Roman Hryhorchuk

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Roman Hryhorchuk
Personal information
Full name Roman Yosypovych Hryhorchuk
Date of birth (1965-03-22) 22 March 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Kornych, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Chornomorets Odesa (manager)
Youth career
Kornych football team
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983 Silmash Kolomyia
1987 Pokuttia Kolomyia
1988 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 34 (2)
1990 Temp Shepetivka 34 (19)
1991–1994 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 111 (57)
1994 VSE St. Poelten 3 (0)
1994–1995 Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk 7 (1)
1995 Petrochemia Płock 14 (3)
1995–1996 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 27 (10)
1996–1997
Saturn Ramenskoye
29 (9)
1998–2001 Dinaburg 63 (30)
Managerial career
1999–2000 Dinaburg (assistant)
2000–2004 Dinaburg
2005–2009 Ventspils
2009–2010 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
2010–2014 Chornomorets Odesa
2014–2018
Gabala
2018–2020 Astana
2020–2021 Shakhtyor Soligorsk
2021– Chornomorets Odesa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roman Yosypovych Hryhorchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Йосипович Григорчук; born 22 March 1965) is a Ukrainian proffesional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Chornomorets Odesa.

Early life

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, coincidently 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.

Playing career

Following his obligatory service in the

Virsliga club Dinaburg, but did not play a match for the first team until the next season. In 1998, he finally made debut in the European clubs' competitions, the Intertoto Cup. In 1998, Dinaburg placed 4th in the league, with
and was Hryhorchuk ending the season as a runner-up among the league's top scorers with 21 goals.

Coaching career

In his coaching career, he was a successful manager in Latvia with Ventspils winning the Latvian championship three times from 2006 to 2008 as well as the Latvian Cup in 2005 and 2007.[2]

During the 2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League season, Hryhorchuk was hired by Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. He stayed in that position only until the end of the season, though.

On 16 November 2010, Hryhorchuk was appointed as the manager of Chornomorets Odesa.[3] He brought the club back into the Ukrainian Premier League after his 1st season in charge.

On 4 March 2012 his team won 1–0 against FC Illichivets Mariupol[4] and couple of weeks later defeated Vorskla Poltava.[5]

A year later Chornomorets won another 1-0 match against Metallurg Donetsk[6] which made it possible for it to appear at the Ukrainian Cup by May of the same year.[7] On 23 August 2013 his team played against KF Skënderbeu Korçë.[8]

Hryhorchuk was appointed manager of

Gabala 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 to
Keşla in the 2017–18 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 of .

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 with

Dynamo Kiev, Rennes and Jablonec. In his second season in charge, Astana again reached the group stages of Europa League, where they achieved a 2–1 home win over Manchester United
.

On 5 September 2020, he was hired by Belarusian club Shakhtyor Soligorsk.[14]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 28 May 2024
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Dinaburg Latvia 2000 30 June 2005 183 78 30 75 042.6
Ventspils Latvia 1 July 2005 [15] 11 August 2009 165 110 26 29 066.7
Metalurh Z
Ukraine 22 October 2009 [16] 11 November 2009 [17] 3 1 1 1 033.3
Metalurh Z
Ukraine 09 December 2009 [18] 09 May 2010 [19] 14 7 1 6 050.0
Chornomorets
Ukraine 16 November 2010 [20] 16 December 2014 [21] 148 62 39 47 041.9
Gabala
Azerbaijan 21 December 2014 29 May 2018 159 75 41 43 047.2
Astana Kazakhstan 1 June 2018 13 January 2020 62 37 8 17 059.7
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Belarus 5 September 2020 23 July 2021 32 23 2 7 071.9
Chornomorets
Ukraine 30 December 2021 [22] 73 24 10 39 032.9
Total 839 417 158 264 049.7

Honours

As a player

Temp Shepetivka

  • KFK competitions: 1990 (group winner)

Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk

Individual

As a manager

Ventspils

Chornomorets Odesa

Astana

Shakhtyor Soligorsk

Individual

  • July-August 2023[25]

References

  1. ^ Роман Григорчук: “Мрію про перемогу і виступ з українською командою у груповому етапі Ліги чемпіонів”. sport.if.ua. 27 June 2022
  2. ^ "Ventspils end Grigorchuk era". 11 August 2009. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Gabala meeting new head coach Roman Grigorchuk". gabalafc.az. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  4. ^ Роман ГРИГОРЧУК: "Игра отобрала много нервов". "Черноморец" - "Ильичевец" - 1:0. 21-й тур. Sport Express (in Russian). 3 April 2012. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  5. ^ Роман Григорчук: "Нам нужно еще много работать". "Черноморец" - "Ворскла" - 2:1. 24 тур. Sport Express (in Russian). 25 March 2012. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Roman Grigorchuk: It was really important for us to gain a victory today". Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  7. ^ Роман ГРИГОРЧУК: "Черноморец" может гордиться выходом в финал кубка". Sport Express (in Russian and Ukrainian). 22 May 2013. Archived from the original on 14 July 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  8. ^ Григорчук: "Скендербеу тяготеет к комбинационным действиям" (in Russian). 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  9. Gabala FK
    . 21 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  10. Gabala FK
    . 20 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  11. ^ "Qəbələ Roman Qriqorçukla yollarını ayırdı". gabalafc.az (in Azerbaijani). Gabala FK. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Роман Григорчук – главный тренер Астаны". fca.kz (in Russian). FC Astana. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  13. ^ "Роман Григорчук покинул Астану". fcastana.kz/ (in Russian). FC Astana. 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Роман Григорчук – главный тренер "Шахтера"" [Roman Hryhorchuk is the head coach of Shakhtyor] (in Russian). FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk. 5 September 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  15. ^ Роман с "Вентспилсом"
  16. ^ Запорізький "Металург" підтвердив призначення Григорчука
  17. ^ Официально: Григорчук покинул Металлург З
  18. ^ Григорчук знову очолив запорізький «Металург»
  19. ^ Роман Григорчук покидает запорожский «Металлург»
  20. ^ Роман Григорчук – главный тренер «Черноморца»
  21. ^ Официально: Григорчук покинул Черноморец
  22. ^ У одесского «Черноморца» — новый генеральный партнер и новый-старый тренер
  23. ^ "Ukrainian Cuo 2012 - 2013". www.desna.football/. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  24. ^ "Григорчук і Бадібанга — найкращі гравець і тренер місяця VBET Ліги!".
  25. ^ "Дібанго та Григорчук — найкращі гравець та тренер місяця!".

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