Valeri Pavlovich Butenko (Russian: Валерий Павлович Бутенко; 16 July 1941 – 13 February 2020) 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.

External links

  • at Yandex Dictionary
  • at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)