Viktor Yevhenovych Leonenko is a former footballer and Ukraine international who played as a forward. At least since 2006 he is a football commentator and analyst for the televised football forum "3 time" at the Ukrainian TV-network ICTV.
Club career
Leonenko began his career with stints at Russian clubs such as Geolog Tyumen and Dynamo Moscow, before transferring to Dynamo Kyiv in 1992, where he played until 1998.
A successful forward for Dynamo in the early to mid 1990s – Leonenko was named Ukrainian Footballer of the Year in 1992, 1993, and 1994 – Leonenko was eventually forced to the bench with the emergence of the striker partnership of Serhii Rebrov and Andriy Shevchenko. In 1998, he moved to play for CSKA Kyiv and ended his career with Zakarpattia Uzhhorod in 2001.
International career
Born in Russia, Leonenko chose to play for the Ukraine national team soon after transferring to Dynamo Kyiv. During his four years representing Ukraine from 1992 until 1996, Leonenko earned 14 caps and scored 6 goals.
Career statistics
Club
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition| Club | Season | League | Cup2 | Europe | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Geolog Tyumen | 1988 | Soviet First League | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 18 | 0 | |
| 1989 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 0 | – | 36 | 11 | |||
| 1990 | 33 | 12 | 0 | 0 | – | 33 | 12 | |||
| 1991 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | 3 | |||
| Total | 93 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 26 | ||
| Dynamo Moscow | 1991 | Soviet Top League | 16 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 23 | 9 |
| 1992 | Russian Premier League | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| Total | 20 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 27 | 14 | ||
| Dynamo Kyiv | 1992 | Ukrainian Premier League | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 6 | 3 | |
| 1992–93 | 27 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 24 | ||
| 1993–94 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 17 | ||
| 1994–95 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 20 | ||
| 1995–96 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6 | ||
| 1996–97 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 5 | ||
| 1997–98 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Total | 98 | 61 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 129 | 79 | ||
| CSKA Kyiv | 1998–99 | Ukrainian Premier League | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 7 |
| 1999–2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 7 | ||
| Zakarpattia | 2000–01 | Ukrainian First League | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | 2 | |
| 2001–02 | Ukrainian Premier League | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 9 | 2 | ||
| Total | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | ||
| Career total | 236 | 109 | 24 | 12 | 26 | 9 | 286 | 130 | ||
International
Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leonenko goal. List of international goals scored by Viktor Leonenko3| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 May 1993 | Žalgiris Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania | Lithuania | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 2 | 16 October 1993 | A.J. Simeon Stadium, High Point, United States | United States | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 3 | 2–1 | |||||
| 4 | 25 May 1994 | Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine | Belarus | 1–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 5 | 13 August 1996 | Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine | Lithuania | 1–1 | 5–2 | Friendly |
| 6 | 3–1 |
External links
- Viktor Leonenko at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- Viktor Leonenko at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
- List of all National team games
- Viktor Leonenko at National-Football-Teams.com
- Interview to the newspaper "Bulvar Gordona" (in Russian)
- Interview of Leonenko to "2:1" at Nash football (video footage) at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 July 2011) (in Russian)
- 3 taim of 19 August 2010. The studio guest the Ukrainian coach Serhiy Rebrov (video footage) (in Russian and Ukrainian)
- Leonenko's football blog at segodnya.ua
References
3 taim intro page Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian) http://ictv.ua/ru/ether/700682/ ↩
Includes Soviet Cup, Russian Cup (football), Cup /wiki/Soviet_Cup ↩
"Viktor Leonenko, international football player". eu-football.info. Retrieved 16 May 2022. https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=12062 ↩