# Valeri Butenko

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{{Short description|Russian footballer and referee (1941–2020)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name        = Valeri Butenko
| image       = 
| full_name   = Valeri Pavlovich Butenko
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1941|7|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [Russian SFSR](/source/Russian_SFSR), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|2020|2|13|1941|7|16|df=y}}
| death_place = Moscow
| height = 
| position = [Midfielder](/source/Midfielder_(association_football))
| 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](/source/Soviet_Top_League)
| role1           = Referee
| internationalyears1 = 1981-1991
| confederation1      = [FIFA](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Russian_people) [football](/source/Association_football) midfielder and referee, and a Master of Sports of the [USSR](/source/USSR), known for having acted as referee at one [1986 FIFA World Cup](/source/1986_FIFA_World_Cup) Group D match - the game between [Algeria](/source/Algeria_national_football_team) and [Northern Ireland](/source/Northern_Ireland_national_football_team) on 3 June 1986. After retiring, Butenko served as a match supervisor. His younger brother [Andrei Butenko](/source/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 -->}}

{{Referees 1986 World Cup}}

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Category:1941 births
Category:2020 deaths
Category:Russian football referees
Category:Soviet football referees
Category:1986 FIFA World Cup referees
Category:Footballers from Moscow
Category:Russian men's footballers
Category:Soviet men's footballers
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:20th-century Russian sportsmen

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