Yehor Romanovych Yarmolyuk (Ukrainian: Єгор Романович Ярмолюк; born 1 March 2004), sometimes known as Yehor Yarmoliuk,[3] is a professional Ukrainian footballer who plays for Premier League club Brentford as a midfielder.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yehor Romanovych Yarmolyuk[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (2004-03-01) 1 March 2004 (age 18) | ||
| Place of birth | Verkhnodniprovsk, Ukraine | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Brentford | ||
| Number | 36 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2014–2016 | Stal Kamianske | ||
| 2016–2018 | Dnipro | ||
| 2018–2020 | Dnipro-1 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2022 | Dnipro-1 | 18 | (0) |
| 2022– | Brentford | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| Ukraine U15 | |||
| 2019–2020 | Ukraine U16 | 4 | (0) |
| 2021– | Ukraine U19 | 6 | (5) |
| 2020– | Ukraine U21 | 4 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:23, 13 November 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 November 2022 | |||
Yarmolyuk is a product of the Dnipro-1 academy and made his senior debut for the club in 2020 and transferred to Brentford in 2022. Yarmolyuk has been capped by Ukraine at youth level.
A midfielder, Yarmolyuk is a product of a number of youth sportive schools of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and in May 2019, at age 15, he signed a three-year contract with Ukrainian Premier League club SC Dnipro-1.[4] His progression was such that he made two first team appearances late in the 2019–20 season.[2] Yarmolyuk's second appearance made him the second youngest player to start a match in the history of the Ukrainian top flight, at the age of 16 years and 140 days.[5] Yarmolyuk signed a new three-year contract in October 2020.[6] He went on to make 19 further appearances during the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons,[7] before the latter season was curtailed due to the war in Ukraine.[8] Yarmolyuk scored one senior goal for the club, in a 2–1 Ukrainian Cup round of 32 win over VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka on 22 September 2021.[2]
On 14 July 2022, Yarmolyuk transferred to Premier League club Brentford and signed a three-year contract, with the option of a further year.[8] He began his Brentford career with the club's B team,[8] but made two pre-season friendly substitute appearances for the first team.[9][10] Following two Premier League matches as an unused substitute,[2] Yarmolyuk made his debut for the club as a substitute during the second half of an EFL Cup shoot-out defeat to Gillingham on 8 November 2022.[11]
Yarmolyuk has been capped by Ukraine at youth level. [2] In an Under-19 European Championship Qualification match, Yarmolyuk scored the winning goal in the 95th minute, securing a 1–0 victory over Kosovo U-19.
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Dnipro-1 | 2019–20[7] | Ukrainian Premier League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
| 2020–21[7] | Ukrainian Premier League | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22[7] | Ukrainian Premier League | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 9 | 1 | ||
| Total | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | 21 | 1 | |||
| Brentford | 2022–23[11] | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Career total | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 1 | ||
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