2022: results of the year for the national team of Ukraine

In the past year, the national team of Ukraine played only for two months - in June and September.

And there is an explanation for this — the war with Muscovites and failure in the decisive round of the 2022 World Cup playoffs. Because of this, the schedule turned out to be very strange: most of the time - rough preparatory work, and then emergency match mode.

Oleksandr Petrakov's team stopped short of a trip to Qatar. The World Cup 2022 playoffs were held according to an unusual scheme — quartets of contenders were divided into semi-final pairs, the winners of which, in turn, determined the participant of the championship. Overcome the Welsh, despite a convincing game-to-game victory over the Scots, failed, but after the setback, Petrakov's team rallied and took seven points out of a possible nine in three UEFA Nations League matches. And for the first time in history, we played against the Irish national team. The acquaintance turned out to be pleasant.

But in September, Scotland drew conclusions from the summer defeat and organized an unpleasant surprise for the Ukrainians — first on the field, and then in the tournament table.

After that, the blue-yellow team did not enter the football field. In October, windows for matches were not foreseen, taking into account the very tight international calendar for European championships due to the winter World Cup, which took place in November-December and ended with the triumph of Argentina.

Interesting events in life of the national team of Ukraine in 2022

  • For the first time, a legionnaire from the United Arab Emirates played in the national team. Which, by the way, came one step closer to Andriy Shevchenko's scoring record. Yarmolenko has 45 goals for the national team, Shevchenko has 48.
  • Artem Dovbyk became the best sniper in 2022. In total, as part of the national team, he has six goals on his account, he is on the threshold of the top 20 scorers in history. Apart from Yarmolenko, Roman Yaremchuk (20 goals), Oleksandr Zinchenko (13), Ruslan Malinovskyi and Viktor Tsygankov (8 each) are among the active footballers in the top-7.
  • Vitaly Mykolenko, Oleksandr Tymchyk and Danylo Ignatenko opened the scoring with their goals for the national team. The latter made his debut together with Oleksandr Pikhalyonka and Mykhailo Mudryk. 
  • Yarmolenko is the new leader of the rating of guards of the national team (112 matches). Anatoly Tymoshchuk (144) started this year on the first step, but he turned out to be a mankurt, and the UAF punished the traitor deprivation of all awards and achievements. After that, the rating was headed by Shevchenko (111), but in September, Yarmolenko caught up and surpassed his former attack partner and former mentor. And Taras Stepanenko (73) entered the top 10 of this list.
  • Andriy Lunin played three dry matches in 2022 (out of three possible). Now he has five out of nine games for the national team without conceding goals. And he has the third most dry matches in the history of the national team. For 30 years, we had two giants of the goalkeeping business — Oleksandr Shovkovskyi and Andriy Pyatov, who together have 194 games for the national team (93 of them — without conceding goals). The rest of the goalkeepers did not play very much (Georgiy Bushchan, 15, is the third in the ranking according to the number of matches played), so Lunin has so far only detached himself from the general public. But, given his young age, the goalkeeper of "Real" has the opportunity to try to catch up with the titans.
  • But Lunin's dry streak (297 minutes) ranks only 13th in our history. The record belongs to Pyatov (752). By the way, he renewed another achievement: with an indicator of 37 years and 347 days, the goalkeeper is the oldest football player of the Ukrainian national team.
  • Oleksandr Petrakov brought the number of matches at the head of the national team to 15. And this is the eighth result in the biography of the national team of Ukraine. The record is held by Oleg Blokhin (64).

All matches of the national team of Ukraine in 2022

date

Status

Opponent

Score

The authors of the heads of the national team of Ukraine

01.06.2022

World Cup 2022

Scotland

3:1

Yarmolenko, Yaremchuk, Dovbyk

05.06.2022

World Cup 2022

Wales

0:1

 

08.06.2022

LN-2023

Ireland

1:0

Tsygankov

11.06.2022

LN-2023

Armenia

3:0

Malinovskyi, Karavaev, Mykolenko

14.06.2022

LN-2023

Ireland

1:1

Dovbyk

21.09.2022

LN-2023

Scotland

0:3

 

24.09.2022

LN-2023

Armenia

5:0

Tymchyk, Zubkov, Dovbyk (2), Ignatenko

27.09.2022

LN-2023

Scotland

0:0

 

The composition of the national team of Ukraine in 2022

Goalkeepers

Date of birth

Clubs

G

Min

Г

Andrii LUNIN

11.02.1999

Real (Spain)

3

270

0c

Heorhii BUSHCHAN

31.05.1994

Dynamo

2

180

2c

Andrii PYATOV

28.06.1984

Shakhtar

1

90

0c

Dmytro RIZNYK

30.01.1999

Vorskla

1

90

1c

Anatolii TRUBIN

01.08.2001

Shakhtar

1

90

3c

Defenders

Date of birth

Clubs

G

Min

Г

Vitalii MYKOLENKO

29.05.1999

"Everton" (England)

7

554

1

Mykola MATVIYENKO

02.05.1996

Shakhtar

7

536

0

Illya ZABARNYI

01.09.2002

Dynamo

6

540

0

Oleksandr KARAVAYEV

02.06.1992

Dynamo

6

470

1

Valerii BONDAR

27.02.1999

Shakhtar

2

180

0

Oleksandr TYMCHYK

20.01.1997

Dynamo

2

180

1

Taras KACHARABA

07.01.1995

Slavia (Czech Republic)

2

160

0

Denys POPOV

17.02.1999

Dynamo

2

109

0

Bohdan MYKHAILICHENKO

21.03.1997

Shakhtar

1

90

0

Oleksandr SYROTA

11.06.2000

Dynamo

1

90

0

Serhii KRYVTSOV

15.03.1991

Shakhtar

1

75

0

Midfielders

Date of birth

Clubs

G

Min

Г

Mykhailo MUDRYK

05.01.2001

Shakhtar

8

418

0

Viktor TSYGANKOV

15.11.1997

Dynamo

7

387

1

Serhii SYDORCHUK

02.05.1991

Dynamo

7

373

0

Andrii YARMOLENKO

23.10.1989

"West Ham" (England), "Al Ain" (UAE)

6

434

1

Ruslan MALINOVSKYI

04.05.1993

Atalanta (Italy)

6

433

1

Oleksandr ZUBKOV

03.08.1996

"Ferencvaros" (Hungary), "Shakhtar"

6

154

1

Mykola SHAPARENKO

04.10.1998

Dynamo

5

289

0

Danylo IGNATENKO

13.03.1997

Bordeaux (France)

5

197

1

Alexander PAHALONOK

07.05.1997

Dnipro-1

5

172

0

Oleksandr ZINCHENKO

15.12.1996

Manchester City (England)

4

346

0

Taras STEPANENKO

08.08.1989

Shakhtar

4

293

0

Forwards

Date of birth

Clubs

G

Min

Г

Artem DOVBYK

21.06.1997

Dnipro-1

8

364

4

Roman YAREMCHUK

27.11.1995

"Benfica" (Portugal), "Bruges" (Belgium)

6

327

1

Danylo SIKAN

16.04.2001

Shakhtar

2

29

0

Coach

Date of birth

 

G

 

 

Oleksandr PETRAKOV

06.08.1957

 

8

 

 

 

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