| Valeri Butenko | |
| Full Name: | Valeri Pavlovich Butenko |
| Birth Date: | 16 July 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | Moscow |
| Position: | Midfielder |
| Years1: | 1966 |
| Clubs1: | Dynamo-d Moscow |
| Years2: | 1967 |
| Clubs2: | Dynamo Makhachkala |
| Years3: | 1968–1969 |
| Clubs3: | Shakhter Kiselevsk |
| Years4: | 1969–1970 |
| Clubs4: | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Years5: | 1971–1974 |
| Clubs5: | Soyuz Moscow |
| Years1: | 1976–1991 |
| League1: | Soviet Top League |
| Role1: | Referee |
| Internationalyears1: | 1981-1991 |
| Confederation1: | FIFA listed |
| Internationalrole1: | Referee |
Valeri Pavlovich Butenko (Russian: Валерий Павлович Бутенко; 16 July 1941 – 13 February 2020[1]) was a Russian football midfielder and referee, and a Master of Sports of the USSR, known for having acted as referee at one 1986 FIFA World Cup Group D match - the game between Algeria and Northern Ireland on 3 June 1986. After retiring, Butenko served as a match supervisor. His younger brother Andrei Butenko was a football referee as well.