Igor Belanov
Ukrainian footballer (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Born
- 25 September 1960
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1979–1997
Clubs SC Odesa · FC Chornomorets Odesa · FC Dynamo Kyiv · Borussia Mönchengladbach · Eintracht Braunschweig · FC Mariupol
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
407
Club league goals
112
International caps
33
International goals
8
League goals / match
0.28
International goals / cap
0.24
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC OdesaClub | 1979–1980 | League | 68 | 16 |
| FC Chornomorets OdesaClub | 1981–1996 | League | 122 | 28 |
| FC Dynamo KyivClub | 1985–1989 | League | 121 | 39 |
| Soviet Union national association football teamNational team | 1985–1990 | Full caps | 33 | 8 |
| Borussia MönchengladbachClub | 1989–1990 | League | 24 | 4 |
| Eintracht BraunschweigClub | 1991–1995 | League | 67 | 21 |
| FC MariupolClub | 1996–1997 | League | 5 | 4 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×2
Soviet Top League
Domestic
- 1985 · FC Dynamo Kyiv
- 1986 · FC Dynamo Kyiv
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
- ×1
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1986
Career timeline
1979
- Joins SC Odesa — Until 1980
1981
- Joins FC Chornomorets Odesa — Until 1984
1985
- Senior international debut: Soviet Union national association football team — Until 1990
- Soviet Top League winner — 1985 · FC Dynamo Kyiv(provisional)
- Joins FC Dynamo Kyiv — Until 1989
1986
- Ballon d'Or — 1986
- Soviet Top League winner — 1986 · FC Dynamo Kyiv(provisional)
1989
- Joins Borussia Mönchengladbach — Until 1990
1991
- Joins Eintracht Braunschweig — Until 1995
1995
- Joins FC Chornomorets Odesa — Until 1996
- Joins FC Chornomorets Odesa — Until 1995
1996
- Joins FC Mariupol — Until 1997
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
30.9
Rank #115
Partially verified4/5 categories with full evidence · 20% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence37.5+11.26 points
- Best window
- 1982–1986
- Individual award points in window
- 12
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 4
- Peak index
- 17.12
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence32.4+8.09 points
- League goals per match
- 0.275 → 13.53
- International goals per cap
- 0.242 → 16.64
- International caps per year
- 5.5 → 65
Individual accoladesFull evidence27.5+5.50 points
- Contemporary award points
- 12
- Award availability coverage
- 0.764
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 15.72
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1986)
- 12
Team accomplishmentsLimited evidence9.3+1.40 points
- Team honor points
- 4
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.368
- Soviet Top League (1985)
- 2
- Soviet Top League (1986)
- 2
Only 37% of senior club years were in leagues the honor catalog covers.
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence46.5+4.65 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 19 → 92.5
- Documented elite seasons
- 2 → 18
- International career length (years)
- 6 → 30
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Ballon d'Or winners listCC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikidata: Igor Belanov (Q311410)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Ihor Belanov.jpegCC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026