Anatoliy Petrovych Bezsmertnyi (Ukrainian: Анатолій Петрович Безсмертний; born 21 January 1969) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and former player.

Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi
Personal information
Full name Anatoliy Petrovych Bezsmertnyi
Date of birth (1969-01-21) 21 January 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth Kyiv, Soviet Union
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender, midfielder
Youth career
Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987 Tavriya Simferopol 14 (0)
1988–1990 Halychyna Drohobych (SKA Lvov) 38 (0)
1991 Pryladyst Mukacheve 40 (0)
1991–1993 Dynamo Kyiv 31 (0)
1992–1994Dynamo-2 Kyiv (loan) 16 (0)
1994–1997 FC Tyumen 109 (4)
1998–2001 Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don 100 (4)
1999–2000Rostselmash-2 Rostov-on-Don (loan) 5 (0)
2002 Chernomorets Novorossiysk 23 (0)
2003–2004 Dynamo Stavropol 49 (0)
2005 Metalist-UHMK Kyiv 3 (0)
2005–2007 Dnipro Cherkasy 31 (0)
2008–2009 Irpin Horenychi 8 (0)
Total 450 (8)
Managerial career
2007–2008 Dnipro Cherkasy (assistant)
2008–2009 Dnipro Cherkasy
2010–2013 Poltava
2013–2014 Poltava (assistant)
2015 Poltava (consultant)
2015–2016 Poltava
2017 Sumy
2017–2018 Poltava
2018–2020 Polissya Zhytomyr
2020 Cherkashchyna
2021 Lviv
2021–2022 Viktoriya Mykolaivka
2022 Alians Lypova Dolyna
2023 Lviv
2023- Viktoriya Sumy
Medal record
FC Dynamo Kyiv
Second place Ukrainian Top League 1992
First place Ukrainian Top League 1992–93
First place Ukrainian Top League 1993–94
Winner Ukrainian Cup 1992–93
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

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Bezsmertnyi started to play football at the Dynamo sports school of Olympic Reserve and his first coach was Volodymyr Onyshchenko.

He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1987 for SC Tavriya Simferopol.[1] In 1988 he was drafted to military service and spent couple of seasons playing for a sports company of SKA Lvov in competitions for armed forces and later at professional level for its descendant Halychyna Drohobych.

After his military service, Bezsmertnyi spent a season in neighboring Zakarpattia playing for a Mukachevo team. At the end of 1991 with a help of the Zakarpattia native and Dynamo's veteran Mykhailo Koman, he returned to Dynamo Kyiv.

While being a manager of Dnipro Cherkasy, in 2008-09 Bezsmertnyi played couple of seasons at the national Amateur League for a veteran team Irpin Horenychi from Kyiv suburbs. He won the 2008 Ukrainian Amateur Cup with club in 2008 by beating in finals Halychyna Lviv.[2]

As part of the FC Poltava coaching staff, at age 45 Bezsmertnyi also played a match for another Kyivan veteran team "Yevrobis-Ahrobiznes" that in 2014 Ukrainian Amateur Cup played only one game against ODEK Orzhiv at the CSK ZSU Stadium.[3]

Honours

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