Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yehor Romanovych Yarmolyuk[1] | ||
Date of birth | 1 March 2004 | ||
Place of birth | Verkhnodniprovsk, Ukraine | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Brentford | ||
Number | 33 | ||
Youth career | |||
2014–2016 | Stal Kamianske | ||
2016–2018 | Dnipro | ||
2018–2020 | Dnipro-1 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2020–2022 | Dnipro-1 | 18 | (0) |
2022– | Brentford | 27 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
Ukraine U15 | |||
2019–2020 | Ukraine U16 | 4 | (0) |
2021–2022 | Ukraine U19 | 8 | (6) |
2020– | Ukraine U21 | 10 | (0) |
2024 | Ukraine U23 | 4 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:20, 19 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:29, 16 June 2024 (UTC) |
Yehor Romanovych Yarmolyuk (Ukrainian: Єгор Романович Ярмолюк; born 1 March 2004), sometimes known as Yehor Yarmoliuk,[3] is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Brentford as a central midfielder.
Yarmolyuk is a product of the Dnipro-1 academy and made his senior debut for the club in 2020. He transferred to Brentford in 2022. Yarmolyuk has been capped by Ukraine at youth level.
A central midfielder,[4] Yarmolyuk is a product of a number of youth sportive schools of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and in May 2019, at age 15, he signed a three-year contract with Ukrainian Premier League club SC Dnipro-1.[5] His progression was such that he made two first team appearances late in the 2019–20 season.[2] Yarmolyuk's second appearance made him the second youngest player to start a match in the history of the Ukrainian top flight, at the age of 16 years and 140 days.[6] Yarmolyuk signed a new three-year contract in October 2020.[7] He went on to make 19 further appearances during the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons,[8] before the latter season was curtailed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9] Yarmolyuk scored one senior goal for the club, in a 2–1 Ukrainian Cup round of 32 win over VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka on 22 September 2021.[2]
On 14 July 2022, Yarmolyuk transferred to Premier League club Brentford and signed a three-year contract, with the option of a further year,[9] for a fee reported to be €1.6 million.[10] He began his Brentford career with the club's B team,[9] but made two pre-season friendly substitute appearances for the first team.[11][12] Following two Premier League matches as an unused substitute,[2] Yarmolyuk made his senior debut for the club as a substitute during the second half of an EFL Cup third round shoot-out defeat to Gillingham on 8 November 2022.[13] He was included in the first team squad for its mid-season training camp in Girona and made three friendly appearances during the period.[14][15][16] Yarmolyuk made 16 B team appearances and scored three goals prior to missing much of the second half of the 2022–23 season due to a torn hamstring.[4][10]
Yarmolyuk was promoted into the first team squad in June 2023 and signed a new five-year contract, with the option of a further year.[17] He returned fit for the 2023–24 pre-season and made his first appearance of the regular season with a start in a EFL Cup second round shoot-out win over Newport County on 29 August 2023.[17][18] Following four substitute appearances in Premier League matches,[2] injury to Mathias Jensen allowed Yarmolyuk to make his maiden Premier League start for the club in a 1–0 defeat to Arsenal on 25 November 2023.[19][20] He made three further starts before the end of 2023 and Yarmolyuk's progress in the calendar year was recognised in the U19 category of the Golden talent of Ukraine award.[2][21] Yarmolyuk ended the 2023–24 season with 30 appearances.[18]
Yarmolyuk has been capped by Ukraine at youth level.[2] On 16 May 2024, Yarmolyuk was named as a reserve in the senior Ukraine squad for a pre-Euro 2024 training camp and series of friendly matches.[22] Two weeks later, he was called into the U23 team's 2024 Maurice Revello Tournament squad.[23] Yarmolyuk made four appearances in the tournament, scoring once and he converted a penalty in the shoot-out that decided the final versus Ivory Coast in Ukraine's favour.[2][24]
A central midfielder, Yarmolyuk can also "play as a number 6, 8 or even 10" and "is a very good pressing player, has a little bit of bite in his pressure and his technical abilities are good in terms of passing".[4][25]
Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Dnipro-1 | 2019–20[8] | Ukrainian Premier League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
2020–21[8] | Ukrainian Premier League | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | ||
2021–22[8] | Ukrainian Premier League | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 9 | 1 | ||
Total | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | 21 | 1 | |||
Brentford | 2022–23[13] | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2023–24[18] | Premier League | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0 | |
Total | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0 | ||
Career total | 45 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 1 |
Ukraine U15
Ukraine U23
Individual