{{Short description|Russian footballer and referee (1941–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Valeri Butenko | image = | full_name = Valeri Pavlovich Butenko | birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|7|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|2|13|1941|7|16|df=y}} | death_place = Moscow | height = | position = Midfielder | years1 = 1966 | clubs1 = Dynamo-d Moscow | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1967 | clubs2 = Dynamo Makhachkala| caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 1968–1969 | clubs3 = Shakhter Kiselevsk | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 1969–1970 | clubs4 = Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | caps4 = | goals4 = | years5 = 1971–1974 | clubs5 = Soyuz Moscow | caps5 = | goals5 = | nationalyears1 = | nationalteam1 = | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = }} {{Infobox football official | years1 = 1976–1991 | league1 = Soviet Top League | role1 = Referee | internationalyears1 = 1981-1991 | confederation1 = FIFA listed | internationalrole1 = Referee }}

'''Valeri Pavlovich Butenko''' ({{langx|ru|Валерий Павлович Бутенко}}; 16 July 1941 – 13 February 2020<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Russian Premier League|url=https://premierliga.ru/news/rfpl/news_24517.html|title=Умер Валерий Бутенко|trans-title=Valeri Butenko has died|date=13 February 2020|language=Russian}}</ref>) was a Russian football midfielder and referee, and a Master of Sports of the USSR, known for having acted as referee at one 1986 FIFA World Cup Group D match - the game between Algeria and Northern Ireland on 3 June 1986. After retiring, Butenko served as a match supervisor. His younger brother Andrei Butenko was a football referee as well.

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==External links== *[https://www.weltfussball.de/schiedsrichter_profil/valeriy-butenko/ Profile] *[http://historyfootball.ru/butenko-valerij-pavlovich-sssr-rossiya/ Short bio] *[http://slovari.yandex.ru/~%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8/%D0%A4%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%20%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%20(%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F)/ Biography] at Yandex Dictionary *{{FootballFacts.ru|<!-- -butenko-valerij-pavlovich -->}}

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