Ukrainian national soccer team

This article is about the Ukrainian men's national football team . The women's team is described under the Ukrainian national football team , that of the men up to the age of 21 under the Ukrainian national football team (U-21 men) .

Ukraine
Ukrajina

Nickname (s)	Shovto-blakytni Жовто-блакитні (the yellow-blue)
Association	Federazija Futbolu Ukrajiny (FFU) Федерація Футболу України (ФФУ)
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Joma
Head coach	Andrij Shevchenko (since 2016)
Assistant coach	Yuri Kalytvyntsev
captain	Andrij Pyatov
Record scorer	Andrij Shevchenko (48)
Record player	Anatoly Tymoschtschuk (144)
Home stadium	Kiev Olympic Stadium
FIFA code	UKR
FIFA rank	24. (1537 points) (As of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey Third jersey
Balance sheet
266 games 123 wins 74 draws 69 losses
statistics
First international match Ukraine 1-3 Hungary ( Uzhhorod , Ukraine ; April 29, 1992)
Biggest win Ukraine 9-0 San Marino ( Lviv , Ukraine ; September 6, 2013)
Biggest defeat Spain 4-0 Ukraine ( Leipzig , Germany ; June 14, 2006)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2006 )
Best results	Quarterfinals 2006
European Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2012 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2012, 2016
(As of November 17, 2019)

The Ukrainian national football team ( Ukrainian Збірна України з футболу Sbirna Ukrajiny s futbolu ) is the selection team of the Ukrainian football association Federazija Futbolu Ukrajiny . The nickname Schowto-blakytni means the yellow-blue in German .

history

The football is considered in Ukraine as a popular sport. The Ukrainian football team came into being after the collapse of the Soviet Union , in which Ukrainian footballers and clubs played a leading role. After 1991, many Ukrainian players took on Russian citizenship because they saw better career opportunities in Russia , including Viktor Onopko , Sergei Juran and Oleg Salenko , the top scorer at the 1994 World Cup . Due to this development, Ukraine, which was traditionally strong during the Soviet era, had to survive a shortage of good players in the first few years of its own national team. All of the USSR's points in the UEFA five-year standings and at FIFA went to Russia alone.

Over time, the Ukrainian team got stronger, new talents emerged like Andrij Shevchenko and Serhiy Rebrow , who have developed into world-class footballers under the coaching legend Valerij Lobanowskyj . To participate in a world or European championship, however, the necessary luck was long lacking, because the team failed three times in a row in the playoffs (against Croatia in 1997, against Slovenia in 1999 and against Germany in 2001).

After failing to qualify for the 2004 European Football Championship , former European Footballer of the Year Oleh Blochin was nominated for the post of national coach. This step turned out to be the right one, because Ukraine then played a sovereign qualifying round for the 2006 World Cup in a difficult group and, on the 3rd of the group, made it for the first time in their history to qualify for the finals of a major tournament, where they made it into Quarterfinals came. After Ukraine failed to qualify for the European Football Championship in 2008 , Oleh Blochin resigned from his position as national coach. He was succeeded by the former Soviet national player Oleksiy Mychajlytschenko . Under his leadership, Ukraine narrowly missed the 2010 World Cup when they lost again in a playoff game, this time to Greece. Ukraine was automatically qualified as co-host for Euro 2012 .

Participation in soccer world championships

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Andrij Shevchenko on a Ukrainian postage stamp on the occasion of the 2006 Soccer World Cup in Germany

Oleh Blochin , national coach at the first World Cup participation in 2006

Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1990 , which participated in the World Cup from 1958 to 1990. Ukrainian players were important players in the Soviet national team at this time. B. Oleh Blochin , who took part in the World Cup with the USSR in 1982 and 1986. In 1994, with Sergei Juran , Yuri Nikiforow , Wladislaw Ternawski and Ilja Zymbalar , players who were still born in Ukraine played for Russia at the World Cup.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1994	United States	not participated				Not yet a FIFA member at the time of the qualifying draw
1998	France	not qualified				In the play-offs of the qualification to Croatia failed after in the group stage behind Germany the 2nd place
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the play-off qualification in Germany failed after the group stage behind Poland 2nd place was occupied
2006	Germany	Quarter finals	Italy	8th.	Oleh Blochin	Oleksandr Schowkowskyj saves two penalties in the penalty shootout of the round of 16 against Switzerland .
2010	South Africa	not qualified				In the play-off qualification in Greece failed after the group stage behind England 2nd place was occupied
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In qualifying , Ukraine faced England , Moldova , Montenegro , Poland and San Marino . The Ukraine finished second behind England and met France in the playoff games on November 15 and 19, 2013 . After a 2-0 win in the first leg, the second leg was lost 3-0 and qualification was missed.
2018	Russia	Not qualified				In the qualification , Ukraine met Iceland, Croatia, Turkey , Finland and Kosovo. The Ukraine came third behind Iceland and Croatia and thus missed the qualification.

Participation in European football championships

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As part of the USSR, Ukraine took part in the European Championships from 1960 to 1992. In the 1960s European championship team there was a Ukrainian player, Vladimir Maslachenko, and a player playing in Ukraine, Juri Woinov . In 1972 the Ukrainian players Yuri Istomin , Anatoli Konkow , Eduard Kozinkewitsch , Volodymyr Onyshchenko , Vladimir Troschkin and Yevgeny Rudakov, who played for Kiev, were members of the European Vice-Championships, which was coached by the Ukrainian-born Alexander Ponomarjow . In 1988 too, Ukrainian players Anatoliy Demyanenko , Hennadij Lytowchenko , Oleksandr Savarov , Oleksij Mychajlychenko , Sergei Baltatscha , Vasily Raz , Igor Belanow , Oleh Protasow and Viktor Passulko made up the majority of the vice European champions, trained by Ukrainian Valerij Lobanowsky . After the dissolution of the Soviet Union into several independent states, Ukraine took part in qualifying for the European Championship in 1996 for the first time, but failed to qualify four times. 1996 were with Viktor Onopko and Igor Dobrowolski in Ukraine-born players in the Russian team , which was eliminated in the preliminary round. Dobrowolski had previously scored the last goal for the CIS in the game against Germany in 1992 . In 2012, Ukraine hosted the European Championship together with Poland, making it their first participation. In 2016, after increasing the number of participants from 16 to 24, the playful qualification was achieved for the first time.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Comments and special features
1996	England	not qualified		In the qualification of Croatia and Vice World Champion Italy failed.
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	not qualified		Failed in the relegation games to Slovenia .
2004	Portugal	not qualified		In qualifying at the eventual winners Greece and Spain failed.
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified		In the qualification to the finalists of the 2006 World Cup, France and Italy failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	Preliminary round	Sweden , France , England	After an opening win against Sweden, the other two games were lost, so that Ukraine were eliminated as third in the group.
2016	France	Preliminary round	Germany , Northern Ireland , Poland	Ukraine lost all three group matches and were the only team in the tournament to be eliminated from the tournament as the bottom of the group.
2021	Europe	qualified		In the qualification against Lithuania , Luxembourg defending champions Portugal and Serbia prevailed.

Extended squad

As of November 17, 2019

Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goalkeeper
Andrij Lunin	02/11/1999	5	0	Real Valladolid	2018	11/14/2019
Andrij Pyatov	06/28/1984	93	0	Shakhtar Donetsk	2007	11/17/2019
Yuri Pankiv	11/03/1984	0	0	FK Oleksandrija	-
Defense
Mykyta Burda	March 24, 1995	8th	0	Dynamo Kiev	2018	09/10/2019
Bohdan Butko	01/13/1991	33	0	Shakhtar Donetsk	2011	03/25/2019
Serhiy Kryvtsov	03/15/1991	16	0	Shakhtar Donetsk	2011	11/17/2019
Mykola Matviyenko	05/02/1996	26th	0	Shakhtar Donetsk	2017	11/17/2019
Vitaly Mykolenko	05/29/1999	8th	0	Dynamo Kiev	2018	11/17/2019
Ihor Plastun	08/20/1990	4th	0	KAA Gent	2018	11/14/2019
Eduard Sobol	04/20/1995	14th	0	Club Bruges	2016	11/14/2019
midfield
Roman Besus	09/26/1990	22nd	5	KAA Gent	2011	11/14/2019
Serhiy Bolbat	06/13/1993	5	0	Shakhtar Donetsk	2014	11/14/2019
Vitaly Bujalskyj	01/06/1993	8th	0	Dynamo Kiev	2017	11/14/2019
Dmytro Ivanisenya	01/11/1994	1	0	Zorya Luhansk	2019	11/14/2019
Oleksandr Karavaev	06/02/1992	25th	1	Dynamo Kiev	2015	11/17/2019
Yevhen Konoplyanka	09/29/1989	85	21st	Shakhtar Donetsk	2010	October 14, 2019
Viktor Kovalenko	02/14/1996	26th	0	Shakhtar Donetsk	2016	11/17/2019
Ruslan Malinovskyi	05/04/1993	27	5	Atalanta Bergamo	2015	11/17/2019
Marlos	06/07/1988	16	1	Shakhtar Donetsk	2017	October 14, 2019
Yevhen Shakhov	11/30/1990	7th	1	US Lecce	2016	11/17/2019
Volodymyr Shepelev	06/01/1997	6th	0	Dynamo Kiev	2017	11/17/2019
Marjan Swed	07/16/1997	2	0	Celtic Glasgow	2018	11/14/2019
Oleksandr Zinchenko	12/15/1996	31	4th	Manchester City	2015	October 14, 2019
Taras Stepanenko	08/08/1989	57	3	Shakhtar Donetsk	2010	October 14, 2019
Serhiy Sydortschuk	05/02/1991	28	2	Dynamo Kiev	2014	11/17/2019
Viktor Zyhankov	11/15/1997	20th	3	Dynamo Kiev	2016	11/17/2019
Storm
Artem Bjessjedin	03/31/1996	13	2	Dynamo Kiev	2016	11/17/2019
Roman Yaremchuk	11/27/1995	12	5	KAA Gent	2018	11/17/2019
Andrij Yarmolenko	10/23/1989	86	37	West Ham United	2009	11/17/2019
Artem Krawez	06/03/1989	23	8th	Kayserispor	2011	07.06.2019
Júnior Moraes	04/04/1987	20th	0	Shakhtar Donetsk	2019	10/11/2019

Record player

Calls

Record national player Anatolij Tymoschtschuk in his 100th international appearance

rank	Surname	Calls	Period
01.	Anatoly Tymoshchuk	144	2000-2016
02.	Andrij Shevchenko	111	1995 - 2012
03.	Ruslan Rotan	100	2003 - 2018
04th	Oleh Husiev	098	2003 - 2016
05.	Andrij Pyatov	093	2007 - 0000
06th	Oleksandr Schowkowskyj	092	1994 - 2012
07th	Andrij Yarmolenko	086	2009 - 0000
08th.	Yevhen Konoplyanka	085	2010 - 0000
09.	Serhiy Rebrow	075	1992 - 2006
10.	Andriy Voronin	074	2002 - 2012

As of November 17, 2019

Gates

Record scorer Andrij Shevchenko

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Period
01.	Andrij Shevchenko	48	111	1995 - 2012
02.	Andrij Yarmolenko	37	86	2009 - 0000
03.	Yevhen Konoplyanka	21st	85	2010 - 0000
04th	Serhiy Rebrow	15th	75	1992 - 2006
05.	Oleh Husiev	13	98	2003 - 2016
06th	Serhiy Nasarenko	12	56	2003 - 2012
07th	Yevhen Seleznyov	11	58	2008 - 0000
08th.	Andrij Vorobej	9	68	2000 - 2008
	Andrij Hussin †	9	71	1993-2006
10.	Timerlan Gusseinow	8th	14th	1994-1996
	Artem Krawez	8th	23	2011 - 0000
	Artem Milevskyi	8th	50	2006 - 2012
	Ruslan Rotan	8th	100	2003 - 2018
	Andriy Voronin	8th	74	2002 - 2012

As of November 17, 2019

player

National team in November 2012

• Serhij Beschenar (Defense)
• Olexandr Holowko (defense)
• Viktor Leonenko (attack)
• Oleh Luschnyj (defense)
• Jurij Maximow (midfield)
• Viktor Skripnik (defense)

Trainer

• József Szabó (1994)
• Anatoly Konkov (1995)
• József Szabó (1996–1999)
• Valery Lobanovsky (2000-2001)
• Leonid Burjak (2002-2003)
• Oleh Blochin (2003-2007)
• Oleksij Mychajlychenko (2008-2009)
• Serhij Rebrow (2010)
• Oleh Blochin (2011-2012)
• Oleksandr Zavarov (2012)
• Mychailo Fomenko (2012-2016)
• Andrij Shevchenko (since 2016)

Games against German-speaking national teams

Games against Germany

(Results always from a Ukrainian perspective)

date	place	Result	occasion
April 30, 1997	Bremen	0: 2	World Cup qualification
June 7, 1997	Kiev	0-0	World Cup qualification
November 10, 2001	Kiev	1: 1	World Cup qualification
November 14, 2001	Dortmund	1: 4	World Cup qualification
November 11, 2011	Kiev	3: 3	Friendly match
June 12, 2016	Villeneuve-d'Ascq ( Lille )	0: 2	EM group game
October 10, 2020	Kiev		UEFA Nations League 2020/21
November 14, 2020	Leipzig		UEFA Nations League 2020/21

Games against Austria

(Results always from a Ukrainian perspective)

date	place	Result	occasion
November 15, 2011	Lviv	2: 1	Friendly match
June 1, 2012	innsbruck	2: 3	Friendly match

Games against Switzerland

(Results always from a Ukrainian perspective)

date	place	Result	occasion
June 26, 2006	Cologne	3: 0 n.e.	World Cup round of 16
17th November 2010	Lancy	2: 2	Friendly match
3rd September 2020			UEFA Nations League 2020/21
17th November 2020	( CHE )		UEFA Nations League 2020/21

Games against Liechtenstein

No meetings so far

Games against Luxembourg

(Results always from a Ukrainian perspective)

date	place	Result	occasion
June 8, 2006	Luxembourg	3-0	Friendly match
15th November 2014	Luxembourg	3-0	European Championship qualification
June 14, 2015	Lviv	3-0	European Championship qualification
March 25, 2019	Luxembourg		European Championship qualification
June 10, 2019	Kharkiv		European Championship qualification

See also

• List of the international matches of the Ukrainian national football team

Web links

Commons : Ukrainian national soccer team  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Ukrainian Football Federation (Ukrainian, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Michailitschenko inherits Blochin in Ukraine
3. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF file; 195 kB)
4. ↑ https://eu-football.info/_team.php?id=265 eu-football.info: Ukraine
5. ↑ [1]