Serhiy Bezhenar

Serhiy Bezhenar (Сергій Миколайович Беженар, born 9 August 1970) is a Ukrainian former professional football player.

Career
He played in defense, usually as a fullback. Even though he won four championships (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998) and two cups (1996, 1998) with Dynamo Kyiv, Bezhenar was more closely associated with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

Bezhenar played for the Soviet Union national under-21 football team and then the Ukraine national football team. For the Soviet youth team he played 6 games all during the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Bezhenar took part in the Ukraine's first ever match, a friendly against Hungary in 1992. In total, he earned 23 caps, and scored a single goal, a penalty, in a friendly game against Belarus in Kyiv in 1994. Since 2012, he has been a mentor of the Dynamo Kyiv Children's and Youth Sports School of different age categories, including U-17, U-16, and since 2021 U-14.