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 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
2013–2014 Werder Bremen II
2014–2016 Werder Bremen
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.