Serhiy Burimenko

Serhiy Burimenko

Personal information
Full name	Serhiy Leonidovych Burimenko
Date of birth	(1970-09-02)2 September 1970
Place of birth	Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death	18 October 2021(2021-10-18) (aged 51)
Place of death	Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
198?–1987	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	2	(0)
1989–1993	Artania Ochakiv	98	(12)
1993–1994	Evis Mykolaiv	50	(3)
1995–1996	Naftokhimik Kremenchuk	52	(2)
1996	Kremin Kremenchuk	7	(0)
1996	Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk	3	(0)
1997	SC Mykolaiv	13	(0)
1998	Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya	9	(0)
1998–1999	SC Mykolaiv	16	(0)
1999	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia	16	(0)
2000–2003	Kohtla-Järve Lootus	58	(7)
2001	→ Tamme Auto Kiviõli (loan)	?	(4)
2002	→ Sillamäe Kalev (loan)	5	(0)
International career
1995	Ukraine (students)
Managerial career
2003–2013	Mykolaiv youth (assistant)
2013–2021	Mykolaiv youth (director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Serhiy Burimenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Леонідович Буріменко; 2 September 1970 – 18 October 2021) was a Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a midfielder player and later worked as a youth coach.

Career

Born in Mykolaiv, Burimenko was a product of the local Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv youth sportive school system. His first trainer was Oleksandr Chunikhin. On 10 October 1988, he made a professional debut for his club in the match against FC Desna Chernihiv.

His football career also included other Ukrainian clubs from different leagues (including Vyshcha Liha). He also spent three years as Estonian legionnaire. In 1995, as a member of the Ukraine national student football team, he participated in the Universiade in Japan. Then in Fukuoka, Ukrainian students under the coach Volodymyr Lozynskyi took fourth place.

After retirement from playing career, he worked as children's football trainer in MFC Mykolaiv and was a director of its youth sportive school since 2013.

External links

• Serhiy Burimenko at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
• Serhiy Burimenko at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)