| Igor Leshchuk | |
| Fullname: | Igor Alekseyevich Leshchuk |
| Birth Date: | 20 February 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Height: | 1.88 m[1] |
| Position: | Goalkeeper |
| Currentclub: | FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Clubnumber: | 31 |
| Youthyears1: | –2019 |
| Youthclubs1: | FC Dynamo Moscow |
| Years1: | 2014– |
| Caps1: | 41 |
| Goals1: | 1 |
| Years2: | 2016–2017 |
| Caps2: | 11 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | 2020–2021 |
| Caps3: | 3 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Nationalyears1: | 2010 |
| Nationalteam1: | Russia U15 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
| Nationalyears2: | 2010–2011 |
| Nationalcaps2: | 4 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 0 |
| Nationalyears3: | 2016–2017 |
| Nationalcaps3: | 5 |
| Nationalgoals3: | 0 |
| Pcupdate: | 2 December 2024 |
| Ntupdate: | 14 November 2017 |
Igor Alekseyevich Leshchuk (ru|Игорь Алексеевич Лещук; born 20 February 1996) is a Russian football player who plays as goalkeeper for FC Dynamo Moscow.
He made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 28 August 2016 in a game against FSK Dolgoprudny.[2]
He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Dynamo Moscow on 10 August 2019, when he had to come in for injured Anton Shunin in a game against FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.[3] He started the next 6 games as Shunin was recovering (including 2 clean sheets) and won the Dynamo fans' vote for "player of the month" for August 2019.[4]
On 30 August 2021, he signed a new four-year contract with Dynamo.[5] After another Shunin injury in September 2021, he kept clean sheet in 3 consecutive games and was voted as player of the month once again.[6]
On 15 March 2023, Leshchuk saved two penalty kicks in the shootout to eliminate Russian champions Zenit St. Petersburg from the Russian Cup.[7]
He was voted player of the month by Dynamo fans for the third time for October 2023.[8]
On 18 January 2024, Leshchuk extended his contract with Dynamo to 2028.[9]
On 2 December 2024, Leshchuk scored a late added-time equalizer in a 1–1 away draw against Akhmat Grozny, with a header after a corner kick.[10] He became only the second goalkeeper in the history of the Russian Premier League (which was originally organized under a different name in 1992) to score a goal after Andrei Novosadov in 2001, and the first to not score it from a penalty kick (like Novosadov did).[11] Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, best Russian clubs participated in the Soviet Top League, and on all occasions in that league when goalkeepers scored a goal, it was from a penalty kick.[12] Thus Leshchuk became the first ever goalkeeper in the history of Russian football to score a non-penalty-kick goal in a top-tier club league.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Dynamo Moscow | 2014–15 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2015–16 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2016–17 | Russian First League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2017–18 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2018–19 | Russian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 2019–20 | Russian Premier League | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 2020–21 | Russian Premier League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2021–22 | Russian Premier League | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 0 | ||||
| 2022–23 | Russian Premier League | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 12 | 0 | ||||
| 2023–24 | Russian Premier League | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 20 | 0 | ||||
| 2024–25 | Russian Premier League | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 41 | 1 | 26 | 0 | — | — | 67 | 1 | |||||
| Dynamo-2 Moscow | 2016–17 | Russian Second League | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | 11 | 0 | ||||
| Dynamo-2 Moscow | 2020–21 | Russian Second League | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Career total | 55 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 1 | |||