Oleksandr Kovpak

Oleksandr Kovpak
	Kovpak in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Kovpak
Date of birth	2 February 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth	Smila, Ukrainian SSR
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	LNZ Cherkasy (Manager)
Youth career
1997–2002	Sports school (Smila)
Senior career*
Years	Team
2002–2005	Dnipro Cherkasy
2005–2010	Tavriya Simferopol
2011–2013	Arsenal Kyiv
2013–2014	Sevastopol
2014–2016	Vorskla Poltava
2016–2017	Cherkaskyi Dnipro
2017–2018	Poltava
2018	Desna Chernihiv
2019	Arsenal Kyiv
2019	Chornomorets Odesa
2020	Polissya Zhytomyr
2020–2021	LNZ Cherkasy (amateur)
International career
2005	Ukraine-21
2013	Ukraine
Managerial career
2020–2022	LNZ Cherkasy (assistant)
2022–	LNZ Cherkasy
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Kovpak (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Ковпак; born 2 February 1983 in Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a retired Ukrainian footballer and current manager of LNZ Cherkasy.

Career

He moved to Tavriya in the winter of 2005 from Dnipro Cherkassy.

Kovpak become the top goalscorer of the Ukrainian Premier League 2008-09 with Tavriya, having netted 17 goals.

The head coach of Ukraine's national team Oleksiy Mykhailychenko called him into the Ukrainian squad for the 2010 World Cup qualifying games versus Croatia and Kazakhstan on 6 June 2009 and 10 June 2009 respectively, but he remained an unused substitute for these matches. He finally made his debut on 2 June 2013, in the 0:0 draw with Cameroon in a friendly match after coming on as a late replacement for Roman Zozulya.^[1] With all three games, he spent on the pitch a total of 14–15 minutes.

During the winter break of the 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season he transferred to Arsenal Kyiv.^[2]

Career statistics

As of 10 July 2011

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Tavriya Simferopol	2004–05	14	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	6
	2005–06	22	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	5
	2006–07	26	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	30	3
	2007–08	26	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	30	3
	2008–09	28	17	2	1	3	0	0	0	33	18
	2009–10	25	8	5	5	0	0	0	0	30	13
	2010–11	14	5	1	0	0	0	1	0	16	5
Arsenal Kyiv	2010–11	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	1
Arsenal Kyiv	2011–12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total		165	47	17	7	3	0	1	0	186	54

References

^ "Aleksandr Kovpak match log". soccerway.com. June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^ "Александр Ковпак - игрок "Арсенала" (Oleksandr Kovpak - Arsenal player))" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2010.

External links

Profile on Official Tavriya website (in Russian)
Oleksandr Kovpak at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
Oleksandr Kovpak at Soccerway

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[1] "Aleksandr Kovpak match log". soccerway.com. June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.

[2] "Александр Ковпак - игрок "Арсенала" (Oleksandr Kovpak - Arsenal player))" (in Russian). ua-football.com. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2010.

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