Yevhen Banada

Yevhen Banada spent a full decade at Oleksandriya, from 2011 to 2021, and played 207 matches for the club, scoring 22 goals.

The route there ran through three cities. He began at Kolos in Nikopol and stayed until 2005. He then moved through UFK Dnipropetrovsk and the Serhiy Bubka sports school in Donetsk, which took him to 2008. A year at Olimpik Donetsk followed, then two years with the amateur side Olimpik-UOR before his senior career began at Oleksandriya.

Once he left, the stops became shorter. At Metalist Kharkiv in 2021–22 he scored six goals in 12 appearances. In July 2022 he joined Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih and played 18 matches without scoring. His time at LNZ Cherkasy in 2023–24 amounted to one appearance. In February 2024 he signed for Veres Rivne and played 11 times. Every one of these moves was made as a free agent.

He joined Livyi Bereh in July 2024, again on a free transfer. His contract now runs until 30 June 2027, and by June 2025 he had made more than 47 appearances for the club.

Banada also played for Ukraine at under-21 level. He won two caps in 2013 under Serhiy Kovalets at the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup in Russia.