[1][2][3] Born in Kirovohrad in the family of football player and coach Serhiy Petrovich Kucherenko.

On 27 September 2002, he played the only match for Mykolaiv in the First League of Ukraine in the home game against Stal Alchevsk (2: 1),[4] Kucherenko came out on 77 minutes instead of Vladimir Vozny.

He played in 2 matches and scored 1 goal in the Ukrainian amateur championship and 3 games in the Regional Cup.

[8] In the summer of 2007, Mr Kucherenko headed the Desna Chernihiv and his son became one of the players he invited to his new team.

In February 2010, together with the team, he won the Krymteplitsa Cup, in the final the club beat Energetik Burshtyn (2: 0).

[16] In October 2009, "Krymteplitsa" was headed by Alexander Sevidov and in the second half of the season Kucherenko scored 16 goals in 17 matches, including 5 doubles and 1 hat-trick.

[19] On 9 July 2010, he made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League at the age of 26 in a home match against Dynamo Kyiv (2: 2),[20] Kucherenko came out on the 80th minute instead of Igor Plastun.

In total, in the first half of the 2010/11 season, he scored 3 goals from penalties in 14 matches and became one of the disappointments of the first round at Obolon Kyiv.

[21] On 9 April 2011, in an away match against Shakhtar Donetsk (0: 1),[22] Kucherenko, at the end of the meeting at the 86th minute, scored the winning goal of Obolon Kyiv against Rustam Khudzhamov[23] with a free-kick.

Oleksandr Slobodyan, the president of the club, spoke critically about sending Kucherenko on loan to Zakarpattia.