Nahornyak started his career at local amateur but well established football club Intehral playing at regional level.

In 1995 another Podolianyn Vyacheslav Hrozny invited him to FC Spartak Moscow, but Nahornyak struggled to stay in the first squad and later after dismissal of Hrozny from Spartak joined FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, with which reached the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final yielding the main trophy on penalties to FC Shakhtar Donetsk.

Later Nahornyak also represented FC Dnipro and FC Shakhtar Donetsk in UEFA Europa League recording 5 games in total for this continental cup.

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