Mykhaylo Fomenko

Mikhail Iwanowytsch Fomenko (Ukrainian Михайло Іванович Фоменко; born September 19, 1948 in Mala Rybytsya in Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian football coach and former Soviet footballer.

Fomenko began his career in 1965 at FC Spartak Sumy. In 1970 he moved to Sorja Woroschilowgrad. From 1972 to 1978, the defender then played for Dynamo Kyiv, with whom he three times won the Soviet Championship twice and the Soviet Cup.

In 1975 he won with Dynamo Kiev Europa Cup Winners' Cup in the same year against FC Bayern Munich and the UEFA Super Cup. From 1972 to 1976 Fomenko came to 24 missions for the Soviet national team. At the 1976 Olympic Games he won the bronze medal with the Soviet team.

In 1979, he had to end his career due to a back injury. He initially trained unterklassige clubs in the Soviet Union and was in the 1980 assistant coach of Dynamo Kiev, 1993, he was then head coach of Dynamo. In 1994, he coached the Guinean national team, then he trained, among others, Metalist Kharkiv and Simferopol Tawrija.

On December 26, 2012 Fomenko was named the new head coach of the Ukrainian national team and thus Succeeded by Oleh Blokhin.