Artem Kravets

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Anatoliyovych and the family name is Kravets.

Artem Kravets

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Personal information
Full name	Artem Anatoliyovich Kravets
Date of birth	(1989-06-03) 3 June 1989
Place of birth	Dniprodzerzhynsk, Soviet Union
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	VfB Stuttgart (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
Number	23
Youth career
2001–2002	Nadia-Vahonmash Dniprodzerzhynsk
2003	Inter Dnipropetrovsk
2004–2006	YFS Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–	Dynamo Kyiv	80	(30)
2006	→ Dynamo-3 Kyiv	1	(0)
2006–2007	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv	34	(6)
2013	→ Arsenal Kyiv (loan)	10	(3)
2016–	→ VfB Stuttgart (loan)	0	(0)
International career‡
2006	Ukraine U17	7	(1)
2006–2007	Ukraine U18	7	(4)
2006–2008	Ukraine U19	12	(7)
2008–2011	Ukraine U21	9	(0)
2011–	Ukraine	12	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 December 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 December 2015

Artem Anatoliyovich Kravets (Ukrainian: Артем Анатолійович Кравець; born 3 June 1989) is a Ukrainian football striker who plays for German club VfB Stuttgart, on loan from Dynamo Kyiv.

Club career

Kravets appeared for regularly for the Dynamo Reserves and Dynamo-2 Kyiv until he was noticed by Dynamo's new coach Yuriy Semin, who took him to the main team in the 2007–2008 season, who recognized the player's great potential. Most notable appearance was in UEFA CUP game against Valencia which ended in 2–2 draw, helping Kyiv to advance by aggregate goals. Kravets scored both goals for Dynamo on 34-th and 73-d minutes. Match was played on 27 February 2009.

Kravets is, arguably, Dynamo Kyiv's most natural finisher and many saw him as the natural successor to Andrej Shevchenko but since the 2010-2011 season (whilst on the verge of breaking into the full national team), Artem has had a series of serious injuries and missed most of the last 3 league campaigns.

After a long struggle though, he has finally regained full fitness and started to display some of his original potential whilst forcing himself back into the Dynamo Kyiv first team for the 2014/15 season. He is currently Dynamo Kyiv's top goalscorer with 5 goals in 6 league games.

On 4 January 2016, Kravets was loaned out to German club VfB Stuttgart until the end of the 2015–16 season.

International career

He was called up to Ukraine national football team for friendly match against Serbia on 26 March 2008, but received an injury just before the match. Kravets was later called in a FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying match against England on 1 April 2009. However, his debut was again delayed when he suffered an injury to a muscle in his thigh, six days before the match, and was subsequently replaced by Yevhen Seleznyov.

Career statistics

As of 24 November 2014

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo Kyiv	2006–07	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	2007–08	11	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	15	4
	2008–09	12	4	1	1	10	2	0	0	23	7
	2009–10	9	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	11	1
	2010–11	11	3	2	0	5	0	0	0	18	3
	2011–12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2012–13	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arsenal Kyiv	2013–14	10	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	3
Dynamo Kyiv	2013–14	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
	2014–15	24	15	5	2	10	2	1	0	40	19
VfB Stuttgart	2015–16	0	0	–						0	0
Total		79	31	15	2	28	4	1	0	124	37

Achievements

FC Dynamo Kyiv

• Ukrainian Premier League: 2008-09, 2014-15
• Ukrainian Cup: 2013-14, 2014–15
• The Ukrainian Cup finalist 2008
• Runner-up of Ukrainian Premier League 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12
• The Channel One Cup winner 2008

External links

• Profile on the Official Dynamo Kyiv Website