Igor Moskovich's wards played their final match at the Croatian tournament Umag Nations Cup 2023, against Italy.

In the opening game of the tournament in Novigrad, Croatia, Ukraine's youth national futsal team drew with France (4:4) and then beat Slovenia (2:1).

Now the blue-and-yellow team faced a test against Italy in their final game. And while after the first half the score was tied, at the end of the second half an Italian victory was recorded—7:2. In the end, our team finished fourth among five participants.

Umag Nations Cup 2023 youth national futsal tournament

Italy (U-19) – Ukraine (U-19) — 7:2 (1:1)

Goals: Salvetti (4, 28, 37), Guerini (33, 39), Scettino (37, 38) — Tkachenko (20), Yelishev (37).

Squad of Ukraine's youth national futsal team U-19

Goalkeepers: Ivan Belimov ("Black Sea"), Konstantin Rafalskyi ("Cardinal-Rivnestandart"), Yurii Yamchuk ("Bongo Futsal", Poland); field players: Vadym Tyutyrai ("Cardinal-Rivnestandart"), Dmytro Karmalita ("Fortuna", Germany), Damian Zaporozhan ("Hurricane"), Denis Snitsarenko (SkyUp Futsal), Roman Tatumiak ("United Pomecia", Italy), Vitaliy Pantratiy, Dmytro Ribitskyi (both — "Futsal Szczecin", Poland), Andriy Yelishev, Vladyslav Tkachenko (both — "Tim Lembrk", Poland), Dmytro Fedik ("Levice", Slovakia), Nazarii Krukovskyy ("Burinhosa", Portugal), Daniil Boldijev ("Phoenix"), Igor Peletsykyi ("Vikingay", Lithuania).

We remind you that on November 3rd, the draw for the preliminary and main rounds of Euro-2023 (U-19) futsal qualification took place (link). According to its results, Ukraine's youth national team was placed in group 2 of the main round, where they will face Romania, Serbia, and the winner of group V from the preliminary round (Montenegro, San Marino, Gibraltar). The mini-tournament will be hosted by Serbia.

The venue for the final tournament of Euro-2022/2023 futsal among under-19s was determined to be Poreč (Croatia) (link). In addition to the hosts, Croatia, seven other national teams will participate in the finals, which will become known after the second qualification round ends by March 26. The format of the final tournament remains the same: eight participants will play in two groups of four teams each, with the top two from each group advancing to the semifinals.

The inaugural European Championship for under-19 futsal was held in Rijeka in 2019, and the second edition took place in Hain in 2022 — both times (2019, 2022) Spain's team emerged as champions. The second championship was originally planned for 2021 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ukraine's national team participated in both final tournaments. In 2019, Vitaliy Odegov's wards finished third in their group, and in 2022 they were eliminated in the semifinals (link).