Oleksandr Lebedenko

Central Midfielder - Victoriia Sumy
27 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Oleksandr Lebedenko

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The Victoriia Sumy Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Victoriia Sumy taken apart

0‑3 to Bukovyna, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Victoriia Sumy say no — this time

The offer from Rukh for Denys Dolinskyi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Dmytro Ulianov 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 Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Victoriia Sumy rebuffed over Rostyslav Liakh

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Karpaty have kept their man, and Victoriia Sumy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Maksym Sasovskiy 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.

Squad

No place for Bohdan Biloshevskyi in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Victoriia Sumy are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Victoriia Sumy dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Denys Boyko answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Vladyslav Khameliuk's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Victoriia Sumy Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A move Bohdan Biloshevskyi would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Bohdan Biloshevskyi is living that version at Victoriia Sumy, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings

Vintage Oleksandr Lebedenko — 8.32

At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.32, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at Victoriia Sumy

Dmytro Ulianov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

Victoriia Sumy beat the market to Valentyn Halonskyi from Shakhtar

Shakhtar will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Valentyn Halonskyi has pre-agreed a move to Victoriia Sumy, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

LNZ tell Victoriia Sumy: Cody David is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Victoriia Sumy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bohdan Biloshevskyi 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.

Match

Victoriia Sumy find a way past Prykarpattia

Prykarpattia made Victoriia Sumy work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market

Volodymyr Karavayev steps up from the Victoriia Sumy academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Volodymyr Karavayev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Kostiantyn Shakhov joins the Victoriia Sumy first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kostiantyn Shakhov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief