Stepan Yurchyshyn


Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn was a Ukrainian football player and manager.

Career

Native of Lviv, Yurchyshyn started his football career in a football academy of the Carpathian Military District army sports club, which for most of the time was centered in Lviv. For a short period, the first team of SKA Lviv represented the city of Lutsk in the neighboring Volyn Oblast. In 1977, the 19-year-old Yurchyshyn was called to the Central Army Sports Club in Moscow, CSKA Moscow.

International career

Yurchyshyn made his debut for Soviet Union [national football team|USSR] on 5 September 1979 in a friendly against East Germany. He played in UEFA Euro 1980 qualifiers.
In 1979 Yurchyshyn played a couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.

Managerial career

The first team Yurchyshyn coached was Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, he became a coach of FC Lviv from which he resigned in late September 2008 after the club's poor start in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Death

Yurchyshyn died on 10 July 2025, at the age of 67.

Honours