Yuriy Maksymov

Yuriy Maksymov is a retired Ukrainian midfielder and a coach. He was born on 8 December 1968 in Kherson, Ukraine.

Yuriy began his professional career playing for Krystal Kherson and Tavriya Simferopol. In 1992, he joined Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and helped the club to finish as a runner-up in the Ukrainian Premier League in his debut 1992/93 season. In 1994, Maksymov moved to the top-flight Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv and was an instrumental player for the team helping them to win the Ukrainian Premier League three consecutive seasons. Overall, he scored 23 goals in 65 appearances for the club for two and a half seasons. Since 1997 till 2001, Maksymov played for the German giant club Werder Bremen. He was part of the team that won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998 and became the DFB-Pokal champion in 1999. In between 2001 and 2005, the player featured for such clubs as Waldhof Mannheim, Rostov, Borysfen Boryspil and Metalurh Zaporizhzhya before his retirement in 2005.

Yuriy Maksymov embarked on his managerial career as an assistant coach at FC Dinamo Minsk from Belarus. In between 2006 and 2008, he coached FC CSKA Kyiv and in the 2008/09 season Maksymov was at the helm of FC Obolon Kyiv leading them to the second-place finish in the 2009 Ukrainian First League. In 2012, he took over reins at FC Metalurh Donetsk. From 2013 to 2014 he guided Mordovia Saransk and got them promoted to Russian Premier League.