In the run-up to the main qualifying round for Euro 2023 (U-19), Ukraine's youth futsal team is playing against their Hungarian counterparts.

As reported by the press service of the Ukrainian Futsal Association, head coach Igor Moskovich has called up 15 players for the upcoming training camp.

Roster of Ukraine's youth futsal team

Goalkeepers — Ivan Belimov ("Black Sea"), Dmytro Dyachenko, Konstantin Raffalsky (both — "Cardinal-Rivnestandart"); field players — Vadym Tyutyray, Maxim Malynovskyi, Dmytro Skychyk (all — "Cardinal-Rivnestandart"), Damian Zaporozhan ("Hurricane"), Denis Snitsarenko (SkyUp Futsal), Roman Tatumiak ("United Pomecia", Italy), Dmytro Rybitskyi ("Futsal Szczecin", Poland), Andriy Yelishev, Vladyslav Tkachenko (both — "Tim Lemborz", Poland), Dmytro Fedik ("Levice", Slovakia), Nazariy Krukovskyy ("Burinhosa", Portugal), Igor Peleczyk ("Vikingay", Lithuania).

The two friendly matches will take place on February 15-16 in Debrecen at the "Phoenix Arena". By the way, this is where the final tournament of the European Women's Futsal Championship will be held in March.

Recall that on November 3 the draw for the preliminary and main qualifying rounds of Euro 2023 (U-19) took place. According to its results, Ukraine's youth 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 from March 21-26.

Accordingly, from our group came the Montenegrin team, which won in the mini-tournament that took place on January 19-21 in Gibraltar. The Balkan team defeated the San Marino and Gibraltar teams (2:1 and 6:5).

The venue for the final tournament of Euro 2022/2023 among under-19 boys was determined to be Poreč (Croatia). In addition to the hosts, Croatia, seven national teams will play in the finals from September 3-10. 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 U-19 Futsal Championship took place in 2019 in Rijeka, and the second edition was held in Hain in 2022 — both times (2019, 2022) Spain's team emerged as champions. The second championship was initially planned for 2021 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ukrainian team participated in both final tournaments. In 2019, Vitaliy Odegov's wards finished third in their group, while in 2022 they were eliminated in the semifinals.