Today the Olympic team of Ukraine will play a friendly match against the Egypt team

Today, on July 14, the Olympic team of Ukraine, which is preparing for the summer Games, will hold a sparring match with the Egypt team, which will also participate in the forum in France.

Today the Olympic team of Ukraine will play a friendly match against the Egypt team

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Today, July 14, the Ukrainian Olympic team preparing for the summer Games will play a friendly match against Egypt's team, which will also participate in the forum in France.

The control match will start on one of the fields at Plaine des Sports in the Aquitaine town of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax at 7:00 PM Kyiv time. We add that the second game, against the Olympic team of Paraguay, will take place on July 18 also in an Aquitanian city, Ajaccio, at the Alan Lescure stadium. Start time - again 7:00 PM Kyiv time (6:00 PM local).

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Official roster of the Ukrainian Olympic football team for the 2024 Olympics

Goalkeepers

 1. Georgiy Yermakov March 28, 2002  "Oleksandria" Oleksandria
 12. Kiril Fesyun August 7, 2002 "Shakhtar" Donetsk
 22. Yakiy Kinareikin October 22, 2003 "Dnipro-1" Dnipro

Defenders

 2. Illia Krups'kyi October 2, 2004  "Vorskla" Poltava
 3. Oleksandr Martyniuk November 25, 2001 "Oleksandria" Oleksandria
 4. Maksym Taloviyev June 28, 2000 LASK, Austria
 6. Oleksiy Syts' April 1, 2001 "Ruhh" Lviv
 13. Volodymyr Salyuk June 25, 2002 "Chornomorets'" Odesa
 16. Arseniy Batagov March 5, 2002 "Zoria" Luhansk
 19. Yevhen Pavlyuk August 18, 2002  "Vorskla" Poltava

Midfielders

 5. Valentyn Rubchinskyi February 15, 2002  "Dynamo" Kyiv
 7. Oleh Ocheretko May 25, 2003 "Shakhtar" Donetsk
 8. Mykola Mikhaylenko  May 22, 2001 "Dynamo" Kyiv
 10. Maksym Bragaru July 21, 2002  "Dynamo" Kyiv
 11. Maksym Khlyan' January 27, 2003  "Lechia", Poland
 15. Vladyslav Velyeten' October 1, 2002  "Kolos" Kovalivka
 17. Oleh Fedor July 23, 2004 "Ruhh" Lviv
 18. Dmytro Kryskiyv October 6, 2000  "Shakhtar" Donetsk
 20. Kyrylo Sygeyev August 18, 2002 "Shakhtar" Donetsk
 21. Artem Shulyans'kyi April 11, 2001  "Oleksandria" Oleksandria

Forwards

 9. Igor Krasnopir December 1, 2002 "Ruhh" Lviv
 14. Danylo Sikan' April 16, 2001 "Shakhtar" Donetsk

The list includes 22 players, including four reserve spots.

According to the regulations, players born after January 1, 2001 can participate in the games. Additionally, each team may include three players older than this age in their roster.

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2024 Olympics. Men's football tournament

Group A: France, USA, Guinea, New Zealand.

Group B: Argentina, Morocco, Iraq, Ukraine.

Group C: Uzbekistan, Spain, Egypt, Dominican Republic.

Group D: Japan, Paraguay, Mali, Israel.

Schedule for Group B

July 24, 2024

Argentina — Morocco (16:00, Saint-Étienne)

Iraq — Ukraine (20:00, Lyon)

July 27, 2024

Argentina — Iraq (16:00, Lyon)

Ukraine — Morocco (18:00, Saint-Étienne)

July 30, 2024

Ukraine — Argentina (18:00, Lyon)

Morocco — Iraq (18:00, Nice)

Start time of matches - Kyiv time.

The two best teams in Group B will advance to face the top two from Group A.

The format of the Olympic tournament is traditional: a battle in four groups of four teams, with the top two advancing to the knockout stage, followed by quarter-finals, semi-finals, third-place match and final (September 9, Paris, "Parc des Princes").

We remind you that last summer, defeating France (3-1) in the quarter-final of Euro-2023 (U-21) and securing a place in the semi-finals, our team achieved an historic success - it secured for the country's first appearance at a football tournament of the Olympics. Along with Ukraine, licenses to the 2024 Summer Games in this discipline from Europe were won by teams of Spain and Israel. 

Participants of the men's football tournament of the Olympic Games 2024 will compete from July 24 to August 9 in seven cities of France: Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Saint-Étienne, Nice and Nantes. According to the regulations, players born after January 1, 2001 can participate in the games. However, each team may include three players older than this age in their roster.

In total, 16 teams will take part in the tournament: France as host, three representing Europe (Ukraine, Spain, Israel), three - Africa (Morocco, Egypt, Mali), three - Asia (Japan, Uzbekistan, Iraq), two - South America (Paraguay, Argentina), two - CONCACAF zone (USA, Dominican Republic), one - Oceania (New Zealand), and the winner of the intercontinental play-off (Guinea) has also joined them.