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{{Short description|Ukrainian-Russian footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{family name hatnote|Anatolyevich|Salenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name                = Oleg Salenko
| fullname            = Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko
| image               = O.Salenko.JPG
| caption             = Salenko in 2014
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1969|10|25}}
| birth_place         = [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]],<br>[[Soviet Union]]
| height              = {{height|m=1.81}}
| position            = [[Forward (association football)#Striker|Striker]]
| youthyears1         = 
| youthclubs1         = Smena Leningrad
| years1              = 1986–1988
| years2              = 1989–1992
| years3              = 1993–1994
| years4              = 1994–1995
| years5              = 1995–1996
| years6              = 1996–1998
| years7              = 1999–2000
| years8              = 2000–2001
| years9              = 2005–2008
| clubs1              = [[FC Zenit Saint Petersburg|Zenit]]
| clubs2              = [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
| clubs3              = [[CD Logroñés|Logroñés]]
| clubs4              = [[Valencia CF|Valencia]]
| clubs5              = [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]]
| clubs6              = [[İstanbulspor A.Ş.|İstanbulspor]]
| clubs7              = [[Córdoba CF|Córdoba]]
| clubs8              = [[Pogoń Szczecin]]
| caps1               = 47
| goals1              = 10
| caps2               = 91
| goals2              = 28
| caps3               = 47
| goals3              = 23
| caps4               = 25
| goals4              = 7
| caps5               = 16
| goals5              = 7
| caps6               = 18
| goals6              = 11
| caps7               = 3
| goals7              = 0
| caps8               = 1
| goals8              = 0
| totalcaps           = 248
| totalgoals          = 86
| nationalyears1      = 1984–1991
| nationalyears2      = 1992
| nationalyears3      = 1993–1994
| nationalteam1       = [[Soviet Union national under-20 football team|Soviet Union U20]]
| nationalteam2       = [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/double-caps.html|title=Players Appearing for Two or More Countries|website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=10 July 2014}}</ref>
| nationalteam3       = [[Russia national football team|Russia]]
| nationalcaps1       = 4
| nationalgoals1      = 5
| nationalcaps2       = 1
| nationalgoals2      = 0
| nationalcaps3       = 8
| nationalgoals3      = 6
|medaltemplates = {{Medal|Country| the {{fb|URS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Under-21 Championship]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship|1990 Europe]]|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Under-19 Championship|UEFA European Under-18 Championship]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[1988 UEFA European Under-18 Championship|1988 Czechoslovakia]]|}}
}}
'''Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko''' ({{langx|ru|Оле́г Анато́льевич Сале́нко}}, {{langx|uk|Олег Анатолійович Саленко}}; born 25 October 1969) is a Russian-Ukrainian former [[Association football|football]]er who played as a [[Forward (association football)|forward]]. He scored a record five goals in a group-stage match in the [[1994 FIFA World Cup|1994 World Cup]], helping him earn the [[FIFA World Cup awards#Golden Boot|Golden Boot]] as joint-top tournament goalscorer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://football24.ua/ru/geroi_90h_oleg_salenko_s_gaskojnom_chokalsja_neodnokratno_on_ne_byl_alkogolikom_n153153/|title=Interview with Oleg Salenko|publisher=football24.ua}}</ref>

==Club career==
{{expand section|date=November 2016}}
Salenko was born to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]. He played for [[FC Zenit Saint Petersburg|Zenit Leningrad]], [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]], [[CD Logroñés|Logroñés]], [[Córdoba CF|Córdoba]], [[Valencia CF|Valencia]], [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] and [[İstanbulspor A.Ş.|İstanbulspor]] during his club career, that lasted from 1986 to 2000.

Eventually, he faded from the international football scene and finally had to end his career prematurely, at the age of 31, for injury reasons. Salenko returned to playing professional football in the 2000–01 season and signed for [[Pogoń Szczecin]]. He retired after playing a single game due to his physical conditioning.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

==International career==
Salenko played for the [[Soviet Union national under-20 football team|Soviet Union under-20 team]] at the [[1989 FIFA World Youth Championship]], becoming the tournament top scorer with 5 goals. He played a total of only nine international matches, including the [[Ukraine 1–3 Hungary (1992 association football friendly)|Ukraine 1–3 Hungary friendly]], which was the first international game for the [[Ukraine national football team]] to be recognised by FIFA. He also had eight appearances for [[Russia national football team|Russia]] and scored six goals, all of them at the [[1994 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] in which he was joint top scorer. His last international appearance was 6–1 win against [[Cameroon national football team|Cameroon]] when he scored five times.

As of 2024, he is the only player to win the Golden Boot at both the [[FIFA U-20 World Cup|U-20 World Cup]] and [[FIFA World Cup]].

===1994 FIFA World Cup===
Salenko set a [[FIFA World Cup records|World Cup record]] by scoring five goals in one game in [[Russia national football team|Russia]]'s 6–1 win against [[Cameroon national football team|Cameroon]] on 28 June 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=337/match=3079/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223035027/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=337/match=3079/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 February 2015|title=Russia 6-1 Cameroon|publisher=FIFA.com|date=28 June 1994|access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref> He finished the [[1994 FIFA World Cup|1994 World Cup]] with six goals, having scored from the penalty spot against [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] in the previous match and shared the [[World Cup Golden Boot|Golden Boot]] with [[Bulgaria]]n [[Hristo Stoichkov]] after being knocked out in the first round and having played only three matches while [[Bulgaria national football team|Bulgaria]] played a total of seven matches and achieved a fourth-place finish.<ref name="Salenko">{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/behind-the-world-cup-record-oleg-salenko-2877482|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621042927/https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/behind-the-world-cup-record-oleg-salenko-2877482|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 June 2018|title=Behind the World Cup record: Oleg Salenko|publisher=FIFA.com|date=27 March 2017|access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref> As of 2022, Salenko is the only player ever to win the Golden Boot award on a team eliminated from the World Cup finals at the group stage.<ref name="Salenko"/>

==Beach football==
In 2003, Salenko was appointed as manager of the [[Ukraine national beach soccer team]]. His team played three games, the only win being over USA 6–5, and losing the other two to Brazil and Spain. The tournament took place at the end of July in [[Portugal]] under the name ''Mundialito''.<ref>[http://beachsoccer.com.ua/ukr/vse_matchi.php List of matches of the national team in Ukrainian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326015326/http://beachsoccer.com.ua/ukr/vse_matchi.php |date=26 March 2009 }}</ref> After the tournament, he was dismissed. He was later taking part of [[Football Federation of Ukraine|FFU]] assisting staff, but later stopped being involved in football to focus on his business.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

==Personal life==
Oleg Salenko was born in Leningrad (Today known as Saint Petersburg), Russia to a Russian father and Ukrainian mother. His son is a Ukrainian footballer [[Roman Salenko]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Сын легендарного футболиста сборной России: «Я идентифицирую себя украинцем на 1000%»|url=https://sport24.ru/football/news-776701-syn-legendarnogo-futbolista-sbornoy-rossii-ya-identifitsiruyu-sebya-ukraintsem-na-1000 |website=sport24.ru |date=18 August 2025 |accessdate=9 November 2025}}</ref> Oleg’s son made his debut with Dynamo Kiev, the second team Oleg played for, in November of 2024. <ref>{{cite web |title= Oleg Salenko on his son’s debut for the first team of Dynamo: "It was all leading to this"
|url=https://sport24.ru/football/news-776701-syn-legendarnogo-futbolista-sbornoy-rossii-ya-identifitsiruyu-sebya-ukraintsem-na-1000 |website=dynamo.kiev.ua |date=25 November 2024 |accessdate=10 November 2025}}</ref>

== Career statistics ==
===International===
'''Appearances and goals by national team and year'''<ref name="NFT">{{NFT player|id=15111|accessdate=21 June 2018}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]]
|-
|1992||1||0
|-
!Total||1||0
|-
| rowspan="4" |[[Russia national football team|Russia]]
|-
|1993||1||0
|-
|1994||7||6
|-
!Total||8||6
|-
! colspan="2" |Career total
!9
!6
|}
'''International goals'''
:''Scores and results list Russia's goal tally first.''<ref name="NFT"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;"
! No !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
|-
| 1. || 24 June 1994 || [[Pontiac Silverdome]], [[Pontiac, Michigan|Pontiac]], [[United States]] || {{fb|SWE}} || align=center | 1–0 || align="center" | 1–3 || rowspan="6" | [[1994 FIFA World Cup Group B|1994 FIFA World Cup]]
|-
| 2. || rowspan="5" | 28 June 1994 || rowspan="5" | [[Stanford Stadium]], [[Stanford, California|Stanford]], United States || rowspan="5" | {{fb|CMR}} || align=center | 1–0 || rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 6–1
|-
| 3. || align=center | 2–0
|-
| 4. || align=center | 3–0
|-
| 5. || align=center | 4–1
|-
| 6. || align=center | 5–1
|}

==Honours==
;Dynamo Kyiv
*[[Soviet Top League]]: [[1990 Soviet Top League|1990]]
*[[Soviet Cup]]: [[1990 Soviet Cup Final|1990]]

;Rangers
*[[Scottish Football League Premier Division]]: [[1995-96 Scottish Premier Division|1996]]

'''Individual'''
*[[FIFA U-20 World Cup#Awards|FIFA World Youth Championship Golden Shoe]]: [[1989 FIFA World Youth Championship|1989]]
*[[World Cup Golden Boot|FIFA World Cup Golden Boot]]: [[1994 FIFA World Cup|1994]]
*[[Oleh Blokhin club]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{NFT player|id=15111}}
* [https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/salenko-intlg.html RSSSF]
* [http://rusteam.permian.ru/players/salenko.html Player profile] {{in lang|ru}}
* {{footballfacts.ru}}
* {{FFU}}

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