Leonid Tkachenko
Personal information
Full name Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko
Date of birth (1953-10-01)1 October 1953
Place of birth Staryi Krym, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death 4 January 2024(2024-01-04) (aged 70)
Place of death Kaliningrad, Russia
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Half-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1971 Baltika Kaliningrad
1971–1972 FC Mashinostroitel Kaliningrad
1975–1976 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
1978–1984 Metalist Kharkiv 181 (20)
Managerial career
1984–1993 Metalist Kharkiv, Ukraine
1993–1994 Temp Shepetivka
1995–1998 Baltika Kaliningrad
1999 Sokol Saratov
2001–2002 Anzhi Makhachkala
2002–2003 Sokol Saratov
2005–2006 Baltika Kaliningrad
2007–2008 Dynamo Saint Petersburg
2009 Baltika Kaliningrad
2010 Baltika Kaliningrad (director of sports)
2010 Baltika Kaliningrad
2011–2013 Petrotrest Saint Petersburg
2013–2014 Sever Murmansk
2014–2015 Volga Tver
2022–2024 Baltika Kaliningrad (assistant)[1][2]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (Russian: Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; 1 October 1953[3] – 4 January 2024) was a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a Soviet player.[4]

Career

Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for Metalist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League in 1981.[5]

Together with Mykola Pavlov he served as an interim coach for Ukraine national team when it contested Belarus in a friendly. He and Pavlov were assistant coaches to Viktor Prokopenko before then. Sometime in 2000, he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained Russian citizenship.

Death

Tkachenko died on 4 January 2024, at the age of 70.[6]

Honours

References

  1. "Леонид Ткаченко вернулся в "Балтику"". 1fnl.ru. 17 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  2. "В тренерский штаб "Балтики" вернулся легендарный экс-наставник команды Леонид Ткаченко". kaliningrad.kp.ru (in Russian). 8 June 2022. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  3. Александр Просветов (19 September 2021). "Леонид Ткаченко: "У нас иные футбольные руководители путают хавбеков с хэтчбеками"". Sportbox.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  4. "Балтийцы: Леонид Ткаченко" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  5. "Леонид Ткаченко – Вездесущий и всесильный двигатель истории харьковского "Металлиста"!".
  6. Огромная утрата (in Russian)
  7. "Заслуженный тренер Украины Леонид Ткаченко: Завершил тренерскую карьеру, потому что пришло какое-то время дураков". Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.


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