Oleksandr Maksymov

Oleksandr Maksymov
Personal information
Full name Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Maksymov
Date of birth (1985-02-13) 13 February 1985
Place of birth Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Polissya-2 Zhytomyr (manager)
Youth career
1998–2000 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
2000–2001 Obukhiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2002 Borysfen-2 Boryspil 23 (0)
2002–2003 Dynamo-2 Kyiv 5 (1)
2002–2003 Dynamo-3 Kyiv 23 (1)
2004 Metalist Kharkiv 10 (0)
2004 → Metalist-2 Kharkiv 9 (1)
2005 Arsenal Kharkiv 14 (1)
2005–2007 Kharkiv 39 (1)
2007–2012 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3 (0)
2008–2011 → Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (loan) 70 (10)
2011–2012 → Arsenal Kyiv (loan) 18 (0)
2012 Arsenal Kyiv 3 (0)
2013 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0 (0)
2013 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 11 (0)
2014 Sevastopol 6 (0)
2014 Olimpik Donetsk 0 (0)
2015 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 13 (2)
2016–2017 Pembroke Athleta 8 (0)
2018 Muzychi
2019–2020 Juniors Shpytki
International career‡
2000 Ukraine U16 5 (3)
2001–2002 Ukraine U17 14 (1)
2003–2006 Ukraine U21 15 (0)
2005 Ukraine 1 (0)
Managerial career
2017 Livyi Bereh Kyiv (academy)
2018–2023 Shakhtar Donetsk (youth)
2023 LNZ Cherkasy (assistant)
2024–2025 Polissya Zhytomyr (U19 assistant)
2025 Polissya Zhytomyr (caretaker)
2025– Polissya-2 Zhytomyr
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Ukraine
UEFA European Under-19 Championship
2004 Switzerland
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Runner-up 2006 Portugal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 May 2017
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 August 2016

Oleksandr Maksymov (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Максимов; 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
Ukraine under-21

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Maksymov decides on Dnipro". UEFA. 20 July 2007.
  2. ^ Pembroke Athleta jneħħu ħabta u sabta tlieta mill-barranin tagħhom‚ tvm.com.mt, 11 January 2017


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