Dmytro Polyuhanych (born June 2, 1996) is a Ukrainian footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Club career
Ukraine
Polyuhanych was signed by Karpaty Lviv during the 2013-14 season and was placed on the club's junior team.[1][2][3] During the 2016 season offseason, he became more involved with the senior team and participated in a friendly tournament held in Poland.[4]
After failing to break into the Karpaty senior team he left the organization and joined Skala Stryi in the Ukrainian Second League for the 2017-18 season.[5] He made his professional debut on July 17, 2017, against FC Ternopil.[6] He would record his first two goals for the club on August 5, 2017, against Podillya Khmelnytskyi.[7][8] In total, he would play in 14 matches and scored 2 goals.[9]
Canada
In 2018, Polyuhanych ventured abroad to play in the southern Ontario-based Canadian Soccer League with Vorkuta.[10][11] He would primarily be featured in the league's second division with Vorkuta's reserve team and would finish the regular season as the club's third-highest goal scorer with 6 goals in 11 appearances.[12] The reserve team would secure a playoff berth by clinching the division title.[13] In the preliminary round of the postseason, the team defeated Brantford Galaxy's reserve team to advance to the championship match.[13] Vorkuta would successfully capture the second-division championship by defeating Halton United.[14] Meanwhile, the senior team secured the first-division championship by defeating Scarborough SC in the finals.[14]
After a season with Vorkuta, he signed with league expansion side Kingsman SC for the 2019 season.[15] In his debut season, he would finish as the club's top goal scorer with 9 goals.[16] He would also assist the expansion team in securing a playoff berth by finishing eighth in the league's first division.[17] In the opening round of the postseason, Kingsman would defeat his former club Vorkuta to advance to the next round.[18] Their playoff journey would conclude in the next round after a defeat by Scarborough.[19]
Following his brief spell with the King City-based club, he returned to Vorkuta for the 2020 campaign.[20] In his second season with Vorkuta, he helped the club secure a playoff spot by finishing second in the first division.[21] Vorkuta faced the Serbian White Eagles in the opening round of the postseason and successfully defeated the Serbs.[22] Polyuhanych would participate in the championship finals where Vorkuta would defeat Scarborough for the championship.[23][24]
The 2021 season would mark his third season with the Vorkuta organization.[25] Throughout the initial round of the season, he would help the club claim the regular-season title and the invitational Prosound Cup.[26][27] Vorkuta would make their second consecutive championship final appearance where they lost the title to Scarborough.[28]
In the winter of 2013, he was called to the under-17 national team camp by head coach Oleksandr Holovko.[31] He was selected to the roster that competed in the next stage of the qualifying round of the youth European Championship.[32][33]
^"Карпати подали заявку на сезон-2013/14" ["Karpaty" submitted an application for the 2013/14 season]. www.ua-football.com (in Russian). 12 July 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
^"Карпаты подали заявку в Премьер-лигу" [Karpaty submitted an application to the Premier League]. www.ua-football.com (in Russian). 25 July 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
^Gordynsky, Volodymyr (5 August 2017). "Поділля» - "Скала": «Так грати вдома не можна" ["Podillia" - "Skala": "You can't play like this at home"]. ye.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 March 2024.