Ukraine national football team 1992

Ukraine national football team 1992
Season 1992
Manager Viktor Prokopenko
Assistant manager Mykola Pavlov
Leonid Tkachenko
Home stadium Avanhard Stadium, Uzhhorod
...
Matches played 4
Wins 0
Draws 2
Losses 2
Goals scored (0.75 per match)
Goals against 6
Top goalscorer 1 - Yuriy Maksymov, Ivan Hetsko, Yuriy Hudymenko
Players 39
Goalscorers 3
Debutants everyone
Highest scoring Ukraine - Hungary 1:3 (April 29)
Longest winless run 4
Longest losing run 1
Highest attendance 13,000 Ukraine - Hungary (April 29)
Lowest attendance 10,000 Hungary - Ukraine (August 26)
Belarus - Ukraine (October 28)
Average attendance 11,204
1993

Ukraine national football team 1992 was the very first composed team that represented the now independent Ukraine. Note that it was not the very first to represent Ukraine, though. The country while being part of the Soviet Union used to play several games mostly against the Turkish nationals back 1930's. Those games, however, later were scratched and went into the oblivion.

Contents

Overview

The 1992 season was the first season for the Ukraine national football team. The Federation, particularly its president Bannykov had organized first game with Hungary on the small stadium near the border with the country of the opponents. The field on which the game was organized could have been counted as the neutral considering the fact that Uzhhorod has a big population of native Hungarians.

The Federation hired Viktor Prokopenko to prepare team for the World Cup of 1994. Mr. Bannykov tried to get a qualification spot for the national team. By the end of the year it was clear that there is no hope for that, which reflected upon the motivation of the players. Plus numerous players that were born in Ukraine already started to defect to the Russian national football team camp such as Kamchelskis, Onopko, Yuran, and others. Other plays simply chose not to participate for the Ukrainian side such as Lyutyi and Yaremchuk. Prokopenko only received a consent from six former Soviet international players (they are outlined in bold in the list below), others only had some experience on the youth level if any at all.

After losing another game to Hungary Prokopenko was fired and was replaced by his assistance as interim coaches Pavlov and Tkachenko. The Ukrainian internationals lost that game on the last minutes having a relative advantage throughout the game. That loss is particularly logical after somewhat surprisingly bleak performance against the national team of USA, they played before it. After the game in the USA could also be observed a withdrawal of some key players from the team's roster.

The substituted coaches did manage not to loose against the national team of the neighboring Belarus. Tkachenko at that time successfully coached Metalist leading it to the finals of the Cup, while Pavlov has recommended himself well by managing Tavriya Simferopol in the Soviet First League. By the end of the year a lot of footballers decided to try their skills for the more successful Russian national football team that completely adopted all the achievements of its Soviet predecessor. Those player switched their citizenship in hope to be included on the team that would make to the finals in the United States,[1] such as Andrei Kanchelskis, Viktor Onopko, and others. Even after playing for the already FIFA-admitted national team (Ukraine) up to three games the FIFA allowed those players to be included to the Russia's World Cup roster (Yuri Nikiforov, Akhrik Tsveiba, Oleg Salenko). The goal of Yuri Hudymenko eventually played a bad joke on him as he was not allowed to change the sides due to that fact. Proven to be a great strikes in the dawn of the 90's, after transferring to Dynamo Moscow he successfully disappeared from the football horizon.

Although being recognized already in 1992 for strange reasons the administration of Ukrainian Football Federation had failed to secure recognition and submit the required documentation in time to compete in the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification[1] and was only adopted by FIFA in late 1994.[1]

A total of 39 players participated in the national team from 12 Premier League teams and two more players from Rangers. The most players to the national team delegated Dynamo Kyiv nine with Chornomorets and Dnipro seven a piece.

Historical results

Friendly International (unofficial)

1992-11-18
?:?
Poland  3 – 3  Ukraine Stadion OSiR, Zamość
 ?
 ?
 ?
Report Holovan
Pokhlebayev (pen)
Popov

Friendly International

1992-10-28
?:?
Belarus 1 – 1  Ukraine Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Alexey Spirin (Russia)
Gotsmanov  49' Report Maksymov  79'

Friendly International

1992-08-26
?:?
Hungary  2 – 1  Ukraine Városi Stadion, Nyíregyháza
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Octavian Streng (Romania)
Fischer 12' (pen.)
K.Kovács  82'
Nagy  89'
Report Hudymenko  35'
Leonenko  57'

Friendly International

1992-06-27
?:?
United States  0 – 0  Ukraine Rutgers Stadium, Piscataway[2]
Attendance: 11,815[3]
Referee: Michael Caulfield (Ireland)
Report

Friendly International

1992-04-29
?:?
Ukraine  1 – 3  Hungary Avanhard Stadium, Uzhhorod
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)
Hetsko  90' Report Salloi  61'
Kiprich  70'84' (pen.)

Roster

Note: In red are highlighted players for whom the international career in the Ukrainian football national team ended. Note that almost half of the Prokopenko's original roster never made it back on the list. In bold are identified players that had a prior experience at international level for the Soviet team.

Goalkeepers

Name Date of birth Club Caps (goals) Most Recent Game
Oleksandr Pomazun 10.11.1971 Metalist Kharkiv 3 (-3) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Ihor Kutepov 01.01.1965 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (-3) v Hungary, April 29, 1992

Defenders

Name Date of birth Club Caps (goals) Most Recent Call up
Yuriy Nikiforov 09.16.1970 Chornomorets Odessa 3 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Serhiy Bezhenar 08.09.1970 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Oleksandr Bondarenko 29.06.1966 Torpedo Zaporizhia 2 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Yevhen Drahunov 13.02.1964 Shakhtar Donetsk 2 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Serhiy Tretyak 01.01.1970 Chornomorets Odessa 2 (0) v USA, June 27, 1992
Andriy Annenkov 21.01.1969 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Yaroslav Vatamanyuk 25.05.1963 Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk 1 (0) v USA, June 27, 1992
Serhiy Diryavka 18.04.1971 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Oleg Kuznetsov 03.22.1963 Rangers F.C. 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Oleh Luzhny 08.05.1968 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (0) v Hungary, April 29, 1992
Yuri Moroz 27.09.1970 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (0) v USA, June 27, 1992
Ihor Pokydko 15.02.1965 Nyva Ternopil 1 (0) v USA, June 27, 1992
Yuriy Shelepnytsky 18.01.1965 Chornomorets Odessa 1 (0) v Hungary, April 29, 1992
Serhiy Shmatovalenko 01.20.1967 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Akhrik Tsveiba 09.10.1966 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Andriy Yudin 28.06.1967 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992

Midfielders

Name Date of birth Club Caps (goals) Most Recent Call up
Yuriy Sak 03.01.1967 Chornomorets Odessa 3 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Ilia Tsymbalar 06.17.1969 Chornomorets Odessa 3 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Yuriy Dudnyk 26.09.1968 Metalurh Zaporizhia 2 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Serhiy Kandaurov 02.02.1972 Metalist Kharkiv 2 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Serhiy Kovalets 05.09.1968 Dynamo Kyiv 2 (0) v USA, June 27, 1992
Yuriy Maksymov 12.08.1968 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (1) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Olexiy Mykhailychenko 03.30.1963 Rangers F.C. 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Evgueni Pokhlebaev 25.11.1971 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Andriy Polunin 05.03.1971 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Dmytro Topchiev 25.09.1966 Karpaty Lviv 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Ihor Zhabchenko 01.07.1968 Kremin Kremenchuk 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992

Forwards

Name Date of birth Club Caps (goals) Most Recent Call up
Serhiy Husyev 01.07.1967 Chornomorets Odessa 3 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Ivan Hetsko 04.06.1968 Chornomorets Odessa 2 (1) v USA, June 27, 1992
Yuri Hudymenko 10.03.1966 Tavriya Simferopol 2 (1) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Oleksandr Pryzetko 31.01.1971 Metalist Kharkiv 2 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Serhiy Scherbakov 08.15.1971 Shakhtar Donetsk 2 (0) v USA, June 27, 1992
Viktor Leonenko 10.05.1969 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (0) v Hungary, August 26, 1992
Valentyn Moskvyn 08.01.1968 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 (0) v Belarus, October 28, 1992
Serhiy Pohodin 29.04.1968 Shakhtar Donetsk 1 (0) v Hungary, April 29, 1992
Serhiy Rebrov 06.03.1974 Shakhtar Donetsk 1 (0) v USA, June 27, 1992
Oleg Salenko 10.25.1969 Dynamo Kyiv 1 (0) v Hungary, April 29, 1992

Coach(es)

Name Wins Draws Losses Achievement/Remarks
Viktor Prokopenko 0 1 2 no win streak
Mykola Pavlov 0 1 0 interim coach together with Leonid Tkachenko

Season goalscorers

# Player Career Goals (Caps) Pct. Playing status Age
1 Yuriy Maksymov 1992 - 2002 1 (1) 1 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 24
2 Ivan Hetsko 1990 - 1997 1 (2) 0.5 FC Chornomorets Odessa 24
= Yuriy Hudymenko 1992 1 (2) 0.5 SC Tavriya Simferopol 26


See also

References