Volodymyr Muntyan

Volodymyr Muntyan
Muntyan in 1974
Personal information
Full name Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan
Date of birth (1946-09-14)14 September 1946
Place of birth Kotovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Date of death 1 December 2025(2025-12-01) (aged 79)
Place of death Kyiv, Ukraine
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position Midfielder
Youth career
Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1977 Dynamo Kyiv 302 (57)
1980 SKA Kyiv 7 (1)
International career
1968–1976 USSR 49 (7)
Managerial career
1980–1982 SKA Kyiv
1986–1988 COSFAP Antananarivo
1992–1994 Ukraine U21
1995–1997 Guinea
1998 Cherkasy
1999 Orion Kyiv
2000 Tavriya Simferopol
2001 Obolon Kyiv
2002 Alania Vladikavkaz
2003–2004 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
2004–2005 Vorskla Poltava
2008 Ukraine U21 (interim)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Soviet Union
UEFA European Championship
1972 Belgium
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan (Ukrainian: Володимир Федорович Мунтян, Russian: Владимир Фёдорович Мунтян, Romanian: Vladimir Muntean; 14 September 1946 – 1 December 2025) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football midfielder of the 1960s and 1970s. Muntyan is considered to be one of the best and most talented players to represent Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union. He was also the only player apart from Oleg Blokhin (his teammate in the 1970s) who has won seven Soviet championships. His brother Viktor Muntyan is also a former professional football player.