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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Serhiy Ivanovych Kovalets | ||
| Date of birth | (1968-09-05)5 September 1968 (age 57) | ||
| Place of birth | Chekhove,Crimean Oblast,Ukrainian SSR | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| DYuSSh Krasyliv | |||
| Sluch Krasyliv | |||
| Zirka Berdychiv | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 25 | (0) |
| 1987 | Zirka Berdychiv | (9) | |
| 1989 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 49 | (11) |
| 1990–1994 | Dynamo Kyiv | 118 | (13) |
| 1995–1996 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 30 | (3) |
| 1996 | →Twente (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Chornomorets Odesa | 11 | (4) |
| 1997 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1 | (1) |
| 1997–2000 | Karpaty Lviv | 62 | (8) |
| 1997–1999 | →Karpaty-2 Lviv | 14 | (5) |
| 2000–2002 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 31 | (3) |
| 2000 | →Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia | 4 | (2) |
| 2002–2003 | Obolon Kyiv | 27 | (2) |
| 2002 | →Obolon-2 Kyiv | 2 | (1) |
| 2003 | Krasyliv-Obolon Krasyliv | 5 | (1) |
| 2003–2004 | Volyn Lutsk | 8 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | Borysfen Boryspil | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 390 | (57) | |
| International career | |||
| 1992–1994 | Ukraine | 10 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2005–2008 | Metalist Kharkiv (assistant) | ||
| 2008–2009 | Lviv | ||
| 2009 | Oleksandriya | ||
| 2010–2011 | Obolon Kyiv | ||
| 2012 | Tatran Prešov | ||
| 2012 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | ||
| 2013–2015 | Ukraine U-21 | ||
| 2016 | Trakai | ||
| 2017–2018 | Tatran Prešov | ||
| 2018–2020 | Obolon-Brovar Kyiv | ||
| 2020–2021 | Chornomorets Odesa | ||
| 2021–2022 | Polissya Stavky (amateurs) | ||
| 2022–2023 | Inhulets Petrove | ||
| 2024–2025 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Serhiy Ivanovych Kovalets (Ukrainian:Сергій Іванович Ковалець; born 5 September 1968) is a Ukrainian formerfootballer who recently was a manager ofPodillya Khmelnytskyi.
Kovalets began his playing career in youth sports schools ofPodolia regionBerdychiv andKrasyliv. Since 1984 he played for the senior squad of the local football team Sluch Krasyliv that competed in the regional competitions ofKhmelnytskyi Oblast. Next year he was invited to the team of mastersPodillia Khmelnytskyi that was playing in theSoviet Second League (third tier). During that time, he also was called to serve his obligatory military service playing for amateur team out ofBerdychiv led byMiletiy Balchos. In 1990 Kovalets accepted invitation fromOleh Bazylevych to join the "flagman" of Ukrainian and Soviet footballFC Dynamo Kyiv.
Eventually he played 10 matches[1] forUkraine between 1992 and 1994.
After he retired from playing football,Metalist Kharkiv head coachMyron Markevych invited Kovalets to work with him as an assistant coach in 2005. In 2008, Kovalets became the head coach of the newly promotedFC Lviv, who had an unsuccessful start in theUkrainian Premier League. Kovalets failed to accomplish his task of keeping his team in the Premier League, which ended up losing toIllichivets in goal difference.
At the end of August 2009, Kovalets became the new head coach ofPFC Oleksandria in theUkrainian First League.[2] He held this position untilYuriy Maksymov leftObolon during the winter break of2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League season when he was offered the position.[3] He was sacked after a 1–0 defeat atChornomorets Odesa on 31 November.[4] On 18 January 2012, Kovalets was appointed as the new manager of1. FC Tatran Prešov.
Kovalets was born inChekhove,Crimean Oblast,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union, nowUkraine. He is married since 1988. Together with his wife Anzhela has three children: daughters Alina (1989) and Daryna (1998) and also one son, current professional footballerKyrylo (1993).[5]
