Oleksandr Noyok

Kherson born Oleksandr Noyok came through Shakhtar Donetsk's academy, spending four years there before loan spells took him to Shakhtar-3 Donetsk, Zakarpattia Uzhhorod and Metalurh Donetsk. A move to Metalist Kharkiv followed, but it was in Belarus that the defensive midfielder built the most substantial spell of his career. At Dinamo Minsk and then Dynamo Brest he was named Best Midfielder of the Belarusian Championship in 2017, and won the Belarusian Premier League title with Brest in 2019, adding the Belarusian Super Cup that year and again in 2020.

He has since moved through a wide range of leagues. A spell at Orenburg in Russia and a return to Rukh Brest came in 2021, before he joined Apollon Limassol in Cyprus, where he won the Cypriot First Division title in the 2021/22 season. From there his career took him to Israel with Maccabi Bnei Reineh, then to Kazakhstan, first with Atyrau between 2023 and 2024, and now with Kyzylzhar.

Noyok represented Ukraine extensively at youth level, moving up through the age groups from under-16 to under-21, where he collected 17 caps and scored four goals. That underage pedigree pointed to a player capable of finding a home in demanding leagues abroad, and his career since has largely confirmed it, taking in silverware in two different countries.