Illia Kutia

Illia Kutia
Personal information
Full name	Illia Pavlovych Kutia
Date of birth	7 March 2008
Place of birth	Ukraine
Positions	Midfielder; right-back;
Team information
Current team	Hajduk Split
Number	39
Youth career
2015–2022	Shakhtar Donetsk
2022–2026	Hajduk Split
Senior career*
Years	Team
2026–	Hajduk Split
International career‡
2024	Ukraine U16
2024–2025	Ukraine U17
2025–2026	Ukraine U18
2026–	Ukraine U19
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 June 2026; ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17 June 2026

Illia Pavlovych Kutia (Ukrainian: Ілля Павлович Кутья; born 7 March 2008) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Croatian Football League club Hajduk Split.

Club career

Kutia joined the Shakhtar Donetsk academy in 2015.^[1] In 2022, the academy was evacuated to Croatia due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Kutia joined the HNK Hajduk Split academy in August of said year, alongside his teammate Dmytro Zudin.^[2]^[3]

He made his first-team debut in a 6–3 win against Vukovar 1991^[4], coming in for Luka Hodak in the 77th minute.^[5]

Kutia is a Ukraine youth international.