Maksym Zhuk

Maksym Zhuk
Personal information
Full name Maksym Evgenovich Zhuk
Date of birth (2003-08-18) 18 August 2003
Place of birth Mariupol, Ukraine
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 KTP
Number 33
Youth career
–2022 Mariupol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2021–2022 Mariupol 0 (0)
2023– KTP 51 (0)
2023 → PEPO (loan) 1 (0)
2023 → KäPa (loan) 10 (0)
2025 → SalPa (loan) 10 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 July 2026

Maksym Evgenovich Zhuk (Ukrainian: Максим Євгенович Жук; born 18 August 2003) is a Ukrainian professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper for KTP.

Career

Zhuk was born and raised in Mariupol, Ukraine, and played in a youth sector of local club FC Mariupol. In late February 2022, he attended the club's first team's training camp in Turkey. On 24 February, the team was supposed to return to Ukraine, but before the boarding of their flight, the Russian invasion of Ukraine escalated and Russia started bombing the country and also Mariupol. His family fled from Ukraine and relocated to Tallinn, Estonia. After spending one month in Turkey, Zhuk and the FC Mariupol players started to look for new clubs. Via Croatia and Poland, Zhuk ended up to Estonian club Nõmme Kalju.[1] From Estonia, Zhuk traveled to Kotka, Finland, and joined local club KTP, with a help from Nõmme Kalju's sporting director Argo Arbeiter, former head coach of KTP.

He joined KTP team in summer 2022, but signed his first professional contract for the 2023 Veikkausliiga season.[2] He played one game with associate club PEPO Lappeenranta in third-tier Kakkonen, before on 31 July he was loaned out to Ykkönen club Käpylän Pallo for the rest of the 2023 season in Finnish second-tier.[3][4][5][6] He returned to KTP for the 2024 season, and in October they secured the new second-tier Ykkösliiga title and were promoted back to Veikkausliiga.

Career statistics

As of 26 July 2026
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Mariupol 2021–22 Ukrainian Premier League 0000–00
KTP 2023 Veikkausliiga 00000000
2024 Ykkösliiga 2700020290
2025 Veikkausliiga 802030130
2026 Ykkösliiga 1600050210
Total 51020100630
PEPO Lappeenranta (loan) 2023 Kakkonen 10––10
Käpylän Pallo (loan) 2023 Ykkönen 100––100
SalPa (loan) 2025 Ykkösliiga 100––100
Career total 71020100830
  1. ↑ Includes Suomen Cup
  2. ↑ Includes Ykkösliigacup and Finnish League Cup

Honours

KTP

References

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