Mykhaylo Fomenko

Mykhaylo Fomenko

Fomenko in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Mykhaylo Ivanovych Fomenko
Date of birth	(1948-09-19)19 September 1948
Place of birth	Mala Rybytsia, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Date of death	29 April 2024(2024-04-29) (aged 75)
Place of death	Sumy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1962–1965	Spartak Sumy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1965–1970	Spartak Sumy	48	(8)
1970–1972	Zorya Luhansk	59	(1)
1972–1979	Dynamo Kyiv	173	(0)
Total		280	(9)
International career
1972–1976	USSR	24	(0)
Managerial career
1979	Frunzenets Sumy
1980–1985	Dynamo Kyiv (as instructor)
1985–1986	Desna Chernihiv
1987	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
1987–1990	Guria Lanchkhuti
1990–1991	Al-Rasheed and Iraq
1991–1992	Avtomobilist Sumy
1993	Dynamo Kyiv
1994	Veres Rivne
1994	Guinea
1994–1996	CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv
1996–2000	Metalist Kharkiv
2000–2001	CSKA Kyiv
2001–2002	Metalist Kharkiv
2003	Metalurh Zaporizhia
2003–2005	Metalist Kharkiv
2005	Spartak Sumy (vice-president)
2005–2008	Tavriya Simferopol
2010–2011	Salyut Belgorod
2012–2016	Ukraine
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Men's football 1976 Montreal Team competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mykhaylo Ivanovych Fomenko (Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Фоменко; 19 September 1948 – 29 April 2024) was a Ukrainian football player and coach.

As a player, he was capped 24 times for the Soviet Union,^[1] and, as a head coach, became the second ever manager – after Oleh Blokhin – to take the Ukraine national team to an international finals tournament, reaching UEFA Euro 2016.

Fomenko was famous for his coaching in Dynamo Kyiv, winning its first Ukrainian gold medals for the club, first Ukrainian Cup for the club and most notably, defeating Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League tournament. Barcelona, under Johan Cruyff and with such star players as Ronald Koeman and Pep Guardiola, ended up to be finalist of that UEFA Champions League season.

Fomenko died in Sumy on 29 April 2024, at the age of 75.^[2]