Serhiy_Konovalov
Serhiy Konovalov
Ukrainian attacking midfielder (born 1972)
Serhiy Konovalov (Ukrainian: Сергій Борисович Коновалов; born 1 March 1972) is a Ukrainian current football coach and former football midfielder.
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| Full name | Serhiy Borysovych Konovalov | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1972-03-01) 1 March 1972 (age 52) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Poltava, Ukrainian SSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| ?–1989 |
Regional sports boarding school Dnipropetrovsk | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1994 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 108 | (29) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–2001 | Dynamo Kyiv | 54 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | → Pohang Steelers (loan) | 52 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | → Dynamo-2 Kyiv | 51 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | → Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | → Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (loan) | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | → Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk (loan) | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | → Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk (loan) | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | → Beitar Jerusalem (loan) | 27 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | Arsenal Kyiv | 40 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | → Arsenal-2 Kyiv | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | → Borysfen Boryspil (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | → Boreks-Borysfen Borodianka (loan) | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | → Qingdao Beilaite (loan) | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Inter Baku | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Irpin Horenychi (amateur) | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1993–2003 | Ukraine | 22 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | FC Sevastopol (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | FC Sevastopol (interim) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | FC Ternopil (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | FC Poltava (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Konovalov is a product of the Dnipro Higher School of Physical Culture (formerly Dnipropetrovsk Regional sport boarding school).
He capped for USSR Youth Team in 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Konovalov was the first player to score in a competitive match for the Ukraine national team, as he netted after 29 minutes in their third UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying Group 4 match against Estonia, following a 2–0 loss to Lithuania and a 0–0 draw with Slovenia. The match finished 3-0 thanks to an Urmas Kirs own goal and a goal from Timerlan Huseinov. Ukraine eventually finished 4th in the group and failed to qualify for the tournament. Was married. He is now in civil marriage. Three children: Nikita Konovalov, Sonia Konovalova, Nazarii Konovalov.
He played domestically for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Kyiv, Arsenal Kyiv and Borysfen Boryspil, as well as for South Korean club Pohang Steelers, Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem, Chinese club Qingdao Beilaite and Azerbaijani club Inter Baku.
- Results list Ukraine's goal tally first.
| Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 27 April 1993 | Odesa, Ukraine |  Israel | 1 goal | 1–1 | Friendly match |
| 13 November 1994 | Kyiv, Ukraine |  Estonia | 1 goal | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 20 March 1999 | Tbilisi, Georgia |  Georgia | 1 goal | 1–0 | Friendly match |
Konovalov in July 2011 joined FC Sevastopol as assistant coach.[1] On 27 November 2013 he was appointed as interim coach of FC Sevastopol.[2]
- Сергей Коновалов вошел в тренерский штаб "Севастополя" Archived 5 February 2013 at archive.today (in Russian)
- Геннадий Орбу уволен из Севастополя. Official FC Sevastopol Site (in Russian). ua-football.com. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
- Serhiy Konovalov at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
- Serhiy Konovalov – K League stats at kleague.com (in Korean)
- Serhiy Konovalov – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Serhiy Konovalov at National-Football-Teams.com
