Euro 2025 (U-19) in futsal: Ukraine's youth national team crushed Montenegro in their qualifying match debut

The Ukrainian U-19 futsal team kicked off the main round of Euro-2025 qualification with a excellent match against Montenegro.

Euro 2025 (U-19) in futsal: Ukraine's youth national team crushed Montenegro in their qualifying match debut

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Igor Moskvin's wards in the town of Vrnjaca-Banja crushed their opponents with a score of 9:2. The heroes of this match were Yaroslav Savich and Oleksandr Zhukov, who each scored a hat-trick.

The next encounter for the Ukrainians will be against the Netherlands on March 27.

UEFA Euro-2025 (U-19) in futsal. Main round qualifier. Group 5

26.03.2025

Ukraine — Montenegro — 9:2 (7:1)

Goals: Pershin (3, 7), Savich (7, 25, 30), Zhukov (9, 11, 29), Skliaruk (16) — Barjaktarovic (20), Cetkovic (25).

Ukraine: Belimov, Klimchuk, Savich, Prykhodko, Zhukov; Shvec, Hospodenko, Skliaruk, Rostkovskyi, Pershin, Khibovskyi, Maliavinskyi. 

Netherlands — Serbia — 2:3

27.03.2025

Serbia — Montenegro (17:00)

Netherlands — Ukraine (20:00)

29.03.2025

Montenegro — Netherlands (17:00)

Serbia — Ukraine (20:00)

Match start times are in Kyiv time.

Group 1: Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Germany. 

Group 2: Spain, Finland, Hungary, England. 

Group 3: Portugal, France, Belarus, Kazakhstan.

Group 4: Slovenia, Belgium, Latvia, Andorra.

Group 5: Ukraine, Netherlands, Serbia, Montenegro.

Group 6: Poland, Czech Republic, Greece, Estonia.

Group 7: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Azerbaijan.  

The fourth UEFA European Championship in futsal among U-19 national teams will take place in the same format as before. Qualifying matches will conclude in March 2025. Seven teams will be determined to join the host country, Moldova. The final tournament will consist of two groups of four teams each, with two from each group advancing to the semifinals.