Vasyl Ivanovych Leskiv (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Леськів; born 20 December 1963) is a Soviet and Ukrainian former football player and manager. A veteran of Karpaty Lviv and Lviv, he has played more than 150 official matches for each of these clubs. Top scorer of Lviv in all Ukrainian championships, he scored 36 goals.[1]

Vasyl Leskiv
Personal information
Full name Vasyl Ivanovych Leskiv
Date of birth (1963-12-20) 20 December 1963 (age 60)
Place of birth Stare Selo, Pustomyty Raion, Ukrainian SSR
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
DYuSSh-4 Lviv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1987 Torpedo Lutsk 127 (15)
1988 Podillia Khmelnytskyi 49 (4)
1989–1993 Karpaty Lviv 166 (11)
1993–1994 Maccabi Petah Tikva 33 (0)
1994–1995 Karpaty Lviv 33 (3)
1995–2001 FC Lviv 318 (36)
1999Karpaty Lviv (loan) 1 (0)
2001–2002 Karpaty Lviv 13 (0)
2001–2002Karpaty-2 Lviv (loan) 12 (0)
2001Karpaty-3 Lviv (loan) 2 (1)
Managerial career
2005–2008 FC Pustomyty
2008–2012 FC Horodok
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career edit

Leskiv studied in “Lviv” CYSS-4.[2] His first coach was Ihor Yevstahiyovych Kulchytsky. After three seasons at Torpedo (Lutsk) and one year at Podillya (Khmelnytsky), the midfielder moved to the newly restored FC Karpaty Lviv in 1989. Together with the Lviv team, Leskiv won gold medals in the second Soviet league in 1991 and played in the first independent championships. In 1993 he joined the Israeli club Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C.

From 1995 to 2001 he spent 6 seasons for FC Lviv in the first league. He immediately became a regular player and regularly scored penalties. He became the team's top scorer in the 1998–99 championship — 12 goals. In total, Vasyl Leskiv played 217 matches for FC Lviv in the championships of Ukraine.

Since 2005 he has been the head coach of the Pustomyty amateur team (Lviv region). Works as a coach at CYSS "Karpaty" (Lviv).[3] In December 2008, he agreed to head the amateur club Horodok from the city of the same name in the Lviv region.[4][5]

References edit

  1. ^ Леськів Василь Іванович
  2. ^ "Високий замок online — Головна". www.wz.lviv.ua. 27 November 2017. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014.
  3. ^ Довідник. Сезон 2020-2021
  4. ^ "Львівські "Карпати" преміювали тренера СДЮШОР Василя Леськіва за підготовку Мар'яна Шведа". dailylviv.com. 25 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Кравець: "З Дулубом команда стала більш дружна"". fckarpaty.com.ua. 26 November 2016.

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