Denys Balan

Denys Balan

Personal information
Full name	Denys Dmytrovych Balan
Date of birth	(1993-08-18) 18 August 1993 (age 32)
Place of birth	Odesa, Ukraine
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position	Defender
Team information
Current team	Feniks-Mariupol
Number	39
Youth career
2000–2008	DYuSSh-11 Odesa
2009–2010	Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2014	Dynamo Kyiv	0	(0)
2012	→ Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (loan)	0	(0)
2013	→ Dynamo-2 Kyiv	8	(0)
2014–2015	Real Pharma Odesa	25	(1)
2015–2017	Cherkaskyi Dnipro	33	(0)
2017	Chornomorets Odesa	3	(0)
2017–2021	Inhulets Petrove	85	(3)
2021–2022	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	16	(0)
2022	Táborsko	0	(0)
2022	Zlaté Moravce	6	(0)
2023–2024	Veres Rivne	28	(1)
2025	Podillya Khmelnytskyi	8	(0)
2025–	Feniks-Mariupol	17	(0)
International career^‡
2009	Ukraine U16	9	(0)
2009–2010	Ukraine U17	13	(0)
2010–2011	Ukraine U18	10	(0)
2011–2012	Ukraine U19	8	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 December 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 21 October 2022

Denys Dmytrovych Balan (Ukrainian: Денис Дмитрович Балан; born 18 August 1993) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Feniks-Mariupol.

Club career

Early years

Balan is a product of the DYuSSh-11 in his native city Odesa and Dynamo Kyiv academies.

He played for Dynamo Kyiv and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and then in the Ukrainian Second League and Ukrainian First League until July 2017, when he signed contract with Chornomorets Odesa.^[1]

In December 2022, he signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Veres Rivne in the Ukrainian Premier League.^[2]

References

1. Чорноморець підписав шістьох новачків (in Ukrainian). ua-football.com. 15 July 2017.
2. "Денис БАЛАН - перший зимовий новачок рівненського Вереса!". www.nkveres.com. Retrieved 22 December 2022.

External links

• Denys Balan at UAF (in Ukrainian)
• Denys Balan at Soccerway