Vladyslav Kulach
Date of birth: May 7 1993
Place of birth: Donetsk
Citizenship: Ukraine
Position: forward
Height: 178 cm. Weight: 74 kg
Previous clubs: Illichivets, Metalurh Zaporizhia, Stal, Eskisehirspor, Zoria, Honved, Vorskla.
Vladyslav Kulach was born in Donetsk and started doing football at the local Olympic-ORS. Since 2009 he was being called up to Ukraine youth teams of different age groups and then joined FC Shakhtar Donetsk, where he featured for their academy, youth teams and Shakhtar-3.
In 2013 Kulach made his debut for Ukraine U-21 – in the Valeriy Lobanovskyi memorial tournament game against Slovenia (2:1).
Being Shakhtar player, Vladyslav featured for a number of Ukrainian and foreign clubs on loan till 2019. He made his first UPL appearance playing for Illichivets. In his second game he scored the debut goal.
In winter of 2015 Kulach joined FC Metalurh Zaporizhia. The second half of the year, he spent in FC Stal Kamianske, where he scored 5 goals in 15 matches. Then there was a short-term loan move to Eskisehirspor and Zoria. Vladyslav won the 2016/17 UPL bronze with Luhansk side.
Before the start of 2017/18 season, Kulach signed loan agreement with FC Vorskla Poltava and eventually won another league bronze. He scored 10 goals in 36 UPL games and 2 goals in 6 Europa League matches.
Vladyslav spent the first half of 2019/20 season in Hungarian club Honved and then returned to Vorskla. Kulach signed a year-and-a-half contract with Poltava side. That year his team reached the Ukrainian Cup final and lost against Dynamo on penalties.
2020/21 season was the most successful one in Vladyslav’s career. He made 34 appearances for Vorskla and scored 19 goals in all competitions. Thus he became the UPL best striker. On April 17 2021, Kulach scored his first hat trick ever – against Zoria (4:2).
After his agreement with Vorskla expired, Vladyslav was invited to have a training camp with FC Dynamo Kyiv. Eventually he signed a contract with our club.
After that Kulach stated: “I talked to Mircea Lucescu before the training camp and I was sure everything would be fine. I’d been really looking forward to this moment as I’ve already spent a month with the team. I’ve got acquainted with guys, adapted to the training process.
Of course I’m glad I’ve joined such a great club as Dynamo. I’ll do my best to help the team win trophies. At the very least – to help the team win all competitions in Ukraine. And of course I want to score as often as possible”.
