Yehor Yarmolyuk
Єгор Ярмолюк
Personal information
Full name Yehor Romanovych Yarmolyuk[1]
Date of birth (2004-03-01) 1 March 2004 (age 20)
Place of birth Verkhnodniprovsk, Ukraine
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Position(s) Central midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Brentford
Number 33
Youth career
2014–2016 Stal Kamianske
2016–2018 Dnipro
2018–2020 Dnipro-1
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2022 Dnipro-1 18 (0)
2022– Brentford 15 (0)
International career‡
Ukraine U15
2019–2020 Ukraine U16 4 (0)
2021–2022 Ukraine U19 8 (6)
2020– Ukraine U21 10 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:37, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:08, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Yehor Romanovych Yarmolyuk (Ukrainian: Єгор Романович Ярмолюк; born 1 March 2004), sometimes known as Yehor Yarmoliuk,[3] is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Brentford as a central midfielder.

Yarmolyuk is a product of the Dnipro-1 academy and made his senior debut for the club in 2020. He transferred to Brentford in 2022. Yarmolyuk has been capped by Ukraine at youth level.

Club career

SC Dnipro-1

A central midfielder,[4] Yarmolyuk is a product of a number of youth sportive schools of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and in May 2019, at age 15, he signed a three-year contract with Ukrainian Premier League club SC Dnipro-1.[5] His progression was such that he made two first team appearances late in the 2019–20 season.[2] Yarmolyuk's second appearance made him the second youngest player to start a match in the history of the Ukrainian top flight, at the age of 16 years and 140 days.[6] Yarmolyuk signed a new three-year contract in October 2020.[7] He went on to make 19 further appearances during the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons,[8] before the latter season was curtailed due to the war in Ukraine.[9] Yarmolyuk scored one senior goal for the club, in a 2–1 Ukrainian Cup round of 32 win over VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka on 22 September 2021.[2]

Brentford

On 14 July 2022, Yarmolyuk transferred to Premier League club Brentford and signed a three-year contract, with the option of a further year,[9] for a fee reported to be €1.6 million.[10] He began his Brentford career with the club's B team,[9] but made two pre-season friendly substitute appearances for the first team.[11][12] Following two Premier League matches as an unused substitute,[2] Yarmolyuk made his senior debut for the club as a substitute during the second half of an EFL Cup third round shoot-out defeat to Gillingham on 8 November 2022.[13] He was included in the first team squad for its mid-season training camp in Girona and made three friendly appearances during the period.[14][15][16] Yarmolyuk made 16 B team appearances and scored three goals prior to missing much of the second half of the 2022–23 season due to a torn hamstring.[4][10]

Yarmolyuk was promoted into the first team squad in June 2023 and signed a new five-year contract, with the option of a further year.[17] He returned fit for the 2023–24 pre-season and made his first appearance of the regular season with a start in a EFL Cup second round shoot-out win over Newport County on 29 August 2023.[17][18] Following four substitute appearances in Premier League matches,[2] injury to Mathias Jensen allowed Yarmolyuk to make his maiden Premier League start for the club in a 1–0 defeat to Arsenal on 25 November 2023.[19][20] Yarmolyuk's progress in 2023 was recognised in the U19 category of the Golden talent of Ukraine award.[21]

International career

Yarmolyuk has been capped by Ukraine at youth level.[2]

Style of play

A central midfielder, Yarmolyuk can also "play as a number 6, 8 or even 10" and "is a very good pressing player, has a little bit of bite in his pressure and his technical abilities are good in terms of passing".[4][22]

Career statistics

As of match played 16 March 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dnipro-1 2019–20[8] Ukrainian Premier League 2 0 0 0 — 2 0
2020–21[8] Ukrainian Premier League 9 0 1 0 — 10 0
2021–22[8] Ukrainian Premier League 7 0 2 1 — 9 1
Total 18 0 3 1 — 21 1
Brentford 2022–23[13] Premier League 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
2023–24[18] Premier League 18 0 2 0 1 0 21 0
Total 18 0 2 0 2 0 22 0
Career total 36 0 5 1 2 0 43 1
  1. ^ Includes Ukrainian Cup, FA Cup
  2. ^ Includes EFL Cup

Honours

Ukraine U15

Individual

References

  1. ^ Yehor Yarmolyuk at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ a b c d e f Yehor Yarmolyuk at Soccerway
  3. ^ "Yehor Yarmoliuk". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Todos, Andrew (27 September 2023). "Yehor Yarmolyuk – The Interview: One year at Brentford". Zorya Londonsk. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  5. ^ "СК Дніпро-1 підписав контракт з 15-річним хавбеком". Футбол 24 (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Єгор Ярмолюк – рекордсмен України!". СК Дніпро-1 (in Ukrainian). 21 July 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Новий контракт з рекордсменом". СК Дніпро-1 (in Ukrainian). 6 October 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  8. ^ a b c d "Єгор Ярмолюк". СК Дніпро-1 (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  9. ^ a b c "Yehor Yarmoliuk joins Brentford from SC Dnipro-1". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Тренер Брентфорда Б: Ярмолюк заслужил повышение в первую команду". www.ua-football.com (in Russian). 6 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  11. ^ "Report: Brighton 0 Brentford 1". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  12. ^ "Report: Arsenal 1 Brentford 2". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  13. ^ a b "Games played by Yehor Yarmolyuk in 2022/2023". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  14. ^ "Dasilva on Bordeaux friendly". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  15. ^ "Brentford 1 Celta Vigo 3". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  16. ^ "Brentford 2 Wolfsburg 2". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  17. ^ a b "Yarmoliuk signs new contract". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  18. ^ a b "Games played by Yehor Yarmolyuk in 2023/2024". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  19. ^ "Mathias Jensen injury update". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  20. ^ "Yarmoliuk analyses first Premier League start". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  21. ^ a b "Найкращі футболісти України U19 за підсумками 2023 року". goldtalant.com.ua. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  22. ^ Harris, Jay. "War in Ukraine halted Yehor Yarmoliuk's career – now he's pushing for Brentford debut". The Athletic. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  23. ^ "Дніпряни — переможці турніру розвитку УЄФА". СК Дніпро-1 (in Ukrainian). 13 May 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  24. ^ "Литвиненко і Батагов – володарі «Золотого м'яча»". СК Дніпро-1 (in Ukrainian). 2 December 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2022.

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