Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (; born 1 October 1953) is a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a former Soviet player. He is an assistant coach with FC Baltika Kaliningrad.

Career

Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for FC Metallist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the Soviet First League to the Soviet Top League in 1981.

Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)

Together with Mykola Pavlov served as an interim coach for Ukraine national football team when it contested Belarus in a friendly against the Belarus national football team. He and Pavlov were assistant coaches to Viktor Prokopenko before then. Sometime in 2000, he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained Russian citizenship.

Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)

Honours

Russian Second Division Zone West best manager: 2005.

Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)

References

1953 births

Living people

People from Kirovske Raion

Soviet men's footballers

Ukrainian football managers

Ukraine national football team managers

FC Metalist Kharkiv players

FC Baltika Kaliningrad players

FC Metalist Kharkiv managers

FC Temp Shepetivka managers

FC Baltika Kaliningrad managers

FC Sokol Saratov managers

FC Anzhi Makhachkala managers

FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg managers

Russian Premier League managers

Russian football managers

Ukrainian Premier League managers

Men's association football defenders

FC Petrotrest managers