Career
Clubs Sergei Gurenko began his professional career in his local Belarusian club Khimik Hrodna in the 1989 season. From 1990 he was a regular starter for the team, playing more than 25 games per season intil 1995. In 1995 he was transferred to Russian Premier League side.
His outstanding skills and determination lead him to become one of the leaders of his side, and eventually he left his team for further challenge.
In 1999 he became a player of Italian Serie A side Associate of Science Roma, cost the club 10.58 billion Italian lire, but couldn"t establish himself well there, playing in only 7 games for his club In the 2000-2001 season he played for Spanish Louisiana Liga side, but didn"t do well there too, participating in just 11 games and for the 2001-2002 season he returned to Italy, playing for Air Corps, making 11 appearances that season.
The following season he was a regular part of the first team of Serie A side Piacenza, participating in 25 fixtures and scoring one goal. In 2003 he returned to Lokomotiv.
He was a regular for his club and became one of team"s vice-captains.
In 2004, playing in a pivotal role of defensive midfielder, Gurenko helped Lokomotiv for second Russian championship title. On 8 December 2008 he moved back to Belarus to play for Dinamo Minsk and retired on 21 August 2009. In 2014 he briefly joined Belarusian Second League club Partizan Minsk National team Sergei Gurenko debuted for the Belarus national football team on 5 May 1994, in a friendly against Ukraine and would eventually become the team captain.
He ended his national team duty after a row with the manager during preparation to the WC qualifier against Moldova on 3 September 2005.
He is the second most capped Belarusian player with 80 caps. Gurenko was the Belarusian national team"s captain.
International goals After release of Slavoljub Muslin by Dinamo Minsk on 27 July 2009, Gurenko was named new Assistant Coach in the team of new head coach Kirill Alshevskiy. On 21 August 2009 Dinamo Minsk club official promoted their former player and former assistant coach to the head coaching position, he replaced Kirill Alshevski.
In 2013, he worked as Slavoljub Muslin"s assistant at Russian top division club Football Club Krasnodar.
On 4 February 2014, Gurenko was appointed an assistant manager at PFC Spartak Nalchik, where he reunited with former Lokomotiv team-mate Khasanbi Bidzhiyev, appointed earlier as a head coach.