Serhiy_Nahornyak
Serhiy Nahornyak
Ukrainian footballer and coach
Serhiy Mykolayovych Nahornyak (Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Нагорняк; born 5 September 1971) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and former player.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Serhiy Mykolayovych Nahornyak | ||
| Date of birth | (1971-09-05) 5 September 1971 (age 52) | ||
| Place of birth | Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder/Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Vinnytsia | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1993 | Intehral Vinnytsia | (7) | |
| 1993 | Vorskla Poltava | 1 | (0) |
| 1993–1994 | Nyva Vinnytsia | 39 | (9) |
| 1993 | → Khimik Zhytomyr (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 1995 | Spartak Moscow | 10 | (0) |
| 1995–1998 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 60 | (14) |
| 1996 | → Spartak Moscow (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1996 | → Metalurh Novomoskovsk (loan) | 1 | (2) |
| 1999–2000 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 17 | (3) |
| 1999 | → Shakhtar-2 Donetsk | 4 | (0) |
| 2000 | Shenyang Haishi | 26 | (12) |
| 2001–2003 | Shandong Luneng | 74 | (18) |
| 2004 | Arsenal Kyiv | 14 | (1) |
| 2004 | Jiangsu Sainty | 16 | (3) |
| 2005 | Volyn Lutsk | 15 | (1) |
| 2005–2006 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 24 | (3) |
| 2007–2009 | Irpin Horenychi | ||
| Total | 318 | (82) | |
| International career | |||
| 1994–2002 | Ukraine | 14 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014–2016 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (assistant) | ||
| 2019 | Ukraine U19 | ||
| 2020 | Ukraine U16 | ||
| 2021 | Ukraine U17 | ||
| 2021–2022 | Epitsentr Dunaivtsi (assistant) | ||
| 2022 | Ukraine U18 | ||
| 2022–2023 | Ukraine U19 | ||
| 2022– | Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Nahornyak started his career at local amateur but well established football club Intehral playing at regional level. He made his debut at professional level in April 1993 in the Ukrainian First League for FC Vorskla Poltava playing against FC Avtomobilist Sumy.[1] In the Ukrainian Premier League Nahornyak debuted for FC Nyva Vinnytsia on 8 August 1993 against FC Torpedo Zaporizhia.
In 1995 another Podolianyn Vyacheslav Hrozny invited him to FC Spartak Moscow, but Nahornyak struggled to stay in the first squad and later after dismissal of Hrozny from Spartak joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, with which reached the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final yielding the main trophy on penalties to FC Shakhtar Donetsk.
He played a game in the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League for FC Spartak Moscow in a 2:2 tie against FC Nantes Atlantique. Later Nahornyak also represented FC Dnipro and FC Shakhtar Donetsk in UEFA Europa League recording 5 games in total for this continental cup.
- Russian Premier League champion: 1996.
- Russian Cup finalist: 1996.
- Ukrainian Premier League runner-up: 1999.
- Ukrainian Premier League bronze: 1996, 1998.
- Ukrainian Cup finalist: 1997, 2006.
- Serhiy Nahornyak at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- Serhiy Nahornyak at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
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