Sergei Eremenko
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sergei Alekseyevich Eremenko | ||
| Date of birth | 6 January 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Jakobstad, Finland[1] | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Gnistan | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2013 | Jaro | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2016 | Jaro | 34 | (2) |
| 2016–2018 | Basel | 0 | (0) |
| 2018–2022 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 23 | (1) |
| 2018 | → Spartak Moscow (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2018 | → Spartak-2 Moscow (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2019 | → SJK (loan) | 18 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → Orenburg (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → Orenburg-2 (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2021 | → AC Oulu (loan) | 15 | (0) |
| 2022 | → HIFK (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| 2023–2025 | Jaro | 79 | (13) |
| 2026– | Gnistan | 16 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 2015–2016 | Finland U17 | 7 | (3) |
| 2016 | Finland U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Finland U19 | 9 | (3) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 November 2025 | |||
Sergei Eremenko (Russian: Сергей Алексеевич Ерёменко; born 6 January 1999) is a Finnish football player who plays for Veikkausliiga club Gnistan.
Club career
Eremenko made his professional debut in the Veikkausliiga for FF Jaro on 6 July 2014 in a game against Vaasan Palloseura.[2] In October 2016, Eremenko was noted by The Guardian in the list of top 60 best young talents in world football, becoming the second Finnish player on the said list after Kaan Kairinen a year before.[3]
On 5 February 2018, he transferred to FK Spartaks Jūrmala, who loaned him to FC Spartak Moscow until the end of 2018.[4] On 31 December 2018, his loan term expired and he was removed by Spartak from their Premier League registration list without playing any games for the main squad.[5]
On 25 January 2019, he joined Finnish club SJK Seinäjoki on loan.[6]
On 2 February 2022, Eremenko signed a contract with HIFK for the 2022 season.[7]
On 9 March 2023, Eremenko returned to FF Jaro on a one-year deal.[8]
International
Eremenko holds a Finnish passport and represented Finland in juniors until March 2018, when the Football Association of Finland announced that Eremenko had informed them of his refusal to represent Finland internationally anymore in hopes of eventually representing Russia.[9]
Personal life
Eremenko's older brothers Roman Eremenko and Alexei Eremenko are Finnish international footballers,[10] and his father Alexei Eremenko Sr. is a football manager and former footballer.
Career statistics
- As of 27 July 2026[11]
| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Jaro | 2014 | Veikkausliiga | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2015 | Veikkausliiga | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – | 22 | 4 | ||
| 2016 | Ykkönen | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 13 | 1 | |||
| Total | 32 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5 | ||
| Jakobstads BK | 2015 | Kakkonen | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2016 | Kolmonen | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Basel U21 | 2016–17 | Swiss Promotion League | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2017–18 | Swiss Promotion League | 9 | 0 | – | – | – | 9 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Spartaks Jūrmala | 2018 | Virslīga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2019 | Virslīga | 7 | 1 | – | – | – | 7 | 1 | ||||
| 2020 | Virslīga | 16 | 0 | – | – | – | 16 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 | ||
| Spartak Moscow (loan) | 2017–18 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Spartak-2 Moscow (loan) | 2017–18 | Russian First League | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2018–19 | Russian First League | 7 | 0 | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
| SJK Seinäjoki (loan) | 2019 | Veikkausliiga | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 18 | 0 | ||
| Orenburg (loan) | 2020–21 | Russian First League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| Orenburg-2 (loan) | 2020–21 | Russian Second League | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| AC Oulu (loan) | 2021 | Veikkausliiga | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 17 | 0 | ||
| HIFK (loan) | 2022 | Veikkausliiga | 17 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | 27 | 2 | |
| Jaro | 2023 | Ykkönen | 26 | 6 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 6 | ||
| 2024 | Ykkösliiga | 29 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | 37 | 9 | ||
| 2025 | Veikkausliiga | 26 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 31 | 1 | ||
| Total | 81 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 16 | ||
| Gnistan | 2026 | Veikkausliiga | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | – | 21 | 3 | |
| Career total | 229 | 19 | 21 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 268 | 27 | ||
- ↑ Includes Suomen Cup and Russian Cup
- ↑ Includes Finnish League Cup
Honours
Jaro
- Ykkösliiga runner-up: 2024
Individual
- Ykkösliiga Midfielder of the Year: 2024
References
- ↑ "Tervetuloa Sergei Eremenko" (in Finnish). Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ↑ "Game Report by Weltfussball". Weltfussball. 6 July 2014.
- ↑ Next Generation 2016: 60 of the best young talents in world football, 5 October 2016
- ↑ Сергей Ерёменко перешел в «Спартак» (in Russian). FC Spartak Moscow. 5 February 2018.
- ↑ Sergei Eremenko at Russian Premier League (in Russian) (archive in English)
- ↑ "Tervetuloa Sergei Eremenko" (in Finnish). SJK Seinäjoki. 25 January 2019.
- ↑ "Sergei Eremenko tähtirintoihin – "lisää taitoa ja rohkeutta"" (Press release) (in Finnish). HIFK. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ↑ "SERGEI EREMENKO SOPIMUKSEEN FF JARON KANSSA" [SERGEI EREMENKO SIGNS A CONTRACT WITH FF JARO] (in Finnish). FF Jaro. 9 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ↑ "Sergei Eremenko leaves the Finnish national team" (in Finnish). Football Association of Finland. 16 March 2018.
- ↑ "FIFA clears Russia switch for Finnish teenager Eremenko". Associated Press. 24 April 2018.
- ↑ Sergei Eremenko stats, Finnish FA
External links
- Sergei Eremenko at WorldFootball.net
- Sergei Eremenko at Soccerway
- 1999 births
- Footballers from Jakobstad
- Living people
- Finnish men's footballers
- 21st-century Finnish sportsmen
- Finland men's youth international footballers
- Russian men's footballers
- Finnish people of Russian descent
- Veikkausliiga players
- Latvian Higher League players
- Russian First League players
- Russian Second League players
- FF Jaro players
- FC Spartak Moscow players
- FC Spartak-2 Moscow players
- FK Spartaks Jūrmala players
- Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho players
- FC Orenburg players
- AC Oulu players
- HIFK Fotboll players
- IF Gnistan players
- Men's association football midfielders
- Finnish expatriate men's footballers
- Russian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia
- Ykkösliiga players
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- FC Basel players
- Swiss Promotion League players
- Ykkönen players
- Kakkonen players
- Kolmonen players
- 21st-century Russian sportsmen
- Finnish football midfielder stubs