Guardians of the Ukrainian National Team: Karavaev’s Jubilee, Zabarniy’s and Yaremchuk’s Mini-Jubilees, and Tsyhankov’s Jump

After two November World Cup 2026 qualifiers against France (0:4) and Iceland (2:0), changes occurred at the top of the historical table of Ukraine national team guardians.

Viktor Tsyhankov (center; photo: O. Popov)

Oleksandr Karavaev played his jubilee, 50th match for the 'blue-yellow' team and now shares the 33−34th positions with Artem Milevskyi.

Vitaliy Mykolenko has brought his matches for the national team to 51, catching up with Yevhen Khacheridi in the register (they share the 31−32nd positions).

Mini-jubilees for Illia Zabarnyi and Roman Yaremchuk: the match against Iceland became the 55th for the Paris Saint-Germain defender in the Ukraine national team jersey (26th place) and the 65th for the Olympiacos forward (17th place).

Viktor Tsyhankov now has 63 matches for the 'blue-yellow', which allowed him to leapfrog in the table over Serhiy Sydorchuk (62 games) and catch up with Vladyslav Vashchuk (they share the 18−19th positions).

Finally, Ruslan Malinovskyi now has 69 appearances for the Ukraine national team, surpassing Andriy Nesmachny and Andriy Vorobey in the register to single-handedly hold the 14th position.