Oleksiy Kashchuk

Oleksiy Kashchuk
Personal information
Full name	Oleksiy Mykolayovych Kashchuk
Date of birth	29 June 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth	Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Qarabağ
Number	21
Youth career
2013–2018	Shakhtar Donetsk
Senior career*
Years	Team
2018–2019	Shakhtar Donetsk II
2019–2024	Shakhtar Donetsk
2019–2022	→ Mariupol (loan)
2022–2023	→ Sabah (loan)
2024–	Qarabağ
International career‡
2015–2017	Ukraine U17
2017–2019	Ukraine U19
2018–2019	Ukraine U20
2020–2023	Ukraine U21
2024	Ukraine U23
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Ukraine
FIFA U-20 World Cup
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 November 2024; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 March 2024

Oleksiy Mykolayovych Kashchuk (Ukrainian: Олексій Миколайович Кащук; born 29 June 2000) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qarabağ and the Ukraine national under-20 football team.

Career

Born in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr Oblast, Kashchuk is a product of Shakhtar Donetsk youth sportive school system. Within the youth teams of the club, he became a champion of the Ukrainian Youth Football League in the U-14 (2013) and U-15 (2014) age categories. In the 2014/15 season, he became the top scorer of the club's U-16 team, scoring 23 goals in 21 matches. On May 14, 2016, he made his debut for Shakhtar's U-21 team. He started the 2017/18 season with the youth team, scoring a goal in the match against Vorskla (3-1), and at the end of that season, he won the gold medals of the Ukrainian Youth Championship.

In 2018, he moved to the Shakhtar's second team, and in 2019, to the first team, but he was unable to make his debut with the main squad and was immediately loaned to FC Mariupol. He made his debut for FC Mariupol in the Ukrainian Premier League as a second-half substitute against FC Oleksandriya on 3 August 2019.^[1]

On 29 March 2022, Azerbaijan Premier League club Sabah announced the signing of Kashchuk on loan until the end of the season.^[2]

After his contract with Shakhtar Donetsk expired, Kashchuk became a free agent. On September 3, 2024, he signed a three-year contract with Azerbaijan Premier League club Qarabağ.^[3]

International career

Kashchuk was a part of the Ukraine national under-20 football team that won the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He played one of the key roles in Ukraine's success, appearing in all 7 of his team's matches.

On 6 March 2024, Kashchuk was called up by Ruslan Rotan to the Ukraine Olympic football team preliminary squad as a preparation to the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[4]

Honours

Ukraine U20

FIFA U-20 World Cup: 2019

References

^ Чемпіонат УПЛ. 2-й тур Матч №9 (in Ukrainian). UPL Official Web Site. 27 August 2019.
^ "Aleksey Kaşukla Müqavılə Bağlandi". sabahfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC. 29 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ "Aleksey Kaşuk "Qarabağ"da". qarabagh.com. Qarabağ FK. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
^ "Олімпіада-2024. Руслан Ротань визначився зі складом збірної України на товариський матч із Японією". Official UAF Website. Retrieved 12 March 2024.

External links

Oleksiy Kashchuk at Soccerway
Oleksiy Kashchuk at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)

[1] Чемпіонат УПЛ. 2-й тур Матч №9 (in Ukrainian). UPL Official Web Site. 27 August 2019.

[Oleksiy_Kashchuk-2] "Aleksey Kaşukla Müqavılə Bağlandi". sabahfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC. 29 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

[3] "Aleksey Kaşuk "Qarabağ"da". qarabagh.com. Qarabağ FK. Retrieved 3 September 2024.

[4] "Олімпіада-2024. Руслан Ротань визначився зі складом збірної України на товариський матч із Японією". Official UAF Website. Retrieved 12 March 2024.

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