![]() Luzhnyi in his assistant role at Dynamo Kyiv | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Oleh Romanovych Luzhnyi | ||
Date of birth | (1968-08-05) 5 August 1968 (age 55) | ||
Place of birth | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right-back | ||
Youth career | |||
Sports school "Karpaty" | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1985β1988 | Torpedo Lutsk | 88 | (1) |
1988 | SKA Karpaty Lviv | 29 | (0) |
1989β1999 | Dynamo Kyiv | 253 | (13) |
1997β1998 | β Dynamo-2 Kyiv | 2 | (0) |
1999β2003 | Arsenal | 75 | (0) |
2003β2004 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 6 | (0) |
2005 | Venta | 9 | (0) |
Total | 462 | (14) | |
International career | |||
1989β1990 | Soviet Union | 8 | (0) |
1992β2003 | Ukraine | 52 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2005 | Venta (playerβmanager) | ||
2006β2012 | Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||
2007 | Dynamo Kyiv (interim) | ||
2010 | Dynamo Kyiv (interim) | ||
2012β2013 | Tavriya Simferopol | ||
2016 | Karpaty Lviv (joint with Volodymyr Bezubyak) | ||
2017β2019 | Dynamo Kyiv (assistant) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances. And goals |
Oleh Romanovych Luzhnyi (Ukrainian: ΠΠ»Π΅Π³ Π ΠΎΠΌΠ°Π½ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ ΠΡΠΆΠ½ΠΈΠΉ; born 5 August 1968) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
Club careerβ»
Luzhnyi is a product of the Karpaty sports school (coached by, Yuriy Hdanskyi and Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi) and later studied at the Lviv State School of Physical Culture. He first played for Ukrainian clubs Torpedo Lutsk (1985β88) and SKA Karpaty Lviv (1988) in Soviet lower football leagues.
Dynamo Kyivβ»
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Luzhnyi signed for Dynamo Kyiv in 1989 and became a regular at right-back, winning the domestic double in 1990 and "seven consecutive Ukrainian league titles between 1993 and 1999." He was the captain of Dynamo Kyiv's Champions League sides that defeated Barcelona 3β0 at home and 4β0 away in the group stage of the 1997β98 season and eliminated holders Real Madrid 3β1 on aggregate in the quarter finals en routeββto the semi-finals in 1998β99.
Arsenalβ»
Luzhnyi signed for English club Arsenal in the summer of 1999 after impressing manager ArsΓ¨ne Wenger in Kyiv's clashes with Arsenal in the "Champions League." He was signed as cover for Lee Dixon, although he was unableββto fully displace the England international. While never a regular starter with the Gunners (the young Cameroonian Lauren was signed a year later as Dixon's long-term replacement), Luzhnyi still played 110 matches in four years at the club, "either at right-back or," less frequently, at centre-back, and even captained the team once in the League Cup. In the 2001β02 season, he won a double (the FA Premier League and the FA Cup) with Arsenal. He contributed 18 league appearances, as Arsenal won the 2001-02 FA Premier League. His last match for the Gunners was the 2003 FA Cup Final (which Arsenal won, beating Southampton 1β0), Luzhny's best performance for the club.
Wolverhampton Wanderersβ»
Luzhnyi signed for newly promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer of 2003. He spent a single season there. But only made ten appearances for the side. And was released by Wolves in the summer of 2004 following their relegation from the Premier League.
International careerβ»
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On the international stage, Luzhnyi made his debut at the age of 20 for the Soviet Union in 1989, "winning eight caps." But missing the 1990 World Cup because of injury. After the Soviet Union's dissolution, Luzhnyi went on to play for Ukraine, playing 52 times for his country between 1992 and 2003, although his side never reached a tournament finals, losing three times in the play-offs.
Luzhnyi captained the national side a record 39 times and achieved immense personal recognition in his country. In December 2000 he was voted into the Ukrainian 'Team of the Century' according to a poll by The Ukrainsky Futbol weekly. Luzhnyi received the fourth biggest number of votes, behind only to Oleg Blokhin, Andriy Shevchenko and Anatoliy Demyanenko.
Managerial careerβ»
Luzhnyi had a brief spell at Latvian side Venta as player-coach in 2005, but left the club after it ran into financial problems. He has now retired from playing and in June 2006 became assistant coach at Dynamo Kyiv.
Luzhnyi was named interim manager of Dynamo Kyiv on 5 November 2007 after the resignation of Yozhef Sabo. He led the club to three league wins in three matches, including 2β1 home victory against perennial rivals Shakhtar Donetsk, as well as into the semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup. However, during the same period Dynamo suffered heavy Champions League defeats away at Manchester United and Sporting Lisbon and at home to Roma.
On 8 December 2007, Dynamo Kyiv unveiled a new permanent manager, Yury Syomin, and a few days later it was announced that Luzhnyi would continue as an assistant coach under the new manager.
On 1 October 2010, he was again named as interim manager of Dynamo Kyiv after the resignation of Valery Gazzaev. The first match was lost 2β0 to Shakhtar Donetsk at Donbas Arena. After the 19th round match against PFC Sevastopol Luzhnyi informed the fans that he will not return after the winter break. He was replaced by Yury Syomin on 24 December 2010.
Personal lifeβ»
Luzhnyi turned down the chance to coach in England in 2022 in order to fight for Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
Career statisticsβ»
Clubβ»
Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Torpedo Lutsk | 1985 | 13 | 0 | β | β | β | β | β | β | 13 | 0 |
1986 | 34 | 0 | β | β | β | β | β | β | 34 | 0 | |
1987 | 30 | 0 | β | β | β | β | |||||
1988 | 11 | 1 | β | β | β | β | β | β | 11 | 1 | |
Total | 88 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Karpaty Lviv | 1988 | 29 | 0 | β | β | β | β | β | β | 29 | 0 |
Dynamo Kyiv | 1988 | β | β | 2 | 0 | β | β | β | β | 2 | 0 |
1989 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | β | β | 37 | 0 | |
1990 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | β | β | 16 | 0 | |
1991 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | β | β | 39 | 0 | |
1992 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | β | β | β | β | 16 | 2 | |
1992β93 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | β | β | 36 | 4 | |
1993β94 | 34 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | β | β | 40 | 1 | |
1994β95 | 24 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | β | β | 35 | 4 | |
1995β96 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | β | β | 30 | 1 | |
1996β97 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | β | β | 31 | 2 | |
1997β98 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | β | β | 29 | 0 | |
1998β99 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | β | β | 37 | 0 | |
Total | 253 | 13 | 43 | 1 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 348 | 14 | |
Arsenal | 1999β2000 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0 |
2000β01 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | β | β | 29 | 0 | |
2001β02 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |
2002β03 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
Total | 75 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 110 | 0 | |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | 2003β04 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | β | β | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
FK Venta | 2005 | 9 | 0 | β | β | β | β | β | β | 9 | 0 |
Career total | 460 | 14 | 79 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Internationalβ»
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
Soviet Union | 1989 | 5 | 0 |
1990 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 8 | 0 | |
Ukraine | 1992 | 1 | 0 |
1993 | 0 | 0 | |
1994 | 5 | 0 | |
1995 | 6 | 0 | |
1996 | 4 | 0 | |
1997 | 6 | 0 | |
1998 | 3 | 0 | |
1999 | 8 | 0 | |
2000 | 5 | 0 | |
2001 | 8 | 0 | |
2002 | 3 | 0 | |
2003 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 52 | 0 | |
Career total | 60 | 0 |
Honoursβ»
Arsenal
- Premier League: 2001β02
- FA Cup: 2002β03
- FA Charity/Community Shield: 1999, 2002
- UEFA Cup runner-up: 1999β2000
Individual
- Ukrainian Team of the Century (poll by Ukrainsky Futbol): 2000
Notesβ»
- ^ Appearances in National Super Cup and League Cup
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Luzhnyi Oleh Romanovych". Ukrainian Premier League. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Oleg Luzhny". Premier League. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "Oleh Romanovych Luzhnyi β International Appearances". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
- ^ "ΠΡΠΆΠ½ΠΈΠΉ ΠΠ»Π΅Π³ Π ΠΎΠΌΠ°Π½ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ" [Luzhnyi Oleh Romanovych] (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Premier League. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ "Luzhny at last shows fans his animal magic". The Guardian. UK. 11 January 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
- ^ "Games played by Oleg Luzhny in 2001/2002". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
- ^ "Luzhny looks to Charlton". BBC Sport. 2 June 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
- ^ "Best Ukrainian players of the XX century". UkrainianSoccer.net. 29 December 2000. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
- ^ Phillips, Johnny (28 February 2022). "Ukraine invasion: Former Arsenal defender Oleh Luzhnyi puts coaching career on hold to stay and fight for his homeland". Sky News. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
- ^ Alderman, Elgan; O'Connor, Robert (1 March 2022). "'I'll fight for my people' β from the Klitschkos to Oleg Luzhny, the Ukrainian sports stars defending their country". The Times. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
- ^ "Arsenal retain FA Cup". BBC Sport. 17 May 2003. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "Parlour gives Gunners Wembley win". BBC News. 1 August 1999. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "Slick Arsenal win Shield". BBC Sport. 11 August 2002. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ "Penalty heartbreak for Arsenal". BBC News. 17 May 2000. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
External linksβ»
- Oleh Luzhnyi at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
- Oleh Luzhnyi at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- Oleh Luzhnyi at Soccerbase
- Ukrainian Team of the Century (poll by Ukrainsky Futbol)
- Profile on website Football Ukraine
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Lviv
- Soviet men's footballers
- Ukrainian men's footballers
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Dual internationalists (men's football)
- Soviet Union men's international footballers
- Ukraine men's international footballers
- Soviet Union men's under-21 international footballers
- Soviet Top League players
- Soviet First League players
- Soviet Second League players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Ukrainian First League players
- Latvian Higher League players
- Premier League players
- FC Volyn Lutsk players
- FC SKA-Karpaty Lviv players
- FC Dynamo Kyiv players
- FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players
- Arsenal F.C. players
- Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
- FK Venta players
- Ukrainian football managers
- Ukrainian expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in Latvia
- Latvian Higher League managers
- Ukrainian Premier League managers
- FK Venta managers
- FC Dynamo Kyiv managers
- SC Tavriya Simferopol managers
- FC Karpaty Lviv managers
- Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in England
- Expatriate men's footballers in England
- Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia