Ukraine’s national football team has announced its squad for the final UEFA Nations League group-stage matches against Northern Ireland and Georgia. Oleksii Kashchuk, a winger for Azerbaijan’s Qarabag, has received his first call-up to the senior national team.
The list of players was published on the official website of the Ukrainian Football Association. The UAF said the official squad includes 25 players, while another nine footballers have been placed on the reserve list.
Ukraine national team squad
Goalkeepers:
- Anatolii Trubin (Benfica, Portugal);
- Dmytro Riznyk (Shakhtar);
- Heorhii Yermakov (Kharkiv).
Defenders:
- Mykola Matviienko (Shakhtar);
- Valerii Bondar (Shakhtar);
- Eduard Sarapii (Polissia);
- Borys Krushynskyi (Polissia);
- Illia Krupskyi (Kharkiv);
- Taras Mykhavko (Dynamo);
- Illia Zabarnyi (PSG, France);
- Vitalii Mykolenko (Everton, England).
Midfielders:
- Oleh Ocheretko (Shakhtar);
- Yehor Nazaryna (Shakhtar);
- Oleksandr Andriievskyi (Polissia);
- Oleksandr Nazarenko (Polissia);
- Ivan Varfolomieiev (Lincoln, England);
- Yehor Yarmoliuk (Brentford, England);
- Heorhii Sudakov (Benfica, Portugal);
- Oleksandr Zubkov (AEK, Greece);
- Hennadii Synchuk (Montreal, Canada);
- Oleksii Kashchuk (Qarabag, Azerbaijan).
Forwards:
- Ihor Krasnopir (Polissia);
- Matvii Ponomarenko (Dynamo);
- Danylo Sikan (Anderlecht, Belgium);
- Roman Yaremchuk (Olympiacos, Greece).
Reserve list
- Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo);
- Heorhii Bushchan (Dynamo);
- Oleksandr Drambaiev (LNZ);
- Volodymyr Brazhko (Dynamo);
- Artem Bondarenko (Al-Ahli, Saudi Arabia);
- Timur Tuterov (Sunderland, England);
- Artem Dovbyk (Bologna, Italy);
- Vladyslav Vanat (Girona, Spain).
After four UEFA Nations League rounds, Ukraine have four points and sit third in their group. In November, the team will play its final two group-stage matches: against Northern Ireland on 14 November and against Georgia on 17 November.
