{{Short description|Ukrainian footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox football biography | name= Ihor Yurchenko | fullname = Ihor Mykolayovych Yurchenko | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|9|5}} | birth_place = Stanislav, Ukraine, Soviet Union | height = {{height|m=1.84}} | currentclub = | clubnumber = | position = Midfielder | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Spartak youth school (Ivano-Frankivsk) | years1 = 1977–1978 | years2 = 1979–1980 | years3 = 1981 | years4 = 1982–1984 | years5 = 1985–1986 | years6 = 1987 | years7 = 1988–1989 | years8 = 1989 | years9 = 1990–1995 | clubs1 = Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | clubs2 = SKA Rostov-na-Donu | clubs3 = Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | clubs4 = Shakhtar Donetsk | clubs5 = Chornomorets Odessa | clubs6 = Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | clubs7 = SKA Karpaty Lviv | clubs8 = Chornomorets Odessa | clubs9 = Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | caps1 = 18 | caps2 = 13 | caps3 = 40 | caps4 = 73 | caps5 = 36 | caps6 = ? | caps7 = 41 | caps8 = 3 | caps9 = ? | goals1 = 1 | goals2 = 0 | goals3 = 3 | goals4 = 9 | goals5 = 6 | goals6 = ? | goals7 = 5 | goals8 = 0 | goals9 = ? | manageryears1 = 1993–1996 | manageryears2 = 1997 | manageryears3 = 1998–1999 | manageryears4 = 2003 | manageryears5 = 2005 | manageryears6 = 2006 | manageryears7 = 2007 | managerclubs1 = Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | managerclubs2 = Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | managerclubs3 = Nyva Ternopil | managerclubs4 = Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | managerclubs5 = Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk (women) | managerclubs6 = Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | managerclubs7 = Naftokhimik Kalush (women) }}
'''Ihor Mykolayovych Yurchenko''' ({{langx|uk|Ігор Миколайович Юрченко}}; born in 5/9/1960) is the Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer known for his performance in the Ukrainian club Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk. Ihor has a younger brother Mykola Yurchenko whose name is also tightly intertwined with the fate of the western Ukrainian club.
==Playing career== He made his professional debut in the tournament for Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk in 1977. Throughout of his career played for different clubs of the Soviet Top League such as Shakhtar Donetsk, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, and Chornomorets Odessa. With the fall of the Soviet Union Yurchenko was on the roster of the football club Prykarpattia which was placed in the Ukrainian Premier League in 1992 after finishing second in the Soviet fourth division. He stayed with the club before its return to the Premiers after the 1994–95 season, becoming the playing coach for the team. Yurchenko soon after the club secured its place in the top league retired as a player continuing to coach the club from Ivano-Frankivsk. Later in his coaching career he managed Nyva Ternopil.
==Honours== * Ukrainian First League champion.
* Ukrainian Women's Top League champion.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.klisf.info/numeric/index.app?cmd=ln&lang=ru&id=100332762272379 Statistics of the player at KLISF] {{in lang|ru}} * [http://www.ffu.org.ua/ukr/tournaments/arch/tprotocol/120196/ Protocol of one of the matches in 1993 between Prykarpattia and Podillya] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925172739/http://www.ffu.org.ua/ukr/tournaments/arch/tprotocol/120196/ |date=25 September 2012 }} {{in lang|uk}} * [http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/2a/481cc309.html?page=0 Interview of Vasyl Teofan, the native of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and player of Metalist Kharkiv] {{in lang|uk}} * [http://fscprykarpattya.if.ua/news/2006-10-03-2 Interview of Taras Kovalchuk, another native of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and player of the Ukrainian Olympic team] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414143950/http://fscprykarpattya.if.ua/news/2006-10-03-2 |date=14 April 2011 }} {{in lang|uk}} * [http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/first/452e88b6.html?page=0 Interview of Taras Klym, the president of NFK Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk] {{in lang|uk}} * {{FFU}}
{{FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk managers}} {{FC Nyva Ternopil managers}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yurchenko, Ihor}} Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Footballers from Ivano-Frankivsk Category:Soviet men's footballers Category:Ukrainian men's footballers Category:Ukrainian football managers Category:FC Shakhtar Donetsk players Category:FC Chornomorets Odesa players Category:Ukrainian Premier League players Category:Ukrainian First League players Category:Ukrainian Second League players Category:FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk managers Category:FC Nyva Ternopil managers Category:Ukrainian Premier League managers Category:Men's association football midfielders Category:FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players Category:FC Kalush managers Category:20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen Category:WFC Naftokhimik Kalush