Oleksandr Yefremov (Ukrainian: Олександр Андрійович Єфремов; born 10 April 1948) is a Ukrainian association football functionary, who worked as a General director of FC Karpaty Lviv (2001, 2006–2008) and a General director of the Ukrainian Premier League (2009).

Career

He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (specialization - metallurgical engineer) and the Kiev Institute of National Economy (economist).^[1]

He began his career in 1966 at the Chervonyi Zhovten brick factory in his native Kryvyi Rih. From 1967 he worked at the Kryvorizhstal metallurgical plant^[2] as a turbocharger driver, electrician and consequently as a head of department. In August 1991, he was appointed Deputy General Director for Economic Affairs (actually held this position since September 1989). Since 1995 - Head of the newly formed marketing department of the plant "Kryvorizhstal". After that he hold the next positions: 1995–1996 – Head of the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine; 1996–1998 – Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Index Bank; 1999–2001 he was the head of the GHG "Europe-II".^[1]

In 2001, when Petro Dyminskyi become a President of FC Karpaty Lviv, Yefremov was invited to head this team as its General Director.^[2] His next positions in the association football were: 2002–2004 – Executive Director of the public organization "Karpaty"; again a General Director of FC Karpaty Lviv from 2006 until 2008 and in 2009 he was appointed as a General Director of the Ukrainian Premier League.^[1]

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