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Oleksandr Hranovskyi

Oleksandr Hranovskyi is a Ukrainian former football defender and a football coach who was appointed head coach of Hapoel Afula in 2025.

born 1976Defender for Ukrainian and Russian clubsCaptaining KryvbasCoaching Hapoel Afula

Born: 11 March 1976, Odesa
Occupation: association football player, association football coach

Oleksandr Hranovskyi was born in 1976 in Odesa

Oleksandr Hranovskyi was born on 11 March 1976 in Odesa. In Israel he is also known by the Russian form of his name, Alexander Granovsky.

He began his playing career in 1992 at Chornomorets Odesa, where he played as a defender. Over a career of about 17 years he played for clubs including Spartak Moscow, Rubin Kazan, Metalist Kharkiv and Slavia Prague. He joined Kryvbas in 1998 and captained the club 19 times, and he also played for the Ukraine national team.

He began coaching in 2012 as an assistant coach at clubs including BATE Borisov, the Belarus under-19 team and LNZ Cherkasy. From 2020 to 2021 he coached the youth team of Hapoel Nof HaGalil, then returned to Ukraine as an assistant coach in Lviv and Cherkasy. On 3 November 2025 he was appointed head coach of Hapoel Afula and kept the club in Liga Leumit.