EAFF Nations League 2025: Ukraine's amputee football team became the champion of division C

Today, on October 19, the Ukraine amputee football team played their final match in the EAFF Nations League 2025 Division C qualifier in Baku, Azerbaijan, against the home team.

EAFF Nations League 2025: Ukraine's amputee football team became the champion of division C

Photo by Yaroslav Zagoruik

Today, on October 19, the Ukraine amputee football team played their final match in the EAFF League of Nations -2025 competition in division C, which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan — against the hosts.

Our team defeated Azerbaijan with a score of 3:1. First, the opponent scored an own goal, then Mykola Oleksienko scored from the penalty spot, and Dmitro Kuts put away the third goal for the blue-and-yellow team.

Thus, having accumulated nine points, the Ukraine amputee football team won the League of Nations in division C and moved up to division B.

Photo by Yaroslav Zagoruik

Roster of the Ukraine amputee football team

Goalkeepers: Stanislav Kaplya ("Dnipro" Cherkasy), Yurii Diachuk ("Pokrova" Lviv), Volodymyr Matviienko ("Buriev" Kyiv).

Field players: Yuriy Such, Valentyn Osovskyi, Yaroslav Kachmar, Oleksandr Chinchlei, Dmitro Shegelskyi, Mykola Oleksienko, Dmitro Kuts, Anatoliy Medvedyuk, Mykola Hatala (all — "Pokrova" Lviv), Mykhailo Sokolyan, Vadym Korol' (both — "Crusaders" Lutsk), Ivan Artiukh ("Shakhtar Staliev" Donetsk).

Photo by Yaroslav Zagoruik

Results of matches for the Ukraine team

October 17, 2025

Israel — Ukraine — 2:0

October 18, 2025

Ukraine — Netherlands — 2:1

Ukraine — Belgium — 4:0

October 19, 2025

Azerbaijan — Ukraine — 1:3

Final standings

Team

M

W

D

L

GA

Pts

1. Ukraine

4

3

0

1

9—4

9

2. Israel

4

2

2

0

7—0

8

3. Azerbaijan

4

2

1

1

5—3

7

4. Netherlands

4

1

1

2

6—3

4

5. Belgium

4

0

0

3

0—17

0