Oleksandr Dovbiy

Oleksandr Dovbiy
Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Petrovych Dovbiy
Date of birth	28 September 1953
Place of birth	Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Date of death	11 March 2023 (aged 69)
Place of death	Kharkiv, Ukraine
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1972	Lokomotyv Kherson
1974–1975	Frunzenets Sumy
1975–1976	Metalist Kharkiv
1976–1977	SKA Kyiv
1978	Chornomorets Odesa
1979–1981	Metalist Kharkiv
1982–1983	Frunzenets Sumy
Managerial career
1990—1991	Metalist Kharkiv (assistant)
1994	Metalist Kharkiv
1994—1995	Khimik Zhytomyr (assistant)
1996—1997	Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka
1997—1998	Zirka Kirovohrad
1998	Vorskla Poltava
1999—2000	Metalist Kharkiv (assistant)
2001	FC Sumy
2002	Anzhi Makhachkala (assistant)
2003	Sokol Saratov (assistant)
2003–2004	Zorya Luhansk
2005–2006	Kharkiv-2
2006–2007	Hazovyk-KhGV Kharkiv
2009	Zaria Bălți
2009–2011	PVF Ho Chi Minh City
2011–2012	Zaria Bălți (sporting director)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleksandr Petrovych Dovbiy (Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Довбій; 28 September 1953 – 11 March 2023) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football forward and manager, master of sports of the USSR (1980).^[1]

Playing career

The Lokomotiv was the first professional team Dovbiy played for. In 1974–75 he played for the FC Frunzenets team based in Sumy. Then he returned to Kharkiv.

In 1976 Dovbiy was called up for the military service where he played for the army football club in B league FC CSKA Kyiv (based in Kyiv). In 1977, he scored 18 goals and became one of top scorers in the season. His teammate Mykola Pinchuck scored 20 goals in that season.

After military service, Dovbiy spent a season^[1] with Chornomorets Odesa. Then he moved to Metalist Kharkiv in 1979 and spent three seasons there. In 1981, he became the winner of the A league and paved the way to the premier league. Dovbiy finished his career in FC Frunzenets.

Managerial career

After completion of his playing career, Dovbiy worked as a faculty instructor at the Kharkiv branch of the Kyiv State University of Physical Culture and Kharkiv State College of Physical Culture No.1.

From 1990 to 1991 Dovbiy worked as a coach in Metalist Kharkiv. Later, he held the position of a football manager in FC Khimik Zhytomyr. In 1993–94 season, Dovbiy was also a head coach in FC Naftovyk from Okhtyrka. Later he was the head coach in FC Zirka Kirovohrad and Vorskla. In 1999, he moved to Kharkiv where he assisted Mykhaylo Fomenko in coaching Metalist Kharkiv.

In 2002, Dovbiy accepted the invitation from Leonid Tkachenko, who was the caretaker manager of the premier league Anzhi Makhachkala, to join the coaching team.

In 2003, Dovbiy held in the Sokol Saratov, and then returned to Ukraine where he was a coach of Zorya Luhans. He helped the club to stay in the A league. In 2005, Dovbiy returned to Kharkiv, where he was a football manager in FC Kharkiv-2 and FC Hazovyk-KhGV Kharkiv that played in the B league. In 2009, he worked at Moldovan club Zaria Bălți, but in June left the coaching position.

From 2009 to 2011 Dovbiy worked in Vietnam, where he was the head coach and one of the founders of the national football academy PVF.^[2]

From October 2011, Dovbiy held the position of sporting director of FC Olympia (Balti).