Hryhoriy Varzhelenko (Ukrainian: Григорій Тихонович Варжеленко; 8 March 1950 – 16 February 2024) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football coach and player.

Hryhoriy Varzhelenko
Personal information
Full name Hryhoriy Tykhonovych Varzhelenko
Date of birth (1950-03-08)8 March 1950
Place of birth Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Date of death 16 February 2024(2024-02-16) (aged 73)
Position(s) Second striker[1]
Youth career
–1967 SC Trubnik Nikopol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1971 Trubnik Nikopol
1972–1974 Kolos Nikopol
1973Avanhard Ordzhonikidze
Managerial career
1990 Start Eisk (ass't)
1996–1999 Metalurh Nikopol
2000 Polissia Zhytomyr
2004–2005 Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol
2010 Nikopol-Dnipriany
2016–2020 FC Nikopol
2020–2021 FC Nikopol (team's chief)
2021– Skoruk Tomakivka (ass't)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Varzhelenko started in 1960s being invited to play for a factory team of Trubnik Nikopol.[2] He played for Nikopol professional clubs in 1960-1970s. He was forced to retire early at 24 due to knee injury.[2][1]

In 1990s, Varzhelenko began to coach including his home teams FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol and FC Nikopol as well as FC Polissya Zhytomyr.

As a coach, Varzhelenko became a first coach for such players like Dmytro Topchiyev, Pavlo Yakovenko, Mykola Kudrytskyi, and others.[1]

Varzhelenko died on 16 February 2024, at the age of 73.[3]

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