Volunteers and young leaders of "Open Football Festivals" completed their training at the UAF
Euro 2023 (U-21): Ukraine's youth national team has departed for North Macedonia
On November 11, Ruslan Rotan's team will play their next qualifying match for the European Championship in Skopje.
Photo by the press service of the UAF
Today at 17.00, the Ukraine youth team headed to North Macedonia. After arriving, under Ruslan Rotan's supervision, there will be dinner and rest for the players. Since the match on November 11 in Skopje at the Training Center of the Football Federation of North Macedonia starts unusually early (14:00 Kyiv time), the pre-match training of the blue-and-yellow team will take place on the 10th at dawn.
For the upcoming match, the head coach of Ukraine's youth team, Ruslan Rotan, has taken 23 footballers.
Ukraine Youth Team Roster
Goalkeepers: Kiril Fesyun ("Kolos" Kovalevka), Anatoliy Trubin ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Valentin Gorokh ("Oleksandria").
Defenders: Oleksandr Syrota, Kostiantyn Vovcharenko, Anton Bol (all — "Dynamo" Kyiv), Arseniy Batagov ("Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk), Oleksii Sych ("Rukh" Lviv), Maxim Taloverov ("Dynamo", Czech Republic), Dmitro Kapinus ("Shakhtar" Donetsk).
Midfielders: Mykhailo Mudryk, Georgiy Sudakov, Artem Bondarenko (all — "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Oleksandr Nazarenko ("Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Brachko ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Oleg Ocheretnyk ("Mariupol"), Dmitro Kryskykiv ("Metalist 1925" Kharkiv), Mykhailo Mikhaylenko ("Chornomorets" Odessa), Danyil Alefirenko ("Zorya" Luhansk), Ivan Zhelezko ("Valmiera", Latvia).
Forwards: Bohdan Vyunyk ("Mariupol"), Mykhailo Kukharevych ("Leuven", Belgium), Vladyslav Vanat ("Chornomorets" Odessa).
UEFA-2023 (U-21). Qualifying Tournament
Group H
Table
Team |
M |
W |
D |
L |
Pts |
GF-GA |
1. France |
4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
12-1 |
10 |
2. Ukraine |
4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
4-6 |
9 |
3. North Macedonia |
4 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
3-5 |
5 |
4. Faroe Islands |
5 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
4-5 |
5 |
5. Serbia |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4-5 |
4 |
6. Armenia |
5 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
5-10 |
3 |
Matchday 5
November 11, 2021
France — Armenia
North Macedonia — Ukraine
November 12, 2021
Serbia — Faroe Islands
Matchday 6
November 16, 2021
North Macedonia — France
Ukraine — Serbia
Matchday 7
March 24, 2022
Armenia — Ukraine
Serbia — North Macedonia
France — Faroe Islands
Matchday 8
March 29, 2022
Ukraine — France
Serbia — Armenia
North Macedonia — Faroe Islands
Matchday 9
June 2, 2022
Faroe Islands — Ukraine
North Macedonia — Armenia
June 3, 2022
France — Serbia
Matchday 10
June 7, 2022
Armenia — France
Ukraine — North Macedonia
Faroe Islands — Serbia
In the final stage of UEFA-2023 (U-21), 16 teams will participate — Romania and Georgia as hosts, plus another 14 national teams that qualify through the selection process (nine group winners, one best runner-up, and four playoff winners).
Playoff: September 2022.
Final Tournament: June/July 2023.
The tournament featuring the sixteen national teams will be hosted by four stadiums in Romania (two — in Cluj-Napoca and two — in Bucharest) and four in Georgia (in Batumi, Poti and two — in Tbilisi). The opening match will take place in Romania, while the final will be held in Georgia.
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