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Igor Alekseyevich Leshchuk (Russian: Игорь Алексеевич Лещук; born 20 February 1996) is a Russian football player who plays as goalkeeper for FC Dynamo Moscow.
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Leshchuk with Dynamo in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Igor Alekseyevich Leshchuk | ||
| Date of birth | 20 February 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Moscow, Russia | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Dynamo Moscow | ||
| Number | 31 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2019 | FC Dynamo Moscow | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014– | FC Dynamo Moscow | 41 | (1) |
| 2016–2017 | → FC Dynamo-2 Moscow | 11 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → FC Dynamo-2 Moscow | 3 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2010 | Russia U15 | 2 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Russia U16 | 4 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Russia U21 | 5 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 December 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 November 2017 | |||
He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 28 August 2016 in a game against FSK Dolgoprudny.[2]
He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Dynamo Moscow on 10 August 2019, when he had to come in for injured Anton Shunin in a game against FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.[3] He started the next 6 games as Shunin was recovering (including 2 clean sheets) and won the Dynamo fans' vote for "player of the month" for August 2019.[4]
On 30 August 2021, he signed a new four-year contract with Dynamo.[5] After another Shunin injury in September 2021, he kept clean sheet in 3 consecutive games and was voted as player of the month once again.[6]
On 15 March 2023, Leshchuk saved two penalty kicks in the shootout to eliminate Russian champions Zenit St. Petersburg from the Russian Cup.[7]
He was voted player of the month by Dynamo fans for the third time for October 2023.[8]
On 18 January 2024, Leshchuk extended his contract with Dynamo to 2028.[9]
On 2 December 2024, Leshchuk scored a late added-time equalizer in a 1–1 away draw against Akhmat Grozny, with a header after a corner kick.[10] He became only the second goalkeeper in the history of the Russian Premier League (which was originally organized under a different name in 1992) to score a goal after Andrei Novosadov in 2001, and the first to not score it from a penalty kick (like Novosadov did).[11] Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, best Russian clubs participated in the Soviet Top League, and on all occasions in that league when goalkeepers scored a goal, it was from a penalty kick.[12] Thus Leshchuk became the first ever goalkeeper in the history of Russian football to score a non-penalty-kick goal in a top-tier club league.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Dynamo Moscow | 2014–15 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015–16 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2016–17 | Russian First League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2017–18 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2018–19 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2019–20 | Russian Premier League | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 0 | |||
| 2020–21 | Russian Premier League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22 | Russian Premier League | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 0 | |||
| 2022–23 | Russian Premier League | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 12 | 0 | |||
| 2023–24 | Russian Premier League | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 20 | 0 | |||
| 2024–25 | Russian Premier League | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 1 | |||
| Total | 41 | 1 | 26 | 0 | — | — | 67 | 1 | ||||
| Dynamo-2 Moscow | 2016–17 | Russian Second League | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | 11 | 0 | |||
| Dynamo-2 Moscow | 2020–21 | Russian Second League | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 55 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 1 | ||
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