The Ukrainian youth national team (players born in 2008) will participate in a friendly tournament in Sweden from September 4 to September 9. Their opponents will be peers from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
Volodymyr Samborskyi, who has joined the coaching staff of the Ukrainian youth national teams and will lead the team during the September gathering, has called up 22 footballers from 14 clubs to prepare for this tournament.
Squad of the Ukrainian youth national team U-18
Goalkeepers: Rostyslav Bahlai (“Shakhtar” Donetsk), Kyrylo Khadasievych (“Wolfsburg”, Germany), Fedir Tkachenkо (“Betis”, Spain).
Defenders: Yehor Kostiuk, Nikita Kaluzhny (both - “Shakhtar” Donetsk), Danylo Ohorodnyk (“Dynamo” Kyiv), Arsen Zalyppka (“Rukh” Lviv), Artem Muradyan (“Borussia” M, Germany), Mykyta Melnyk (“Napoli”, Italy), Stanislav Tolstolіс (“Nacional”, Portugal).
Midfielders: Artem Zubrii, Oleksandr Balakai, Oleksandr Sereda (all - “Shakhtar” Donetsk), Nazar Ivaskiv (“Dynamo” Kyiv), Mukhamad Dzhurabaiev (“Rukh” Lviv), Andriy Korol (“Metalist 1925” Kharkiv), Artem Korzh (“Polissia” Zhytomyr), Ilya Kutya (“Hajduk”, Croatia), Anton Martyniuk (PSV, Netherlands).
Forwards: Zakhar Zakharkiv (“Koloss” Kovalivka), Dmytro Zudin (“Hajduk”, Croatia), Ilya Menshykov (“Austria”, Austria).
Match schedule of the Ukrainian national team (U-18) in the tournament in Sweden
04.09.2025. Ukraine — Norway (18:30)
06.09.2025. Sweden — Ukraine (17:00)
09.09.2025. Ukraine — Denmark (18:30)
