Viktor Onopko

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Savelyevich and the family name is Onopko.
Viktor Onopko

Honored by UEFA in 2011
Personal information
Full name Viktor Savelyevich Onopko
Date of birth (1969-10-14) 14 October 1969
Place of birth Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Luhansk, Ukraine)
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 CSKA Moscow (asst manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986 Stakhanovets Stakhanov 4 (0)
1986–1988 Shakhtar Donetsk 3 (0)
1989 Dinamo Kiev 0 (0)
1990–1991 Shakhtar Donetsk 45 (4)
1992–1995 Spartak Moscow 108 (23)
1995–2002 Real Oviedo 216 (7)
2002–2003 Rayo Vallecano 28 (1)
2003–2004 Alania Vladikavkaz 7 (0)
2004–2005 Saturn 51 (1)
Total 462 (33)
National team
1992 CIS 4 (0)
1992–2004 Russia 109 (7)
Teams managed
2009– CSKA Moscow (assistant)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Viktor Savelyevich Onopko (Russian: Виктор Савельевич Онопко) (born 14 October 1969, in Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk), Soviet Union) is an association football coach and a former defender. He held the record for most international appearances for the Russian national team until 8 September 2015, when he was overtaken by Sergei Ignashevich.[1] Currently he works as an assistant manager for PFC CSKA Moscow.

Viktor has a younger brother Serhiy Onopko.

Club career

Onopko's career as player started in 1988 and finished in 2005, during this time he played for Shakhtar Donetsk, Spartak Moscow, Real Oviedo, Rayo Vallecano, Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Saturn.

International career

Although he was eligible to play for Ukraine, Onopko chose to play for Russia and amassed 109 caps (plus four for the CIS, including in Euro 92), the first coming in 1992. He played in the 1994 and 2002 World Cups, as well as Euro 96. Onopko was in the preliminary squad for Euro 2004 but was dropped due to injury.

In 2009 he was part of the Russia squad that won the 2009 Legends Cup.

Career statistics

Club

Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Stakhanovets Stakhanov 1986 4000--40
Shakhtar 1986 0000--00
1987 0000--00
1988 3010--40
Dinamo Kiev 1989 0000--00
Shakhtar 1990 21031--241
1991 24110--251
Spartak 1992 2362171328
1993 30940944313
1994 2623050342
1995 2961060366
Real Oviedo 1995–96 191----191
1996–97 37010--380
1997–98 310----310
1998–99 33020--350
1999-00 31210--322
2000–01 35310--363
2001–02 301----301
Rayo Vallecano 2002–03 28110--291
Alania 2003 7010--80
Saturn 2004 26150--311
2005 25020--270
CareerTotal 4583329227551440

Honours

References

  1. ↑ ИГНАШЕВИЧ ПОБИЛ РЕКОРД ОНОПКО ПО ЧИСЛУ МАТЧЕЙ ЗА СБОРНУЮ РОССИИ (in Russian). Sport Express. 8 September 2015.


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