U-21: the youth national team of Ukraine begins preparations for matches with Morocco and Azerbaijan

Today, March 18, in Turkey, the youth national team of Ukraine begins its work before the March matches - a friendly with Morocco U-23 and an official one within the framework of the Euro-2025 qualification (U-21) against Azerbaijan. 

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On Sunday, Unai Melgosa's team gathered in Kyiv, after which they left for Moldova. At night, the delegation flew from Chisinau to Antalya and reached the deployment site in the morning. A group of players who were involved in the training process of the national team (Ruslan Nescheret, Kostyantyn Vyvcharenko, Oleg Ocheretko, Nazar Voloshyn, Arseniy Batagov and Valentin Rubchinsky) arrived at the youth team camp from Malaga via Istanbul. 

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We will remind, on March 26, a match will be held as part of the European Youth Championship selection Azerbaijan — Ukraine, which will be held in Baku at "Azersun Arena". The meeting will start at 14:00 Kyiv time. Before that, blue-yellow will hold friendly match with Morocco U-23 team. The game will take place on March 22 at the Mardan Stadium in Antalya. It starts at 20:00 Kyiv time. Let's add that with five victories in five matches, Unai Melgosa's team is confidently leading the group F table.

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The squad of Ukraine U-XNUMX:

Goalkeepers: Pavlo Isenko (Vorskla Poltava), Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Yakiv Kinareykin (Dnipro-1 Dnipro).

Defenders: Ilya Krupskyi (Vorskla Poltava), Kostyantyn Vivcharenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Arseniy Batagov (Zorya Lugansk), Artem Smolyakov (Polyssia Zhytomyr), Vitaliy Roman, Bohdan Slyubyk (both Rukh Lviv), Volodymyr Salyuk (Chornomorets Odesa).

Midfielders: Yehor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Yevhen Pavlyuk (Vorskla Poltava), Nazar Voloshyn (Dynamo Kyiv), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Oleg Ocheretko (both Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Oleksandr Yatsyk (Zorya, Lugansk), Maksym Khlan (Lehia, Poland), Borys Krushynskyi (Polyssia Zhytomyr), Illya Kvasnytsia, Yevheniy Pastukh (both - Rukh Lviv), Ivan Varfolomeev (Slovan, Czech Republic), Maksym Bragaru (Chornomorets Odesa).

Forwards: Igor Gorbach (Zorya Lugansk), Igor Krasnopir (Obolon Kyiv).

Euro-2025 (U-21). Qualification tournament. Group F

07.09.2023

Northern Ireland - Luxembourg - 0:1

11.09.2023

Luxembourg — England — 0:3

12.09.2023

Ukraine - Northern Ireland - 1: 0

Serbia — Azerbaijan — 2:0

12.10.2023

Azerbaijan — Northern Ireland — 0:1

Luxembourg - Ukraine - 0: 3

England — Serbia — 9:1

16.10.2023

Ukraine — England — 3:2

Northern Ireland — Serbia — 1:2

17.10.2023

Azerbaijan — Luxembourg — 3:2

17.11.2023

Ukraine — Luxembourg — 4:0

18.11.2023

Serbia - England - 0:3

21.11.2023

Ukraine - Azerbaijan - 1: 0

Serbia - Luxembourg - 2:0

England - Northern Ireland - 3:0

Standings

 

 Team

G

W

D

L

GD

P

1

 Ukraine

5

5

0

0

12-2

15

2

 England

5

4

0

1

20-4

12

3

 Serbia

5

3

0

2

7-13

9

4

 Azerbaijan

4

1

0

3

3-6

3

5

 Luxembourg

6

1

0

5

3-15

3

6

 Northern Ireland

5

1

0

4

2-7

3

22.03.2024

Luxembourg - Serbia

Azerbaijan — England

26.03.2024

England — Luxembourg

Azerbaijan - Ukraine

Serbia - Northern Ireland

06.09.2024

Luxembourg — Azerbaijan

Northern Ireland — England

Ukraine - Serbia

10.09.2024

Northern Ireland - Ukraine

Azerbaijan — Serbia

11.10.2024

England - Ukraine

12.10.2024

Northern Ireland — Azerbaijan

15.10.2024

Luxembourg — Northern Ireland

England — Azerbaijan

Serbia - Ukraine

Playoffs: November 11-19, 2024.

The final part of Euro 2025 (U-21) features 16 teams: Slovakia and 15 more national teams that will join it based on the selection results (nine group winners, three best teams among runners-up and three play-off winners, in which will be played by six runners-up).

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