Serhiy Rebrov

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Stanislavovych and the family name is Rebrov.
Serhii Rebrov
Rebrov as manager of Dynamo Kyiv in 2015
Personal information
Full name Serhiy Stanislavovych Rebrov
Date of birth (1974-06-03) 3 June 1974 (age 50)[1]
Place of birth Horlivka, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine)
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Ukraine (manager)
Youth career
1982–1989 Spartak Horlivka
1989–1991 UOR Donetsk
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1992 Shakhtar Donetsk 26 (12)
1992–2000 Dynamo Kyiv 189 (93)
2000–2004 Tottenham Hotspur 60 (10)
2002–2004 → Fenerbahçe (loan) 38 (4)
2004–2005 West Ham United 27 (1)
2005–2008 Dynamo Kyiv 53 (20)
2008–2009 Rubin Kazan 31 (5)
2009 Irpin Horenychi (amateurs)[2] 2 (0)
Total 425 (145)
International career
1993–1995 Ukraine U21 17 (7)
1992–2006[3] Ukraine 75 (15)
Managerial career
2009–2010 Dynamo Kyiv (U21 assistant)
2010 Dynamo-2 Kyiv (assistant)
2010–2014 Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
2010–2011 Ukraine (assistant)
2014–2017 Dynamo Kyiv
2017–2018 Al-Ahli
2018–2021 Ferencváros
2021–2023 Al-Ain
2023– Ukraine
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Serhiy Stanislavovych Rebrov (Ukrainian: Сергій Станіславович Ребров;[4] born 3 June 1974) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is currently the manager of Ukraine.

Rebrov gained international fame as an attacking partner of Andriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kyiv throughout the 1990s and as of August 2017 is the all-time top scorer of the Ukrainian Premier League together with Maksim Shatskikh.

He debuted for Ukraine in 1992, playing 75 times for the national team, scoring 15 goals. He played in the nation's first-ever World Cup, in 2006.

He finished his career as a professional football player in 2009, after which he worked as a coach. In 2014, he held the position of acting head coach at Dynamo Kyiv, and for the next three years he was head coach.[5] He was the first to win the Ukrainian Cup as a player and coach.[6] He also spent three seasons as manager of Hungarian side Ferencváros from 2018 to 2021. In 2023, he took charge of the Ukraine national team and led them to qualification for UEFA Euro 2024.

Club career

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Rebrov was born in Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast. He joined Shakhtar Donetsk as a youth in 1990. In his debut 1991 season, then a 17-year-old, he scored two goals in seven games in the USSR Premier League. In his second season, playing in the newly established Ukrainian Premier League, he became a joint 3rd goalscorer, catching the eye of Dynamo Kyiv scouts.

Dynamo Kyiv

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Rebrov moved to Dynamo Kyiv in August 1992 and has since become the highest all-time scorer in the Ukrainian Premier League. His total tally in the league with Shakhtar and Dynamo is 123 goals in 261 games.

He scored several key goals in European competitions, notably in the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons of the UEFA Champions League, including a famous goal against Barcelona from a tight angle. Dynamo reached the Champions League semi-final in 1999, but lost to Bayern Munich on aggregate. In the 1999–2000 season, Rebrov became a joint top scorer in the UEFA Champions League with ten goals (including two goals in qualification games) as Dynamo progressed to the last sixteen before going out on head-to-head record against Real Madrid.

England

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On 17 May 2000, he was sold to Tottenham Hotspur for £11 million,[7] where he managed a modest return of nine goals in 29 games over his first Premier League season, appearing to struggle to adjust to the different style of play in England. Things grew worse for Rebrov after the sacking of George Graham in March 2001, as he was frozen out by new manager Glenn Hoddle, with extremely few first-team starts or substitute appearances. In search of first-team football, Rebrov spent two consecutive loan spells at Fenerbahçe.[8] In his second season there, alongside new signing Pierre van Hooijdonk, he helped lead Fenerbahçe to its 15th title.[9]

Subsequently, Rebrov signed a one-year contract with West Ham United in the Championship after his contract with Tottenham expired.[10] He scored just once in the league for West Ham, the winner in a 3–2 win over Watford on 27 November 2004.[11] He also scored once in the League Cup against Notts County.[12]

Return to Dynamo Kyiv

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On 1 June 2005, Rebrov became a free agent, after declining to re-sign; two days, later he signed a new two-year contract with Dynamo Kyiv, with the option of a one-year extension. In the 2005–06 season, Rebrov became Dynamo's top scorer with 13 goals, two behind league joint top scorers Brandão and Okoduwa, despite playing in midfield. Rebrov also topped the league in points, with goals and assists – and was named player of the season, according to a poll of team managers and captains.

In July 2007, Rebrov became Dynamo's captain. In the 2007–08 season, he was mostly benched, starting only seven out of eighteen matches before the winter break. His contribution in some games was heavily criticised by the press. It was reported that Rebrov could move to Arsenal Kyiv during the transfer window. However, under new manager Yuri Semin, Rebrov started all games and was named best player at the close season Channel One Cup. In February 2008, Dynamo president Ihor Surkis stated that the club was planning talks with Rebrov, with a view to extending his contract.[13] Shortly thereafter, Rebrov received an offer of a two-year contract from Russian Premier League club Rubin Kazan.

Rubin Kazan

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Rebrov playing for Rubin Kazan

On 3 March 2008, Dynamo announced that Rebrov had signed a two-year contract with Rubin Kazan, and would join the new club at the end of the season, in the summer of 2008.[14] With the Russian season starting in spring, Rubin eventually agreed to a $1 million compensation with Dynamo for Rebrov's early release from his contract.[15] He was part of the team that won the 2008 Russian Premier League for the first time in Rubin's history, playing in midfield in 24 out of his team's 30 league matches, and scoring five goals.

Retirement

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Rebrov's retirement was announced on 20 July 2009. At the same time, he became an assistant manager at the Dynamo Kyiv reserves.[16] During his career, he played in various European leagues, with 423 games recorded and 145 goals netted. His career achievements resulted in him being inducted into the Viktor Leonenko Hall of Fame in March 2012.

In August 2009, Rebrov made a brief return to football, by joining amateur club Irpin Horenychi from the Kyiv suburbs. He took part in the 2009-10 Ukrainian Cup where Irpin lost to Volyn Lutsk.[17][18] In the fall of the same year, Rebrov also played a couple of games for Irpin in Mykolaiv Oblast in the 2009 Amateur League.[19][20][21]

Managerial career

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Dynamo Kyiv

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On 17 April 2014, Rebrov was named caretaker manager of Dynamo Kyiv. On 19 May, after the victory in the Ukrainian cup, he was named manager. During Rebrov's reign as manager, Dynamo Kyiv went on to win two Ukrainian Premier League titles, two Ukrainian Cup titles and one Ukrainian Super Cup. In the 2015–16 season, the team also progressed past the group stages of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over 15 years, into the knockout rounds. The season before, Rebrov lead Dynamo Kyiv in a successful 2014–15 UEFA Europa League campaign, which included a memorable 5–2 win over Everton in the round of 16-second leg. Rebrov confirmed his resignation as manager on 31 May 2017, following the expiration fo his contract, after the club's final game of the season, against Chornomorets Odesa.[22]

Al Ahli

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Rebrov soon returned to management and in June 2017, Rebrov was named manager of Saudi Arabia side Al Ahli. He managed there for one season, until he was eventually sacked for failing to win the league. [23]

Ferencváros

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On 22 August 2018, Rebrov was named manager of Hungarian side Ferencváros, after the club failed to qualify for the UEFA Europa League.[24]

On 29 September 2020, Rebrov guided Ferencváros into the Champions League group stage for the first time in a quarter of a century after beating Molde. The Green Eagles beat Djurgårdens, Celtic and Dinamo Zagreb in the previous three rounds of qualification to set up a meeting with the Norwegian champions. After a 3–3 draw in Norway in the first leg, Ferencváros held out for a 0–0 draw in Budapest in the second leg, which meant a victory on away goals, and thus qualification to the promised land of the group stage was secured for the first time in 25 years.

On 4 June 2021, Ferencváros announced his resignation as coach of the club, thanking him for his contribution to winning three consecutive league titles, and for guiding the club both to the UEFA Europa League group stage, in 2019, and to the Champions League group stage, in the following year.[25]

Al-Ain

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On 7 June 2021, Al Ain from the United Arab Emirates announced his appointment as manager.[26]

Ukraine

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On 7 June 2023, Rebrov became the manager of the Ukraine national football team.[27]

International career

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Rebrov scored Ukraine's first-ever World Cup goal in their opening 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification group 9 match in 1996, against Northern Ireland. The match in Belfast finished 1–0 thanks to Rebrov's contribution. Ukraine finished 2nd in the group behind Germany, with Rebrov again scoring the winner in another 1–0 victory away to Albania in March 1997, and at home to the same team in August. His three goals helped his team into the playoffs, where they lost 3–1 on aggregate to Croatia.

Rebrov's club exploits earned him a recall to the national team and a ticket to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, where he scored a long-range shot against Saudi Arabia as Ukraine progressed to the quarterfinals before going down to Italy.

At the time of his retirement on 20 July 2009, he was the fourth most capped player in the Ukrainian national team's history having represented his country 75 times and was their second all-time scorer with 15 goals.

Personal life

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Rebrov is a licensed amateur radio operator and an active contester and has been active with the following callsigns: UT5UDX (Ukraine), M0SDX (England), TA2ZF (Turkey) and UT0U(Ukrainian contest-callsign). Most recent call is 5B4AMM (Cyprus) and P3X (Cypriot contest-callsign).[28]

Career statistics

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Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Europe Other[a] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Shakhtar Donetsk 1991 Soviet Top League 7 2 3 1 – – 10 3
1992 Vyshcha Liha 19 10 6 1 – – 25 11
Total 26 12 9 2 0 0 0 0 35 14
Dynamo Kyiv 1992–93 Vyshcha Liha 23 5 6 2 2 0 – 31 7
1993–94 10 2 1 0 2 1 – 13 3
1994–95 24 8 6 1 7 1 – 37 10
1995–96 31 9 5 1 2 0 – 38 10
1996–97 30 20 1 0 4 0 – 35 20
1997–98 29 22 7 7 12 8 – 48 37
1998–99 22 9 5 5 14 8 – 41 22
1999–2000 20 18 4 2 16 10 – 40 30
Total 189 93 35 18 59 28 0 0 283 139
Tottenham Hotspur 2000–01 Premier League 29 9 5 3 – 2 0 36 12
2001–02 30 1 3 0 – 6 2 39 3
Total 59 10 8 3 0 0 8 2 75 15
Fenerbahçe 2002–03 Süper Lig 13 2 – – – 13 2
2003–04 25 2 3 1 – – 30 3
Total 38 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 41 5
West Ham United 2004–05 Championship 27 1 2 0 – 4 1 33 2
Dynamo Kyiv 2005–06 Vyshcha Liha 27 13 5 1 1 0 1 0 34 14
2006–07 17 6 2 0 7 2 1 0 27 8
2007–08 9 1 2 0 5 1 – 16 2
Total 53 20 9 1 13 3 2 0 77 24
Rubin Kazan 2008 Russian Premier League 24 5 1 0 – – 25 5
2009 7 0 – – 1 0 8 0
Total 31 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 33 5
Irpin Horenychi[2][29] 2009 Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship 2 0 1 0 – – 3 0
Career total 425 145 68 25 72 31 15 3 580 204
  1. ^ Includes Super Cup, League Cup

International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Ukraine 1992 1 0
1993 3 0
1994 0 0
1995 0 0
1996 5 1
1997 10 3
1998 5 4
1999 10 4
2000 5 0
2001 8 0
2002 7 1
2003 7 0
2004 4 0
2005 3 1
2006 7 1
Career total 75 15
Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Rebrov goal.
List of international goals scored by Serhiy Rebrov
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 31 August 1996 Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland  Northern Ireland 1–0 1–0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
2 23 March 1997 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Moldova 1–0 1–0 Friendly
3 29 March 1997 Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada, Spain  Albania 1–0 1–0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
4 20 August 1997 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Albania 1–0 1–0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
5 19 August 1998 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Georgia 1–0 4–0 Friendly
6 2–0
7 5 September 1998 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Russia 3–1 3–2 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
8 10 October 1998 Camp d’Esports d’Aixovall, Aixovall, Andorra  Andorra 2–0 2–0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
9 5 June 1999 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Andorra 2–0 4–0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
10 18 August 1999 Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine  Bulgaria 1–0 1–1 Friendly
11 8 September 1999 Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland  Iceland 1–0 1–0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
12 17 November 1999 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Slovenia 1–0 1–1 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
13 17 April 2002 Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine  Georgia 1–0 2–1 Friendly
14 17 August 2005 Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine  Serbia and Montenegro 1–0 2–1 Friendly
15 19 June 2006 AOL Arena, Hamburg, Germany  Saudi Arabia 2–0 4–0 2006 FIFA World Cup

Managerial statistics

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As of match updated 14 October 2024
Team Nationality From To Record
G W D L Win %
Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine 17 April 2014 31 May 2017 137 94 20 23 068.61
Al-Ahli Saudi Arabia 1 June 2017 19 April 2018 38 23 10 5 060.53
Ferencváros Hungary 22 August 2018 9 May 2021 132 82 30 20 062.12
Al Ain United Arab Emirates 6 June 2021 27 May 2023 73 45 18 10 061.64
Ukraine Ukraine 7 June 2023 Present 20 9 6 5 045.00
Total 400 250 84 66 062.50

UEFA Champions League goals

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Number Date For Against Match Place Score
1 17 September 1997 Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine PSV Netherlands A Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Netherlands 1-3
2 1 October 1997 Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Newcastle England H Olympiyskiy, Kyiv Ukraine 2-2

Honours

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Player

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Dynamo Kyiv

Tottenham Hotspur

Fenerbahçe

West Ham United

Rubin Kazan

Individual

Manager

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Dynamo Kyiv

Ferencváros

Al Ain

Individual

References

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  34. ^ Ребров признан Тренером десятилетия в Ференцвароше
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  37. ^ Al Ain make a clean sweep of October's "The Best" awards
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  39. ^ UAE Pro League announces December and January “The Best” awards winners
  40. ^ UAE Pro League Announces February's “The Best” Awards Winners
  41. ^ UAE Pro League Announces March's “The Best” Awards Winners
  42. ^ UAE Pro League Honors 2021-2022 Season “The Best” Winners
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