Oleksandr Matkobozhyk

Oleksandr Ivanovych Matkobozhyk (Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Маткобожик; born 3 January 1998) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a defender.^[1]

Oleksandr Matkobozhyk

Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Ivanovych Matkobozhyk
Date of birth	(1998-01-03) 3 January 1998 (age 27)
Place of birth	Kovel, Ukraine
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
200?–2011	Youth Sportive School Liublynets
2011–2015	BRW-VIK Volodymyr-Volynskyi
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2015–2018	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	27	(0)
2019	Volyn Lutsk	0	(0)
2019–2021	Mynai	30	(0)
2021–2022	Karpaty Lviv	7	(0)
2022–2023	Veres Rivne	3	(1)
2023	Metalist Kharkiv	12	(0)
2024	FSC Mariupol	0	(0)
International career‡
2014	Ukraine U16	3	(0)
2017–	Ukraine U19	2	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 3 July 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 2 March 2017

Career

Matkobozhyk is a product of Youth Sportive School in his native Liublynets (his first trainer was Yuriy Mazur) and BRW-VIK Volodymyr-Volynskyi.^[2] In summer 2015 he signed a contract with FC Zirka in the Ukrainian First League.

He made his debut for FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi in the Ukrainian Premier League as a substituted player in a match against FC Vorskla Poltava on 16 October 2016.^[3]