Yan Kostenko

Central Midfielder - Karpaty
24 Oct 2026
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10 Edition

The Karpaty Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Mark Hushynets out for 37 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Karpaty will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match3 Oct 2026

Karpaty strike at the death to beat Veres

There were 89 minutes on the clock and Veres had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Karpaty did not stop to explain themselves.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Yan Kostenko

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Karpaty

Valentyn Rubchynskyi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Karpaty training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Xeber Alkain is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match3 Oct 2026

Xeber Alkain sends Karpaty past Veres

It finished 2‑1, and it was Xeber Alkain’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Karpaty.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Stênio

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

One of those days for Xeber Alkain

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Géiler Mosquera gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

  • Boardroom Wages eat 88% of everything Karpaty earn
  • Player ratings Stênio changes it off the bench
  • The terraces Xeber Alkain has his own song now
Back issues
5 Edition

The Karpaty Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad31 Aug 2026

Rostyslav Liakh damages knee ligaments — 44 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Valentyn Rubchynskyi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 Aug 2026

Cup progress for Karpaty

A 2‑0 win over Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A brace, and Illia Kvasnytsia takes the afternoon — 8.31

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Illia Kvasnytsia provided it, and the 8.31 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Xeber Alkain in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Karpaty this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Karpaty training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladyslav Babohlo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match29 Aug 2026

Illia Kvasnytsia the difference as Karpaty beat Kudrivka

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Illia Kvasnytsia. 3‑1 against Kudrivka, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

Karpaty supporters have found a favourite in Yaroslav Karabin

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yaroslav Karabin has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Yan Kostenko at his very best

Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Karpaty.

In brief