Oleksandr Maksymov
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Oleksandr Maksymov (Template:Langx; born 13 February 1985) is a Ukrainian former footballer. Since 2017, Maksymov became a football coach and until 2020 played in local football competitions.
Playing career
Most of his playing career, Maksymov spent in Ukraine, going abroad for a couple of seasons at the end of his professional career.
Native of Zaporizhia, Maksymov is a product of Metalurh Zaporizhia sports school. In 2001, he signed with Dynamo Kyiv, where he played mostly for reserve teams. In 2004, Maksymov moved to Kharkiv, where he first played for Metalist, making his Ukrainian Premier League debut against Vorskla-Naftohaz Poltava on 25 July 2004 and then Arsenal Kharkiv. In 2005, Arsenal Kharkiv, after receiving its promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League, split with better players joining a new FC Kharkiv, while Arsenal was reorganized in lower leagues. Maksymov ended up in FC Kharkiv.
In summer 2007 he left FC Kharkiv signing with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.[1]
He also played for Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino in the Belarusian Premier League.
His last professional club was Pembroke Athleta in Malta.[2]
National teams
From 2003 to 2006, Maksymov played at least 15 games for the Ukraine U21. He was on the Ukraine U21 squad when it was a finalist of the UEFA U-21 Cup, but the team lost to the Netherlands.
In 2005, Maksymov played his only game for the Ukraine national first team.
Coaching career
Until 2022, Maksymov was a youth coach for a couple of football academies around Kyiv, like Livyi Bereh and Shakhtar. In 2023, he was on the coaching staff of Oleksandr Kovpak in LNZ. Since 2024, Maksymov has been a coach in FC Polissya Zhytomyr. Following the dismissal of Imad Ashur in May of 2025, Maksymov became the caretaker of the Polissya first squad.
Honours
- Arsenal Kharkiv
- 2004–05 Ukrainian First League runner-up
- Ukraine under-21
- UEFA Under-21 Championship: runner-up 2006
Footnotes
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