Today, on June 10, within the training camp in Spain, Ukraine's U-20 national team (players born in 2005 and younger) will play a friendly match against the USA's U-19 team. The kickoff is at 4:00 PM Kyiv time.

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As a reminder, on June 6, the blue and yellow team, preparing for the 2025 World Cup (U-20), played a friendly match against Spain's "Murcia" U-21 club. Thanks to goals by Gadzhiev and Karman (from the penalty) under Dmitro Mikhaylenko's guidance, they secured a victory with a score of 2:0.

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Composition of Ukraine's U-20 National Team

Goalkeepers: Ilya Voloshin ("Real", Spain), Denys Marchenko ("Obolon" Kyiv), Ilya Popovich ("Kishvarda", Hungary).

Defenders: Mykola Ogarkov ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Oleksandr Zhovtenko, Vitaliy Katrich (both — "Ingulets" Petrove), Oleksii Gusiev ("Metalist 1925" Kharkiv), Vladyslav Zakharchenko ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Maxim Melnychenko ("Polesia" Zhytomyr), Kiryl Dityar («Metalist» Kharkiv), Mykola Kyrichok («Karpaty» Lviv).

Midfielders: Roman Saleiko, Dmytro Kremanin (both — "Dynamo" Kyiv), Viktor Tsukanov ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Ivan Chaban, Artur Shakh (both — "Karpaty" Lviv), Danyil Vashchenko («Oleksandria»), Yaroslav Karman ("Polesia" Zhytomyr), Ramik Gadzhiev ("Metalist 1925" Kharkiv), Bogdan Budko ("Alkmaar", Netherlands), Maxim Len («Fortuna», Germany), Danylo Krevsun («Borussia» D, Germany).

Forwards: Vladyslav Gerich ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Artem Gusol («Kolos» Kovalyvka).

Photo by Andriy Yushchak

The 2025 World Cup (U-20) will take place from September 27 to October 19 in five cities of Chile: Valparaiso, Santiago, Viña del Mar, Rancagua and Talca. Twenty-four teams from six confederations will participate. Initially, they will compete in six quadrants. The top two teams from each group, as well as the four third-placed teams, will advance to the round of 16. From there onwards, it follows a standard format.

Participants include: Chile (as hosts); Spain, France, Italy, Ukraine and Norway — from Europe; USA, Mexico, Cuba and Panama — from CONCACAF; Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay — from South America; Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Australia — from Asia; New Zealand and New Caledonia — from Oceania; PAR, Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt — from Africa. 

Group Composition for the 2025 World Cup (U-20)

Group A: Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Egypt.

Group B: Korea, Ukraine, Paraguay, Panama.

Group C: Brazil, Mexico, Morocco, Spain.

Group D: Italy, Australia, Cuba, Argentina.

Group E: USA, New Caledonia, France, PAR.

Group F: Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Nigeria.