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Ruslan Kostyshyn

Ruslan Kostyshyn
Personal information
Full name Ruslan Volodymyrovych Kostyshyn
Date of birth (1977-01-08) 8 January 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Khmelnytskyi, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Aksu (manager)
Youth career
Podillya Khmelnytskyi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1996 Podillya Khmelnytskyi 45 (3)
1994Advis Khmelnytskyi (loan) 12 (0)
1996–2002 CSKA / Arsenal Kyiv 130 (11)
1997–2001CSKA-2 Kyiv 52 (9)
2002–2007 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 190 (13)
2004Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk 1 (0)
2007–2012 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 116 (6)
2012Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (loan) 2 (0)
Total 548 (42)
Managerial career
2014–2021 Kolos Kovalivka
2022–2023 Aksu
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ruslan Volodymyrovych Kostyshyn (born 8 January 1977) is a Ukrainian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder and current football manager of Kazakhstani club Aksu.

Career

Kostyshyn began his career in Podillya-Khmelnytskyi, from which he moved to play for CSKA Kyiv, Arsenal Kyiv, Dnipro and in 2007 he joined Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. Kostyshyn played 270 matches in the Ukrainian Premier League and managed to score 26 goals. He is currently one of the vice-captains of the club, and captained Kryvbas four times.

Olympics

Kostyshyn represented Ukraine national team in the Olympics, during which he played 3 games.

Achievements

Team

Personal

Ruslan has a brother Vitaliy Kostyshyn who plays football and later became a coach as well as his son Denys Kostyshyn also became footballer.