At the Epet Arena, where today Ukraine's national team will host Albania in their opening match of the UEFA Nations League 2024/2025 (kickoff at 8:45 PM local time), our national team has already played twice.

True, memories of the first encounter, a friendly match that took place on November 6, 2011, are not particularly warm for those in blue and yellow. They suffered a defeat with a score of 0:4 back then.

However, the second visit to this arena, on October 14, 2023, when Ukraine's national team for Euro 2024 defeated North Macedonia (2:0), is pleasant to recall.

Overall, Ukraine's national team has played four times in Czech territory. One match took place on September 6, 2018, within the UEFA Nations League 2018/2019 in Uherské Hradiště, where Andriy Shevchenko's team defeated the Czech Republic with a score of 2:1.

Another match was held on September 8, 2021, in Liberec. That game had a friendly status and ended in a draw — 1:1.