Ihor Nichenko

Ihor Nichenko
Personal information
Full name	Ihor Hryhorovych Nichenko
Date of birth	18 April 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989	Podillia Khmelnytsky
1990–1992	Metalist Kharkiv
1992	Krystal Kherson
1992–1995	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
1995–1996	Stadler FC
1996–1998	Ferencvaros Budapest
1998–2001	Dunaferr Dunaujvaros
2001–2005	Raba ETO Győr
2005	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
2005–2006	Krystal Kherson
Managerial career
2006–2007	Krystal Kherson (assistant)
2011–2014	Győri ETO FC (assistant)
2015–2016	Jászberényi FC
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ihor Hryhorovych Nichenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Ніченко; 18 April 1971) is a Ukrainian football coach and former player who played as a forward.^[1]

Playing career

Nichenko was born on 18 April 1971 in Kherson. He studied at the Kherson Children-Youth Sport school No. 1 with instructor Vasyl Kravchenko. Nichenko started his career in the early 1990s in Khmelnytsky at its team in the 1989 Soviet Second League. Next year he was drafted to the top league's Metalist Kharkiv where he could not find his touch. In 1992, he returned to his hometown Kherson, joining Krystal. After an impressive start at the club in the Ukrainian First League, Nichenko was signed by the Kryvbas club at the end of 1992. In Kryvbas he set a record for the goals scored in a game and the goals scored in a season (12), finishing third amongst the best scorers. At the top level of Soviet and Ukrainian competitions, he played over 100 matches with 87 in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Since 1995 and for the next 10 years, Nichenko played in various Hungarian clubs such as Ferencvaros, Dunaferr, and others. There he became the two-time champion with those teams. He was also the top scorer of the Hungarian championship in 1996–97 for Ferencvaros, scoring 18 goals, and becoming the first foreign player ever to score the most goals in a season in Hungary. He played more than 250 games in Hungary scoring almost 100 goals. Since 2005, he has been signed with Ukrainian clubs, but has not played any games officially.

Coaching career

Upon retiring, Nichenko stayed in FC Krystal Kherson working together with Yuriy Martynov as the head coach. In 2007, he joined the local amateur club, Sigma Kherson, as a staff coach and since 2008 has been its head coach.

References

^ ^a ^b Ihor Nichenko at WorldFootball.net

Sources

[wf-1] Ihor Nichenko at WorldFootball.net

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