Oleksandr Babych

Oleksandr Babych

Babych in 2017
Personal information
Full name	Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Babych
Date of birth	(1979-02-15) 15 February 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth	Alchevsk, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Chornomorets Odesa (manager)
Youth career
	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997	Kremin Kremenchuk	10	(0)
1997	→ Hirnyk Sport Komsomolsk (loan)	2	(0)
1998–2001	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	8	(0)
1998–2001	→ Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk	70	(1)
2000–2001	→ Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk	10	(0)
2001–2002	Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya	22	(5)
2002–2005	Anzhi Makhachkala	82	(5)
2005–2008	Metalist Kharkiv	67	(6)
2009–2011	Chornomorets Odesa	31	(4)
Total		302	(21)
Managerial career
2012–2014	Chornomorets Odesa (youth)
2014–2017	Chornomorets Odesa (caretaker)
2017	Chornomorets Odesa
2017–2020	Mariupol
2021–2022	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
2022–2024	Fratria
2024	Pirin Blagoevgrad
2024–	Chornomorets Odesa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Babych (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Бабич; born 15 February 1979) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and former player, who is the current head coach of Ukrainian club Chornomorets Odesa.

Oleksandr Babych is a product of the Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Youth system.

After playing for Dnipro-2 in 1997, he left to play for Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk and Kremin Kremenchuk during the 1997–98 season.

From 1998 to 2001, Babych stayed again with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. He spent most of his playing time with the reserve teams Dnipro-2 and Dnipro-3; he did, however, play in a few games for the senior team.

He was transferred to Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya for the 2001–02 season. Babych scored the only goal in the relegation play-off game against Polissya Zhytomyr that allowed the Oleksandriya team to stay in the top tier.

He was then spotted by the Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala and was transferred to the club in 2003, playing there until 2005.

His next stop was Metalist Kharkiv. At Metalist, he soon became the vice-captain and played a vital role in the team's defence.

In February 2009, he moved to Chornomorets Odesa, where he was chosen captain on 15 July 2010, prior to the start of the 2010–11 season. The subsequent two seasons of his career were, however, marred by injuries, and Babych had to retire as a player on 2 March 2012.

He immediately became the manager of the Chornomorets youth squad, though.

In the summer of 2022 Babych moved to Constantsa, Romania after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where he met Viktor Bakurevic, owner of a newly established team Fratria, with the help of Oleksandr Lavrentsov and become manager of the team, despite the fact the team was in A Regional Varna, which is the 4th level of Bulgarian football.^[1] On 5 February 2024 Babych took over Bulgarian First League club Pirin Blagoevgrad.^[2]

At the beginning of July 2024 Babych became the head coach of the FC Chornomorets Odesa.^[3]

Babych is currently married to Natalia and has a daughter named Violetta.

• Oleksandr Babych at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
• Oleksandr Babych at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
• Official Website Profile