The coaching staff of the Ukrainian national team, which has learned its potential opponents in the 2026 World Cup group, has announced the team's lineup for the World Cup qualification playoffs, the official website of the Ukrainian Football Federation (UAF) reports.
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For the first time, 23-year-old Polissya defender Borys Krushynskyi and 20-year-old Dynamo striker Matviy Ponomarenko have been called up to the national team.
The full composition of the Ukrainian national team looks like this:
goalkeepers — Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica, Portugal), Dmytro Riznyk (Shakhtar), Ruslan Nescheret (Dynamo);
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defenders — Ilya Zabarny (“Paris Saint-Germain”, France), Oleksandr Svatok (“Austin”, USA), Valeriy Bondar, Yefim Konoplya (both – “Shakhtar”), Maksym Taloverov (“Stoke City”, England), Vitaly Mykolenko (“Everton”, England), Bohdan Mykhailychenko, Borys Krushinskyi (both – “Polissya”);
Midfielders — Yegor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Ivan Kalyuzhny (Metalist 1925), Oleg Ocheretko (Shakhtar), Georgy Sudakov (Benfica, Portugal), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Genoa, Italy), Mykola Shaparenko, Oleksandr Pikhalyonok, Nazar Voloshyn (all — Dynamo), Oleksiy Hutsulyak (Polissya), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona, Spain), Oleksandr Zubkov (Trabzonspor, Turkey);
Forwards : Vladislav Vanat (Girona, Spain), Roman Yaremchuk (Lyon, France), Matviy Ponomarenko (Dynamo).
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The reserve list of the “yellow-blue” includes: Yevhen Volynets, Serhiy Chobotenko, Eduard Sarapiy, Oleksandr Nazarenko, Ihor Krasnopir (all – “Polissya”), Kostyantyn Vivcharenko, Volodymyr Brazhko (both – “Dynamo”), Yehor Nazaryna (“Shakhtar”), Oleksiy Sych (“Karpaty”).
Recall that on March 26, the Ukrainian national team will play in the semi-final of the qualifying play-off for the 2026 World Cup against Sweden, and on March 31, the team will face either the play-off final with the winner of the Poland-Albania match, or a friendly match with the team that lost in the same match. The yellow-blue team will host both matches at the Estadio de Valencia stadium in Valencia, Spain.
Previously, “FACTS” reported that Ukrainian national team player Oleksandr Zinchenko “broke down” in his first match as a starter for Ajax.
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