Illya_Zabarnyi
Illya Zabarnyi
Ukrainian footballer
Illia Borysovych Zabarnyi (Ukrainian: Ілля Борисович Забарний; born 1 September 2002) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club AFC Bournemouth and the Ukraine national team.[2]
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Zabarnyi with AFC Bournemouth in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Illia Borysovych Zabarnyi | ||
| Date of birth | (2002-09-01) 1 September 2002 (age 21)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Kyiv, Ukraine | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AFC Bournemouth | ||
| Number | 27 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2015–2019 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2023 | Dynamo Kyiv | 50 | (1) |
| 2023– | AFC Bournemouth | 37 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018–2019 | Ukraine U17 | 6 | (4) |
| 2020 | Ukraine U21 | 2 | (1) |
| 2020– | Ukraine | 34 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:54, 13 April 2024 (GMT) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2024 | |||
Dynamo Kyiv
Zabarnyi is a product of the Dynamo Kyiv youth sportive school from his native city Kyiv. His first trainers were Serhiy Bezhenar and Artem Yashkin.[3][4]
He played for FC Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and in July 2019 he was promoted to the senior squad team. Zabarnyi made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League for Dynamo Kyiv only on 11 September 2020, playing in a drawn home match against Desna Chernihiv.[5]
AFC Bournemouth
On 31 January 2023, Zabarnyi signed a 5+1⁄2-year contract with Premier League club Bournemouth.[6]
In 2020 Zabarnyi was called up for the Ukraine U21's matches in September 2020 and made the debut in a match against Finland U21.
He made his national team debut on 7 October 2020 in a friendly against France.[7]
Club
- As of match played 13 April 2024[8]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Dynamo Kyiv | 2020–21 | Ukrainian Premier League | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 13[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 1 | |
| 2021–22 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 6[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 1[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||
| 2022–23 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 11[lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 1[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 26 | 0 | |||
| Total | 50 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 85 | 1 | |||
| AFC Bournemouth | 2022–23 | Premier League | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 2023–24 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 36 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 37 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 87 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 126 | 2 | ||
- Nine appearances in UEFA Champions League, four appearances in UEFA Europa League
- Appearance in Ukrainian Super Cup
International
- As of match played 26 March 2024[9]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 2020 | 4 | 0 |
| 2021 | 14 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 8 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 34 | 1 | |
- Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zabarnyi goal.[9]
| No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 June 2023 | Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia | 26 |  North Macedonia | 1–2 | 3–2 | UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying |
Dynamo Kyiv
Individual
- Top Golden talent: 2020 (U-19), 2021 (U-19)
- Ukrainian Premier League player of the Month: 2020–21 (April)
- "Illia Zabarnyi: Overview". Premier League. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
- Ілля Забарний (in Ukrainian). FC Dynamo Kyiv Official Site. 5 November 2020.
- Ілля Забарний: «Дадуть шанс – обов'язково ним скористаюся» (in Ukrainian). FC Dynamo Kyiv Official Site. 15 September 2020.
- Favbet Ліга. 29-й тур Матч №170 (in Ukrainian). UPL Official Site. 15 September 2020.
- "Cherries complete Zabarnyi coup". AFC Bournemouth. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "France v Ukraine game report". ESPN. 7 October 2020.
- I. Zabarnyi at Soccerway. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- "Illya Zabarnyi". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- Profile at the AFC Bournemouth website
- Illia Zabarnyi at Soccerway