Ihor Stolovytskyi

Stolovytskyi started his football career in his home city of Cherkasy, attending Cherkasy Sports School No. 1 (DYuSSh No. 1). Later, as a young footballer, he moved to Kharkiv, where he attended the local sports boarding school. Stolovytskyi made his professional debut while playing in the Russian SFSR for Spartak Ryazan in the 1986 Soviet Second League. He spent 4 seasons at the Ryazan team of masters, which several times had changed their name (Sapfir and later Torpedo). In 1990, the Shakhtar head coach, Valeriy Yaremchenko, invited him to Donetsk. Eventually, he worked as a manager of FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro and previously played for Dnipro Cherkasy.