Head coach of the Ukraine U-21 national team Unaï Melgosa has named the squad for the friendly matches against Slovenia and Poland.
Unaï Melgosa. Photo: press service of UAFIn March, the Ukraine U-21 national team will hold a training camp in Turkey as part of the preparation for the final tournament of Euro-2025 (U-21), which will start on the 17th and last until the 25th. During this camp, the blue and yellows will play two friendly matches against their peers: on the 21st against Slovenia and on the 25th against Poland.
Our U-21 national team coach Unaï Melgosa is counting on 23 players in these matches.
Ukraine U-21 National Team Squad
Goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (‘Dynamo’ Kyiv), Georgiy Yermakov (‘Oleksandriya’), Ilya Popovich (‘Kishvarda’, Hungary).
Defenders: Arseniy Batagov (‘Trabzonspor’, Turkey), Volodymyr Salyuk (‘Metalist 1925’ Kharkiv), Eduard Kozyk (‘Kolosa’ Kovalivka), Vitaliy Roman (‘Rukh’ Lviv), Taras Mykhavko, Konstantin Vivcharenko (both – ‘Dynamo’ Kyiv), Ilya Krupskyi (‘Vorskla’ Poltava).
Midfielders: Anton Tsarenko, Maksym Khlan (both – ‘Lechia’, Poland), Ivan Varfolomieiev (‘Slovan’, Czech Republic), Vladyslav Veletien (‘Kolosa’ Kovalivka), Denys Kuzik (‘Kryvbas’ Kryvyi Rih), Oleg Fedor (‘Karpaty’ Lviv), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Maksym Brahariu, Volodymyr Brazhko (all – ‘Dynamo’ Kyiv), Oleksandr Yatsyk (‘Zorya’ Luhansk), Borys Krushynskyi (‘Polissia’ Zhytomyr).
Forwards: Bohdan Vyunyk (‘Lechia’, Poland), Ihor Krasnopir (‘Karpaty’ Lviv).
We remind you that this summer the Ukraine U-21 national team, led by Unaï Melgosa, will participate in the final tournament of Euro-2025 (U-21) in Slovakia, where in the group stage they will play against teams from Denmark (June 12), Finland (June 15), and the Netherlands (June 18).
