WU-17: the women's national team of Ukraine will try to return to League A this year

20.01.2023 15:30

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This year, the women's national team of Ukraine WU-17 will take part in League B matches of the second stage of Euro-2023 selection and will try to return to the top division.

According to the approved by the UAF Women's Football Committee and confirmed by the UAF Executive Committee calendar of women's football events for 2023 Serhiy Sapronov's wards will start their first training camp on February 26, after which the second stage of the Euro-2023 B League selection awaits the team at the beginning of March. The blue-yellow team will play in group 6 together with the teams of Bulgaria and Latvia. The tournament will take place in Bulgaria in the period from March 3 to March 9.

"We will focus on winning the first place, which will allow us to return to League A. We will make maximum efforts for this. Perhaps already in April 2023, if the situation permits, at the Development Cup in Romania, we will review another group of young soccer players already with an eye on performing in the first round of selection for the next continental championship." — Told me earlier in the comments of UAF Serhii Sapronov.

In April, the blue-yellow team will attend a training camp and participate in the UEFA Development Tournament, which will take place in Romania on the 22nd-29th. Four teams will take part in the competition: Ukraine, Romania, Greece and Azerbaijan.

In September, the women's national team of Ukraine WU-17 is waiting for matches of a new cycle - the selection of Euro-2024, the draw for which will take place in June.

Euro-2023 (WU-17). Second round

In League A, 28 teams will play in seven groups, including seven national teams that were promoted from League B following the results of the first round. The seven A-League second-round group winners (and the best second-place finisher if Estonia finishes first in the group) will qualify for the final stage, which will take place between 14 and 26 May 2023. The fourth-placed teams in the groups will start the first round of the 2023/2024 season in League B.

Teams in League B, including those relegated from League A after the autumn stage, in six groups (two with four participants, four with three) will fight for tickets to the first round of League A in the next draw. They will be awarded to the winners of the groups, as well as to the best second team. 

We will remind you that the women's national team of Ukraine is in its group of the first round took it last place and relegated to League B.

League A

Group A1: Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Romania.

Group A2: England, Norway, Belgium, Croatia.

Group A3: Germany, Portugal, Hungary, North Macedonia.

Group A4: Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia.

Group A5: Ireland, France, Italy, Kosovo.

Group A6: Spain, Denmark, Serbia, Belarus.

Group A7: Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Wales.

League B.

Group B1: Greece, Faroe Islands, Lithuania, Moldova.

Group B2: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Montenegro.

Group B3: Scotland, Israel, Georgia.

Group B4: Iceland, Luxembourg, Albania.

Group B5: Northern Ireland, Turkey, Armenia.

Group B6: Ukraine, Latvia, Bulgaria.