European Football Championship 2021 / Ukraine
This article covers the Ukrainian national team at the Pan-European Football Championship 2021 . It is the third participation for the Ukrainian team.
qualification
For the qualification , the Ukrainian team was drawn into the group with defending champions Portugal as well as Serbia, Lithuania and Luxembourg.
In total, national coach Andrij Shevchenko , who took over the team after the last European Championship, used 27 players, only captain and goalkeeper Andrij Pjatow , Ruslan Malinowskyj and Mykola Matwijenko played all eight games. Serhiy Krywzow , Vitaly Mykolenko , Viktor Zyhankow , Roman Yaremchuk and Oleksandr Sintschenko had seven missions each . The Brazilian- born Júnior Moraes made his first international appearance in the first qualifying match, having recently obtained Ukrainian citizenship. No other debutants were used.
The top scorer with four goals was Roman Yaremchuk , who scored his first international goal in the 5-0 win over Serbia. The Brazilian-born Marlos (for the interim 2-0 win in Lithuania) and Wiktor Zyhankow (for the 1-1 equalizer in the 2-1 win against Luxembourg) also scored their first international goal . A total of eight players scored 16 qualifying goals. The Ukrainians also benefited from an own goal by Luxembourg's Gerson Rodrigues .
Ukraine started the qualification with a 0-0 win against Portugal. The next six games were won. On October 14, Ukraine qualified with a 2-1 win over Portugal. From then on, the group victory was also certain. The 2-2 draw against Serbia on the last day of the match secured pot 1 for the draw for the 2021 European Championship .
Games
| date | Venue | opponent | Result | Goal scorers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 22, 2019 | Lisbon | Portugal | 0-0 | |
| 03/25/2019 | Luxembourg city | Luxembourg | 2: 1 (1: 1) | David Turpel (34th), Wiktor Zyhankow (40th), Gerson Rodrigues (90 + 3rd / own goal) |
| 07.06.2019 | Lviv | Serbia | 5: 0 (2: 0) | Viktor Zyhankow (26th, 28th), Jewhen Konopljanka (46th, 75th), Roman Yaremchuk (59th) |
| 06/10/2019 | Lviv | Luxembourg | 1: 0 (1: 0) | Roman Yaremchuk (6th) |
| 07.09.2019 | Vilnius | Lithuania | 3: 0 (2: 0) | Oleksandr Zintschenko (7th), Marlos (27th), Ruslan Malinowskyj (61st) |
| 10/11/2019 | Kharkiv | Lithuania | 2: 0 (1: 0) | Ruslan Malinowskyj (29th, 58th) |
| October 14, 2019 | Kiev | Portugal | 2: 1 (2: 0) | Roman Yaremchuk (7th), Andrij Jarmolenko (26th), Cristiano Ronaldo (72nd / Elf) |
| 11/17/2019 | Belgrade | Serbia | 2: 2 (1: 1) | Dušan Tadić (9th / Elf), Roman Jaremtschuk (32nd), Aleksandar Mitrović (56th), Artem Besyedin (90 + 3rd) |
Closing table
| Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
 Ukraine
|
8th | 6th | 2 | 0 | 17: 4 | +13 | 20th |
| 2. |
 Portugal
|
8th | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22: 6 | +16 | 17th |
| 3. |
 Serbia
|
8th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 17:17 | ± 0 | 14th |
| 4th |
 Luxembourg
|
8th | 1 | 1 | 6th | 7:16 | −9 | 4th |
| 5. |
 Lithuania
|
8th | 0 | 1 | 7th | 5:25 | −20 | 1 |
Finals
For the final round, Ukraine had initially applied to host games with the Donbass Arena in Donetsk , but then withdrew. Since Ukraine and FIFA world number one Belgium, in addition to four hosts, qualified as the best team and Ukraine could not be in a group with Russia, Ukraine was assigned to the Dutch group. Austria and a team that still has to qualify in March 2020 were drawn. There were only two friendlies against Austria, one of which was won and one lost. There was also no competitive game against the Dutch. Of two friendlies, the first was lost 3-0 in Rotterdam in May 2008 , followed by a 1-1 draw in Ukraine in August 2010
If the Ukrainian team wins the group , they would play against the third in Group D, E or F in Budapest - subject to the retention of the venues - and in second place one day earlier in London against the winner of Group A, e.g. B. Italy. If they were one of the four best group thirds, either the winner of Group F with Germany, world champions France or defending champions Portugal in Bucharest or the winner of Group E with Spain in Glasgow would be opponents in the round of 16.
Group games
| Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
 Netherlands
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | ± 0 | 0 |
| 2. |
Ukraine
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | ± 0 | 0 |
| 3. |
 Austria
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | ± 0 | 0 |
| 4th |
 Playoff winner D / A 1
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | ± 0 | 0 |
| June 13, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Amsterdam | |||
| Netherlands | - | Ukraine | -: - (- :–) |
| June 17, 2021 at 3 p.m. in Bucharest | |||
| Ukraine | - | Playoff winner D / A | -: - (- :–) |
| June 21, 2021 at 6 p.m. in Bucharest | |||
| Ukraine | - | Austria | -: - (- :–) |
