Stepan Yurchishyn

Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn (; 28 August 1957 – 10 July 2025) was a Ukrainian football player and manager.

Career Native of Lviv, Yurchyshyn started his football career in a football academy of the Carpathian Military District army sports club (SKA Lviv), which for most of the time was centered in Lviv. For a short period, the first team of SKA Lviv represented the city of Lutsk in the neighboring Volyn Oblast. In 1977, the 19-year-old Yurchyshyn was called to the Central Army Sports Club in Moscow, CSKA Moscow.

International career Yurchyshyn made his debut for USSR on 5 September 1979 in a friendly against East Germany. He played in UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers (USSR did not qualify for the final tournament).

In 1979 Yurchyshyn played a couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.

Managerial career The first team Yurchyshyn coached was Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, he became a coach of FC Lviv from which he resigned in late September 2008 after the club's poor start in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Death Yurchyshyn died on 10 July 2025, at the age of 67.

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Honours Soviet Top League: 1981