Unai Melgosa names Ukraine's youth team for matches against Germany and Northern Ireland

Ukraine's youth national team starts in the Euro 2025 (U-21) qualifying tournament with a match against Northern Ireland.

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The next qualifying cycle of the European Championships, the youth national team of Ukraine (players born in 2002 and younger), led by the Spaniard Unai Melgosa, will start on 12 September with a home match against Northern Ireland. The game will take place in Slovakia, at the Poprad National Training Centre (19.30 Kyiv time). In addition to these two national teams, England, Serbia, Azerbaijan and Luxembourg will also play in Group F.

It will be added that in preparation for the start of the Euro 2025 (U-21) qualifiers, the blue and yellows will play a sparring match with the German youth team. The match will take place on 8 September at the Ludwigsparkstadion in Saarbrücken (starting at 19.15 Kyiv time).

The head coach of the blue and yellows Unai Melgosa named the names of 23 players called up for the September training camp.

The composition of the youth national team of Ukraine

Goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Yakiv Kinareikin (Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Kirill Fesyun (Kolos Kovalivka).

Defenders: Kostyantyn Vivcharenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Arsenii Batahov, Anton Bol (both Zorya Luhansk), Danil Skorko (Oleksandriia), Artem Smolyakov (Polissia Zhytomyr), Vitalii Roman, Bohdan Slyubyk (both Rukh Lviv), Volodymyr Saliuk (Chornomorets Odesa).

Midfielders: Yegor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Volodymyr Brazhko, Nazar Voloshyn (both Dynamo Kyiv), Valentyn Rubchynskyi (Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Ilya Kvasnytsia (Rukh Lviv), Maksym Bragaru (Chornomorets Odesa), Oleh Ocheretko, Ivan Losenko (both Shakhtar Donetsk), Yevhen Pavliuk (Vorskla Poltava).

Forwards: Ihor Krasnopir (Obolon Kyiv), Denys Tesliuk (Rukh Lviv), Bohdan Viunnyk (Shakhtar Donetsk).