Serghei Cleșcenco

Serghei Cleșcenco
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-05-20) 20 May 1972
Place of birth Criuleni, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Moldova (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990 Spartak Oryol 14 (1)
1990–1992 Nistru Chișinău 23 (1)
1992–1996 Zimbru Chișinău 131 (40)
1996–1997 Go Ahead Eagles 62 (9)
1997–1998 Zimbru Chișinău 20 (25)
1998 Zenit St. Petersburg 6 (0)
1998–1999 Zimbru Chișinău 8 (0)
1999–2001 Maccabi Haifa 102 (42)
2001–2003 Hapoel Tel Aviv 62 (22)
2003 Chernomorets Novorossiysk 6 (0)
2003–2004 Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv 14 (1)
2004–2005 Zimbru Chișinău 18 (1)
2005–2006 Sibir Novosibirsk 44 (8)
2007–2008 Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk 33 (1)
Total 543 (151)
International career
1991–2006 Moldova 69 (11)
Managerial career
2008–2010 Moldova U17
2010–2011 Moldova U19
2011–2012 Milsami Orhei
2012 Milsami Orhei (assistant)
2013 Zimbru Chișinău (executive assistant)
2013 Zimbru Chișinău
2013–2015 Zimbru Chișinău (executive assistant)
2015–2017 União Leiria (assistant)
2017 União Leiria (caretaker)
2017 Rostov (assistant)
2019–2020 Moldova U21
2019–2021 Moldova (assistant)
2021 Moldova U21 (caretaker)
2021– Moldova
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Serghei Cleșcenco (pronounced [kleʃˈtʃeŋko]; born 20 May 1972) is a Moldovan football coach and a former player. He is the head coach of the Moldova national team, for which he held the records for most goals and most appearances as a player.

He holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season by a foreigner in Israel. He is a former manager of Zimbru Chișinău, where he also spent large parts of his playing career.