# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valeri-butenko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:31:35.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valeri-butenko"
name: "Valeri Butenko"
slug: "valeri-butenko"
description: "Valeri Pavlovich Butenko was a Russian football midfielder and referee, and a Master of Sports of the USSR, known for having acted as referee at one 1986 FIFA World Cup Group D match - the game between Algeria and Northern Ireland on 3 June 1986. After retiring, Butenko served as a match supervisor. His younger brother Andrei Butenko was a football referee as well."
tagline: "Russian football referee (1941-2020)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1941-07-16"
deathDate: "2020-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.65
  momentum:             11.44230769230769
  historical:           7.883550666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Бутенко Валерій Павлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فاليري بوتينكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "ڤاليرى بوتينكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Butenko"
    title: "Valeri Butenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Butenko"
    title: "Valeri Butenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerij_Vlagyimirovics_Butyenko"
    title: "Valerij Vlagyimirovics Butyenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriy_Butenko"
    title: "Valeriy Butenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Бутенко, Валерий Павлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Валери Бутенко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960325"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump