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Swappi aims to build the most robust DeFi ecosystem on Conflux, with plans to expand its offerings to give users more opportunities to earn.

Swappi V1, the current iteration of the DEX, enables the following features:

Swap — Swap between any two listed token pairs provided within enough liquidity

Liquidity Pools — Add and remove liquidity, receive LP tokens

Yield Farming — Stake your LP tokens to earn rewards in PPI

Staking — Stake your PPI tokens for longer to earn boosted rewards from Yield Farming

Playground — Participate in lotteries and prediction markets (upcoming)

Further on the roadmap, Swappi plans to enable IFOs. DAO voting, dual mining staking pools, stablecoin LP swaps, NFT trading, and much more.

More information will be released in the coming months, so be sure to follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.

Swappi is a non-custodial platform that lets users trade directly from their wallet of choice and retain 100% ownership of their crypto. Built on open-sourced software, Swappi’s dApps and smart contracts are also publicly visible for maximum transparency.

Swappi’s smart contracts have undergone extensive third-party audits by Certik to ensure a safe and secure trading experience for users. The full report will be released soon.

Swappi’s exchange token PPI can be earned through yield farms. Swappi lets you earn PPI and other tokens with extremely competitive interest rates unlocked by staking PPI and LP (liquidity pool) tokens.

Stake LP tokens and earn PPI with slightly more exposure to market fluctuations in exchange for higher APYs

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Why Phi?

Visualizing an on-chain identity is traditionally done in two ways: either connecting it to web2 (such as a Twitter PFP or statement in a bio), or using a web3 portfolio such as DeBank or Zapper.

On the other hand, metaverse land is a growing area of speculation and hype. A finite amount of land is available to build and play on (such as Sandbox, Decentraland, etc), and small-time players are unable to create or participate. This, ironically, makes the “metaverse” a small place that is not scaleable or inclusive.

Our approach is different. We believe that everyone with an ENS domain or some sort of on-chain activity should be granted virtual land and the ability to build upon it. We propose to generate virtual lands from ENS domains and populate them with objects that represent on-chain activities (e.g. achievements, status, communities).

Phi Object —Objects(ERC1155) tied to various on-chain activities.

Examples of on-chain activities to claim Phi Objects:

Token Holding: Holding more than 1 ETH

Token Swapping: Swapped 1/5/10 times on Uniswap

NFT Holding: Holding 1 Loot

Voting: Voted more than 1 time on Snapshot.

In this way, a variety of on-chain data can be tied to an individual’s identity, and by putting these various objects into their land, players can show their On-Chain Identity.

Phi Land — Lands generated from ENS domains. ENS can work as a Metaverse address system(e.g. vitalik.eth would be Vitalik’s Metaverse land address.)

Why ENS? Because ENS is the most decentralized and common asset related to people’s on-chain identities. We don’t want to make it exclusive like other metaverse land NFT projects, where only holders who bought crazy expensive NFTs can play. We believe that the metaverse in web3 should be more decentralized and open for everyone. This is why we use ENS for generating lands.

Foresight

We desire to build a decentralized, open social space that is more than just a showcase for on-chain identities.

Phi will be a symbolic place for your on-chain identity like a web3 Linktree, which can be your profile curated by yourself.

By using visualizations, Phi can onboard the casual crypto people into a deeper space.

Not only individuals, but also DAOs/Protocols/Projects can own their land through ENS address to show their excitement.

It’s just an introduction. There is so much stuff we want to build. Let’s work together!

On 17 August 1969, Karpaty became the first (and the only) club in the USSR football history which won the USSR Cup while playing in the Soviet First League. The road to the cup was no less exciting as the final itself. On the way there the Lions were challenged by such Soviet heavy-weights as Ararat Yerevan and Chornomorets Odesa. The quarterfinal round matched them with Trud Voronezh that in the prior round had eliminated Spartak Moscow. After a slight victory over Voronezh, Karpaty faced Mykolaiv's Shipbuilders. The game was perceived by the Lvivians as the chance to avenge for the last year loss to the Mykolaivans, which cost them a ticket to the Soviet Premiership. A score of 2–0 was enough to secure a trip to Moscow.

In the final, Karpaty faced the Red Army team from Rostov-on-Don at the Lenin Stadium. The Rostov army-men were one of the best Soviet clubs in the mid-1960s and for that game they were considered as the favorites being the representatives of the Soviet Top League. Before the start of the game the Karpaty's captain Ihor Kulchytskyi traditionally shacked hands with every referee, except the assistant referee, Eugen Härms. The reason was that Härms, the Estonian referee in charge of their game a year earlier against Uralmash Sverdlovsk, allowed a goal from an obvious offside that eventually contributed to the Karpaty's denial of a promotion. Karpaty were trailing 0–1 already after the first 20 minutes and to the end of the half were not able to equalize, but numerous Karpaty's fans drove their team forward.

Since Ukraine gained its independence, Karpaty have primarily participated in Ukrainian Premier League competitions. They reached 3rd place in 1997–98, their highest Ukrainian top division finish to date, and were Ukrainian Cup runners-up twice, losing both times to Dynamo Kyiv in the final.

The thirteenth season in Ukrainian Premier League became an unfortunate one for Karpaty and in the 2003–04 season the team was relegated to the Persha Liha. However, Karpaty remained there only for two seasons and in the 2005–06 season, the club was successful in taking second place in the Persha Liha, which promoted them to the Vyscha Liha the following year.

In August 2017 the president of the club Petro Dyminskyi while driving near Lviv ran into another car killing a younger lady. Few days later he left Ukraine on a private jet as the police started investigation. In December 2017 the district court in Kyiv gave an order to detain him and asked Interpol for assistance. In 2018 Dyminskyi appealed to Interpol to ignore the request. Dyminskyi is still at large and hiding.

It was then Oleh Smaliychuk became among main executives of the club as a vice-president. Karpaty avoided relegation in previous 2016–17 season due to administrative sanctions that were imposed against FC Dnipro. In June 2017 Karpaty replaced its head coach with foreign specialist Sergio Navarro, while Argentinian Dario Drudi who recently worked in FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi became the club's executive director. To the club were also brought several Spanish speaking players.

The club poorly started its 2017–18 season losing at home to the newly promoted NK Veres Rivne that temporarily moved to Lviv (1:6) which led fans requesting players to undress their uniform and stop to disgrace the club's colors. Following the loss Navarro resigned and was replaced with Serhiy Zaytsev, but that did not help a lot. The club still struggled and after the away cup game loss against the Second League FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk (1:2), the club's hooligans began mass riots at the stadium, brawl with the local police and stopped the bus with the returning Karpaty near Lviv. Following another home loss to FC Mariupol and remaining at the 11th place (out of 12), Zaitsev left the post and was replaced Oleh Boychyshyn. The new coach managed improve the club's table standing during the second half and the club cleared the relegation zone.

Following somewhat poor start in the 2018–19 with two home losses in four games Boychyshyn was replaced with José Morais. The club's form did not improve much and after view surprising away wins against FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Chornomorets Odesa, Karpaty still continued to struggle to clear the relegation zone. At the end of November 2018 the Portuguese head coach left for Korea and Boychyshyn took over as interim. However, before the end of the half the club following this coach swap returned to the relegation zone. During the winter break to the club was brought another Spanish specialist Fabri González who was supposed to refresh the club, however his efforts were meager and the club remained at its 10th place. Fabri also failed to win against FC Inhulets Petrove in the domestic quarterfinals that played in a tier lower. Just before the finish Fabri was replaced with Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi who managed to win against the struggling FC Arsenal Kyiv and relegation play-off against FC Volyn Lutsk. An excellent season had a prospect player Marian Shved who just turned 22 and finished the season third on the top scorers list with 14 tallies. He also was traded away to the Scottish Celtic F.C., but remained with Karpaty on loan until the season's end.

A big transformation of the club took place in summer of 2021. Owned by Petro Dyminskyi in 2001–2020, the Karpaty ownership was changed with Oleh Smaliychuk claiming it to have either full or partial. In 2020 the club announced about its bankruptcy and was excluded from the Ukrainian Premier League, yet allowed to enter competitions in lower leagues and keep professional status. In fall of 2020 veteran footballers of Karpaty Lviv Stepan Yurchyshyn, Andriy Tlumak and others created another club with same name that entered the national amateur competitions. The next season the Smaliychuk's Karpaty were relegated and finally announced to be dissolved, while in their place were promoted the Yurchyshyn's Karpaty. During the 2020–21 Ukrainian Second League Karpaty temporarily played with a different logo. On 14 July 2021 Smaliychuk announced that club is dissolved and would not participate in amateur championship after relegating from Second League while he promised to continue the work in repaying club's old debts.

As in the previous season, the club again struggled to get out of the relegation zone in 2019-20. Although the league was scheduled to expand the following season, which would reduce the number of relegated teams, this did not help Karpaty. After 6 games the club remained 11th out of 12 and Chyzhevskyi was replaced with Roman Sanzhar. The change of coaches was not successful as the club by the midway point of the season hit bottom of the table and also suffered elimination from the domestic cup in the first round against FC Inhulets Petrove. As the club was leaving for the winter break, COVID-19 pandemic started to develop in Chinese Wuhan. The competitions resumed before introduction of quarantine and the UPL managed to finish the competition's first stage where Karpaty finished dead last. Soon after the UPL started its second stage of competitions all sports events in Ukraine were placed on halt on 18 March following the worldwide crisis. Sometime in May it was announced that Oleh Smaliychuk bought out a control package from Petro Dyminskyi who continued to hide from the law. After two months of quarantine, the UPL competitions renewed on 30 May. However, The UPL administration decided not to conduct the game Karpaty – Mariupol on 31 May 2020 as in the Lviv's team camp were found positive test results on COVID-19.[4] FC Mariupol that was already on the way to the game was forced to turn around.[5] On 2 June 2020 FC Karpaty Lviv released its official statement announcing that the club goes on 2 weeks self-isolation due to mass spread of the illness among players.[6] The upcoming games with SC Dnipro-1 and Vorskla Poltava will not take place as previously scheduled.[7] On 26 June 2020 were announced new rescheduled dates for the Karpaty's games against Mariupol and Dnipro-1.[8] About a month later on 27 June they finally met in derby game against FC Lviv and promised to finish all their games they owed to other clubs before the new end of season on 19 July. But later Karpaty started to complain that the schedule is too tight and they won't be able to comply with the new schedule and refused to travel to any other games at all leaving on early vacations on 10 July.[9] On 30 June 2020 the Ukrainian Premier League filed a document to the UAF Control and Disciplinary Committee informing that FC Karpaty Lviv were not able to show up for the game in Mariupol on 1 July 2020.[10] The Mariupol–Karpaty game scheduled on 4 July will not take place.[11] As it was the second failure to appear to the match for FC Karpaty Lviv, according to regulations the club was expelled from the championship by the UAF Control-Disciplinary Committee on 9 July 2020.[12] The club was counted two technical defeats for two matches against FC Mariupol as 3:0 and 0:3. For all other remaining games that were due to play the club was counted -:+.[13] On 22 July the UAF decision became final as the club did not appeal it.[14]

On 31 July 2020 Smaliychuk announced that Karpaty would play in the Second League.[15] In the beginning of August 2020 there surfaced information that Karpaty might even be able to play in the First League.[16] On 14 August 2020 it was announced that the club never submitted registration for either the First or Second leagues.[17] On 20 August 2020 it became confirmed that Karpaty will be actually playing in the Second League.[18]

FC Karpaty play their home games at the Ukraina Stadium. The stadium was built in 1963 as Druzhba ('Friendship") Stadium and renamed into Ukraina Stadium in 1992. The stadium was renovated on several occasions since, the latest one taking place in 2001. Currently the arena has a capacity of 29,004 spectators.

The stadium was also the venue hosting the final match of the first Ukrainian Premier League season in 1992, in which Tavriya Simferopol defeated Dynamo Kyiv.

It has also been one of the venues for Ukraine national football team matches, the most recent being a 1–0 win over Belarus on 6 September 2008 during 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

In 1970–77 and 1980, Karpaty played in the Soviet Top League. Karpaty's best achievement was 4th place in 1976. Karpaty placed 4th twice that year since the season was split into 2 separate championships (spring and fall). Karpaty were primed to win silver that season, but an unexpected loss in their last home game to Zenit Leningrad pushed Karpaty back into 4th place.

While playing in the Soviet First League in 1979, Karpaty were close to repeating their 1969 achievement, when they met Dynamo Moscow in the USSR Cup semi-final. The match, which was played in Moscow, went into overtime with a 1–1 score with Dynamo prevailing in the end, scoring a penalty kick in extra time.

In 1981, Karpaty were merged with another city team, SKA Lviv belonging to the Carpathian Military District. In 1980 Karpaty were relegated from the Soviet Top League (Vysshaya Liga) and in the 1981 Soviet First League placed only 11th.[3] Already before the season's finish there appeared rumors about possible merger.[3] The logic of authors of that decision was in following, the city is receiving one, but strong and competitive team.[3] In January 1982 the leaders of regional football ultimately decided to unite to clubs.[3] It was motivated by the fact that it is difficult to finance two teams.[3] As a result, Karpaty were liquidated and their place in the Soviet First League was taken by army team SKA Karpaty that was established in place of SKA Lvov.[3] The new team was gathered from players of SKA, Karpaty, and several other who have recently arrived.[3] The head coach became Russian Nikolay Samarin.[3] It is believed that Ukrainian and Soviet coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi commented on liquidation of Karpaty, that it is a disaster of football in all western region of the republic.[3] That it would take not single decade before they realize the whole tragedy of this merger.[3]

The newly created SKA Karpaty were playing in red and white colors, and traditional green and white colors were banned.[3] Militsiya were watching that fans would not bring to stands any green markings.[3] The club's attendance fell immediately.[3] Back in 1980 the Karpaty's home games were visited on average by 20-25 thousands spectators.[3] In the first season after merging of the Lviv teams at stadium were gathering about 5-6 thousands spectators.[3] The newly arrived footballers also did not stay long with the army club and were leaving as soon as their military service was terminated.[3]

SKA Karpaty continued playing in the Soviet First League until 1989,[3] getting close to promotion in 1986, when CSKA Moscow was promoted ahead of Karpaty on goal difference. As their highest achievement, SKA Karpaty placed third place twice while being coached by Volodymyr Bulhakov.[3] After that their performance worsened.[3] If in 1987 the club managed to place the fifth place, after two more years it literally hit the hard bottom placing dead last.[3] It lost 18 of its 21 away games and its losing streak reached 15 games.[3] To one of home games came to watch only 54 spectators, which was the absolute anti-record of the season.[3]

Karpaty's biggest rivals today are Volyn Lutsk and FC Lviv. The match against FC Volyn Lutsk is called the Galician-Volhynian rivalry (derby) which is the main football event in western Ukraine. Derby with FC Lviv has shorter history (six matches by the end of 2019) but is more actual as both teams play in the same league.

The Karpaty's revival started with publication in a newspaper.[3] In 1983 journalist and writer Ivan Salo wrote a critical article "Football... outside of play"[3] (Ukrainian: Футбол...поза грою, in Ukrainian "outside of play" phrase is actually used for football term of offside). Now due to censorship in the Soviet Union, it dared to be printed only in four years in newspaper "Leninska molod" (The Lenin's Youth).[3] The author was demanding to separate SKA Karpaty into two teams as it was earlier.[3] The subject was expanded by "Sportyvna Hazeta" (The Sports Gazette).[3] In November–December 1988 the publisher held a rally "Ya, mama, tato – za komandu Karpaty" (Mother, father and I – for the Karpaty team).[3] The newspaper succeeded to gather 70,000 signatures from the whole Ukraine.[3] After that the case actually moved from standstill.[3] The Lviv delegation departed to Kyiv for negotiations with republican football federation (Ukrainian SSR, precursor of UAF).[3] Negotiations also were held with Moscow.[3]

Finally on 5 January 1989 at 15:00 in office No.290 of the State Committee on Sports of the Soviet Union at Luzhniki Embankment in Moscow was signed the certificate about revival of the Karpaty football team.[3] His signature placed the future president of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Koloskov.[3] And on 10 January in "Sportyvna Hazeta" was printed a text titled "The birthday of the club".[3] It has been seven years from the moment of the Karpaty's liquidation.[3] The Lions began to play from the Second League (Zone 5, not "Ukrainian"), and SKA continued to play in the First.[3]

The revival of the club was taken over by leadership of the Elektron Factory, at facilities of which in 1963 Karpaty were actually created.[3] In 2019 already the late Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi was telling, "At that time I worked as a head coach of Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk.[3] To Lviv I was invited along with Rostyslav Zaremba (at that time he headed a club of the Karpaty football fans).[3] We were told that the club needed to be moved ahead.[3] For office we were allotted a space at vulytsia Dudaieva.[3] On the third story there were two rooms.[3] We found couple of chairs and a magazine table.[3] I brought my personal typewriter, many people remember it.[3] My friends laughed at me telling "Why do you need this?"[3] The same thing was told Rostyslav as both of us came to an empty lot de facto.[3]

However, in renewed Karpaty gathered a battle-ready team as to Lviv returned a good number of local "fosterlings" (former recruits) such as Stepan Yurchyshyn, Serhiy Kvasnykov, Viktor Rafalchuk, Hryhoriy Batych, Vasyl Leskiv, Bohdan Bandura and others.[3] A squad chief became Ihor Kulchytskyi, as a head coach was appointed Borys Rossykhin, while his assistant became Rostyslav Potochniak.[3] Companies were transferring us their funds, and people were simply bringing in their caps their money that they gathered at the city's streets.[3] So, I ask you not to be confused, the football team was created in 1963, and the club – in 1989.[3] (Many football teams were forced to adopt the Soviet policy of khozraschyot during that period, some earlier than others.) Those are two important historical dates".[3]

Karpaty were one of the three surviving Ukrainian football team created in the Soviet Union that did not participate in the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR along with Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Early years (1963–68)

The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January, 1963. In 1962 Silmash Lviv won the championship and cup of the Lviv Oblast (see Lviv Oblast Football Federation) and, thus, obtained the rights to participate in the Soviet Class B championship (Soviet First League). However, in 1963 the Football Federation of USSR conducted another reorganization in football national tournaments creating the Second Group of Class A and Class B became the third tier where a berth was reserved for a team from Lviv. At that time the best city team was SKA Lvov, players of which did not stay there for long, leaving it at the end of their military service, while the best would be drafted to CSKA Moscow. In light of that the city administration decided to create a civilian team, independent from the Soviet military.

In December 1962, in the building of Regional Council of Trade Unions (at prospekt Shevchenka), the head of the council and the regional football federation, Hlib Klymov, invited coaches of Silmash[1] – Yuri Zubach (former player of Ukraina Lwów) and Vasyl Solomonko, as well as the director of the city plant "Lvivsilmash"[2] Ivan Kalynychenko to discuss a new name for the club. The name Silmash was recognized as inadequate for participation on such a level. Among the proposed names were Spartak, Dynamo, Halychyna, while at the end they agreed upon the regional toponym Karpaty (Carpathians).

In the Soviet times all sport teams were "tied" to certain industrial unions or sport societies, therefore Karpaty joined the republican sport society of trade unions "Avanhard", while the Lviv Television Production Plant "Elektron" became its sponsor. Out of "Silmash" only two joined Karpaty: Ihor Kulchytskyi and Josef Fales. Karpaty also adopted the same jersey colors of Silmash. Also the club was reinforced with several players from SKA Lvov and transfers. The club played its first game on 14 April 1964 against Zenit Izhevsk at the Dynamo Stadium (today – the location of the building of the Regional Tax Administration) winning it 1–0. The goal was scored by the club's captain Oleksandr Filiayev. The first official game was against Lokomotiv Gomel on 23 April 1963, which Karpaty won 1–0 (goal scored by Anatoliy Kroshchenko).

Karpaty debuted in Group B in 1963 and remained there for four seasons, until in 1968 they were promoted to Soviet First League.

Traditionally the club colours have been white and green. Throughout the club's history its kit has always been designed in green and white colours; other colours are almost never used and are usually highly criticized by fans.

Green is considered to be the dominant of the two in club nicknames like "Green Lions" and "Green-Whites". For some time black was also used and was even displayed on one of the club's former logos.

Mykola Dychkovskyi (1910 -1985), a priest of the village Tukholka, repressed, was exiled to Vorkuta. Dean of city Stryi, the nephew of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj.[2]

The area of Skole Raion is 1,474 km2 (569 sq mi).

The population is 50,188 persons.

The district consists of 57 villages.

There are many notable places in the Skole region. The village of Grebeniv, for example, was once renowned for its sanitarium where Metropolit Sheptytskyy and prime minister Cherchel were treated. Verchne Synevydne is the first remembrance in the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle (1240). This history is concerned with the person of Danylo Galytskyy.

Skole is the birthplace of Polish politician Stanisław Głąbiński and writer Beata Obertyńska.

Yaroslav Koshiv, Ukrainian journalist.[5][6]

Stepan Okhrymovych (Stepan Ochrymowycz), member of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in Western Ukraine.

Stanisław Głąbiński, Polish politician, academic, lawyer and writer.

Nataliya Obmochaeva, Russian volleyball player.

Mykhailo and Polaho Svystun were farmers in Skole during the German occupation. They have been recognised as Righteous Gentiles who saved Aaron Wilf, Chaya Wilf, Rose Wilf, Moshy Wilf and two other boys lives. They paid with their lives as Ukrainian neighbours burnt them alive in their house. [3] They were given this honor in 1974 and are on the official list stored by Yad Vashem as Svistun, 'Mikhailo & Polaha and son Vasily'.

Skole was the site of many horrendous atrocities against the Jewish people living there. The Ukrainian Christians living there were described as 10 times crueller than the German executioners by Aaron Wilf in his diaries. Some local residents such as married couple Mykhailo Svystun and Polaho Svystun who saved the lives of a Jewish friend and his family.

The city has two monuments of cultural heritage in Ukraine.

Church of St. Paraskeva (wooden) 17th century.

The bell tower of the church St. Paraskeva (wooden) 1760.

Church of the Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary.

After terminating his contract with Shakhtar Donetsk and signing with Ufa, Shakhtar took the case to FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber, which ordered Zinchenko to pay approximately €8,000 in compensation.

Manchester City

Premier League: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21[54]

FA Cup: 2018–19[55]

EFL Cup: 2017–18,[56] 2018–19,[57] 2019–20,[58] 2020–21[59]

FA Community Shield: 2019[60]

UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2020–21[61]

Individual

Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: 2019

Personal life

In August 2020, he married journalist Vlada Shcheglova.

Manchester City

2016–2019

Zinchenko playing for Manchester City in 2018

On 4 July 2016, Zinchenko signed for Premier League club Manchester City for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £1.7 million.[13][14] The move surprised some. However, he was described by a Russian football scout as a "real talent", with Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund also monitoring him.[15]

Zinchenko was loaned to Eredivisie club PSV on 26 August, for the 2016–17 season.[16] He made his debut on 1 October, as a substitute in a 1–1 draw against SC Heerenveen.[17]

Zinchenko returned to Manchester City for the 2017–18 season, and made his debut on 24 October 2017, playing the full match including extra time in a 0–0 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the EFL Cup.[18] He made his first Premier League appearance on 13 December 2017, coming off the bench in a 4–0 away win at Swansea City.[19]

On 18 December 2017, Zinchenko scored the winning penalty kick against Leicester City after a 1–1 stalemate in regulation time, sending Manchester City through to the semi-finals of the EFL Cup.[20]

Zinchenko gained an extended run in the side following injuries to left backs Benjamin Mendy and Fabian Delph, putting in a number of consistent performances in the position.[21]

Zinchenko made his first appearance of the 2018–19 season in a 3–0 away win at Oxford United in the EFL Cup. In the same week, he made his first league start of the season in a 2–0 home win against Brighton & Hove Albion, due to injuries to Mendy and Delph.[22]

2019–present

Zinchenko scored his first goal for Manchester City in the EFL Cup semi-final against Burton Albion on 9 January 2019, a 9–0 home win.[23]

In June 2019, he signed a new contract with the club, to keep him with them until 2024.[24] On 25 October 2019, Zinchenko had a knee surgery in Barcelona.[25] Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola told that the recovery from the injury would take from 5 to 6 weeks: "He had a contact with a knee. He felt something in the bone and had to stop. He had something to clean up the knee. It was not a big issue. Five or six weeks."[26] At the beginning of December 2019, Zinchenko returned to full training.[27] On 11 December 2019, he played his first game after the injury against Dinamo Zagreb.[28] On 4 January 2020, he scored his first goal for Manchester City in a 4–1 win over Port Vale in the FA Cup.[29] On 4 May 2021, Zinchenko was apart of the starting XI that saw Manchester City qualify for their first UEFA Champions League Final, after beating PSG 2–0 on the night and 4–1 on aggregate.[30] On 29 May, he later started that Champions League Final, which his team lost 1–0 against Chelsea.[31]

International career

He made his international debut in a UEFA Euro 2016 qualification match against Spain on 12 October 2015. Zinchenko scored his first international goal in a friendly against neighbours Romania in Turin, which Ukraine won 4–3 on 29 May 2016. He also became Ukraine's youngest player to score an international goal at the age of 19 years and 165 days, beating a record held since 1996 by Andriy Shevchenko.[32]

Zinchenko was included in Ukraine's squad for Euro 2016, appearing as a substitute for Viktor Kovalenko in both of Ukraine's first two matches, against Germany and Northern Ireland as Ukraine failed to score and were the first team eliminated.[33]

On 24 March 2021 in the match against France, he became the Ukraine's youngest player captain in their history at the age 24 years and 98 days.[34] Later on, he was included in the squad for Euro 2020.[35] On 29 June 2021, he scored the first goal and assisted the second goal in the Euro 2020 round of 16 match against Sweden, which ended in a 2–1 win for Ukraine after extra time,[36] for which he was awarded the Star of the Match.[37]

Club career

Early career

Zinchenko was born in Radomyshl, Zhytomyr Oblast.[4] He is a product of Youth Sporitve School Karpatiya of his native Radomyshl (with first coach Serhiy Boretskyi),[5] FC Monolit Illichivsk and Shakhtar Donetsk, where he became the captain of the youth team. On 9 December 2013, he scored a goal in a 1–1 draw with Manchester United in the 2013–14 UEFA Youth League.[6]

He moved with his parents to Russia due to the war in Donbas.[7] Shakhtar Donetsk wanted him back despite offering no playing time, but he did not return for security reasons. He spent 5 to 6 months with amateur leagues in Moscow. He then trained with Rubin Kazan but the club did not sign him to a contract since Zinchenko was still under contract to Shakhtar, and Rubin would risk incurring a transfer ban if they attempted to sign him.[8][9]

On 12 February 2015, he signed a contract with Ufa.[note 1] He made his Russian Premier League debut for Ufa on 20 March 2015 in a match against FC Krasnodar.[11] On 25 July 2015, he scored his first goal in a 1–2 defeat against FC Rostov.[12]