September. Chronicle of events: a move towards Euro 2020 from the national team and important decisions by the UEFA Executive Committee

At the beginning of the autumn Ukrainian fans managed to feel the full range of emotions. The national team first issued a fairytale match in Vilnius, and then conducted a spectacular but difficult sparring with Nigeria. The youth team, on the contrary, was initially disappointed by losing to the Finns and then rehabilitating by smashing Malta.

September 3. The Ukrainian women's national team started in the qualifying tournament of the Europe-2021 duel in Lviv against the two-time world champion, the current Olympic champion, the German national team. Natalia Zinchenko's wards few could resist to the titled opponent - 0: 8. Although the Germans secured such a result only at the end of the meeting, scoring four goals in the last ten minutes.

«We will have another match with Germany, and then a match with a direct competitor - Ireland. We tried to simulate the game with the Irish in the second half, ”Natalia Zinchenko said after the match. Indeed, fights with other contenders for second place in the group are much more important for the blue and yellows.

September 4. A two-day visit to Kiev the UEFA president has arrived Alexander Cheferin. In the Football House a working meeting was held the head of the European Football Union with the legends of national football, the leadership of the Ukrainian Football Association headed by its president, UEFA Executive Committee member Andriy Pavelko and the president of the NOC of Ukraine Serhiy Bubka.

The meeting was also attended by the winner of the Golden Ball -1975, co-chairman of the Council for Strategic Development of Professional Football UAF Oleg Blokhin, head coach of the national team of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko, coach of the Ukrainian U-20 team, which became world champion in Poland, Alexander Petrakov, coach of the national team of Ukraine among veterans Anatoliy Demyanenko, first vice-president of UAF Vadym Kostyuchenko, first vice-president of UAF Oleh Protasov, general secretary of UAF Yuriy Zapisotsky.

The UEFA President once again expressed his support for UAF, praised the development of football infrastructure in our country, noted the initiative of UAF and the readiness of the Association's management to share their experience and ideas with colleagues from other countries. 

Photo by Volodymyr Rasner

Speaking about the prospects of holding a match for the UEFA Super Cup or the UEFA Europa League final in Ukraine, Alexander Cheferin said: “UEFA has a practice according to which the best bid wins. If you build the infrastructure, you will have the opportunity to hold tournaments of great importance. Your work on the development of sports infrastructure and the development of grassroots football has achieved some success. But no less important is the fact that Ukraine has a great lobbyist in the UEFA Executive Committee - Andriy Pavelko. This is a very strong representative! ” 

September 5. Beach Soccer Team of Ukraine has started to play in the Euroleague Super Final with defeats from Italy - 4: 5. The Italians scored the decisive ball four seconds before the end of regular time.

September 6. The first of two scheduled friendly matches with the Romanian peers was played by the Ukrainian national team (U-19). Oleg Kuznetsov's wards lost twice in Bucha during the meeting, but in the end managed to win back - 2: 2.

September 6. The first match in the framework of the official tournament under the leadership of Ruslan Rotany was held by the Ukrainian youth team. The coach's debut came at the start of the 2021 European Championship qualification (U-21). In Zaporozhye blue-yellow lost to Finland - 0: 2, though they had an advantage over play and the number of moments created.

September 6. And in the second round of the Euroleague 2019 group beach round, Yevhen Varenytsia's players were defeated. This time, the offender was blue and yellow Portugal - 1: 3.

September 7. Ivano-Frankivsk "Hurricane" became the owner of the Super Futsal Cup of Ukraine. In the match for the trophy, the winner of the Cup of Ukraine won the Extraliga winner, Kherson "Prodexim" - 7: 0.

September 7. Beach soccer team concedes in the third match of the 2019 Euroleague Super Final. The Blue and Yellows lost to the Turkish team in the penalty shootout - 1: 3 (playing time - 6: 6) and finished in the group stage in fourth place in Group 2.

September 7. The Ukrainian national team has strengthened its leadership in the Euro-2020 qualifying group, winning its fourth qualifying win in Vilnius. In the duel against the Lithuanians, the main team, despite the fact that the meeting was held on an unusual synthetic cover, demonstrated a wonderful game and provided a convincing the result in their favor - 3: 0.

«We have three matches ahead of us, in which the task is to score maximum points, which will allow us to get to the European Championship. Then we will see what place we will sit, evaluate our game, prospects. After that it will be possible to build some plans. We haven't solved the main task yet, ”the head coach of the national team Andriy Shevchenko summed up the trip to Lithuania at the post-match press conference.

September 8. Futsal Youth Team of Ukraine, beating in Riga with a score of 7: 0 Holland, confidently started the performance in the first ever youthful Euro.  

September 8. In the match for the seventh-eighth place in the Superfinal of the Euroleague 2019, the national team of Ukraine in beach soccer defeated the Swiss national team - 9: 7. Thus, the blue and yellows finished in the tournament seventh place.

September 8. The second friendly match with the Romanian peers for the Ukrainian national team (U-19), which is preparing for the Euro 2020 qualification, is over defeat - 0: 2.

September 9. In the second round of the group stage of the European Futsal Championship (U-19), the Ukrainian team in Latvia suffered a crushing defeats by the Spaniards - 1: 7.

September 10. The Ukrainian national team won its first victory in the qualifying tournament of the Euro-2021 (U-21). Blue and yellow in Zaporozhye beat Malta - 4: 0.

«Now the training camp is over, we played two matches. Today we are still celebrating, and from tomorrow we will switch to Romania. The coaches will study the opponent and give information to the boys. As for the points scored, you do not know where to find them and where to lose. The main thing for us is concentration, dedication and fulfillment of requirements. We will not turn anywhere from our path. We want to be like the national team, "said head coach Ruslan Rotan at a post-match press conference.

September 10. National team of Ukraine in Dnipro held a friendly match with the team of Nigeria. A spectacular and emotional game ended in a draw - 2: 2. The Blue and Yellows lost after the first half with a score of 0: 2, but were able to play on the break thanks to goals from Zinchenko and Yaremchuk.

September 11. The Futsal Youth Team of Ukraine has completed its appearances at the European Championships. By giving in Croatia (1: 3), Vitaliy Odegov's wards finished third in the group and failed to make it to the semifinals.

September 13. In Ochakovo (Mykolaiv region) the fights ended Ukrainian Championship among girls in the top league in the WU-15 category. Ladomyr football players from Volodymyr-Volynskyi were the first to finish. The national team of Vinnytsia region won silver, and the team of Lyceum from Kostopol won bronze.

September 19-21. The Ukrainian national team WU-17, which is preparing to participate in the qualifying round of the 2020 European Championship, played two friendly matches against Latvian peers. The fights took place in Kyiv at the STC. V. Bannikov. In the first of them Sergey Sapronov's wards won an indisputable victory - 6:0, and in the second - too won, but not so convincingly any more - 3:2.

September 24. A match for the Ukrainian Futsal Super Cup among women's teams with the participation of the champion of Ukraine, the capital's IMS-NUHT, and the winner of the Cup of Ukraine - Ladomyr from Volodymyr-Volynskyi took place in Lutsk at the Adrenaline City sports complex. The Kyiv team won victory with a score of 5: 3.

September 24. In Ljubljana a meeting took place UEFA Executive Committee, which was attended by the President of the Ukrainian Football Association, a member of the UEFA Executive Committee Andriy Pavelko.

During the work a number of important and historic decisions were made, in particular, the venues of the finals of the Champions League of the 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons, the Europa League of the 2020/2021 season and other tournaments were determined. The new structure of the League of Nations and the name of the third UEFA club tournament - the UEFA Europa League of Conferences - have been approved.

After the meeting of the Executive Committee, Andriy Pavelko noted: “The experience of some national associations, including the Ukrainian Football Association, in the fight against contract matches has inspired UEFA to create a European agency to combat match-fixing. The corresponding intention was supported by the UEFA Executive Committee. By the way, the experience of UAF in this context is unique. After all, in contrast to countries where this problem is dealt with separately by law enforcement or a national association, Ukraine has established close cooperation between the UAF, the National Police and the Prosecutor's Office. With the creation of a relevant unit in UEFA, it will be much easier to coordinate our actions with other associations and identify international networks of match-fixing organizers.

Another key decision of the UEFA Executive Committee is to recommend to all members of the union not to hold matches in countries where women are prohibited from attending football matches. Due to this recommendation, the national teams of Ukraine will not hold friendly matches with teams from such countries. Ukraine can only be proud of its football femininity and, especially, the fans, whose voices in support of the national team - I'm sure you also paid attention to this - are always the loudest! We will see this again very soon - in Kharkiv and Kyiv, at the matches of the main team of Ukraine against Lithuania and Portugal! "

September 22-24. The national futsal team of Ukraine took part in the international tournament in Ivano-Frankivsk. Blue and yellow in the first match lost to Romania - 2:5, and in the second defeated Georgia - 4:1 and eventually took second place.

21-25 September. The youth national team of Ukraine U-17, which is preparing for the qualifying round of Euro 2020, successfully performed at the international tournament in Latvia, becoming the winner of the competition. Alexander Petrakov's wards drew with Latvia - 0:0, defeated Turkey - 2:0 and Northern Macedonia - 3:1.

September 24-26.  The U-16 youth national team played two friendly matches against their Belgian peers in Waterloo. In the first match, Serhiy Nagornyak's guys parted ways with their rivals - 1:1, and in the second conceded - 0:2.

«It is difficult to overestimate the usefulness of these sparring. It was a great experience for our guys. Thanks to the UAF, we were able to test ourselves against one of the best teams in Europe, and they saw what to strive for» noted Sergei Nagornyak summarizing the trip to Belgium.

September 28. In Kyiv on the occasion of UEFA Mass Football Week in Ukraine on the artificial fields of NTK. V. Bannikov on the initiative of the Ukrainian Football Association and with the support of the Charitable Foundation "Development of Football of Ukraine" started the first championship UAF Football Academy. Participation in the competitions was confirmed by 10 metropolitan children's collectives, formed of footballers of 2010 year of birth. 

The young footballers listened to a farewell speech from the legend of Ukrainian football, the first vice-president of UAF Oleg Protasov. "In my childhood, we could only dream of such comfortable fields, but it did not prevent us from loving football and devoting all our free time to this wonderful game. I am confident that, having such conditions for sports, our future, young football players, will be able to achieve great victories later, "said Oleg Protasov.

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