Today, on 4 September, the training camp of the youth national team of Ukraine begins, timed to coincide with two matches - a control match with Germany and the starting match in the Euro 2025 (U-21) qualifiers with Northern Ireland.
Photo: uaf.uaThe next European Championship qualifying cycle of 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.
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).
Earlier, the head coach of the blue and yellows, Unai Melgosa, named 23 players called up for the September training camp. However, the list was subsequently amended to include Andriy Buleza and Kyrylo Sigeev instead of Kostiantyn Vivcharenko and Oleh Ocheretko.
Training camp in Poprad
On 3 September, part of the team moved from Kyiv to Uzhhorod, with Rukh players who played against Metalist 1925 in Lviv on Sunday also joining in. This morning, the delegation of the Ukrainian youth team left for Poprad, where they will prepare for the next two matches. The legionnaires will arrive at the blue-and-yellows' camp during the day. The first training session will start at 18.30 local time. The flight to Germany is scheduled for 14.20 on 6 September.
The composition of the youth national team of Ukraine
Goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Yakiv Kinareikin (Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Kirill Fesyun (Kolos Kovalivka).
Defenders: Arseniy Batagov, Anton Bol (both Zorya Luhansk), Danil Skorko (Oleksandriya), Artem Smolyakov (Polissya Zhytomyr), Vitaliy Roman, Bohdan Slyubyk (both Rukh Lviv), Volodymyr Salyuk (Chornomorets Odesa), Andriy Buleza (Minaj).
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), Ivan Losenko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yevhen Pavliuk (Vorskla Poltava), Kyrylo Sigeev (Oleksandriya).
Forwards: Ihor Krasnopir (Obolon Kyiv), Denys Tesliuk (Rukh Lviv), Bohdan Viunnyk (Shakhtar Donetsk).
