Zabarnyi became the 10th Ukrainian to play in the French championship

As already reported, former defender of Kyiv’s "Dynamo" Illya Zabarnyi debuted yesterday in the lineup of French PSG, playing a full match in the first round of the French championship against "Nantes" (1:0).

Illya Zabarnyi

As a result, according to Transfermarkt statistics, the center-back became the tenth Ukrainian footballer to play in the French championship during the years of independent Ukraine.

Ukrainian footballers who played in the French championship during the years of independent Ukraine

1. Oleksandr Zavarov ("Nancy") — 1990−1992, 58 matches

2. Eduard Sobol ("Strasbourg") — 2023−2025, 28

3. Serhiy Skachenko ("Metz") — 1999−2002, 27

4. Ruslan Malinovskyi ("Marseille") — 2022−2023, 20

5. Maksym Levytskyi ("Saint-Étienne") — 2000, 15

6. Danylo Ihnatenko ("Bordeaux") — 2021−2022, 11

7. Pavlo Yakovenko ("Sochaux") — 1992−1993, 6

8. Yuriy Yakovenko ("Ajaccio") — 2013−2014, 2

9. Mykola Kukharevych ("Troyes") — 2021−2022, 2

10. Illya Zabarnyi (PSG) — 2025, 1 (continues playing).