[1] In 1982 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute, majoring in Machine Engineering Technology.

[clarification needed] In 2004 the club was reorganized as a city team and in 2014 was sold to a local agricultural company, UkrAhroKom.

Between 2000 and 2003 Lavrenko served as a first deputy head of the Kirovohrad Oblast State Administration, chaired by Vasyl Motsnyi.

During the winter of 2009–2010 he served as an acting president of the Professional Football League of Ukraine, while Svyatoslav Syrota was under investigation.

[2] In 2017, Lavrekno created the football club Livyi Bereh in Kyiv alongside Mykola Pavlov.