Change in the Ukraine national team lineup: Dovbik instead of Ponomarenko

Matvii Ponomarenko left the national team due to an injury sustained in a match for "Dynamo".

Change in the Ukraine national team lineup: Dovbik instead of Ponomarenko

There has been a change in the Ukrainian national team. Due to an injury sustained in the match between "Shakhtar" and "Dynamo," striker of Dynamo Kyiv, Matviy Ponomarenko, left the squad. The head coach Andrea Maldera called up Artem Dovbik (Bologna, Italy) for matches against Northern Ireland and Georgia.

Ukraine squad

Goalkeepers: Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica Lisbon, Portugal), Dmytro Ryshnyk (Shakhtar Donetsk), Georgiy Yermakov (Kharkiv).

Defenders: Mykola Matviyenko, Valeri Bondar (both – Shakhtar Donetsk), Eduard Sarapiy, Boris Kruzhynskyy (both – Polissya Zhytomyr), Illia Zabarnyi (Paris Saint-Germain Paris, France), Taras Mikhalko (Dynamo Kyiv), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton Liverpool, England), Illia Krups'kyi (Kharkiv).

Midfielders: Oleksandr Ocheretnyk, Yegor Nazarina (both – Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Andriyevskyy (Polissya Zhytomyr), Ivan Varfolomeyev (Lincoln, England), Yegor Yamoluk (Brentford, England), Mykhailo Shaparenko (Dynamo Kyiv).

Attackers: Georgiy Sudakov (Benfica Lisbon, Portugal), Oleksandr Nazarenko, Ihor Krasnopyr (both – Polissya Zhytomyr), Danylo Sikanchuk (Anderlecht Brussels, Belgium), Roman Yaremchuk (Olympiacos Piraeus, Greece), Hennadiy Syniuk (Montreal, Canada), Oleksiy Kashchuk (Karabakh Agdam, Azerbaijan), Vladyslav Vanat (Girona, Spain), Artem Dovbik (Bologna, Italy).

Reserves: Oleksandr Pylyhonok, Volodymyr Bratchuk, Ruslan Neschyret, Georgiy Bushchan (all – Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksandr Drambaev (LNZ Chernihiv), Artem Bondarenko (Al-Agla Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Timur Tutyurov (Sunderland, England).

 

Schedule of Ukraine's matches in the Nations League 2026/2027 in November

  • November 14: Northern Ireland – Ukraine
  • November 17: Ukraine – Georgia