Valeri Butenko

{{Short description|Russian footballer and referee (1941–2020)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Valeri Butenko

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| full_name = Valeri Pavlovich Butenko

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|7|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|2|13|1941|7|16|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow

| height =

| position = Midfielder

| years1 = 1966 | clubs1 = Dynamo-d Moscow | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = 1967 | clubs2 = Dynamo Makhachkala| caps2 = | goals2 =

| years3 = 1968–1969 | clubs3 = Shakhter Kiselevsk | caps3 = | goals3 =

| years4 = 1969–1970 | clubs4 = Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | caps4 = | goals4 =

| years5 = 1971–1974 | clubs5 = Soyuz Moscow | caps5 = | goals5 =

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{{Infobox football official

| years1 = 1976–1991

| league1 = Soviet Top League

| role1 = Referee

| internationalyears1 = 1981-1991

| confederation1 = FIFA listed

| internationalrole1 = Referee

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Valeri Pavlovich Butenko ({{langx|ru|Валерий Павлович Бутенко}}; 16 July 1941 – 13 February 2020{{cite web|publisher=Russian Premier League|url=https://premierliga.ru/news/rfpl/news_24517.html|title=Умер Валерий Бутенко|trans-title=Valeri Butenko has died|date=13 February 2020|language=Russian}}) was a Russian football midfielder and referee, and a Master of Sports of the USSR, known for having acted as referee at one 1986 FIFA World Cup Group D match - the game between Algeria and Northern Ireland on 3 June 1986. After retiring, Butenko served as a match supervisor. His younger brother Andrei Butenko was a football referee as well.