March 22nd and 26th, the Ukrainian youth team will play their next matches — a friendly against Morocco U-23 and an official match in the Euro-2025 (U-21) qualification round against Azerbaijan.

Today, on March 22nd, the blue-and-yellow will play a friendly match with Morocco U-23 — by the way, the future opponent of Ukraine's Olympic team at the 2024 Summer Games in France. The sparring will take place on the "Mardan" stadium in Antalya. Kick-off is at 8:00 PM Kyiv time.

Photo by the press service of the UAF

"The most important thing is that the Moroccans have changed their head coach. We know about the qualities inherent in this team, there are creative players capable of playing one-on-one. We'll see. But undoubtedly, it will be a good test for us. As I always say, we need to be close to our best versions to perform well against such teams."

This match is particularly important because we have a strong opponent. And the players should show themselves. We want to give them this opportunity. We would like to check as many players as possible on the field in this game," — said head coach of the blue-and-yellow team Unai Melgosa the day before.

Photo by the press service of the UAF

The live broadcast of the match against Morocco U-23 on the YouTube channel of the UAF will start today at 8:00 PM.

And on March 26th, within the youth European Championship qualifier, there will be a match Azerbaijan - Ukraine, which will take place in Baku at "Azeri Sun Arena". The meeting will start at 14:00 Kyiv time. We add that with five wins out of five matches, the team of Unai Melgosa confidently leads Group F.

Ukrainian youth national team squad

Goalkeepers: Pavlo Isenko ("Vorskla" Poltava), Ruslan Nescheret ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Yaki Kinarikin ("Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk).

Defenders: Illia Krups'kyi ("Vorskla" Poltava), Konstantin Vihcharenko ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Arseniy Batagov ("Zorya" Luhansk), Artem Smolyakov ("Polesye" Zhytomyr), Vitalii Roman, Bohdan Slubik (both - "Rukh" Lviv), Volodymyr Saluk ("Chornomorets" Odesa).

Midfielders: Yegor Yamoluyk ("Brentford", England), Yevhen Pavaluk ("Vorskla" Poltava), Nazar Voloshyn ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Oleksandr Ocheretnyk (both - "Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk), Oleksandr Yasik ("Zorya" Luhansk), Maxim Khlyan ("Lechia", Poland), Boris Krushynskyi ("Polesye" Zhytomyr), Illia Kvasnitsya, Yevheniy Pastukh (both - "Rukh" Lviv), Ivan Varfolomeyev ("Slovans", Czech Republic), Maxim Bragaru ("Chornomorets" Odesa).

Forwards: Igor Horbach ("Zorya" Luhansk), Igor Krasnopr ("Obolon'" Kyiv).

Euro-2025 (U-21). Qualifying tournament. Group F

September 7, 2023

Northern Ireland - Luxembourg - 0:1

September 11, 2023

Luxembourg - England - 0:3

September 12, 2023

Ukraine - Northern Ireland - 1:0

Serbia - Azerbaijan - 2:0

October 12, 2023

Azerbaijan - Northern Ireland - 0:1

Luxembourg - Ukraine - 0:3

England - Serbia - 9:1

October 16, 2023

Ukraine - England - 3:2

Northern Ireland - Serbia - 1:2

October 17, 2023

Azerbaijan - Luxembourg - 3:2

November 17, 2023

Ukraine - Luxembourg - 4:0

November 18, 2023

Serbia - England - 0:3

November 21, 2023

Ukraine - Azerbaijan - 1:0

Serbia - Luxembourg - 2:0

England - Northern Ireland - 3:0

Tournament table

March 22, 2024

Luxembourg - Serbia

Azerbaijan - England

March 26, 2024

England - Luxembourg

Azerbaijan - Ukraine

Serbia - Northern Ireland

September 6, 2024

Luxembourg - Azerbaijan

Northern Ireland - England

Ukraine - Serbia

September 10, 2024

Northern Ireland - Ukraine

Azerbaijan - Serbia

October 11, 2024

England - Ukraine

October 12, 2024

Northern Ireland - Azerbaijan

October 15, 2024

Luxembourg - Northern Ireland

England - Azerbaijan

Serbia - Ukraine

Play-offs: November 11-19, 2024.

In the final stage of Euro-2025 (U-21), 16 teams will participate: Slovakia and another 15 national teams that join it based on qualification results (nine group winners, three best teams finishing second, and three play-off winners).