Ukraine national electronic football team selection: who will play against whom and what is the tournament format

November 28-30, the selection for the national team of Ukraine in electronic football in the FIFA 23 discipline will take place.

Ukraine national electronic football team selection: who will play against whom and what is the tournament format

The competition will take place in a "2vs2" format on the PlayStation 5 platform using FIFA 23 (team compositions — Ultimate Team mode).

A total of 21 teams and 42 players have registered for the tournament. However, due to an energy crisis caused by Russian terrorist attacks in the country, five teams were forced to withdraw from participation.

The selection process will take place over three days within the upper and lower brackets under a Double Elimination system (up to two losses) in BO3 format (Best Of 3). Starting from the third round of the upper bracket and the fifth round of the lower bracket, the winner of each match series will be determined by the BO3 format with matches played in BO2 format (goals scored in each match are summed up). Thus, to advance to the next round, a team must win two games out of the BO2 series.

Based on the draw results, the initial matchups for the tournament have been determined:

Denys Yevtushyk/Yaroslav Gurmak — Dmytro Lutfullin/Vladislav Narmania;

Lubomir Bereza/Lev Lyutikov — David Sereda/Oleksandr Slipchuk;

Maxim Bober/Daniil Shelayev — Vasyl Zubchik/Vitaliy Muzhyk;

Oleksandr Petuhov/Ruslan Rudomynov — Vladislav Totskyi/Semen Shevchuk;

Oleksandr Gryshay/Andriy Shakalov — Illia Popenko/Illia Kicha;

Oleh Mazur/Vladislav Koroluk — Bohdan Bilochnichenko/Yevhenii Kushchenko;

Yevgen Mostovik/Oleksiy Mercer — Danylo Drnevich/Illia Rudnev;

Kyrylo Honchar/Yegor Dmitrenko — Artur Vitukh/Yevhen Horbenko.

The broadcast of the selection matches for the Ukrainian national team in e-football is scheduled to begin on November 30 (from 12:00) and will be aired on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Football Association.

Please note that there may be changes to the broadcast schedule due to extraordinary situations and emergency power outages!