Kostyantyn Balabanov

Kostyantyn Oleksiyovych Balabanov (Ukrainian: Костянтин Олексійович Балабанов, born 13 August 1982 in Kiliya) is a Ukrainian football player who currently plays for FC Odesa. Balabanov was born in Kiliya, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (today in the Odessa Oblast of southern Ukraine). He is a graduate of Chornomorets academy. In 2005 he was transferred to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Having featured in a few matches over the next 2 seasons, he was loaned out to FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka in 2008, and then to FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. After his contract with Dnipro expired in 2009, he spent the next season without any professional football. In July 2010, he signed a new contract with Chornomorets.