Viktor Matviyenko

Viktor Antonovych Matviyenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Антонович Матвієнко; 9 November 1948 – 29 November 2018)^[1] was a Soviet and Ukrainian footballer and coach.

Viktor Matviyenko

Viktor Matviyenko at age 27 in 1975
Personal information
Full name	Viktor Antonovych Matviyenko
Date of birth	(1948-11-09)9 November 1948
Place of birth	Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine)
Date of death	29 November 2018(2018-11-29) (aged 70)
Place of death	Kyiv, Ukraine
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1966–1967	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
1968–1969	SKA Odesa	44	(1)
1970	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	23	(1)
1970–1977	Dynamo Kyiv	188	(7)
1978	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	21	(1)
International career
1971–1972	Soviet Union	21	(0)
Managerial career
1979	Avanhard Rivne (assistant)
1980–1982	Avanhard Rivne
1985	Avanhard Rivne
1991–1992	Orlęta Łuków (Poland)
1993	Podillya Khmelnytskyi
1993	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
1994	Bukovyna Chernivtsi
1995	Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol
1996–1997	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia
1998	Dustlik
2001–2002	Stal Alchevsk (assistant)
Medal record Men's football Representing  Soviet Union Summer Olympics 1976 Montreal Team competition UEFA European Championship 1972 Belgium
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Honours

• Soviet Top League winner: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977.
• Soviet Cup winner: 1974.
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner: 1975.
• UEFA Super Cup winner: 1975.
• Olympic bronze: 1976.

International career

He earned 21 caps for the USSR national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1972. He also won a bronze medal in football at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He died 20 days after his 70th birthday in 2018.