Viktor Kanevskyi

**Viktor Izrailyovych Kanevskyi** (, ; 3 October 1936 – 25 November 2018) was a Ukrainian and Soviet football player and coach. He was born to a Jewish family in Kyiv. He played for Soviet national team and for Dynamo Kyiv. He also managed Metalist Kharkiv and Dnipro.

Kanevskyi died in Bristol, Connecticut on 25 November 2018 from brain cancer at the age of 82.

### Clubs

|rowspan="2" width="100"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Dynamo|1954|–|–|–|–|–|–||
|1955|1|0|–|–|1|0||||
|1956|12|4|–|–|12|4||||
|1957|13|5|2|0|15|5||||
|1958|18|8|1|0|19|8||||
|1959|19|2|–|–|19|2||||
|1960|23|7|–|–|23|7||||
|1961|26|18|1|0|27|18||||
|1962|23|7|1|0|24|7||||
|1963|34|14|2|0|36|14||||
|1964|27|15|6|5|33|20||||
|rowspan="2"|Chornomorets|1965|17|6|–|–|17|6||
|1966|5|0|–|–|5|0||||

### International

|rowspan=2|National team|rowspan=2|Year||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|Soviet Union|1958|1|0|
|1961|2|0|||
|1962|2|0|||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|League|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="5"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=center|Metalurh|Class A 2nd Group|align=center colspan=2|1965||||||
|align=center|Metalist|Class A 2nd Group|align=center|1966|align=center|1969||||
|align=center|Metalist|First League|align=center|1970|align=center|1971||||
|align=center|Bukovyna|Second League|align=center colspan=2|1972||||||
|align=center|Pakhtakor|First League|align=center colspan=2|1973||||||
|align=center|Dnipro|Top League|align=center|1973|align=center|1977||||
|align=center|Dynamo|Second League|align=center|1983|align=center|1986||||
|align=center|Tavriya|Second League|align=center colspan=2|1987||||||

## Honors

- As player
- Soviet Top League
    - Winner (1): 1961
    - Runners-up (1): 1960
- Soviet Cup
    - Winner (1): 1964

- As manager
- Soviet First League
    - Runners-up (1): 1968 (Metalist)
- Soviet Second League / Championship of Ukraine
    - Winners (1): 1987 (Tavriya)

## Other websites

- Profile

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Viktor Kanevskyi
- **image**: Viktor Izrailyovych Kanevskyi.JPG
- **fullname**: Viktor Izrailyovych Kanevskyi
- **birth place**: Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- **death place**: Bristol, Connecticut, U.S.
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **youthclubs1**: FC Dynamo Kyiv, Yuny Dinamovets Kyiv
- **years1**: 1952
- **clubs1**: FC Arsenal Kyiv, FC Mashynobudivnyk Kyiv
- **years2**: 1954–1964
- **clubs2**: FC Dynamo Kyiv
- **years3**: 1965–1966
- **clubs3**: FC Chornomorets Odesa
- **caps2**: 195
- **goals2**: 80
- **caps3**: 22
- **goals3**: 6
- **nationalyears1**: 1958–1962
- **nationalteam1**: Soviet Union national football team, USSR
- **nationalcaps1**: 5
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1956
- **nationalteam2**: Ukraine national football team, Ukraine
- **nationalcaps2**: 4
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 1965
- **managerclubs1**: FC Metalurh Zaporizhia
- **manageryears2**: 1966–1971
- **managerclubs2**: FC Metalist Kharkiv (Avanhard)
- **manageryears3**: 1973
- **managerclubs3**: FC Pakhtakor Tashkent (assistant)
- **manageryears4**: 1973–1977
- **managerclubs4**: FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
- **manageryears5**: 1983–1986
- **managerclubs5**: FC Dynamo Irpin
- **manageryears6**: 1987
- **managerclubs6**: SC Tavriya Simferopol