In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovych and the family name is Rotan.

Ruslan Rotan
Rotan as Ukraine U21 coach in 2021
Personal information
Full name Ruslan Petrovych Rotan
Date of birth (1981-10-29) 29 October 1981 (age 44)
Place of birth Poltava, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Polissya Zhytomyr (manager)
Youth career
Zirka Kirovohrad
Vorskla Poltava
1998–1999 UFK Dnipropetrovsk
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2005 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 105 (11)
1998–2002 β†’ Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk 46 (7)
1991–2002 β†’ Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk 10 (3)
2005–2008 Dynamo Kyiv 50 (5)
2008–2017 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 211 (23)
2017–2018 Slavia Prague 7 (0)
2018 Dynamo Kyiv 9 (0)
Total 438 (49)
International career
2003 Ukraine U21 10 (1)
2003–2018 Ukraine 100 (8)
Managerial career
2018 Olimpik Donetsk (assistant)
2018–2023 Ukraine U21
2022–2025 Oleksandriya
2023 Ukraine (interim)
2023–2024 Ukraine Olympic
2025– Polissya Zhytomyr
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ruslan Petrovych Rotan (Ukrainian: Руслан ΠŸΠ΅Ρ‚Ρ€ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ‡ Π ΠΎΡ‚Π°Π½ΡŒ; born 29 October 1981) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer and current manager of Polissya Zhytomyr. He was a member of the Ukraine national team.

Club career

Ruslan with Dnipro Dnipropetrivsk in 2015

Rotan's career started off for Dnipro in the 1999–2000 season. He played a total of 105 matches for Dnipro and scored 11 goals.

He transferred to Dynamo Kyiv in the summer of 2005 and was given the number 14. In Dynamo, he played 50 matches and scored five goals in the Ukrainian Premier League.

During winter break 2007–08 Rotan was transferred back to his home club of Dnipro. The transfer fee was undisclosed. However, he signed a three-year contract with Dnipro. He now wears the number 29 jersey.

He became the top assister of the Ukrainian Premier League of the season 2008–2009.[1]

In the summer of 2014, after his Dnipro contract had expired, Rotan went on trial with Rubin Kazan, nearly signing with the club before turning down the offer due to the political situation around the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Rotan eventually signed a new three-year contract with Dnipro on 8 August 2014.[citation needed]

In the 2014–15 season, Rotan helped Dnipro reach the UEFA Europa League Final in Warsaw on 27 May 2015, in which he equalised the score at 2–2 with a free kick against holders Sevilla FC, who eventually won 3–2.[2]

International career

Rotan made his debut for Ukraine on 12 February 2003, replacing Andriy Voronin for the final eight minutes of a goalless friendly against Turkey in Δ°zmir. He scored three goals in seven games in 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification, going on to play three of their five matches (one start) as they reached the quarter-finals at the tournament. When Ukraine hosted UEFA Euro 2012, he played five minutes as a substitute for Voronin in their opening 2–1 victory over Sweden at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv. With 100 caps, Rotan is Ukraine's third-most capped player of all time. He was also on Ukraine's World cup 2006 squad. In the summer of 2017, Ruslan signed a one-year contract with the Slavia Prague club. He played 7 matches there.[3]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk 1997–98 Druha Liha 2 0 – – – 2 0
1998–99 16 2 – – – 16 2
1999–2000 8 3 3 1 – – 11 4
2000–01 Persha Liha 5 1 – – – 5 1
2001–02 15 1 – – – 15 1
Total 46 7 3 1 – – 49 8
Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk 2000–01 Druha Liha 1 0 – – – 1 0
2001–02 9 3 – – – 9 3
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha 10 0 – – – 10 0
2000–01 7 0 2 0 – – 9 0
2001–02 13 1 5 1 – – 18 2
2002–03 29 5 4 0 – – 33 5
2003–04 25 4 5 0 8[a] 0 – 38 4
2004–05 21 1 3 1 7[a] 1 – 31 3
Total 105 11 19 2 15 1 – 139 14
Dynamo Kyiv 2005–06 Vyshcha Liha 28 4 5 1 2[b] 0 1[c] 0 36 5
2006–07 12 1 3 0 4[b] 2 1[c] 0 20 3
2007–08 10 0 3 0 4[b] 0 – 17 0
Total 50 5 11 1 10 2 2 0 73 8
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2007–08 Vyshcha Liha 8 0 – – – 8 0
2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League 26 3 – 2[d] 0 – 28 3
2009–10 26 3 2 0 – – 28 3
2010–11 21 1 3 0 2[d] 0 – 26 1
2011–12 23 3 2 0 2[d] 0 – 27 3
2012–13 25 4 3 0 10[d] 0 – 38 4
2013–14 26 0 – 8[d] 2 – 27 0
2014–15 16 0 5 2 15[d] 3 – 36 5
2015–16 21 4 5 1 4[d] 0 – 30 5
2016–17 19 5 3 0 – – 22 5
Total 211 23 23 3 43 5 – 277 31
Slavia Prague 2017–18 Czech First League 7 0 1 0 6[d] 0 – 14 0
Dynamo Kyiv 2017–18 Ukrainian Premier League 9 0 1 0 – – 10 0
Career total 438 49 58 7 74 8 2 0 572 64
  1. ^ a b Appearance(s) in UEFA Cup
  2. ^ a b c Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  3. ^ a b Appearance in Ukrainian Super Cup
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League

International

Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Rotan goal.
List of international goals scored by Ruslan Rotan[4]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 8 September 2004 Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan  Kazakhstan 2–1 2–1 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
2 3 September 2005 Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia  Georgia 1–0 1–1 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
3 8 October 2005 Meteor Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine  Albania 2–2 2–2 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
4 15 August 2006 Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine  Azerbaijan 3–0 6–0 Friendly
5 6 September 2006 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Georgia 2–2 3–2 UEFA Euro 2008 qualification
6 22 August 2007 Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine  Uzbekistan 2–0 2–1 Friendly
7 15 August 2013 Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine  Israel 1–0 2–0 Friendly
8 9 October 2016 Marshal JΓ³zef PiΕ‚sudski Stadium, KrakΓ³w, Poland  Kosovo 3–0 3–0 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

Managerial

As of match played 24 May 2025
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Ukraine U21 Ukraine 27 December 2018 Present 38 18 10 10 62 40 +22 047.37
Oleksandriya 21 December 2022 Present 78 32 28 18 95 77 +18 041.03
Ukraine (interim) 28 February 2023 4 June 2023 1 0 0 1 0 2 βˆ’2 000.00
Ukraine U23 4 July 2023[5] Present 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !β€”
Career total 119 51 39 29 161 120 +41 042.86

Honours

As a Player

Dynamo Kyiv

Dnipro

Individual

As a Coach

Individual

See also

References

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