Today in the capital of Turkey, Ankara, in a match for fifth place in the debut League of Europe EAFF-2026, Ukraine's team "Crusaders" from Lutsk defeated Belgian "Brugge" in a penalty shootout.

Today in the capital of Turkey, Ankara, during the second round of the EAFF-2026 debut European League group stage match, Ukrainian team "Crusaders" from Lviv surrendered to French "Marseille" in amputational football.

Today, in the capital of Turkey within the framework of the first round of the EAFF-2026 debut League of Europe, the Ukrainian team "Crusaders" from Lutsk lost to the Turkish champions "Baskent" from Ankara in amputational football.

Ukrainian referee Maria Mislovskaya will work the matches of the qualification tournament for the futsal World Cup 2028 in Group E, with games taking place in Albania.

Andriy Yevdokimov's wards won against Estonia's national team in the second of two scheduled training matches within the NTZ framework.

The national handball team of Ukraine for players with hearing impairments achieved a historic victory at the European Championship.

The Ukrainian women's handball team defeated the Slovakian team in the first of two scheduled friendly matches.

In the match-replay of the 1/8 final of the League Conference "Strasbourg" (France) — "Rijeka" (Croatia), which will take place on March 19, an Ukrainian arbitrage brigade will work.

Head of the Women's and Girls' Football Committee at UAFA, Anastasiya Klipchenko, responded to urgent questions regarding Ukraine's women's national team in an interview on the official UAFA website and shared insights into the strategy for developing women's national teams. —The team started their qualification with losses against England and Spain.

The Ukrainian refereeing brigade will work at the UEFA Youth League quarter-final match between "Inter" (Italy) and "Benfica" (Portugal), which will take place on March 18 in Milan at the Youth Centre Development Grounds, named after Giacinto Facchetti. This is reported by UEFA. The main referee for the match has been assigned Oleksiy Derivin. He will be assisted by Oleksiy Mironov and Svitlana Gryshko. The duties of the fourth official will be performed by Italian Gianluca Mangianello.

Today, February 27, the draw for the 1/8 final of the Conference League took place.

The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds of the women's Champions League for the 2026/2027 season will take place on June 18.

In the play-off round match of the 2025/2026 Conference League, "Rijeka" (Croatia) vs "Omonia" (Cyprus), which will take place in Rijeka on February 26, an Ukrainian refereeing team will be working. This is reported by UEFA's website. The main referee will be Mykola Balakin. Alexander Berkin and Victor Matysh will assist him on the lines. Vitaliy Romanov will perform the duties of the fourth official, while Viktor Kopievskyi and Dmitry Panchishyn will be responsible for the VAR system work.

Ukrainian arbitrators have been assigned to the first match of the quarter-final of the UEFA Champions League handball season 2025/2026, which will take place on February 23.

UEFA released the calendar for European club tournaments in 2026.

Today, February 4, Kyiv's Dynamo U-19 played against Atletico Madrid in the 1/16 final of the UEFA Youth League season 2025/2026.

In the last match of the 2025/2026 Champions League group stage, the Benfica players from Ukraine’s national team, Anatoliy Trubin and Georgiy Sudakov, faced Real Madrid, with Andriy Lunin in goal.

In the match of the 7th round of the main stage of the UEFA Europa League 2025/2026 between Nice (France) — Go Ahead Eagles (Netherlands), which will take place on January 22, a refereeing crew from Ukraine will be working.

In the 7th match of the group stage of the 2025/2026 UEFA Europa League, Ferencváros (Hungary) will play against Panathinaikos (Greece). The match, which will take place on January 22 in Budapest, will be officiated by a Ukrainian referee team. UEFA reports this information. The main referee will be Mykola Balakin. Alexander Berkin and Victor Matysh will assist him on the lines. Vitaliy Romanov will perform the duties of the reserve referee, while Denis Shurman and Dmitry Panchishin will be responsible for the VAR system.

In 2026, our teams are expecting new important events. We propose to your attention a preliminary calendar of official tournaments (tournaments and matches may be added) involving Ukrainian clubs and national teams. January 22.