Serhiy Atelkin
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Serhiy Atelkin is a retired Ukrainian
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

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Playing career

Atelkin made his name playing as a striker for the likes of Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

 (1990–1997, 2000–2002), U.S. Lecce
U.S. Lecce
Unione Sportiva Lecce or simply U.S. Lecce is an Italian football club based in Lecce, Apulia who play in the Italian Serie A. After being crowned Serie B champions in 2009–10, the team successfully managed to avoid relegation in 2010-11....

 (Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 1997-1998) and Boavista FC
Boavista FC
Boavista Futebol Clube, commonly known as Boavista , is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Porto. Founded on 1 August 1903, it is one of the oldest clubs in the country, and currently plays in the third division...

(Portugal 1998-1999). Despite success in domestic competitions, Atelkin only played for the Ukrainian national football team twice. He has returned to Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

 in 2003 where he is a scout.

Achievements

He was also notable for joining Oleh Matveyev
Oleh Matveyev
Oleh Matveyev is a former Ukrainian football player. One of the most successful strikers at the start of the Ukrainian Premier League. In 1997 he won the title of the League top scorer with 21 tallies. Together with Serhiy Atelkin they were the best tandem nationwide. Under the Soviet Union,...

 as one of the better forward duets in 90's in the Ukrainian Premier League
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...

. Together with Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukraine national team as a striker. He is the third-highest scorer in the history of European club competition with 67 goals as of 2011-03-10, behind Filippo Inzaghi and Raúl. With 175 goals scored with A.C...

 he holds a record for the most goals scored (4) in the finals of the Ukrainian Cup. He also had three seasons of scoring over 10 goals (1993, 1997, 2001). In 2002 he finally became the champion of Ukraine with FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

. Atelkin also is a four-time holder of the Ukrainian Cup
Ukrainian Cup
The Ukrainian Cup is a national knockout cup competition in Ukrainian football, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. The winner of the competition is awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup , under special circumstances the finalist also may enter...

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Personal life

According to official web-site of [Shakhtar], Sergey Atelkin suffered from heart attack in the beginning of December, 2008.

Career statistics

Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Shakhtar
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

1989
1989 Soviet Top League
-Final Standings:Promotion* CSKA Moscow * Guria Lanchkhuti * After this season the teams in italics quit the USSR Football Federation and joined the leagues of their native countries...

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1990
1990 Soviet Top League
The 1990 Soviet Top League season was the 53rd since its establishment. Spartak Moscow were the defending 12-times champions. The league was shortened and a total of fourteen teams participated. By the start of the season both Georgian teams have withdrew followed by another withdrawal from...

5 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 9 0
1991
1991 Soviet Top League
The 1991 Soviet Top League season was the 54th since its establishment and the last one. Dynamo Kyiv were the defending 13-times champions. A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, twelve of them have contested in the 1990 season while the remaining four were promoted from the Soviet...

15 0 1 0 0 0
16 0
1992
Ukrainian Premier League 1992
Ukrainian Premier League 1992 was the very first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and disbandment of the Soviet Football Union...

17 2 5 0 0 0
22 2
1992–93 29 11 2 1 0 0
31 12
1993–94 27 11 3 1 0 0
30 12
1994–95 19 6 7 1 2 0
28 7
1995–96 7 0 0 0 1 1
8 1
Kremin
FC Kremin Kremenchuk
FC Kremin Kremenchuk is a Ukrainian football club based in Kremenchuk. Since the 2005–06 season, the club has taken part in the Ukrainian Second League. From 1992–97, Kremin played in the Ukrainian Premier League, after being initially chosen to participate for being one of the top 9 Ukrainian...

1995–96 14 5 4 1 0 0
18 6
Shakhtar
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

1996–97 24 11 4 1 0 0
28 12
1997–98 15 6 2 1 5 5
22 12
Lecce
U.S. Lecce
Unione Sportiva Lecce or simply U.S. Lecce is an Italian football club based in Lecce, Apulia who play in the Italian Serie A. After being crowned Serie B champions in 2009–10, the team successfully managed to avoid relegation in 2010-11....

1997-98 16 3 0 0 0 0
16 3
1998-99 0 0 4 0 0 0
4 0
Boavista 1998-99 10 3 0 0 0 0
10 3
Shakhtar
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

1999–00 9 1 2 1 0 0
11 2
2000–01 21 11 5 2 10 6
36 19
2001–02 15 2 5 1 4 0
24 3
Metalurh D
FC Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalurh Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.- Pre-history :...

2002–03 12 1 4 0 0 0
16 1
Total for Shakhtar 2036138922123026682
Career totals 25574501022123033096

  • Other - USSR Federation Cup

International games

Serhiy Atelkin: International Games
Game Date Venue Opponent Minutes Result Competition
1. 11 October 1997 Yerevan
Yerevan
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, Armenia
Armenia
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10 Won WC 1998 Qual
2. 29 October 1997 Zagreb
Zagreb
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, Croatia
Croatia
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54 Lost WC 1998 Qual (play-off)

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