Nations League 2024/2025: Ukraine kicks off preparation for crucial final two matches of the tournament

11.11.2024 15:40

The Ukrainian national team has begun preparations for the upcoming November matches of the Nations League 2024/2025 against Georgia and Albania.

Last night, a group of players from the Ukrainian Premier League traveled by train from Kyiv to Przemyśl, Poland. From there, the delegation moved to Rzeszów and then flew to Antalya, Turkiye, where the main phase of their training camp will take place in Belek. The players from abroad will gradually arrive directly in Turkiye, where the team will continue preparations until November 15, when they will head to Batumi. On the same day, pre-match media activities will be held (location and time will be announced separately). On November 16, the matchday 5 game of Group B1 will take place at the Adjara Bet Arena stadium in Batumi between Georgia and Ukraine (kick-off at 19:00 Kyiv time). It is worth noting that all Ukrainian tickets for this match have already been sold out.

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The following day, November 17, the team will travel to Tirana. On November 18, the usual pre-match media activities will take place (location and time will be announced separately). On November 19, the final match of the group stage will be held at the Air Albania stadium in Tirana between Albania and Ukraine (kick-off at 21:45 Kyiv time). Tickets for this match are still available for Ukrainian fans.

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Ukraine National Team Roster

Goalkeepers: Georgiy Bushchan (Dynamo Kyiv), Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica, Portugal), Dmytro Riznyk (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Defenders: Mykola Matviyenko, Yukhym Konoplya, Valeriy Bondar (all from Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Tymchyk (Dynamo Kyiv), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton, England), Illia Zabarnyi (Bournemouth, England), Maksym Talovierov (LASK, Austria).

Midfielders: Mykola Shaparenko, Volodymyr Brazhko (both from Dynamo Kyiv), Georgiy Sudakov, Dmytro Kryskiv, Oleksandr Zubkov (all from Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksiy Hutsulyak, Oleksandr Nazarenko (both from Polissya Zhytomyr), Ivan Kalyuzhnyi (Oleksandriya), Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea, England), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal, London, England), Yehor Yarmoliuk (Brentford, England).

Forwards: Artem Dovbyk (Roma, Italy), Roman Yaremchuk (Olympiacos, Greece), Vladyslav Vanat (Dynamo Kyiv).

Reserves: Taras Stepanenko, Danylo Sikan (both from Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Svatok (Austin, USA), Bohdan Mykhailichenko (Polissya Zhytomyr), Vladyslav Kabaiev (Dynamo Kyiv).

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Nations League 2024/2025. Group B1

Matchday 1

September 7, 2024

Georgia - Czechia - 4:1

Ukraine - Albania - 1:2

Matchday 2

September 10, 2024

Czechia - Ukraine - 3:2

Albania - Georgia - 0:1

Matchday 3

October 11, 2024

Czechia - Albania - 2:0

Ukraine - Georgia - 1:0

Matchday 4

October 14, 2024

Georgia - Albania - 0:1

Ukraine - Czechia - 1:1

Standings

Matchday 5