Odesa is best known in football circles as the birthplace of Yuriy Nikiforov, but the city has produced 221 documented association football players in total. Other notable players include Igor Belanov, Andriy Voronin, Heorhiy Bushchan and Leonid Buryak. Among them are 217 male and 4 female players. Documented players span more than 130 years, from 1876 to 2006.
