Viktor Onopko

Viktor Onopko

Honored by UEFA in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Viktor Savelyevich Onopko
Date of birth	(1969-10-14) 14 October 1969 (age 47)
Place of birth	Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Luhansk, Ukraine)
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current team	CSKA Moscow (asst manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986	Stakhanovets Stakhanov	4	(0)
1986–1988	Shakhtar Donetsk	3	(0)
1989	Dinamo Kiev	0	(0)
1990–1991	Shakhtar Donetsk	45	(4)
1992–1995	Spartak Moscow	108	(23)
1995–2002	Real Oviedo	216	(7)
2002–2003	Rayo Vallecano	28	(1)
2003–2004	Alania Vladikavkaz	7	(0)
2004–2005	Saturn	51	(1)
Total		462	(33)
National team
1992	CIS	4	(0)
1992–2004	Russia	109	(7)
Teams managed
2009–	CSKA Moscow (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Viktor Savelyevich Onopko (Russian: Виктор Савельевич Онопко) (born 14 October 1969, in Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk), Soviet Union) is an association football coach and a former defender. He held the record for most international appearances for the Russian national team until 8 September 2015, when he was overtaken by Sergei Ignashevich. Currently he works as an assistant manager for PFC CSKA Moscow.

Viktor has a younger brother Serhiy Onopko.

Onopko's career as player started in 1988 and finished in 2005, during this time he played for Shakhtar Donetsk, Spartak Moscow, Real Oviedo, Rayo Vallecano, Alania Vladikavkaz and FC Saturn.

Although he was eligible to play for Ukraine, Onopko chose to play for Russia and amassed 109 caps (plus four for the CIS, including in Euro 92), the first coming in 1992. He played in the 1994 and 2002 World Cups, as well as Euro 96. Onopko was in the preliminary squad for Euro 2004 but was dropped due to injury.