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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Roman Yosypovych Hryhorchuk | ||
| Date of birth | (1965-03-22)22 March 1965 (age 60) | ||
| Place of birth | Kornych,Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast,Soviet Union (nowUkraine) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | LNZ Cherkasy (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Kornych football team | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983 | Silmash Kolomyia | ||
| 1987 | Elektroosnastka Kolomyia | ||
| 1988 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 34 | (2) |
| 1990 | Temp Shepetivka | 34 | (19) |
| 1991–1994 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 111 | (63) |
| 1994 | VSE St. Poelten | 3 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk | 7 | (1) |
| 1995 | Petrochemia Płock | 14 | (3) |
| 1995–1996 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 26 | (10) |
| 1996–1997 | Saturn Ramenskoye | 29 | (9) |
| 1998–2001 | Dinaburg | 63 | (30) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1999–2000 | Dinaburg (assistant) | ||
| 2000–2005 | Dinaburg | ||
| 2005–2009 | Ventspils | ||
| 2009 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | ||
| 2009–2010 | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | ||
| 2010–2014 | Chornomorets Odesa | ||
| 2014–2018 | Gabala | ||
| 2018–2020 | Astana | ||
| 2020–2021 | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | ||
| 2021–2024 | Chornomorets Odesa | ||
| 2024 | Neftçi | ||
| 2024– | LNZ Cherkasy | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Roman Yosypovych Hryhorchuk (Ukrainian:Роман Йосипович Григорчук; born 22 March 1965) is a Ukrainian professionalfootball manager and formerplayer who is the manager ofLNZ Cherkasy.
Since the fourth grade, around 11 years of age, Hryhorchuk was interested in handball and competed for local village team at district level.[1] For two years he never missed a training session and later had a chance to enroll in the Kyiv sports boarding school, but his mother was against it. Around that time trying to get Roman be involved in music, his father gave him a silver flute as a gift. Also, coincidentally in Kornych was created a football team for which Hryhorchuk played on weekends. Eventually Hryhorchuk graduated from Chernivtsi music school and had an opportunity to enroll in a conservatory but decided to concentrate on football career.
Following his obligatory service in theSoviet Armed Forces, he started playing for Silmash Kolomyia at amateur level in KFK competitions, until he received an invitation toPrykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk. Hryhorchuk made his professional debut in 1988 playing for Prykarpattia at the Sovietthird tier. During the 1990 season, he played for the newly createdTemp Shepetivka which played at theamateur level and qualified for professional level. In 1991, he returned to Prykarpattia which placed second at the Ukrainian conference of the Soviet Second League B and qualified for the newly establishedVyshcha Liha, todayUkrainian Premier League. Along with Prykarpattia, Hryhorchuk participated in the first season of the league, playing only six games. Due to poor performance, the club relegated moving to the second tier. During the1992–93 Persha Liha season, Hryhorchuk was one of the top league scorers and scored his first career hat-trick in a home win against Avtomobilist Sumy. During the winter break of the next season, he was transferred toSt. Poelten which played in the1993–94 Austrian Football Bundesliga. He appeared in three matches as VSE St. Poelten eventually relegated, while Hryhorchuk returned to Prykarpattia. At the same time the Ivano-Frankivsk club placed first at the second tier and qualified again for the top division. Without finishing the first half of the1994–95 Vyshcha Liha season, in October Hryhorchuk moved toPetrochemia Plock. Following the1994–95 season, Petrochemia Płock was relegated and Hryhorchuk returned to Ukraine. For the1995–96 season, he joinedKryvbas Kryvyi Rih, before moving to Russian second tier clubSaturn Ramenskoye at the end of the season. During mid-season of 1997, Hryhorchuk moved to LatvianVirsliga clubDinaburg, but did not play a match for the first team until the next season. In 1998, he finally made his debut in the European clubs' competitions, the Intertoto Cup. In 1998, Dinaburgplaced 4th in the league, with and was Hryhorchuk ending the season as a runner-up among the league's top scorers with 21 goals.
In his coaching career, he was a successful manager in Latvia withVentspils winning the Latvian championship three times from 2006 to 2008 as well as the Latvian Cup in 2005 and 2007.[2]
During the2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League season, Hryhorchuk was hired byMetalurh Zaporizhzhia. He stayed in that position only until the end of the season, though.
On 16 November 2010, Hryhorchuk was appointed as the manager ofChornomorets Odesa.[3] He brought the club back into theUkrainian Premier League after his1st season in charge.
On 4 March 2012 his team won 1–0 againstFC Illichivets Mariupol[4] and couple of weeks later defeatedVorskla Poltava.[5]
A year later Chornomorets won another 1-0 match againstMetallurg Donetsk[6] which made it possible for it to appear at theUkrainian Cup by May of the same year.[7] On 23 August 2013 his team played againstKF Skënderbeu Korçë.[8]
Hryhorchuk was appointed manager ofAzerbaijan Premier League sideGabala on 21 December 2014, on an 18-month contract.[9] On 20 December 2015, Hryhorchuk extended his Gabala contract for another season, until the end of the 2016–17 season.[10]Following defeat toKeşla in the2017–18 Azerbaijan Cup final, Hryhorchuk left Gabala after his contract was not extended.[11]Roman Hryhorchuk was the first Gabala coach in the club's history to lead the team to group stages ofUEFA Europa League two consecutive seasons. In their European campaigns, Gabala achieved wins over teams such asPanathinaikos,LOSC Lille, andMaribor.
On 1 June 2018,Astana announced Hryhorchuk as their new manager.[12] On 13 January 2020, Hryhorchuk left Astana by mutual consent.[13]In his first year, Hryhorchuk took Astana to group stage of Europa League where they competed withDynamo Kyiv,Rennes andJablonec. In his second season in charge, Astana again reached the group stages of Europa League, where they achieved a 2–1 home win overManchester United.
On 5 September 2020, he was hired by Belarusian clubShakhtyor Soligorsk.[14]
On 26 June 2024 Hryhorchuk signed a 2-year contract withAzerbaijan Premier League clubNeftçi, becoming the club's head coach.[15] On 7 October 2024 his contract with the club was terminated by mutual agreement.[16] Under his leadership, Neftçi played in 9 rounds of theAzerbaijani Premier League, recording 5 draws and 4 losses.[17]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||||
| Dinaburg |  | 2000 | 30 June 2005 | 183 | 78 | 30 | 75 | 042.6 | |||||
| Ventspils | | 1 July 2005[18] | 11 August 2009 | 165 | 110 | 26 | 29 | 066.7 | |||||
| Metalurh Z |  | 22 October 2009[19] | 11 November 2009[20] | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 033.3 | |||||
| Metalurh Z | | 9 December 2009[21] | 9 May 2010[22] | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 050.0 | |||||
| Chornomorets | | 16 November 2010[23] | 16 December 2014[24] | 148 | 62 | 39 | 47 | 041.9 | |||||
| Gabala |  | 21 December 2014 | 29 May 2018 | 159 | 75 | 41 | 43 | 047.2 | |||||
| Astana |  | 1 June 2018 | 13 January 2020 | 62 | 37 | 8 | 17 | 059.7 | |||||
| Shakhtyor Soligorsk |  | 5 September 2020 | 23 July 2021 | 32 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 071.9 | |||||
| Chornomorets | | 30 December 2021[25] | 26 June 2024 | 73 | 24 | 10 | 39 | 032.9 | |||||
| Neftçi | | 26 June 2024[26] | 7 October 2024 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 000.0 | |||||
| Total | 844 | 417 | 162 | 265 | 049.4 | ||||||||
Temp Shepetivka
Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk
Individual
Ventspils
Chornomorets Odesa
Astana
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Individual
