U-17: schedule of youth team of Ukraine before performance in qualification Euro-2020

06.11.2019 12:00

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

Today the Ukrainian national team (football players not older than 2003) starts work before the qualifying matches of the European Championship.

Today, November 6 begins gathering of U-17 youth team of Ukraine. Before leaving for Portugal, where the matches of the Euro 2020 qualifying round will take place, the blue-and-yellows will be based in Pushcha-Vodytsya and will train in Vorzel. There, by the way, on November 9, Oleksandr Petrakov's wards will hold a sparring match with FC Desna (Pogreby). The match starts at 13.00.

After two classes in Ukraine in Portugal, our team will move to a schedule with one training session per day. The national team will live in the city of Viseu, 140 km from Porto. The first game of the blue-and-yellows in the tournament will take place in Viseu on November 13 with the Georgian national team (starting at 17.00 pm Kyiv time). The second match, with Albania, the Ukrainians will play in Nelash on November 16. As in the first meeting, the starting whistle of the referee of the match will sound at 17.00. At the same time, the last match of the tournament for Oleksandr Petrakov will start against the Portuguese on November 19.

It will be recalled that the two strongest teams of each of the 13 groups and the top four teams will take the third place (according to the results of meetings with the two leaders of their group). Matches of this stage will take place in March 2020.

In the elite round, all participants will be divided into eight groups. The winners of the groups and the seven best second teams (according to the results of the matches with the first and third teams of their group) will reach the final stage, where they will join the host of Euro - Estonia. The final tournament will take place in May 2020.