Mykola Pavlov

Mykola Pavlov
Personal information
Full name	Mykola Petrovych Pavlov
Date of birth	20 June 1954 (age 67)
Place of birth	Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1967–1972
Senior career*
Years	Team
1972–1975	Dinamo Brest
1976–1978	Krylia Sovetov
1979–1981	Dinamo Minsk
1982	Chernomorets Odessa
1983–1984	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Total
National team
1984	USSR
Teams managed
1985	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (assist)
1988	Kolos Nikopol
1989–1990	Tavriya Simferopol
1990	Krystal Kherson
1991	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (assist)
1992–1994	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1992, 1994	Ukraine
1994–1995	Dynamo Kyiv
1994–1995, 1996	Dynamo Kyiv (team administrator)
1996–1997	Tavriya Simferopol
1997–2004	Illichivets Mariupol
2006	Stal Alchevsk
2008–2012	Vorskla Poltava
2012–2015	Illychivets Mariupol
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Mykola Petrovych Pavlov (Ukrainian: Микола Петрович Павлов) (Russian: Николай Петрович Павлов; born 20 June 1954 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Ukrainian football defender, and former head-coach of Illychivets Mariupol in the Ukrainian Premier League. He is Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1983) and Merited Coach of Ukraine.

Education[]

Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Physical Culture
Higher School of Coaches (Moscow) (1986–87)

Playing career[]

Pavlov began his playing career in 1972, playing for "Spartak Brest", (later renamed "Bug Brest", now FC Dinamo Brest) in the Belarusian SSR. The club played in the old Soviet Second League. After three years there he moved to Krylia Sovetov, a club in the Soviet Top League. Four seasons and three years later, in 1979 he moved back to Belarusian SSR to play for their best team in the Soviet Top League, Dinamo Minsk. Another 3 years later, in 1982 he was on the move again, this time back to Ukraine to play in Odessa for Chernomorets Odessa. The following season he moved to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. His two seasons there were the most successful of his career. He became the USSR champion in 1983, and won the bronze medal the following year (1984).

International career[]

Pavlov was capped once for the USSR. He played in a 2–1 friendly loss against West Germany, on 28 March 1984 in Hanover.

Coaching career[]

In 1988 Pavlov took up the head-coach position of Kolos Nikopol. During the 1990s he coached Tavriya Simferopol, Krystal Kherson, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. While coach of Dnipro he was brought on to be the caretaker head-coach of the Ukraine national football team. In the 1995–96 season Pavlov was coach of Dynamo Kyiv, leading them to a Ukrainian League title. Following Dynamo he has coached other Ukrainian clubs, including a return to Tavriya Simferopol, then at FC Illychivets Mariupol (7 years there), and FC Stal Alchevsk. In the winter of 2007 he was brought in as head-coach at FC Vorskla Poltava. In his first season with the team he led them to an 8th-place finish, and into the quarter-finals of Ukrainian Cup.

On 2 February 2017 Pavlov announced that he retired from coaching career.^[1]