The Ukraine national under-19 football team ( uk, Юнацька збірна України з футболу (U-19)) also known as the Junior football team of Ukraine represents

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

in international

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

in the

UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply UEFA Under-19 Championship or the UEFA Euro U-19, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Spain and England ...

and finals of the

FIFA U-20 World Cup The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 whe ...

. It is formed by its head coach who is appointed and directed by the

Ukrainian Association of Football The Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) ( uk, Українська асоціяція футболу, Ukrayins'ka Asotsiyatsiya Futbolu) is the governing body of football in Ukraine. Before 2019 it was known as the Football Federation of Ukr ...

, the governing body for football in Ukraine. * Ukraine national under-18 football team, immediate reserve and formerly the main team before 2002 *

Ukraine national under-20 football team The Ukraine national under-20 football team is primarily a special team that is formed for the FIFA U-20 World Cup after a successful performance of the Ukraine national under-19 football team. The team is also used as an immediate reserve of the ...

, special team that is formed only for the FIFA U-20 World Cup upon successful performance of Ukraine U-19

Overview

Ukraine national under-19 football team is the second youth national football team in the country after the national under-21 football team. Previously it was known as Ukraine national under-18 football team before competitions shifted back in 1999. The team represents Ukraine at the continental championship for under-19 national teams (previously under-18). Most often a lot of its players formerly participated in continental and World competitions for national under-17 football teams. Upon a successful performance at the European championship for the under-19 teams it qualifies for the

that is organized for teams of under-20. Ukraine national under-19 football team has good traditions which it inherited from its parent Soviet national youth football team providing such players like

Serhiy Scherbakov Sergei Gennadiyevich Scherbakov (russian: Серге́й Геннадиевич Щербаков, uk, Сергій Геннадiйович Щербаков, Serhiy Hennadiyovych Shcherbakov; born 15 August 1971) is a former Ukrainian football ( ...

and

Oleg Salenko Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko (russian: Олег Анатольевич Саленко, uk, Олег Анатолійович Саленко; born 25 October 1969) is a Russian-Ukrainian former footballer who played as a forward. He scored a recor ...

for the Ukraine main national team. The under-19 football team has its reserve team known as under-18 football team that also participates in preparations to the under-19 football competitions. Until 2002 the team played as the national under-18 football team for Ukraine. Its first game it played in 1994 away against Israel losing it 0–2.

Honours

* Continental competitions (

UEFA European Under-19 Championship The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply UEFA Under-19 Championship or the UEFA Euro U-19, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Spain and England ...

): ** champions (1): 2009 * 2005 FIFA Bronze Shoe Award: Oleksandr Aliev * 2009 UEFA Golden Player Award: Kyrylo Petrov * 2015 FIFA Golden Shoe Award: Viktor Kovalenko * 2015 FIFA Fair Play Award

Head coaches

* 1999–2002

Anatoliy Kroshchenko Anatoliy Mykolayovych Kroshchenko is a Soviet football player and coach out of Ukraine. Kroshchenko is a product of the Dynamo Kyiv football academy that he finished in 1957 along with Andriy Biba and Oleh Bazylevych. In 1957 he was listed on th ...

* 2001–2002

Oleksandr Ryabokon Oleksandr Ryabokon ( ua, Олександр Дмитрович Рябоконь; born 21 February 1964) is a former Ukrainian football defender, and recently, until 2022, the head-coach of FC Desna Chernihiv in the Ukrainian Premier League. He ...

* 2002-2002

Pavlo Yakovenko Pavlo Oleksandrovych Yakovenko ( uk, Павло Олександрович Яковенко) – or Pavel Aleksandrovich Yakovenko (russian: Павел Александрович Яковенко; born 19 December 1964 in Nikopol, Ukrainian SSR ...

* 2003–2006

Yuriy Kalitvintsev Yuriy Mykolayovych Kalitvintsev ( uk, Юрій Миколайович Калитвинцев, russian: link=no, Ю́рий Никола́евич Калитвинцев; born 5 May 1968) is a football manager and former player who manages Poli ...

* 2009-2009

* 2010–2012

Oleh Kuznetsov Oleh Volodymyrovych Kuznetsov (born as Oleg Wladimirowitsch Kuznetsow in Germany) ( uk, Олег Володимирович Кузнєцов) (born 22 March 1963) is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional player. He won domestic ho ...

* 2012–2013 Yuriy Moroz * 2012–2016 Oleksandr Holovko * 2015–2016

* 2016–2017

Volodymyr Tsytkin Volodymyr Borysovych Tsytkin ( uk, Володимир Борисович Циткін; born 1 August 1966) is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian footballer who played as a goalkeeper and current football manager of Khust Khust ( uk, Хуст; hu, ...

* 2017-2017

Volodymyr Yezerskiy Volodymyr Ivanovych Yezerskiy ( uk, Володимир Іванович Єзерський; born 15 November 1976) is a former professional Ukrainian football defender. He also played for the Ukrainian national team in 1998–2008. Yezerskiy ...

* 2017–2018 Oleksandr Petrakov * 2019–''present'' Serhiy Nahornyak

Tournaments

Official

(as under-20 team) *

Invitationals

* Valentin Granatkin Memorial (friendly in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) * Copa del Atlantico (for under-18) * Memorial Stevan Cele Vilotic

Official tournaments

Unlike the under-21 team, the continental competitions for under-19 take place on annual basis starting from 1992.

European championship

;''Under-18 competitions'' ;''Under-19 competitions''

FIFA U-20 World Cup

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

: Round of 16 (led by Anatoli Kroschenko) *

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: Round of 16 (led by

Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko ( uk, Олексій Олександрович Михайличенко; born 30 March 1963) is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional player. He is a Distinguished Master of Sports of the US ...

) *

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: Round of 16 (led by Oleksandr Petrakov) *

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

: Champions (led by Oleksandr Petrakov)

Results and fixtures

2022

2023

Current squad

The following players were selected for the 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification matches against

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and

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on 17, 20 and 23 November 2022 respectively. ''Caps and goals correct as of 23 November 2022, after the match vs .''

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up for the team within the last 12 months. ;Notes *^PRE = Preliminary squad – replaces a member of the squad in case of injury/unavailability.

Honours

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

References

External links

Uefa Under-19 website
Contains full results archive {{Ukrainian Premier League Reserves European national under-19 association football teams Under-19 Youth football in Ukraine

Overview

Honours

Head coaches

Tournaments

Official

Invitationals

Official tournaments

European championship

FIFA U-20 World Cup

Recent results

2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship

Group 6

Results and fixtures

2022

2023

Current squad

Recent call-ups

Honours

See also

References

External links