Donetsk is best known in football circles as the birthplace of Vitaliy Parakhnevych, but the city has produced 137 documented association football players in total. Other notable players include Anatoliy Trubin, Andriy Vorobey, Oleksiy Byelik and Viktor Chanov. Among them are 133 male and 4 female players. Documented players span more than 96 years, from 1909 to 2005.