Artem Fedetskiy

Fedetskyi was a pupil of the Volyn Lutsk sports school. When he was 8, his father signed him up for football section in the local sports school. His first coach was Andriy Fedetskyi. In the Ukrainian Youth Football League he played for Shakhtar Donetsk. Also, early in his career Fedetskyi played for the amateur club ENKO Lutsk in the local Volyn Regional Football League. Fedetskyi started his professional football career in Donetsk for Shakhtar. His first professional match took place on 15 September 2002 when Shakhtar-3 was hosting Stal-2 Alchevsk at Shakhtar Stadium in Makiivka. Fedetskyi came out on substitution at the end of the match, by which time Shakhtar was already ahead of Stal. He replaced Dmytro Kononchenko at the 87th minute. Fedetskyi remained with Shakhtar until 2006 without playing a single match for the first squad and staying with reserves where for a short while he was wearing the captain's band. In 2007 he was loaned to Arsenal Kyiv. With Arsenal Fedetskyi made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League on 4 March 2007 when Arsenal was visiting Chornomorets Odesa. He played the full match, but the Kyivans lost 0:2. After the spring half, for the 2007–08 season he moved to play for FC Kharkiv. Before going on loan to Kharkiv, the new owner Vadim Rabinovich wanted to buy off Fedetskyi contract, but Shakhtar was agreeing only on loan. To Kharkiv, Fedetskyi went with Oleh Karamushka. While playing for Kharkiv, Fedetskyi scored a hat-trick on 6 April 2008 in an…

Fedetskyi ran in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election in electoral district 118, Lviv Oblast. As a non-partisan candidate he was running from the party Servant of the People. The seat was won by Halyna Vasylchenko.

Fedetskyi was born in a mining city of Novovolynsk, near the border with Poland, in a footballer family. He finished his 10th grade of high school in Lutsk, and to graduate he was forced to end his final year in Donetsk due to his transfer to the Shakhtar football academy. Later Fedetskyi graduated from the Lutsk Institute of Human Development with a degree in marketing. In 2018 he defended his dissertation at Volyn University on the subject "Methods of training football students using information models" and received the academic degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.

His father Andriy Fedetskyi was also a football player. Fedetskyi is married and has a son, Adrian (2009). Artem Fedetskyi acknowledged that the one who helped him to adapt in Shakhtar was Anatoliy Tymoshchuk. In 2021 in interview to some Ukrainian internet media, Fedetskyi expressed his thought that Tymoshchuk is being overcriticized in Ukraine as well as the Russian Federation.