page_title: Oleg Markov
section_title: 2018 season
hierarchical_section_title: Oleg Markov / AFL career / 2018 season
caption_attribution_description: English: Oleg Markov during the round 8, 2018 VFL match between Richmond and Coburg at Punt Road Oval.
context_page_description: Oleg Markov is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was drafted to Richmond in the third round of the 2015 national draft and made his debut in round 16 of the 2016 season. In 2019 he won a VFL premiership while playing with the club's reserves side.
context_section_description: In the weeks following the end of the 2017 season, Markov underwent shoulder surgery. Though he would return to conditioning work quickly, the ongoing injury rehabilitation would limit his skills and contact training into the start of the 2018 calendar year. As a result Markov was not in selection consideration in the first month of the AFL season, instead playing reserves football in the VFL. There he sustained a quad injury in late April and missed two weeks of football as a result. After returning from that injury Makov played a further four matches at VFL level including in a new role as a hybrid defensive player, taking a one-on-one role against opponents' third-tall forward in addition to his normal half-back rebounding role. In early-May though Markov sustained a match-ending knee injury during the first minute of a VFL match against Williamstown. Scans would later reveal the injury to be a strained medial collateral ligament that would see him miss an expected four to six-weeks. Markov made a return to training behind schedule in early-July and played VFL football again in the penultimate weekend of the month. He sustained yet another knee injury in that match however, this time suffering a torn meniscus that required surgery to repair. Markov made a return to running and conditioning in mid-August and to competitive football in Richmond's losing VFL qualifying final against Williamstown in September. He recorded 15 disposals in the match and repeated the effort with a further 15 in the club's knock-out semi-final loss to the Essendon reserves side the following week. Markov finished the season having played 10 matches with the club's reserves side in the VFL but failed to play a match at AFL level.
caption: Markov with Richmond's VFL team in May 2018
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