Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko

Olympic medal record
Men’s football

Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko
Date of birth	30 March 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth	Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	Dynamo Kyiv (sportive director)
Youth career
1973–1981	Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team
1981–1990	Dynamo Kyiv
1990–1991	Sampdoria
1991–1996	Rangers
Total
International career
1987–1991	USSR
1992	CIS
1992–1994	Ukraine
Managerial career
2002–2004	Dynamo Kyiv
2004–2008	Ukraine U21
2008–2009	Ukraine
2011–2013	Dynamo Kyiv (sporting director)
2012–2013	Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
2013–2019	Dynamo Kyiv (sporting director)
2019–2020	Dynamo Kyiv
2020–2021	Dynamo Kyiv (sporting director)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Soviet Union
UEFA European Championship
Representing Ukraine (as manager)
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Олександрович Михайличенко; born 30 March 1963) is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional player. He is a Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR and a Distinguished Coach of Ukraine. During his playing days he was a versatile midfielder known for his stamina and passing capability. Also noted for his technique, Mykhaylychenko usually played as attacking midfielder.

Mykhaylychenko currently holds an administrative position at his home club,

romanised as Alexei Mikhailichenko from the Russian

spelling of his name (Алексей Александрович Михайличенко).

Mykhaylychenko played for

Valeriy Lobanovsky. Following the death of Lobanovsky, Mykhaylychenko replaced him as head coach. In 2004, he took charge of the Ukraine's national under-21 team. He was head coach of the Ukraine national football team senior side for two years after that.^[2]

Club career

Mykhaylychenko began his football career in the youth system of

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,^[3] although the defender had a long-term injury problem and they only played together 20 times in Scotland.^[4] 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

4–4–2 formation with more combative players in the central roles. Then came the arrival of wide man Brian Laudrup, whose presence in the team restricted Mykhaylychenko to a mere nine league appearances and two goals in 1994–95. He made 11 goalless league appearances in the 1995–96 (during which Wolverhampton Wanderers made an unsuccessful approach for him) and remained in Glasgow until retiring from playing in May 1996 at the age of 33.^[5]

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.[6]

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.^[7]

Mykhaylychenko was capped 36 times (scoring nine goals) for 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

2006 European Championship, which they lost to Netherlands

.

On 16 June 2006, it was reported that Mikhailichenko would take over as head coach of

2010 World Cup in South Africa.^[2]

Mykhaylychenko took over again as head coach of Dynamo Kyiv in August 2019. He was released from his duties on 20 July 2020, after winning the Ukrainian Cup and reaching second place in the championship. The club's official website cited playing level and the lack of progress as main reasons for his departure.^[9]

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.^[10]^[11]^[12]

Career statistics

International

Soviet Union national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1987	6	1
1988	12	3
1989	5	1
1990	4	2
1991	9	2
Total	36	9

CIS national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1992	5	0

Ukraine national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1992	1	0
1994	1	0
Total	2	0

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	France	1–1	1–1	UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying
2.	18 June 1988	Waldstadion, Frankfurt	England	2–1	3–1	UEFA Euro 1988
3.	19 October 1988	Republican Stadium, Kyiv	Austria	1–0	2–0	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification
4.	23 November 1988	Adailiya Stadium, Kuwait City	Kuwait	0–1	0–1	Friendly
5.	10 May 1989	Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul	Turkey	0–1	0–1	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification
6.	16 May 1990	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan	Israel	2–2	3–2	Friendly
7.	29 August 1990	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow	Romania	1–2	1–2	Friendly
8.	17 April 1991	Népstadion, Budapest	Hungary	0–1	0–1	UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
9.	29 May 1991	Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow	Cyprus	2–0	4–0	UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying