Vitaliy Starukhin

Vitaliy Starukhin

Personal information
Full name	Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin
Date of birth	(1949-06-06)June 6, 1949
Place of birth	Minsk, Belarusian SSR
Date of death
Place of death	Donetsk, Ukraine
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1968–1971	SKA Odessa	56	(28)
1971–1972	Budivelnyk	24	(20)
1973–1981	Shakhtar	217	(84)
Total		297	(132)
International career
1979	Ukraine
1980	USSR	1	(0)
Managerial career
1981–2000	Shakhtar (youth teams)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (Ukrainian: Старухін Віталій Володимирович; born June 6, 1949 in Minsk; died August 9, 2000 in Donetsk of pneumonia) was a Soviet professional football player. He is considered by many fans to be the greatest players to ever play for Shakhtar Donetsk.

In 1979 he was awarded Player of the year award. In 1979 Starukhin played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.

In 2011 Vitaly Starukhin, together with Oleg Blohin and Igor Belanov was named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.

Statistics for Shakhtar

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Shakhtar	1973	28	10	3	3	-	-	-	-	31	13
	1974	28	11	8	4	-	-	-	-	36	15
	1975	25	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	9
	1976 (s)	11	0	3	1	-	-	-	-	14	1
	1976 (a)	10	4	-	-	5	2	-	-	15	6
	1977	26	9	3	1	-	-	-	-	29	10
	1978	25	7	9	4	2	0	-	-	36	11
	1979	32	26	2	1	2	0	-	-	36	27
	1980	21	5	8	7	2	1	-	-	31	13
	1981	11	3	5	2	-	-	1	0	17	5
Total		217	84	41	23	11	3	1	0	270	110

Honours

• Soviet Top League top scorer: 1979 (26 goals).
• Soviet Top League runner-up: 1975, 1979.
• Soviet Top League bronze: 1978.
• Soviet Cup winner: 1980.
• Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1979.
• Best rookie player: 1973.

External links

• Vitaliy Starukhin career stats by KLISF