Mykola Melnychenko (football manager)

Mykola Melnychenko (Ukrainian: Микола Павлович Мельниченко, Russian: Николай Павлович Мельниченко; born 1919 – death date unknown) was a Soviet professional football coach.

Coaching career

Dynamo

In 1949 Dynamo Kyiv football school was founded. Melnychenko became one of its coaches along with Mykola Fominykh. He was a coach there during 1950s. In 1957 the school was merged into newly formed Dynamo Kyiv junior squads and Academy. In the 1960 youth championships, Dynamo team coached by Melnychenko became champions.

Dnipro

Melnychenko joined Dnipro Kremenchuk in 1964, his assistant was Hryhorii Miroshnyk. Before the start of the 1965 season he wrote in Avtobydivnyk newspaper that in 1964 season team under performed and new season began earlier to rectify those problems. Team finished the season in last place in their group, next year they finished fifth in group and sixteenth overall.

Legacy

During his career Melnychenko trained the following players: Anatoliy Byshovets.

References

Sources

• Pyrukhin, Yurii (n.d.a), Днепр Кременчуг футбол 1963–1969 [Dnipro Kremenchuk football 1963–1969] (in Ukrainian), Kremenchuk
• Pyrukhin, Yurii (n.d.b), Энциклопедия кременчугского футбола [Encyclopedia of Kremenchuk football] (in Russian), Kremenchuk