Leonid_Tkachenko_(footballer)
Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)
Ukrainian-Russian football player and manager (1953–2024)
Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (Russian: Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; 1 October 1953[3] – 4 January 2024) was a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a Soviet player.[4]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko | ||
| Date of birth | (1953-10-01)1 October 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Staryi Krym, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Date of death | 4 January 2024(2024-01-04) (aged 70) | ||
| Place of death | Kaliningrad, Russia | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Half-back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971 | Baltika Kaliningrad | ||
| 1971–1972 | FC Mashinostroitel Kaliningrad | ||
| 1975–1976 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | ||
| 1978–1984 | Metalist Kharkiv | 181 | (20) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1984–1993 | Metalist Kharkiv, Ukraine | ||
| 1993–1994 | Temp Shepetivka | ||
| 1995–1998 | Baltika Kaliningrad | ||
| 1999 | Sokol Saratov | ||
| 2001–2002 | Anzhi Makhachkala | ||
| 2002–2003 | Sokol Saratov | ||
| 2005–2006 | Baltika Kaliningrad | ||
| 2007–2008 | Dynamo Saint Petersburg | ||
| 2009 | Baltika Kaliningrad | ||
| 2010 | Baltika Kaliningrad (director of sports) | ||
| 2010 | Baltika Kaliningrad | ||
| 2011–2013 | Petrotrest Saint Petersburg | ||
| 2013–2014 | Sever Murmansk | ||
| 2014–2015 | Volga Tver | ||
| 2022–2024 | Baltika Kaliningrad (assistant)[1][2] | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for Metalist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League in 1981.[5]
Together with Mykola Pavlov he served as an interim coach for Ukraine national team when it contested Belarus in a friendly. He and Pavlov were assistant coaches to Viktor Prokopenko before then. Sometime in 2000, he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained Russian citizenship.
Tkachenko died on 4 January 2024, at the age of 70.[6]
- Russian Second Division Zone West best manager: 2005.[7]
- "Леонид Ткаченко вернулся в "Балтику"". 1fnl.ru. 17 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- "В тренерский штаб "Балтики" вернулся легендарный экс-наставник команды Леонид Ткаченко". kaliningrad.kp.ru (in Russian). 8 June 2022. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- Александр Просветов (19 September 2021). "Леонид Ткаченко: "У нас иные футбольные руководители путают хавбеков с хэтчбеками"". Sportbox.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- "Балтийцы: Леонид Ткаченко". YouTube (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- Огромная утрата (in Russian)
- "Заслуженный тренер Украины Леонид Ткаченко: Завершил тренерскую карьеру, потому что пришло какое-то время дураков". Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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