U-21: Euro-2021 qualifying matches with Malta and Northern Ireland may take place in November

01.05.2020 13:02

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In March this year, Ukraine U-XNUMX had to play two matches of the qualifying tournament of the European Championship-2021 (U-21) - with Malta on the road (27th) and Northern Ireland at home (31st in Lviv).

But these games were postponed through due to COVID-XNUMX pandemic and a verdict from the UEFA Executive Committee to suspend all football events until a further decision is made. 

According to UEFA's preliminary schedule, the match Malta - Ukraine will take place on November 13, and the game Ukraine - Northern Ireland - on the 17th. Also on this day, the postponed matches of qualifying group 8 Malta - Finland and Romania - Denmark are to be played.

The play-off qualifiers were to take place in November, which will obviously be postponed. It will also be recalled that on April 23, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that the options for postponing the final tournament of Euro-2021 (U-21) will be presented and analyzed by the competition committee on May 11. The final decision on this issue will be made by the UEFA Executive Committee at its next meeting on May 27.

Next time Ruslan Rotan wards are due to gather on August 31. The training camp will be dedicated to the away matches of Euro-2021 qualifying tournament against Denmark (4 September) and Finland (8 September).