Serhiy Kovalets

Serhiy Kovalets
Personal information
Full name Serhiy Ivanovych Kovalets
Date of birth (1968-09-05) 5 September 1968
Place of birth Chekhove, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
FK Trakai (manager)
Youth career
DYuSSh Krasyliv
FC Sluch Krasyliv
FC Zirka Berdychiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986, 1988–1989 FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi 74 (11)
1989–1994 FC Dynamo Kyiv 118 (13)
1995–1996 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 30 (3)
1996 FC Chornomorets Odessa 11 (4)
1997FC Twente (loan) 0 (0)
1997 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (1)
1997–2000 FC Karpaty Lviv 62 (8)
2000–2002 FC Metalurh Zaporizhya 31 (5)
2002–2003 FC Obolon Kyiv 27 (2)
2003 FC Volyn Lutsk 8 (1)
2004 FC Krasyliv-Obolon Krasyliv 5 (1)
2004–2005 FC Borysfen Boryspil 3 (0)
National team
1992–1994 Ukraine 10 (0)
Teams managed
2005–2008 FC Metalist Kharkiv (assistant)
2008–2009 FC Lviv
2009 PFC Oleksandria
2010–2011 FC Obolon Kyiv
2012 1. FC Tatran Prešov
2012 FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
2013–2015 Ukraine U-21
2016– FK Trakai

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 July 2012.


Serhiy Kovalets (Ukrainian: Сергій Іванович Ковалець; born 5 September 1968) is a former Ukrainian football midfielder and manager.

Playing career

Kovalets played 10 matches[1] for Ukraine between 1992 and 1994.

Coaching career

After he retired from playing football, Metalist Kharkiv head coach Myron Markevych invited Kovalets to work with him as an assistant coach in 2005. In 2008, Kovalets became the head coach of the newly promoted FC Lviv, who had an unsuccessful start in the Ukrainian Premier League. Kovalets failed to accomplish his task of keeping his team in the Premier League, which ended up losing to Illichivets in goal difference.

At the end of August 2009, Kovalets became the new head coach of PFC Oleksandria in the Ukrainian First League.[2] He held this position until Yuriy Maksymov left Obolon during the winter break of 2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League season when he was offered the position.[3] He was sacked after a 1–0 defeat at Chornomorets Odesa on 31 November.[4] On 18 January 2012, Kovalets was appointed as the new manager of 1. FC Tatran Prešov.

Personal life

Kovalets was born in Chekhove, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, now Ukraine. He is married since 1988. Together with his wife Anzhela has three children: daughters Alina (1989) and Daryna (1998) and also one son, current professional footballer Kyrylo (1993).[5]

Honours

Player

References

  1. Matthias Arnhold (2011-07-15). "Serhiy Ivanovych Kovalets - International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
  2. Serhiy Kovalets is now in charge of Oleksandria – terrikon.dn.ua (Russian)
  3. "У Ковальца в "Оболони" две задачи" [Kovalets has two tasks with "Obolon"]. ua-football.com (in Russian). 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
  4. Obolon part company with Kovalets 31.10.2011, ffu.org.ua
  5. "Сергій Ковалець". sport.ukrinform.ua. 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
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