Oleksandr Svatok

Ukrainian center back Oleksandr Svatok joined Austin FC via transfer from SC Dnipro-1 in summer of 2024 on a three-and-a-half-year guaranteed contract. Svatok has since made 49 MLS appearances for Austin, including 43 starts.

Svatok has made 11 senior international appearances for Ukraine and was on his nation's roster at UEFA EURO 2024.

Prior to arriving in Austin, Svatok spent four seasons with SC Dnipro-1 in his hometown of Dnipro, Ukraine, serving as the team’s captain. He made 108 appearances for SC Dnipro-1 including eight in the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Svatok began his professional career with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, the unofficial predecessor of SC Dnipro-1, making his senior debut in 2014. He spent the first part of the 2014/2015 season on loan with Volyn Lutsk before returning to Dnipro. In 2017 he joined fellow Ukrainian side Zorya Luhansk and played all six of the team’s UEFA Europa League group stage matches that season, scoring against Hertha Berlin.

He transferred to Hajduk Split in Croatia and spent one year there before joining SC Dnipro-1 in January 2020. In each of his final three seasons there, Dnipro-1 finished in the top four of the Ukrainian Premier Liga, with Svatok playing 67 of the team’s 90 league matches during that stretch.