The Ukrainian national team has effectively begun preparations for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against France (November 13) and Iceland (November 16).
The players competing in the Ukrainian Championship departed yesterday by train/bus to Polish Rzeszów and successfully reached it this morning, from where they will fly to the capital of France. Legionnaires will join the Ukrainian national team directly in Paris.
Squad of the Ukrainian National Team
Goalkeepers: Yevhen Volynets (Polissya), Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica, Portugal), Dmytro Riznyk (Shakhtar).
Defenders: Illya Zabarnyi (PSG, France), Oleksandr Svatok (Austin, USA), Valeriy Bondar, Mykola Matviyenko, Yukhym Konoplya (all — Shakhtar), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton, England), Bohdan Mykhailichenko (Polissya), Oleksandr Karavaev, Taras Mykhailko (both — Dynamo).
Midfielders: Yehor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Ivan Kalyuzhnyi (Metalist 1925), Mykola Shaparenko, Nazar Voloshyn (both — Dynamo), Heorhii Sudakov (Benfica, Portugal), Oleh Ocheretko, Yehor Nazaryna (both — Shakhtar), Oleksiy Hutsulyak (Polissya), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Genoa, Italy), Viktor Tsyhankov (Girona, Spain), Oleksandr Zubkov (Trabzonspor, Turkey).
Forwards: Artem Dovbyk (Roma, Italy), Vladyslav Vanat (Girona, Spain), Roman Yaremchuk (Olympiacos, Greece).
Reserve List
Ruslan Neshcheret, Kostiantyn Vivcharenko, Oleksandr Tymchyk, Oleksandr Pikhalyonok (all — Dynamo), Maksym Talovierov (Stoke City, England), Artem Bondarenko (Shakhtar), Oleksandr Nazarenko, Vladyslav Veletin (both — Polissya).
