Ukraine national rugby league team

Ukraine
Region Europe
Head coach Artur Martyrosyan
RLIF ranking 28th
First international
 Ukraine 40-6 Latvia 
(Riga, Latvia; 24 July 2009)
Biggest win
 Ukraine 112-0 Latvia 
(Kiev, Ukraine; 18 September 2010)
Biggest defeat
 Russia 62-14  Ukraine
(Moscow, Russia; 27 June 2010)

The Ukraine national rugby league team was established in 2007 to represent Ukraine at rugby league football. Ukraine is in the fourth tier developing nations along with Estonia and Latvia. The national side played their first international game as a nation playing against the Great Britain Students going down 36-18. Ukraine was originally scheduled to play in the 2008 European Bowl but withdrew at the last minute due to problems with the teams visas.[1]

Ukraine played their first full international game against Latvia in the 2009 European Bowl winning the contest 40-6.[2] Later that weekend, they wrapped up their European Bowl campaign, taking the championship with an 86-0 win over Estonia.[3]

In 2010, Ukraine competed in an expanded European Shield. They competed in the Eastern group, suffering their first international defeat in Russia before winning heavily against Latvia to finish 2nd.

Current Squad

Ukraine
NRL squad Interchange Coaching staff
  •  1 Vladimir Mashkin - FB
  • 26 Pavel Pogosha - WG
  • 23 Anton Lyubensky - CE
  •  4 Igor Shevtsov - CE
  • 15 Pavel Kardakov - WG
  •  6 Aleksander Skorbach - FE
  •  3 Andrey Bashevsky - CE, HB
  •  8 Vladimir Lobanj - PR
  • 21 Artur Martyrosyan - HK
  • 10 Maksim Miroshnichenko - PR
  • 11 Yury Smoly - SR
  • 12 Mikhail Troyan - SR
  • 13 Sergey Kravchenko - LK
  • 19 Dmitry Litvinov
  • 24 Andrey Markelov

Head coach

  • Artur Martyrosyan
Legend:
  • (c) Captain
  • (vc) Vice captain

Updated: 29 June 2010
Source(s): European Shield 2010

All-Time Results Record

Top 27 Rankings as of November 2011[4]
Rank Change Team Points
1  Australia 1,406.59
2  New Zealand 991.56
3  England 799.47
4  Papua New Guinea 260.49
5  France 246.08
6 1  Wales 245.12
7  Fiji 145.35
8 2  Samoa 123.19
9  Tonga 82.07
10  Scotland 75.39
11 2  United States 59.67
12 1  Ireland 72.81
13 2  Italy 38.55
14  Lebanon 38.42
15 1  Serbia 41.48
16 4  Cook Islands 62.11
17 2  Russia 28.44
18  Norway 32.04
19 2  Germany 34.52
20  Malta 26.46
21  Canada 21.91
22 4  South Africa 11.85
23 2  Jamaica 13.78
24 2  Latvia 19.55
25  Ukraine 19.12
26  Czech Republic 14.27
27  Sweden 03.90
 Denmark Unranked
 Hungary
 India
 Indonesia
 Japan
 Saudi Arabia
 Morocco
 Netherlands
 Pakistan
 Philippines
 Singapore
Team First Played Played Win Draw Loss Points For Points Against Last Meeting
Latvia 2009 2 2 0 0 152 6 2010
Estonia 2009 1 1 0 0 86 0 2009
 Russia 2010 2 0 0 2 18 100 2011
 Serbia 2011 1 0 0 1 4 10 2011
Date Result Competition Venue Attendance
30 September 2011 Serbia def. Ukraine 10-4 Milan Kosanovic Cup Belgrade, Serbia Not known[5]
10 September 2011 Russia def. Ukraine 36-4 Milan Kosanovic Cup Kharkov, Ukraine Not known[6]
18 September 2010 Ukraine def. Latvia 112-0 Rugby League European Shield, East Division Arsenal Stadum, Kharkiv, Ukraine Not known[7]
27 June 2010 Russia def. Ukraine 62-14 Rugby League European Shield, East Division Vereya, Russia Not known[8]
26 July 2009 Ukraine def. Estonia 86-0 Rugby League European Bowl Upezhtsiems Stadium, Riga, Latvia Not known[9]
24 July 2009 Ukraine def. Latvia 40-6 Rugby League European Bowl Upezhtsiems Stadium, Riga, Latvia Not known[10]

References

  1. ^ "Ukrainians Euro Bowl hopes Quashed". RLEF. 2008-07-30. http://www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=888. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
  2. ^ "UKRAINE TAKE OPENING EUROPEAN BOWL CLASH". RLEF. 2009-07-25. http://www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=1102. Retrieved 2009-07-25. 
  3. ^ "UKRAINE TAKE EUROPEAN BOWL". RLEF. 2009-07-27. http://www.rlef.eu.com/news.php?id=1105. Retrieved 2009-07-27. 
  4. ^ RLIF; RLIF Rankings
  5. ^ http://www.rlef.eu.com/other/report?RLE00000284
  6. ^ http://www.rlef.eu.com/other/report?RLE00000206
  7. ^ http://www.rlef.eu.com/european_shield/report?RLE00000052
  8. ^ http://www.rlef.eu.com/european_shield/report?RLE00000050
  9. ^ http://www.rlef.eu.com/european_bowl/report?RLE00000109
  10. ^ http://www.rlef.eu.com/european_bowl/report?RLE00000108
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