The squad of the Ukrainian youth team (U-17) for friendly matches against Turkey and Greece has been determined

The Ukrainian U-17 youth team (players born in 2008 or later) will play friendly matches against the teams of Turkey and Greece.

Photo: UAF press service

From February 9 to 18, the Ukrainian U-17 youth team will hold a training camp in Croatia as part of their preparation for the second qualifying round of Euro 2025. The blue and yellows will also play two friendly matches – against Turkey (February 13) and Greece (February 16). The delegation will be led by the curator of youth and junior national teams Unai Melgosa, and the head coach will be Oleksandr Sytnyk.

Squad of the Ukrainian U-17 youth team

Goalkeepers: Ihor Kostenko (“Benfica”, Portugal), Yehor Krapivin (“Espanyol”, Spain), Fedor Tkachenko (“Betis”, Spain).

Defenders: Dmytro Konovalov (“Dynamo” Kyiv), Tymofii Nivinskyi (LNZ Cherkasy), Yehor Onishchuk, Ivan Verhun (both – “Shakhtar” Donetsk), Arsen Zalypka, Dmytro Solomon (both – “Rukh” Lviv), Artem Muradyan (“Borussia” M, Germany), Mykyta Melnyk (“Imolese”, Italy), Oleksandr Tkachenko (“Werder”, Germany), Nazar Khlyvnyuk (“Fortuna” D, Germany).

Midfielders: Artem Korzh (“Polissia” Zhytomyr), Artem Zubrii (“Shakhtar” Donetsk), Mukhamad Dzhurabaev (“Rukh” Lviv), Adam Huram, Ilya Kutya (both – “Hajduk”, Croatia), Arseniy Shishkevich (“Rio Ave”, Portugal), Andrii Hamzyk (“Bayer”, Germany).

Forwards: Dmytro Zudin (“Hajduk”, Croatia), Ilya Menshikov (“Austria”, Austria), Maxim Kucheryavyi (“Dynamo” Kyiv), Maxim Hololobov (“Bayer”, Germany).

The Ukrainian youth team reached Group A1 in the second round of Euro 2025 qualifying (U-17) along with Italy, Croatia, and Slovakia. It has been determined that the mini-tournament will take place from March 19 to 25 in Croatia. Only the group winner will qualify for the final tournament.