Leonid Tkachenko (footballer)

Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; 1 October 1953 – 4 January 2024) was a Ukrainian-Russian football coach and a Soviet player.

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

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

Death
Tkachenko died on 4 January 2024, at the age of 70.

Honours

 * Russian Second Division Zone West best manager: 2005.