The Ukraine national under-21 football team is also known as Youth ootballteam of Ukraine ( uk, Молодіжна збірна України) is one of junior national

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teams of

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for participation in under-21 international competitions. The team is managed by the

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staff, committee of national teams. The team participates in qualifications to the Olympic competitions and the continental (UEFA) U-21 competitions. Their first game the team played was on October 28, 1992. Its first competition the team entered in 1994 the qualification round for the 1996 European Under-21 Championship. The team has qualified for a tournament twice. The under-21s not only qualified for the 2006 European Under-21 Championship, but also reached the final, where they lost to on 4 June 2006 by 3–0. The under-21s also qualified to the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship that was held in

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History

Its first game under national flag the team played on 28 October 1992 by hosting

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in a friendly game in

Ternopil Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

( Ternopil City Stadium). The game ended in scoreless tie and was attended by 4,000 people. The initial squad consisted of following players Sergei Aleksandrov,

Dmytro Parfenov Dmytro Parfyonov ( uk, Дмитро Володимирович Парфьонов), Dmitry Parfenov (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Парфёнов; born 11 September 1974) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former defende ...

, Serhiy Fedorov,

Oleksandr Koval Oleksandr Mykolayovych Koval ( uk, Олександр Миколайович Коваль; born 3 May 1974 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player. He works as an assistant coach in Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. Honours ;Shakhtar ...

Vladyslav Vashchuk Vladyslav Viktorovych Vashchuk ( ua, Владислав Вікторович Ващук; born on 2 January 1975) is a retired Ukrainian football defender who last played for FC Volyn Lutsk. Vashchuk was also a member of the Ukrainian national ...

Vitaliy Kosovskyi Vitaliy Kosovskyi ( uk, Віталій Владиславович Косовський; born 11 August 1973) is a former football midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv and a Ukraine international. Career Born in Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, his first steps in f ...

, Ihor Luchkevych, Serhiy Onopko,

Vladimir Lebed Vladimir Anatolyevich Lebed (russian: Владимир Анатольевич Лебедь; born 17 August 1973), known as Volodymyr Lebid in Ukrainian, is a Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian retired football player. International career Lebed pl ...

, Hennadiy Moroz, Vitaliy Pushkutsa, Kostyantyn Pinchuk, Oleg Solovyov,

Ruslan Romanchuk Ruslan Romanchuk (born 12 October 1974) is a retired Ukrainian football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that ...

, Oleksandr Karabuta. Later two out of the squad Lebed and Aleksandrov continued to play for Russian national teams. In August 1993, the Ukraine youth squad took part in its first tournament where it contested few teams outside of Europe. Its first competitive tournament became the Youth Euro 1996 where it was eliminated in qualification group. Its first game Ukraine U-21 played at home against its opponents from Lithuania on 6 September 1994. It took Ukraine another 10 years to finally qualify to the tournament final when in

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it almost won the tournament losing in the final game to Netherlands which earned its first title instead.

Tournaments

UEFA U-21 Championship

Since 1984, it is an official U-21 European championship. Since 1992, the tournament doubles as qualifying competition for the Olympic Games every four years. *

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: Did not enter. * 1996: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 6 in qualification group. * 1998: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group. *

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: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 5 in qualification group. *

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: Did not qualify. Finished 1st of 5 in qualification group. Lost qualification play-off to Switzerland. * 2004: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group. *

: Runner-up. Finished 2nd of 7 in qualification group. Won qualification play-off over Belgium. * 2007: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group. * 2009: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group. *

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: Group Stage. Finished 1st of 5 in qualification group. Won qualification play-off over Netherlands *

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: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group. *

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: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group. Lost qualification play-off to Germany. * 2017: Did not qualify. Finished 4th of 6 in qualification group. * 2019: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group. *

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: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group.

UEFA U-21 European Championship record

Olympic qualification

Since 1992, the olympic roster may consist out of under-23 year old players, plus three over the age players. * 1996: Did not qualify. Eliminated in European qualifications. *

: Did not qualify. Eliminated in European qualifications. * 2004: Did not qualify. Eliminated in European qualifications. * 2008: Did not qualify. Eliminated in European qualifications. *

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: Did not qualify. Finished 4th of 4 in Group Stage of the UEFA final tournament. * 2016: Did not qualify. Eliminated in European qualifications. *

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: Did not qualify. Eliminated in European qualifications.

Important friendlies

Lobanovsky tournament (2006– )

* Winners (2): 2009, 2019 * Runners-up (4): 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (2012–2014)

* Winner (1): 2014 * Runner-up (1):

Head coaches

Coaching staff

Currently approved:

UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship play-offs

The four play-off winners qualify for the

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Results and fixtures

2022

2023

Players

Current squad

* The following players were called up for the friendly matches vs and in November 2022. * Match dates: 19 and 21 November 2022 * Opposition: matches vs and *Caps and goals correct as of: 19 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 *^INJ = Player withdrew from the squad because of injury. *^WD = Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue. *^RES = Reserves squad – replaces a member of the squad in case of injury/unavailability.

Head-to-head record

The following table shows Ukraine Under-21s all-time international record, correct as of 29 March 2021. *Serbia and Montenegro +1=1-1 2-4 (Yugoslavia) *Kyrgyzstan national +1=0-0 4-0 *Norway u-23 +0=0-1 0-2 *England C +0=0-1 0-2

Home venues record

Since the game Ukraine v Belarus (28 October 1992), Ukraine youth team have played their home games at 19 different

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s. :Last updated: 2 June 2016. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

Notes

References

External links

Official website of the Ukrainian Association of Football Under-21 Team

Official website of the Ukrainian Association of Football Under-21 Team full results archive

UEFA Under-21 website
Contains full results archive

Contains rosters and photographs.

Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships. * Andrei Kudyrko.

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