Nivinskyi started to play football in his native city Kyiv.
From there he joined the team Nyva Myronivka in the Kyiv Oblast.
As a member of the Kyiv club, she spent 14 years (with interruptions), where he finished his playing career in 2009.
As a coach Nivinskyi very often co-operated together with Serhiy Kovalets, and in October 2017 he became an assistant manager to Tatran Prešov.
[2] In 2021 Nivinskyi accepted an offer to manage the newly formed AFSC Kyiv.