves)

| manageryears10 = 2007–2008 | managerclubs10 = Metalurh Donetsk

| manageryears11 = 2009 | managerclubs11 = Lviv (assistant)

| manageryears12 = 2012–2013 | managerclubs12 = USK-Rubin Donetsk

| manageryears13 = 2013–2015 | managerclubs13 = Kremin Kremenchuk (assistant)

| manageryears14 = 2015–2018 | managerclubs14 = Kremin Kremenchuk

| manageryears15 = 2020–2022 | managerclubs15 = Kramatorsk (U19)

}}

Serhiy Volodymyrovych Yashchenko ({{langx|uk|Сергій Володимирович Ященко}}; born 25 June 1959) is a Ukrainian football manager and former player.{{cite web|language=ru |url=https://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/news/1304609489-sergey-yaschenko-legendarnyy-samorodok.html |website=ua-football.com |title=Сергей Ященко. Легендарный самородок |date=5 May 2011 |accessdate=5 July 2017}}

Career

Yashchenko was noticed by coach Boris Kopeikin during his military service and recommended to CSKA Moscow where he spent the 1981 season in the shadow of Aleksandr Tarkhanov, playing only a couple of matches. He then went back to his native Ukraine and to Shakhtar, winning the 1983 Soviet Cup and the 1984 Soviet Super Cup. He played a total of 14 seasons with Shakhtar and won, after the collapse of the USSR, the 1995 Ukrainian Cup.

Yashchenko played couple of friendly matches for the Soviet Olympic football team in 1986 against Czechoslovakia and Sweden.[https://footballfacts.ru/club/22723-sssr?year=1986 1986 Soviet Olympic football team]. footballfacts.ru He never played in official competitions for the team.

He became head coach of Ukrainian side FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhya in 2006 and guided them to the first round of the UEFA Cup and a 2–1 aggregate defeat to Panathinaikos FC. He left Zaporizhzhya in April 2007 and took up a position as reserve team coach at FC Metalurh Donetsk. Following the resignation of Jos Daerden as Metalurh head coach in early December 2007, Yashchenko assumed caretaker manager duties at the club before becoming the permanent manager two weeks later.

Career statistics

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|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

rowspan="2" width="100"|Club

!rowspan="2" width="60"|Season

!colspan="2"|League

!colspan="2"|Cup

!colspan="2"|Europe

!colspan="2"|Super Cup

!colspan="2"|Total

width="40"|Apps

!width="40"|Goals

!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="14"|Shakhtar Donetsk

|1982

|19

1|
|191
1983

|28

55240|
|377
1984

|29

64120|
|357
1985

|29

651|
|347
1986

|30

541|
|10356
1987

|29

242|
|334
1988

|29

031|
|321
1989

|29

350|
|343
1990

|20

230|
|232
1991

|30

020|
|320
1992

|19

160|
|251
1992–93

|28

020|
|300
1993–94

|33

030|
|360
1994–95

|32

15020|
|391
colspan="2"|Total

!384

32518801044440

Honours

References

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