Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Tkachenko.

Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (Russian: Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; 1 October 1953^[3] – 4 January 2024) was a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a Soviet player.^[4]

Leonid Tkachenko

Personal information
Full name	Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko
Date of birth	(1953-10-01)1 October 1953
Place of birth	Staryi Krym, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death	4 January 2024(2024-01-04) (aged 70)
Place of death	Kaliningrad, Russia
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Half-back
Youth career
1966	Baltika Kaliningrad
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1970	Baltika Kaliningrad	0	(0)
1971–1972	Mashinostroitel Kaliningrad
1973–1974	Vostok Kaliningrad
1974	Druzhba Kaliningrad
1975–1977	Spartak Zhytomyr	102	(16)
1978–1983	Metalist Kharkiv	220	(23)
Managerial career
1984–1986	Metalist Kharkiv (assistant)
1987–1988	Metalist Kharkiv (director)
1989–1993	Metalist Kharkiv
1992	Ukraine
1993–1994	Temp Shepetivka
1995–1998	Baltika Kaliningrad
1999	Sokol Saratov
2000	Metalist Kharkiv
2001–2002	Anzhi Makhachkala
2002–2003	Sokol Saratov
2005–2007	Baltika Kaliningrad
2007–2008	Dynamo St. Petersburg
2009–2010	Baltika Kaliningrad
2010	Baltika Kaliningrad (director of sports)
2010–2011	Baltika Kaliningrad
2011–2013	Petrotrest St. Petersburg
2013–2014	Sever Murmansk
2014–2015	Volga Tver
2019–2022	Baltika Kaliningrad (consultant)
2022–2024	Baltika Kaliningrad (assistant)[1][2]
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for Metalist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League in 1981.^[5]

Together with Mykola Pavlov he served as an interim coach for Ukraine national team when it contested Belarus in a friendly. He and Pavlov were assistant coaches to Viktor Prokopenko before then. Sometime in 2000, he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained Russian citizenship.

Death

Tkachenko died on 4 January 2024, at the age of 70.^[6]

Honours

• Russian Second Division Zone West best manager: 2005.^[7]