Yehor Yarmolyuk

Yehor Yarmolyuk
Єгор Ярмолюк
Personal information
Full name	Yehor Romanovych Yarmolyuk
Date of birth	1 March 2004 (age 20)
Place of birth	Verkhnodniprovsk, Ukraine
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Central midfielder
Team information
Current team	Brentford
Number	18
Youth career
2014–2016	Stal Kamianske
2016–2018	Dnipro
2018–2020	Dnipro-1
Senior career*
Years	Team
2020–2022	Dnipro-1
2022–	Brentford
International career‡
	Ukraine U15
2019–2020	Ukraine U16
2021–2022	Ukraine U19
2020–	Ukraine U21
2024	Ukraine U23
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:45, 28 August 2024 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:47, 10 September 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.

Club career

SC Dnipro-1

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]

Brentford

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]

International career

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]

Style of play

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]

Career statistics

As of match played 31 August 2024

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National cup^[a]		League cup^[b]		Total
Club	Season	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
	2024–25^[26]	Premier League	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
	Total		27	0	2	0	3	0	32	0
Career total			45	0	5	1	3	0	53	1