The 16th Viktor Bannikov International Tournament starts today

26.08.2019 11:00

The youth national team of Ukraine U-17 (players not older than 2003) will compete for the main prize of the tournament Victor Bannikov.

The traditional, 16th international tournament under the auspices of the UAF in memory of the first president of the national association Viktor Bannikov will be held from 26 to 30 August. Its participants will be the youth national teams of Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Turkey, Slovakia and Israel.

We bring to your attention the schedule of matches in two groups of the tournament and butt matches:

Group A

Group B

Button duels

We will add that for the team of Alexander Petrakov the tournament will be one of the preparation stages to the qualifying round of Euro 2020 (U-17), which in November this year will be held in Portugal (On the 13th - a match with Georgia, on the 16th - with Albania, on the 19th - with the hosts).

Winners of the Victor Bannikov Tournament

The first winner of the Victor Bannikov Tournament in 2002 was the Polish national team. But most often - six times (2003, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2018) - Ukrainians won the competition. Three more times the strongest team of the tournament was the national team of Turkey (2004, 2007, 2013), twice - the team of Georgia (2016, 2017). The Italians (2008), the Serbs (2009) and the Czechs (2010) triumphed once. Last year, we will remind, Ukraine's national team defeated the Turkish team only in the penalty shootout.

In 2014 and 2015, due to the situation in Ukraine, the tournament was not held.

Viktor Bannikov

(1938-2001)

Honored Master of Sports. Gained fame as a goalkeeper, five times was included in the list of 33 best football players of the USSR. Multiple champion and winner of the USSR Cup as a member of Dynamo (Kyiv). Member of the symbolic "Lev Yashin Club" - 138 matches without conceded goals. He was a member of the USSR national team. Bronze medalist of the 1966 World Cup, silver medalist of Euro-1972. Honored Coach of Ukraine and the USSR, Honored Worker of Physical Culture and Sports of Ukraine. In 1991-1996 he headed the Football Federation of Ukraine. He was awarded the UEFA Order of Merit, FIFA and UEFA Gold Medals.