Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko

Club career Mykhaylychenko began his football career in the youth system of Dynamo Kyiv, under the guidance of Anatoliy Byshovets. He made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1981, and went on to have a great career with Dynamo, winning four championships and three runner-up medals. He also won the Soviet Cup three times. His biggest success with Dynamo came when they won the 1985–86 European Cup Winners' Cup. He was awarded the Soviet Footballer of the Year award in 1988, as well as two Ukrainian Footballer of the Year awards in 1987 and 1988. In 1990, he was signed by the Italian club Sampdoria, who won their first Serie A title that season.

The following season he moved to play with the Scottish Premier Division team Rangers, uniting with fellow Ukrainian and Dynamo Kyiv teammate Oleh Kuznetsov, although the defender had a long-term injury problem and they only played together 20 times in Scotland. His first season at Ibrox was undoubtedly his most successful, as they completed the double of the Premier Division title and Scottish Cup and Mykhaylychenko was a regular in the side with 10 goals from 27 league games. He featured in 29 league games as Rangers won a domestic treble a year later, but managed just five goals. He was an even more frequent selection in the first team during 1993–94, playing 34 games, but again scored only five times.

Despite being very successful as a creative and technical central midfielder earlier in his career, at Rangers he was often deployed on the left wing with less impact

With Rangers, Mykhaylychenko managed to win another five league winner's medals. All-in-all he won championship medals in three different nations, and for seven consecutive seasons – USSR in 1990, Italy in 1991 and Scotland from 1992 to 1996.

International career At national level, in 1983 Mykhaylychenko took part in the 'Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR' in the team of Ukrainian Republic team.

Mykhaylychenko was capped 36 times (scoring nine goals) for the USSR. His first game for the Soviet team was on 29 April 1987 at home against East Germany. He won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and was part of the silver medal-winning Soviet squad at Euro 1988, but injury deprived him of a place in the FIFA World Cup 1990 squad and he was sorely missed as the Soviets crashed out in the first round.

Mykhaylychenko also played at the Euro 1992 championship with the CIS (appearing for the interim team five times in total) and afterwards played twice for Ukraine, making his debut on 28 October 1992 against Belarus, aged 29.

Coaching After retiring from playing in 1996, Mykhaylychenko went back to Ukraine to begin coaching under the legendary Kyiv manager Valeri Lobanovsky, remaining his assistant for five years. When Lobanovsky died in 2002, Mykhaylychenko took over as caretaker manager before assuming full control of the team in the 2002–03 season. Mikhailichenko led the team to two league titles and the 2003 Ukrainian Cup, but was replaced in August 2004. After Mikhailichenko's contract expired on in December 2009 the Football Federation of Ukraine did not renew the contract after the national team failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

In May 2021, became vice-president of the Ukrainian Association of Football, promoted by the commander of Andriy Pavelka, who will be pratsyuvati in the UAF.

Career statistics International

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International goals Score and results list Soviet Union's goal tally first Goal Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1. 9 September 1987 Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 1–1 1–1 UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying 2. 18 June 1988 Waldstadion, Frankfurt 2–1 3–1 UEFA Euro 1988 3. 19 October 1988 Republican Stadium, Kyiv 1–0 2–0 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification 4. 23 November 1988 Adailiya Stadium, Kuwait City 0–1 0–1 Friendly 5. 10 May 1989 Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul 0–1 0–1 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification 6. 16 May 1990 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 2–2 3–2 Friendly 7. 29 August 1990 Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow 1–2 1–2 Friendly 8. 17 April 1991 Népstadion, Budapest 0–1 0–1 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying 9. 29 May 1991 Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 2–0 4–0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying

Honours

Club Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Top League: 1985, 1986, 1990 Soviet Cup: 1985, 1987, 1990 European Cup Winners' Cup: 1985–86

Sampdoria Italian Serie A: 1990–91

Rangers Scottish Premier Division: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96 1996-97 1997-98 Scottish Cup: 1991–92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97 Scottish League Cup: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995-96, 1996-97

International Soviet Union Olympic champion: Image:Med 1.png Gold Medal 1988 European Football Championship Runner-up: 1988

Individual Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: 1987, 1988 Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1988 ADN Eastern European Footballer of the Season: 1988 Ballon d'Or: 1988 – 4th 1989 – 12th 1991 – 21st Top 32 footballers who won Olympic gold medals by FourFourTwo

Manager Dynamo Kyiv Ukrainian Premier League: 2002–03, 2003–04 Runner-up 2001–02, 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup: 2002–03, 2019–20 Ukrainian Super Cup: 2004

Ukraine under-21s UEFA Under-21 Championship: runner-up 2006

State

Order of Merit 1st class (May 13, 2016) Order of Merit 2nd class (August 19, 2006) Order of Merit 3rd class (2004)