Viktor Prokopenko

Viktor Prokopenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football player and coach who played for the Soviet occupational forces in East Germany and the Ukrainian SSR including teams of the Soviet Top League and later worked as a coach in Russia and Ukraine.

Viktor Prokopenko

Personal information
Full name	Viktor Yevhenovych Prokopenko
Date of birth	(1944-10-24)24 October 1944
Place of birth	Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death	18 August 2007(2007-08-18) (aged 62)
Place of death	Odesa, Ukraine
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1967	GSFG team	?	(?)
1967–1968	Lokomotyv Vinnytsia	43	(5)
1969–1970	Chornomorets Odesa	49	(7)
1971–1973	Shakhtar Donetsk	45	(14)
1973–1974	Lokomotyv Kherson	?	(5)
1974–1975	Chornomorets Odesa	17	(2)
Managerial career
1982–1986	Chornomorets Odesa
1987–1988	Rotor Volgograd
1989–1994	Chornomorets Odesa
1992	Ukraine
1994–1999	Rotor Volgograd
2000–2001	Shakhtar Donetsk
2002–2003	Dynamo Moscow
People's Deputy of Ukraine 5th convocation In office 25 May 2006 – 18 August 2007 Constituency Party of Regions, No.45[1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Prokopenko with Mircea Lucescu

Prokopenko was born in Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, now known as Mariupol, Ukraine.^[2] In 1975, he graduated from the Odessa State Pedagogical Institute of Ushynsky and later the Moscow Higher School of Coaches.

Prokopenko was the first manager of the Ukraine national team since dissolution of the Soviet Union. He also authored Flexibility, Strength, Endurance, a popular book on stretching.

Prokopenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for the Party of Regions as no.45 on their election list in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[1]

Prokopenko died in Odesa after a heart attack. He was 62 years old.

Managerial statistics

As of match updated 12 September 2023

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Ukraine	29 April 1992	26 August 1992	3	0	1	2	000.00
Total			3	0	1	2	000.00

Honours

Chornomorets Odesa

• USSR Federation Cup: 1990
• Ukrainian Cup: 1992, 1993–94

Shakhtar Donetsk

• Ukrainian Cup: 2000–01

See also

• List of members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine who died in office