Kostyantyn Oleksiyovych Balabanov (Ukrainian: Костянтин Олексійович Балабанов; born 13 August 1982) is a Ukrainian former football player and manager.

Kostyantyn Balabanov
Personal information
Full name Kostyantyn Oleksiyovych Balabanov
Date of birth (1982-08-13) 13 August 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Kiliia, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Chornomorets Odesa (assistant)
Youth career
Chornomorets Odesa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2005 Chornomorets Odesa 104 (35)
2000Chornomorets-2 Odesa 4 (1)
2005–2007 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 29 (4)
2008Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka (loan) 10 (0)
2008–2009Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (loan) 10 (0)
2010–2011 Chornomorets Odesa 10 (1)
2011Chornomorets-2 Odesa 6 (2)
2011–2012 Odesa 14 (2)
2012 Oleksandriya 0 (0)
2012–2013 Odesa 26 (3)
Total 213 (48)
International career
2004 Ukraine 1 (0)
Managerial career
2017– Chornomorets Odesa (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

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Balabanov was born in Kiliya, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (today in the Odesa Oblast of southern Ukraine). He is a graduate of Chornomorets academy. In 2005, he was transferred to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Having been featured in a few matches over the next 2 seasons, he was loaned out to FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka in 2008, and then to FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. After his contract with Dnipro expired in 2009, he spent the next season without any professional football. In July 2010, he signed a new contract with Chornomorets.

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