PICTURE: Mykola Temniuk, the CSL’s top goalscorer for 2019, was the top scorer for Ukrainian club FC Ahrobiznes Volochysk in the 2016-17 season.
Mykola Temniuk of FC Vorkuta led the CSL First Division scoring in the regular season just ended and Marko Stajic of Serbian White Eagles was the leading goalscorer in the Second Division.
Temniuk found the net 18 times to be five ahead of Aleksander Stojiljvovic of Scarborough SC, the CSL First Division leading goalscorer in 2017. Stajic scored 13 times during the regular season.
Temniuk led early when boosted by a hat-trick in the Vorkuta 7-0 defeat of Real Mississauga on June 15 and played a big part in Vorkuta being the most prolific team in the First Division with 66 goals.
But the achievement was not new to the Ukrainian-born striker who was the top goalscorer for FC Ahrobiznes Volochysk of the Ukraine in the 2016-17 season, a time when the team gained promotion to the Ukrainian Second Division. Temniuk was also a member of the Ahrobiznes Volochysk side when further promoted to the First Division. He was transferred to Ukrainian club Nyva Ternopil where he played 11 games before his signing for FC Vorkuta and moving to Canada early 2019. Temniuk, now 27, also played for Stal Sanok of Poland earlier in his career.
Marko Stajic, 20, is one of a number of promising young players with Serbian White Eagles and in addition to playing 14 of the 15 regular season games for Serbian White Eagles reserves has made several appearances for the First Division side playing with distinction.
A DECADE’S LEADING GOALSCORERS
2010 Tihomir Maletic (Toronto Croatia)
2011 Stefan Vukovic (Toronto FC II)
2012 Dražen Vukovic (SC Waterloo)
2013 Guillaume Surot (Kingston FC)
2014 Marin Vucemilovic-Grgic (London City)
2015 Richard West (York Region Shooters)
2016 Sergiy Ivliev (FC Ukraine United)
2017 Aleksandar Stojiljkovic (Scarborough SC)
2018 Sani Dey (Hamilton City)
2019 Mykola Temniuk (FC Vorkuta)
