Sergei Petrovich Derkach (born 14 November 1966) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.

Club career

Derkach joined Basel's first team for their Basel's 1993–94 season, under head-coach Claude Andrey. After playing in one test game, Derkach played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium on 28 July 1993 Basel as were defeated 1–2 by local rivals Old Boys. Derkach's teammates that season were the likes of Swiss international goalkeeper Stefan Huber, defenders Massimo Ceccaroni, Marco Walker and Samir Tabakovic, the midfielders Mario Cantaluppi, Martin Jeitziner, Admir Smajić and Ørjan Berg and the Swiss international strikers Dario Zuffi and Philippe Hertig. Together they won the promotion/relegation group and became Nationalliga B champions and thus won promotion to the top flight of Swiss football. This after six seasons in the second tier. In his one season with the club Derkach played a total of 22 games for Basel scoring a total of two goals. 12 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, two in the Swiss Cup and eight were friendly games. He scored both goal during the test games. He made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1986 for FC Dinamo Minsk.

Honours

European club competitions

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