Stepan Yurchyshyn

Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn (Ukrainian: Степан Федорович Юрчишин; 28 August 1957 – 10 July 2025) was a Ukrainian football player and manager.

Stepan Yurchyshyn

Yurchyshyn in 2021
Personal information
Full name	Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn
Date of birth	(1957-08-28)28 August 1957
Place of birth	Kernytsia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine)
Date of death	10 July 2025(2025-07-10) (aged 67)
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Striker, midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1974	SC Lutsk	0	(0)
1976–1977	SKA Lviv	54	(9)
1977	CSKA Moscow	8	(1)
1979–1980	Karpaty Lviv	85	(59)
1981	Dynamo Kyiv	1	(0)
1981	Karpaty Lviv	28	(5)
1982–1983	SKA Karpaty Lviv	44	(10)
1984	Pakhtakor Tashkent	27	(2)
1986	Torpedo Lutsk	35	(7)
1987–1988	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	97	(12)
1989–1990	Karpaty Lviv	73	(19)
1991	Hazovyk Komarno
1992–1994	Sokil-LORTA Lviv
International career
1979	Ukrainian SSR
1979	USSR	4	(1)
Managerial career
1991–1992	Karpaty Lviv
1992	Hazovyk Komarno
1994–1998	Lviv
1999	Karpaty Lviv
2001	Karpaty Lviv
2003–2004	Karpaty-2 Lviv
2007–2008	Lviv
2009–2011	Karpaty Lviv (sports director)
2012	Karpaty Lviv (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

International career

Yurchyshyn made his debut for USSR on 5 September 1979 in a friendly against East Germany. He played in UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers (USSR did not qualify for the final tournament).

In 1979 Yurchyshyn played a couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.^[1]

Managerial career

The first team Yurchyshyn coached was Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, he became a coach of FC Lviv from which he resigned in late September 2008 after the club's poor start in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Death

Yurchyshyn died on 10 July 2025, at the age of 67.^[2]

Coaching statistics

Season Division	Club	Record W-D-L	Goals GF–GA	Standing	Notes
1992 Division 1	Karpaty	5-6-7	15-18	6/10	replaced by Myron Markevych
1992/93 Division 3	Hazovyk	13-8-13	37-47	7/18
2007/08 Division 2	Lviv	23-5-10	58-29	2/20	Promotion to premiers
2008/09 Division 1	Lviv	1-2-6	3-10	15/16	replaced by Roman Laba

Honours

• Soviet Top League: 1981