Ukraine national under-21 football team

Ukraine Under-21

Nickname(s)	Молодіжка (Young men)
Association	Football Federation of Ukraine
Head coach	Oleksandr Holovko
Captain	Vladlen Yurchenko
Most caps	Oleksandr Yatsenko (38)
Top scorer	Pylyp Budkivskyi (18)
Home stadium	Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium
First colours Second colours
First international
Ukraine 0–0 Belarus  Ternopil,[1] Ukraine; 28 October 1992
Biggest win
Ukraine 8–0 Armenia  Kiev, Ukraine; 13 October 1998
Biggest defeat
France 4–0 Ukraine Paris, France; 26 March 1999 Note: Records for competitive matches only.
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances	2 (first in 2006)
Best result	Runner-up (2006)

The Ukraine national under-21 football team is also known as Youth [football] team of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Молодіжна збірна України) is one of junior national football teams of Ukraine for participation in under-21 international competitions. The team is managed by the Football Federation of Ukraine staff, committee of national teams. The team participates in qualifications to the Olympic competitions and the continental (UEFA) U-21 competitions.

Their first game the team played was on October 28, 1992. Its first competition the team entered in 1994 the qualification round for the 1996 European Under-21 Championship. The team has qualified for a tournament twice. The under-21s not only qualified for the 2006 European Under-21 Championship, but also reached the final, where they lost to Netherlands on 4 June 2006 by 3–0. The under-21s also qualified to the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship that was held in Denmark.

Tournaments

UEFA U-21 Championship

Since 1984, it is an official U-21 European championship. Since 1992, the tournament doubles as qualifying competition for the Olympic Games every four years.^[2]

• 1994: Did not enter.
• 1996: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 6 in qualification group.
• 1998: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
• 2000: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 5 in qualification group.
• 2002: Did not qualify. Finished 1st of 5 in qualification group. Lost qualification play-off.
• 2004: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group.
• 2006: Runner-up
• 2007: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
• 2009: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
• 2011: Group Stage
• 2013: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group.
• 2015: Did not qualify. Lost in playoffs during qualification phase.

UEFA U-21 European Championship record

UEFA European Under-21 Championship										UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualification
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1960–1994	Part of  Soviet Union									Part of  Soviet Union
1996	Did Not Qualify									10	6	2	2	24	12
1998										8	5	1	2	14	4
2000										8	3	2	3	16	12
2002										12	6	1	5	16	17
2004										8	2	5	1	8	5
2006	Runner-up	2nd	5	2	1	2	4	6		14	8	2	4	27	11
2007	Did Not Qualify									2	1	0	1	2	4
2009										8	5	0	3	16	7
2011	Group Stage	8th	3	0	1	2	1	5		10	5	4	1	16	8
2013	Did Not Qualify									10	5	2	3	21	10
2015										10	6	1	3	20	13
2017										10	4	2	4	14	12
2019
Total	Runner-up	2/11	8	2	2	4	5	11		110	56	22	32	194	115

Olympic qualification

Since 1992, the olympic roster may consist out of under-23 year old players, plus three over the age players.^[3]

• 1996: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 6 in qualification group.
• 2000: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 5 in qualification group.
• 2004: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group.
• 2008: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
• 2012: Did not qualify. Eliminated in UEFA U-21 Championship Group Stage.
• 2016: Did not qualify. Eliminated in playoffs during qualification stage.

Olympic record

Since 1992, the olympic roster may consist out of under-23 year old players, plus three over the age players.^[4]

Host Nation(s) - Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1896 - 1992	preceded with Soviet Union
1996	Did not qualify
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
Total	0/5	0	0	0	0	0	0

Important friendlies

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

• 2012: semi-final
• 2013: runner-up
• 2014: winner

Lobanovsky tournament

• 2006: third
• 2007: third
• 2008: third
• 2009: winner
• 2011: runner-up
• 2013: runner-up
• 2015: runner-up
• 2016: third

Coaches

Manager	Nation	Ukraine career	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	Win %	Qualifying cycle	Final tour
Volodymyr Muntian		1992–1994	15	8	5	2	25	12	53.33	1996
Viktor Kolotov		1995	7	3	2	2	17	10	42.86	1996
Oleksandr Ischenko		1996–1997	11	7	2	2	19	6	63.64	1998
Viktor Kolotov		1998–1999	12	6	3	3	32	16	50	2000
Volodymyr Onyschenko		1999–2001	21	9	3	9	23	31	42.86	2000, 2002
Anatoliy Kroshchenko[5]		2002	10	1	6	3	10	12	10	2004
Pavlo Yakovenko		2002–2004	20	8	6	6	24	20	40	2004, 2006
Hennadiy Lytovchenko		2003–2004	2	1	1	0	4	2	50
Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko		2004–2007	41	21	6	14	4	2	51.22	2006, 2007, 2009	2006
Volodymyr Muntian (caretaker)		2008	5	0	2	3	2	8	0
Pavlo Yakovenko		2008–2012	70	31	25	14	109	66	44.29	2009, 2011, 2013	2011
Serhiy Kovalets		2013–2015	?	?	?	?	?	?		2013, 2015
Oleksandr Holovko		2015–present	?	?	?	?	?	?		2017

Coaching staff

Currently approved:

Head coach	Oleksandr Holovko
Coach	Vasyl Kardash
Coach	Oleksandr Melaschenko
Coach	Tolyat Sheykhametov
Goalkeeper Coach	Valeriy Palamarchuk

Forthcoming fixtures

2019 UEFA qualifications

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Latvia	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	Final tournament		—	0–0	11 Sep '18	12 Oct '18	1 Sep '17	10 Oct '17
2	Andorra	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	Play-offs if among four best runners-up		16 Oct '18	—	10 Oct '17	27 Mar '18	5 Sep '17	23 Mar '18
3	England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			5 Sep '17	11 Oct '18	—	6 Sep '18	27 Mar '18	6 Oct '17
4	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			6 Oct '17	10 Nov '17	1 Sep '17	—	16 Oct '18	11 Sep '18
5	Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			7 Sep '18	11 Sep '18	10 Nov '17	10 Oct '17	—	12 Oct '18
6	Scotland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			10 Nov '17	6 Sep '18	16 Oct '18	5 Sep '17	14 Nov '17	—

Recent matches

Ukraine  v  Montenegro

6 June 2017 Int'l Friendly	Ukraine	2–1	Montenegro	Kiev
18:00 (GMT+3)	Hutsulyak  8' Zinchenko  18'		Vusurović  6'	Stadium: Dynamo Stadium

Players

Current squad

Following 21 players friendly matches against Northern Ireland on 6 October and Iceland on 11 October.^[6]

Caps & Goals as of 6 October 2015 after match vs  Northern Ireland.

Name	DOB	Club	Caps (goals)
Goalkeepers
Roman Pidkivka	9.05.1995	FC Karpaty Lviv	9 (0)
Dmytro Bezruk	30.03.1996	FC Chornomorets Odesa	4 (0)
Defenders
Oleksandr Svatok (captain)	27.09.1994	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	31 (3)
Taras Kacharaba	07.01.1995	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	11 (0)
Pavlo Lukyanchuk	19.05.1996	FC Dynamo Kyiv	6 (0)
Ihor Kyriukhantsev	29.01.1996	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	6 (0)
Mykola Matviyenko	02.05.1996	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	3 (0)
Midfielders
Oleh Danchenko	01.08.1994	FC Chornomorets Odesa	26 (3)
Dmytro Myshnyov	26.01.1994	FC Illichivets Mariupol	20 (1)
Andriy Bliznichenko	24.07.1994	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	17 (2)
Ambrosiy Chachua	02.04.1994	FC Karpaty Lviv	6 (0)
Yuriy Vakulko	10.11.1997	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2 (1)
Vladyslav Kabayev	01.09.1995	FC Chornomorets Odesa	2 (0)
Ihor Kharatin	02.02.1995	FC Zorya Luhansk	1 (0)
Maksym Tretyakov	06.03.1996	FC Chornomorets Odesa	1 (0)
Maryan Mysyk	02.10.1996	FC Stal Kamianske	0 (0)
Strikers
Artem Besyedin	31.03.1996	FC Dynamo Kyiv	12 (5)
Oleksandr Zubkov	03.08.1996	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	5 (0)
Andriy Boryachuk	23.04.1996	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	3 (1)
Oleksiy Hutsulyak	25.12.1997	Villarreal CF C	2 (0)
Artem Dovbyk	21.06.1997	FC Chornomorets Odesa	0 (0)

Recent call-ups

The following players are still eligible and have been called up within the last 12 months.

Name	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)	Latest call-up
Goalkeepers
Heorhiy Buschan	31.05.1994	FC Dynamo Kyiv	1 (0)
Yevhen Hrytsenko	05.02.1995	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Tymofiy Sheremeta	06.10.1995	FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Defenders
Ihor Duts	11.04.1994	Illichivets Mariupol	18 (0)
Denys Miroshnichenko	11.10.1994	FC Karpaty Lviv	17 (0)
Oleksandr Azatskyi	13.01.1994	FC Chornomorets Odesa	13 (0)
Oleksandr Mihunov	13.04.1994	Illichivets Mariupol	11 (0)
Valeriy Boldenkov	08.09.1994	Free Agent	5 (0)
Zurab Ochihava	18.05.1995	FC Dynamo Kyiv	1 (0)
Mykhaylo Shyshka	05.07.1994	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Dmytro Fateev	21.06.1994	FC Zirka Kirovohrad	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Semen Datsenko	10.05.1994	FC Metalist Kharkiv	0 (0)	training process, November, 2014
Andriy Storchous	30.06.1994	MFC Kremin Kremenchuk	0 (0)	v training process, November, 2014
Midfielders
Vladlen Yurchenko	22.01.1994	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	23 (3)
Artem Favorov	19.03.1994	FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	10 (2)
Artem Fylymonov	21.02.1994	FC Chornomorets Odesa	10 (0)
Serhiy Hryn	06.06.1994	FC Illichivets Mariupol	9 (0)
Ivan Petryak	13.03.1994	FC Zorya Luhansk	6 (1)
Serhiy Horbunov	14.03.1994	Free agent	3 (0)
Oleksandr Vasylyev	27.04.1994	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1 (0)
Yuriy Hluschuk	16.01.1995	FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Oleksandr Andriyevskyi	25.06.1994	FC Metalist Kharkiv	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Ivan Hrebenyuk	08.04.1995	FC Sumy	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Dmytro Zaderetskyi	03.08.1994	FC Volyn Lutsk	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Svyatoslav Kozlovskyi	26.03.1994	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Ihor Zhurakhovskyi	19.09.1994	FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	0 (0)	training process, November, 2014
Taras Puchkovskyi	23.08.1994	FC Karpaty Lviv	7 (1)	v  Moldova, May 21, 2014
Vladyslav Pavlenko	05.04.1994	FC Vitebsk	2 (0)	v  Moldova, May 21, 2014
Strikers
Volodymyr Barylko	29.01.1994	FC Chornomorets Odesa	2 (1)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Denys Bezborodko	31.05.1994	FC Zorya Luhansk	1 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Dmytro Khlyobas	09.05.1994	FC Karpaty Lviv	1 (1)
Oleksiy Khoblenko	04.04.1994	FC Chornomorets Odesa	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015
Vitaliy Hemeha	10.01.1994	FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv	0 (0)	training camp, February 1, 2015

Notes:

• ^INJ Injured or recovering from surgery
• ^WD Withdrew

All-time team record

The following table shows Ukraine Under-21's all-time international record, correct as of 11 October 2010.^[7]

Against	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Albania	4	3	1	0	7	1	+6
Armenia	10	8	2	0	31	3	+28
Belarus	8	3	2	3	10	8	+2
Belgium	4	2	1	1	8	5	+3
Bulgaria	5	2	0	3	9	9	0
Czech Republic	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1
China PR	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
Chile	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3
Croatia	3	1	1	1	3	3	+2
Cyprus	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
Denmark	5	3	0	2	7	6	+1
Egypt	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2
England	1	0	0	1	1	3	+2
Estonia	2	2	0	0	8	2	+6
France	3	0	2	1	2	6	−4
Georgia	9	5	2	2	22	6	+16
Germany	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6
Greece	6	3	3	0	5	2	+3
Hungary	2	1	0	1	3	5	−2
Iran	3	2	1	0	7	2	+2
Iceland	2	1	0	1	6	5	+1
Israel	5	2	2	1	4	2	+2
Italy	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1
Latvia	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2
Libya	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Lithuania	5	2	2	1	11	10	+1
Liechtenstein	2	2	0	0	8	1	+7
Kazakhstan	2	2	0	0	3	1	+2
North Korea	1	0	0	1	2	3	−1
Macedonia	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1
Malta	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4
Moldova	5	2	2	1	7	4	+3
Montenegro	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	5	2	1	2	5	7	−2
Northern Ireland	4	2	2	0	7	3	+4
Norway	4	0	0	4	2	8	−6
Poland	6	2	3	1	14	10	+4
Portugal	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1
Romania	3	1	0	2	3	10	−7
Russia	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1
Scotland	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
Serbia	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Serbia and Montenegro	2	1	0	1	1	4	−3
Slovakia	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1
Slovenia	3	3	0	0	8	0	+8
Spain	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1
Sweden	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1
Switzerland	2	0	0	2	2	4	+2
Syria	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Turkey	8	2	2	4	8	12	−4
United States	1	1	0	0	1	1	0
Uzbekistan	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2
Wales	2	2	0	0	4	0	+4
Yugoslavia	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
Total	166	82	39	51	255	177	78

Home venues record

Since the game Ukraine v Belarus (28 October 1992), Ukraine youth team have played their home games at 19 different stadiums.

Last updated: 2 June 2016. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

See also

• Ukraine national football team
• European Under-21 Football Championship
• 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship
• 2006 UEFA Under-21 Championship Finalists

References

External links

• UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
• UEFA Ukraine U-21 page Contains rosters and photographs.
• The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.
• Ukrainian Football Federation Under-21 Team web site (in Ukrainian)