U-21: Ukraine begins preparation for matches against Morocco and Azerbaijan
Today, March 18, the Ukrainу U-21 team begins its preparations in Turkey for the March matches — a friendly against Morocco U-23 and an official Euro-2025 (U-21) qualification match against Azerbaijan.
On Sunday, Unai Melgosa's team assembled in Kyiv before heading to Moldova. During the night, the delegation flew from Chisinau to Antalya and arrived at their base camp by morning. A group of players who were involved in the national team's training process (Ruslan Neshcheret, Kostiantyn Vivcharenko, Oleh Ocheretko, Nazar Voloshyn, Arseniy Batagov, and Valentyn Rubchysnkyi) traveled to the team's camp in Malaga via transit through Istanbul.
Recall that on March 26, as part of the qualification for the youth European Championship, the match Azerbaijan - Ukraine will take place at the Azersun Arena in Baku. The match will start at 14:00 Kyiv time. Before this, the blue-yellow team will play a friendly match against the Morocco U-23 team. The game will take place on March 22 at the Mardan stadium in Antalya. Kick-off is at 20:00 Kyiv time.
It is worth noting that with five wins in five matches, Unai Melgosa's team confidently tops the Group F table.
Ukraine U-21 squad:
Goalkeepers: Pavlo Isenko (Vorskla Poltava), Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Yakiv Kinareykin (Dnipro-1 Dnipro).
Defenders: Illia Krupskyi (Vorskla Poltava), Kostiantyn Vivcharenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Arseniy Batagov (Zorya Luhansk), Artem Smolyakov (Polissya Zhytomyr), Vitaliy Roman, Bohdan Slyubyk (both Rukh Lviv), Volodymyr Salyuk (Chornomorets Odesa).
Midfielders: Yehor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Yevhen Pavlyuk (Vorskla Poltava), Nazar Voloshyn, Anton Tsarenko (both Dynamo Kyiv), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Oleh Ocheretko (both Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Oleksandr Yatsyk (Zorya Luhansk), Maksym Khlan (Lechia, Poland), Borys Krushynskyi (Polissya Zhytomyr), Illia Kvasnytsia (Rukh Lviv), Ivan Varfolomeyev (Slovan, Czech Republic), Maksym Bragaru (Chornomorets Odesa).
Forwards: Ihor Horbach (Zorya Luhansk), Ihor Krasnopir (Obolon Kyiv).
EURO 2025 (U-21) Qualifiers. Group F
September 7, 2023
Northern Ireland 0:1 Luxembourg
September 11, 2023
Luxembourg 0:3 England
September 12, 2023
Ukraine 1:0 Northern Ireland
Serbia 2:0 Azerbaijan
October 12, 2023
Azerbaijan 0:1 Northern Ireland
Luxembourg 0:3 Ukraine
England 9:1 Serbia
October 16, 2023
Ukraine 3:2 England
Northern Ireland 1:2 Serbia
October 17, 2023
Azerbaijan 3:2 Luxembourg
November 17, 2023
Ukraine 4:0 Luxembourg
November 18, 2023
Serbia 0:3 England
November 21, 2023
Ukraine 1:0 Azerbaijan
Serbia 2:0 Luxembourg
England 3:0 Northern Ireland
Standings
|
|
Team |
M |
W |
D |
L |
GD |
P |
|
1 |
Ukraine |
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
12—2 |
15 |
|
2 |
England |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
20—4 |
12 |
|
3 |
Serbia |
5 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
7—13 |
9 |
|
4 |
Azerbaijan |
4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
3—6 |
3 |
|
5 |
Luxembourg |
6 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
3—15 |
3 |
|
6 |
Norther Ireland |
5 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
2—7 |
3 |
March 22, 2024
Luxembourg vs. Serbia
Azerbaijan vs. England
March 26, 2024
England vs. Luxembourg
Azerbaijan vs. Ukraine
Serbia vs. Northern Ireland
September 6, 2024
Luxembourg vs. Azerbaijan
Northern Ireland vs. England
Ukraine vs. Serbia
September 10, 2024
Northern Ireland vs. Ukraine
Azerbaijan vs. Serbia
October 11, 2024
England vs. Ukraine
October 12, 2024
Northern Ireland vs. Azerbaijan
October 15, 2024
Luxembourg vs. Northern Ireland
England vs. Azerbaijan
Serbia vs. Ukraine
Play-offs: November 11-19, 2024.
In the final stage of Euro 2025 (U-21), 16 teams will compete: Slovakia and 15 other national teams that will join based on the qualification results (nine group winners, three best teams among the second-place finishers, and three play-off winners among the six second-place finishers).