U-21: 2022 for the youth national team of Ukraine - the qualifying round of Euro-2023 and the Lobanovsky Tournament

09.02.2022 12:05

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The plans of the youth national team of Ukraine in 2022 include participation in the Euro-2023 (U-21) qualification and the traditional Valery Lobanovsky Tournament. 

Ruslan Rotan's qualifying tournament for the European Championship will continue in March, with an away match against Armenia and a home match against France. In June, the blue and yellows will take an exam in the Faroe Islands and meet at home with Northern Macedonia. It will be recalled that our youth team currently ranks second in its group, which according to the regulations allows it to take part in the playoffs, for which the windows are scheduled for September. Only the best second team out of nine will receive a direct ticket to the final tournament. 

We would also like to add that the traditional Valery Lobanovsky Tournament with the participation of the youth national team of Ukraine is scheduled for May (27-29). By the way, she won these competitions twice - in 2009 and 2019.

Euro-2023 (U-21). Qualifying tournament 

Group H

6th round

08.06.2021

Faroe Islands - Armenia - 2: 0

1 round 

02.09.2021

France - North Macedonia - 3: 0

Armenia - Faroe Islands - 2: 0

03.09.2021

Serbia - Ukraine - 0: 1

2 round 

06.09.2021

Faroe Islands - France - 1: 1

07.09.2021

North Macedonia - Serbia - 0: 0

Ukraine - Armenia - 2: 1

3 round 

07.10.2021

Armenia - Serbia - 1: 4

Faroe Islands - North Macedonia — 1:1

08.10.2021

France - Ukraine - 5: 0

4 round 

12.10.2021

Ukraine - Faroe Islands - 1: 0

Armenia - Northern Macedonia - 1: 2

Serbia - France - 0: 3

5 round 

11.11.2021

France - Armenia - 7: 0

North Macedonia - Ukraine - 1: 1

12.11.2021

Serbia - Faroe Islands - 0: 0

6 round 

16.11.2021

Northern Macedonia - France - 0: 1

Ukraine - Serbia - 2: 1  

Standings 

7 round 

24.03.2022

Armenia - Ukraine

Serbia - North Macedonia

France - Faroe Islands 

8 round 

29.03.2022

Ukraine - France

Serbia - Armenia

North Macedonia - Faroe Islands 

9 round 

02.06.2022

Faroe Islands - Ukraine

North Macedonia - Armenia

03.06.2022

France - Serbia 

10 round 

07.06.2022

Armenia - France

Ukraine - North Macedonia

Faroe Islands - Serbia

The Kyiv time for matches is given.

In the final part of Euro-2023 (U-21) there will be 16 teams - Romania and Georgia as hosts of the tournament and 14 more teams that will join them based on the results of the selection (nine group winners, the best team among the second place winners and four play winners -off, which will play eight second place winners).

Playoffs: September 20-27, 2022.

Final tournament: June / July 2023.

The matches of the tournament with the participation of 16 national teams will be hosted by four stadiums in Romania (two in Cluj-Napoca and two in Bucharest) and four in Georgia (in Batumi, Poti and two in Tbilisi). The opening match will take place in Romania, and the final - in Georgia.

At the moment, the youth national team of Ukraine is in the second place in the ranking of sixth place, with 10 points (taking into account only the results against the teams that took first, third, fourth and fifth places in their groups).

The ranking of the second places will be formed according to the criteria in the following sequence:

1. more points scored;
2. the best goal difference;
3. more goals scored;
4. more goals scored on the road;
5. more victories;
6. more away wins;
7. lower amount of disciplinary points based on yellow and red cards received by players and team representatives (red card - three points, yellow card - one point, withdrawal for two yellow cards in one match - three points);
8. starting rating of U-21 national teams.

Current ranking of second places