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For the Russian footballer, see Andrei Demchenko (footballer, born 1993).

Andriy Demchenko

Personal information
Full name	Andriy Anatoliyovych Demchenko
Date of birth	(1976-08-20) 20 August 1976
Place of birth	Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Positions	Attacking midfielder forward
Team information
Current team	Iberia 1999 (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–1994	CSKA Moscow	0	(0)
1992–1994	→ CSKA-d Moscow	53	(19)
1995–1998	Ajax	4	(0)
1997	→ CSKA Moscow (loan)	9	(2)
1998–2006	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	186	(46)
1998–2006	→ Metalurh-2 Zaporizhzhia	11	(1)
2000	→ SSSOR-Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	1	(2)
2007–2008	Illichivets Mariupol	18	(4)
2008–2009	Obolon Kyiv	23	(2)
2009	Dacia Chişinău	1	(0)
2010	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	1	(0)
2010	Helios Kharkiv	11	(0)
Total		317	(76)
International career
1994	Russia U19	1	(1)
1995	Russia U20	2	(0)
1995–1997	Russia U21	14	(7)
Managerial career
2012–2015	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia (youth)
2017–2018	Obod
2018	Veres Rivne (caretaker)
2018	Lviv
2019–2020	Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
2021–2023	Dila Gori
2023–2024	Dinamo Batumi
2025	Zhenis
2026	Araz-Naxçıvan
2026–	Iberia 1999
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andriy Anatoliyovych Demchenko (Ukrainian: Андрій Анатолійович Демченко; born 20 August 1976) is a Ukrainian football coach and former player who is the manager of Azerbaijan Premier League club Araz-Naxçıvan. He played as an attacking midfielder or forward.

Club career

Playing football Demchenko started out in his native Zaporizhzhia where his first coach (trainer) was Borys Zozulya and Viktor Vysochyn. When Demchenko turned 13, his new trainer was Anatoliy Vasyleha who coached him before Demchenko moved to Moscow. During his teenage years Demchenko was spotted by Gennadiy Kostylev, a Soviet Union national team coach, and Demchenko participated in some international tournaments among junior teams. During dissolution of the Soviet Union, in 1990 Demchenko was invited as a prospect player to play for PFC CSKA Moscow where Kostylev also became the club's manager.

At the 1994 European U-18 Championship Demchenko, playing for the Russia national team, became a top scorer of the tournament. At that tournament played such football personalities like Raúl, Fernando Morientes, Míchel Salgado, Lars Ricken, Francesco Totti and others. Following the European championship Ajax offered $1 million Moscow team for the 17-year-old Demchenko and both player and club agreed. At Ajax, Demchenko mostly sat on the bench and had limited amount of playing experience. Following end of contract with the Dutch club, he returned to Zaporizhzhia where he joined Metalurh Zaporizhzhia.

Managerial career

In early 2021, Demchenko signed a two-year deal with Erovnuli Liga club Dila, extended to another year in December 2022. He guided the team to the third place twice and the third round of UEFA Conference League before being appointed at Dinamo Batumi in August 2023. At the end of the season, he was selected Manager of the Year as his team secured the second league title in three years.

On January 4, 2026, Azerbaijan Premier League club Araz-Naxçıvan PFK signed a contract with Demchenko for the position of head coach for a term of “5 months + 1 year.”

In June 2026, Demchenko returned to Georgia to take charge of the defending champions Iberia 1999.

Honours

Player

Ajax

• Intercontinental Cup: 1995
• UEFA Super Cup: 1995
• Dutch League Title 1995-96
• Dutch League Title 1997-98
• Dutch Cup 1997-98

Manager

Dinamo Batumi

• Erovnuli Liga winner (2023)
• Erovnuli Liga Manager of the Year (2023)

External links

• Demchenko at Ajax Amsterdam
• Derkach, S. Andrei Demchenko: I have nothing to regret (Андрей Демченко: "Я ни о чем не жалею"). Passport (Zaporozhye). 15 September 2011.
• Andriy Demchenko at UAF (in Ukrainian)