Viktor Skrypnyk

Viktor Skrypnyk
Skrypnyk in 2018
Personal information
Full name Viktor Anatoliyovych Skrypnyk
Date of birth (1969-11-19) 19 November 1969
Place of birth Novomoskovsk, Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
Zorya Luhansk (manager)
Youth career
Dnipropetrovsk
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1989 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0 (0)
1989–1994 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 124 (7)
1994–1996 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 64 (17)
1996–2004 Werder Bremen 138 (7)
Total 326 (31)
International career
1991 USSR U-21 1 (0)
1994–2003 Ukraine 24 (2)
Managerial career
2004–2013 Werder Bremen (youth)
2013–2014 Werder Bremen II
2014–2016 Werder Bremen
2016–2018 Werder Bremen (staff)
2018–2019 Riga
2019–2022 Zorya Luhansk
2022–2023 Vorskla Poltava
2023–2024 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
2025– Zorya Luhansk
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Anatoliyovych Skrypnyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Анатолійович Скрипник; born 19 November 1969) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and former player who has been the manager of Ukrainian Premier League club Zorya Luhansk since 2025. As a player, he played as a left-back and he helped Werder Bremen to the league and cup double in 2004.

Skrypnyk became the first Ukrainian head coach in Bundesliga.