Valery Palamarchuk: "We will try to keep a residence permit in the elite division"

24.08.2021 16:10

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

From August 23 to 30, the youth women's national team of Ukraine WU-19 in Pushcha-Vodytsya will conduct the preparation phase to the first round of the 2022 European Championship.

- According to the rating, we will play in League A, where our rivals in the group stage will be the players of the Netherlands (hosts), Scotland and Austria, - said the head coach of Ukraine Valery Palamarchuk in a comment to the official website of the UAF. - I am satisfied with the new formula for holding these prestigious competitions, because even in case of failure, my wards will be able to play in League B next spring. And for this age category, playing practice is very important. However, we will make every effort to maintain a residence permit in the class of the strongest, although our counterparts occupy significantly higher places in the table of ranks.

- Did you manage to call all worthy candidates to the preparatory meeting?

- No, for good reasons we will not be able to involve several players in the training process at once, but I hope that at the final stage of preparation just before leaving for the Netherlands, all of them will already be at my disposal. However, it is possible that we will have to do without Yulia Khrystyuk, in case the head coach of the women's national team of Ukraine Natalia Zinchenko will count on her.

- During the training camp in Pushcha-Vodytsya, control matches with representatives of the top league - "Kolos" and "Atex" are also planned…

- It would be more accurate to say that these will be training matches. I managed to agree with my colleagues from Kolos and Atex that during corner and free kicks, when the ball did not touch anyone, they would be interrupted. And we will have the opportunity to point out mistakes to the wards, so as not to step on the same rake in the next game episodes…

26.08.2020

Ukraine (WU-19) - Kolos (Kovalivka). 17.00

29.08.2020

Ukraine (WU-19) - Atex (Kyiv). 10.30

The approximate start time of the matches is given.

The composition of the youth women's national team of Ukraine WU-19

Goalkeepers: Marina Dudnik (EMS-Podillya, Vinnytsia), Daria Kelyushyk (Kryvbas, Kryvyi Rih), Kateryna Boklach (Ladomyr, Volodymyr-Volynskyi).

Defenders: Daria Borysiuk (EMS-Podillya Vinnytsia), Violeta Tyan, Ruslana Levchenko (both Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih), Lesya Olkhova (Ladomyr Volodymyr-Volynskyi), Yana Kotyk (Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv), Victoria Rozhko, Tetyana Kotovets (both Veres Rivne), Olga Voitenko (First Capital Kharkiv).

Midfielders: Dayana Semkiv, Anastasia Dovhanyk (both Ladomir Volodymyr-Volynsky), Anna Kaverzina (Kolos Kovalivka), Victoria Myronenko (Dynamo-OKIP Kyiv), Diana Kravchuk (Shakhtar Donetsk), Vita Rozlutska (Veres " Rivne).

Forwards: Natalia Kornatska (Voskhod Stara Mayachka), Alina Vashchyk (Veres Rivne), Inna Glushchenko, Maria Taleb (both Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih), Yelyzaveta Molodyuk (Shakhtar Donetsk).

It will be recalled that the draw for the first round of the European Under-19 Championship took place in March, in which a record number of teams took part - 52. The tournament will be held in a new format, reminiscent of the UEFA League of Nations.

The new two-year cycle format replaces the old qualifying format with qualifying and elite rounds. It includes rounds of group mini-tournaments with ups and downs in the class. The final stage will take place in 2022 in the Czech Republic. The Czech national team automatically received a ticket to the final tournament, but will take part in the first two rounds. The tournament returns after a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which prevented the championship from being held in the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons.

Based on the results of the draw, the place and dates of the matches in group A1 were determined. Valery Palamarchuk's wards will take part in the competitions in the Netherlands from October 19 to 27 this year.

The blue and yellows will start their matches with a match against the hosts of the group - the Netherlands (October 20), then their rivals will be the players of the Scottish national team (October 23), and will end the group stage of the Ukrainian on October 26 with a match against Austria.

First round draw

League A

Group A1: The Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Ukraine.

Group A2: France, Sweden, Iceland, Serbia.

Group A3: Germany, Belgium, Russia, Slovenia.

Group A4: Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Turkey.

Group A5: Switzerland, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland.

Group A6: Spain, Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia.

Group A7: Norway, Italy, Poland, Azerbaijan.

League B.

Group B1: Belarus, Faroe Islands, Northern Macedonia, Cyprus.

Group B2: Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Kazakhstan.

Group B3: Wales, Albania, Moldova, Andorra.

Group B4: Israel, Romania, Georgia, Malta.

Group B5: Croatia, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein.

Group B6: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Estonia, Armenia.

Tournament format

The first round will determine which teams will rise higher in the league and which will fall lower before the second round, which will take place in the spring of 2022.

Reaching the top league

From League B to League A: six group winners and the best second team.

Relegation to league lower league

From League A to League B: seven fourth teams in their groups.

The draw for the second round will take place at the end of 2021. Following the results of the spring matches, seven winners of League A groups will join the Czech national team in the final stage, which will take place from June 27 to July 9, 2022. There will also be a transition of teams between leagues, which will be relevant for the first round of the European Championship-2022/2023. The seeding of participants before the second round of the draw will depend on which places the teams will take in their groups in the first round.