Igor Leshchuk
Igor Alekseyevich Leshchuk is a Russian football player who plays as goalkeeper for FC Dynamo Moscow.
Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 28 August 2016 in a game against FSK Dolgoprudny.He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Dynamo Moscow on 10 August 2019, when he had to come in for injured Anton Shunin in a game against FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. He started the next 6 games as Shunin was recovering and won the Dynamo fans' vote for "player of the month" for August 2019.
On 30 August 2021, he signed a new four-year contract with Dynamo. After another Shunin injury in September 2021, he kept clean sheet in 3 consecutive games and was voted as player of the month once again.
On 15 March 2023, Leshchuk saved two penalty kicks in the shootout to eliminate Russian champions Zenit St. Petersburg from the Russian Cup.
He was voted player of the month by Dynamo fans for the third time for October 2023.
On 18 January 2024, Leshchuk extended his contract with Dynamo to 2028.
On 2 December 2024, Leshchuk scored a late added-time equalizer in a 1–1 away draw against Akhmat Grozny, with a header after a corner kick. He became only the second goalkeeper in the history of the Russian Premier League to score a goal after Andrei Novosadov in 2001, and the first to not score it from a penalty kick. Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, best Russian clubs participated in the Soviet Top League, and on all occasions in that league when goalkeepers scored a goal, it was from a penalty kick. Thus Leshchuk became the first ever goalkeeper in the history of Russian football to score a non-penalty-kick goal in a top-tier club league.