Vadym Kolesnyk

Vadym Leonidovych Kolesnyk (Ukrainian: Вадим Леонідович Колесник; born 12 March 1967) is a Ukrainian former football striker and current football coach.

Vadym Kolesnyk
Вадим Колесник

Personal information
Full name	Vadym Leonidovych Kolesnyk
Date of birth	(1967-03-12) 12 March 1967 (age 58)
Place of birth	Chudniv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (assistant)
Youth career
	Sports school
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1990	FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka	142	(31)
1991–1995	FC Metalist Kharkiv	87	(23)
1993–1994	→ Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C. (loan)	5	(1)
1995–1997	FC Karpaty Lviv	60	(15)
1997	→ FC Karpaty-2 Lviv (loan)	2	(0)
1997–1998	FC Metalurh Mariupol	23	(2)
1998	→ FC Shakhtar Makiivka (loan)	3	(1)
1998–2003	FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka	108	(16)
1999–2000	→ FC Elektron Romny (loan)	2	(0)
2001–2002	→ FC Elektron Romny (loan)	2	(0)
2002–2003	→ FC Naftovyk-2 Okhtyrka (loan)	12	(1)
Managerial career
2003–2013	FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (assistant)
2009	FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (interim)
2011	FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (interim)
2013–2015	FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
2015–	FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

He started out at a sports school and his first coach was his father Leonid Kolesnyk. Vadym Kolesnyk graduated from the Sumy State Pedagogical University of Makarenko. He has a son, Vladyslav (b.1997).

Currently he is the assistant coach of FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka in the Ukrainian First League.

Coaching career

After he retired from playing football in 2003, he was invited to work as an assistant coach in 2003.

On 5 November 2011, Kolesnyk became the new interim head coach of FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka in the Ukrainian First League.^[1]