Roman Yosypovych Hryhorchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Йосипович Григорчук; born 22 March 1965) is a Ukrainian football manager who is the head coach of Chornomorets Odesa and a former player.
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Full name | Roman Yosypovych Hryhorchuk | ||
Date of birth | (1965-03-22) 22 March 1965 (age 57) | ||
Place of birth | Kornych, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Chornomorets Odesa (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
Nyva Berezhany | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1983 | Silmash Kolomyia | ||
1987 | Pokuttia Kolomyia | ||
1988 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 34 | (2) |
1990 | Temp Shepetivka | 34 | (19) |
1991–1994 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 111 | (57) |
1994 | VSE St. Poelten | 3 | (0) |
1994–1995 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 7 | (1) |
1995 | ZKS Petrochemia Płock | 14 | (3) |
1995–1996 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 27 | (10) |
1996–1997 | Saturn Ramenskoye | 29 | (9) |
1998–2001 | Dinaburg | 63 | (30) |
Teams managed | |||
1999–2000 | Dinaburg (assistant) | ||
2000–2004 | Dinaburg | ||
2005–2009 | Ventspils | ||
2009–2010 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | ||
2010–2014 | Chornomorets Odesa | ||
2014–2018 | Gabala | ||
2018–2020 | Astana | ||
2020–2021 | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | ||
2021– | Chornomorets Odesa | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
He started playing with Lysonia Berezhany and then Temp Shepetivka. He established himself as a striker while playing for Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk while in the Ukrainian First League where he consistently was among the top-scorers of the League. He spent some time in foreign clubs in Austria, Poland and Russia.
In his coaching career, he was a successful manager in Latvia with FK Ventspils winning the Latvian championship three times from 2006 to 2008 as well as the Latvian Cup in 2005 and 2007.[1]
During the 2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League season, Hryhorchuk was hired by Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. He stayed in that position only until the end of the season, though.
On 16 November 2010, Hryhorchuk was appointed as the manager of Chornomorets Odesa.[2] He brought the club back into the Ukrainian Premier League after his 1st season in charge.
On 4 March 2012 his team won 1–0 against FC Illichivets Mariupol[3] and couple of weeks later defeated Vorskla Poltava.[4]
A year later Chornomorets won another 1-0 match against Metallurg Donetsk[5] which made it possible for it to appear at the Ukrainian Cup by May of the same year.[6] On 23 August 2013 his team played against KF Skënderbeu Korçë.[7]
Hryhorchuk was appointed manager of Azerbaijan Premier League side Gabala FK on 21 December 2014, on an 18-month contract.[8] On 20 December 2015, Hryhorchuk extended his Gabala contract for another season, until the end of the 2016–2017 season.[9] Following defeat to Keşla in the 2017–18 Azerbaijan Cup Final, Hryhorchuk left Gabala after his contract was not extended.[10]
On 1 June 2018, FC Astana announced Hryhorchuk as their new manager.[11] On 13 January 2020, Hryhorchuk left Astana by mutual consent.[12]
On 5 September 2020, he was hired by Belarusian club Shakhtyor Soligorsk.[13]
Temp Shepetivka
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Astana
Chornomorets Odesa
Ventspils
Roman Hryhorchuk at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
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