Career
Previously, he was signed for Ukrainian Premier League's Dynamo Kyiv as a replacement for Andriy Shevchenko, who was bounded in A.C. Milan in 1999. In his first season, at Dynamo, he scored 2 goals in a 3–2 win over Karpaty Lviv to clinch their 8th consecutive league title. He was labeled as "next Shevchenko" in media. His brother Oleg Shatskikh was also footballer.
He has won the Ukrainian Premier League scoring title twice, in the 1999–2000 season with 20 goals and in the 2002–2003 season when he scored 22 goals to equal Serhiy Rebrov's record haul of 1997–98 while also playing for Kyiv. In his debut UEFA Champions League season 1999-2000 he scored 5 goals. On July 28, 1999, he scored his first goal in Champions League against Žalgiris Vilnius. With Kyiv Shatskikh managed to play 9 seasons in the UEFA Champions League, scoring 11 goals.
After spending a season in 2009 with Lokomotiv Astana in the Kazakhstan Premier League he returned to Kiev and was signed by Arsenal Kyiv in the winter break.
During his stay with Arsenal Kyiv, Shatskikh scored his 100 league goal and is the second best goalscorer in the history of the Ukrainian Premier League and trailing the leader Serhiy Rebrov. On 7 April 2010 the president of FC Arsenal Kyiv presented Shatskikh the Golden Ball award for scoring his 100th goal in the Ukrainian Top League against Metalurh Zaporizhia, according to turnir.com.ua while referring to the official website of the Kyivan club (fcarsenal.com.ua). The Arsenal president Vadym Rabinovych said that he has already order another Golden Ball for Shatskikh containing more gold for his future 200th goal in the Ukrainian Premier League.
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