Ukraine national student football team

The Ukraine student football team represents Ukraine in international student football competitions and is controlled by the FFU, the governing body for football in Ukraine, and sports section of the Ministry of Education.

Ukraine
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Zhovto-Blakytni
(the Yellow-Blues)
AssociationFootball Federation of Ukraine
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachAnatoliy Buznik[1][2]
Stepan Yurchyshyn (assistant)[2]
FIFA codeUKR


First colours


Second colours

History edit

Until fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukrainian student footballers had chance to compete at Universiades as part of the Soviet Union football team.[3] The Soviet football team debuted at the 1987 Universiades and won the tournament.[3] It was based primarily on the Vilnius team of FK Zalgiris (all Lithuanian team).[3]

The Ukraine student football team debuted in 1995 in Japan.[3] The team was mainly based on FC CSKA Kyiv (not to be confused with its other contemporary FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv) that was recently promoted to the 1995–96 Ukrainian Second League.[3] The team was led by Volodymyr Lozynskyi and Volodymyr Bezsonov reached semifinal where it lost and later for the third place it also yielded to Russia student football team (based on FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny).[3] The Ukrainian forward Pavlo Matviychenko with 5 goal tallies became the top scorer of the tournament in Japan.[3]

In 1997 the team departed under leadership of former Soviet international footballer and Ukrainian head coach Anatoliy Konkov who had on his team such Ukrainian footballers like Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Andriy Vorobey, Andrei Karyaka, as well as Serhiy Perkhun.[3] The team however did not disclose its full potential by placing fourth repeating achievement of the previous Bezsonov-Lozynskyi's squad.[3]

To the 1999 tournament the team was formed by Viktor Zhylin and was based on FC Systema-Boreks Borodianka that was managed by Zhylin at that time.[3]

In 2001 the team led by Anatoliy Buznik won its first medals when in final game Ukraine lost to the team of Japan.[3] The Ukraine student football team of Buznik was also helped by Ihor Yakubovskyi and consisted of following players[3]

 
The 2007 Summer Universiade

The winning squads of 2007 and 2009 tournaments were led by Volodymyr Lozynskyi and assisted by Ivan Shepelenko.[3] The 2007 consisted of following players[3]

The 2009 consisted of following players[3]

On 17 August 2018 there first gathered Ukraine national female student football team for the 2019 Universiade preparation.[4] The head coach of the team was appointed the head coach of Ukraine women's national football team Natalya Zinchenko.

Competitive record edit

Universiade edit

Summer Universiade[5]
Year Round Pld W D L GS GA Dif Pts
1979-1991 part of the Soviet Union
  1979 did not enter (unofficial)
  1981 no tournament
  1983
  1985 did not enter
  1987 part of the Soviet Union
  1989 no tournament
  1991 part of the Soviet Union
  1993 did not enter
  1995 Semifinals 6 2 2 2 9 11 -2 8
  1997 Semifinals 6 2 3 1 5 3 +2 9
  1999 Group stage 6 2 2 2 10 11 -1 8
  2001 Final 6 4 0 2 4 3 +1 12
  2003 Group stage 6 3 1 2 13 5 +8 10
  2005 did not qualify
  2007 Winners 5 5 0 0 11 4 +7 15
  2009 Winners 6 2 4 0 7 5 +2 10
  2011 Group stage 6 2 1 3 6 7 -1 7
  2013 Quarterfinals 6 2 1 3 8 11 -3 7
  2015 Group stage 6 1 2 3 7 13 -6 5
  2017 Quarterfinals 6 3 0 3 8 10 -3 9
  2019 Quarterfinals 5 2 1 2 5 6 -1 7
Total 2 titles 70 30 17 23 93 89 +4 107

Last games edit

Group B edit

Ukraine  0–2  Italy
Report Mercadante   38'
Strada   43'
Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)
Ukraine  1–0  Mexico
Kostyshyn   75' Report
Referee: Luis Quiroz Prado (Ecuador)

Quarterfinals edit

Brazil  2–1  Ukraine
Report Kostyshyn   9'
Referee: Rohit Saggi (Norway)

5th–8th place semifinals edit

Republic of Ireland  1–2  Ukraine
Hollywood   67' Report Doroshenko   56'
Udod   90+1'

Fifth place match edit

Ukraine  1–1  South Korea
Radchenko   45' Report Kim Hyeon-woo   60'
Penalties
1–3
Referee: Luis Quiroz (Ecuador)

Current squad edit

Squad as of 01 July 2019[6][7]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1 1GK Vadym Soldatenko (Captain) (1996-05-28) 28 May 1996 (age 27)   Avanhard Kramatorsk
12 1GK Artem Pospyelov (1998-01-11) 11 January 1998 (age 26)   Mariupol

15 2DF Oleksiy Lobov (1997-08-16) 16 August 1997 (age 26)   Avanhard Kramatorsk
5 2DF Dmytro Yukhymovych (1996-07-27) 27 July 1996 (age 27)   Ahrobiznes Volochysk
4 2DF Bohdan Kushnirenko (1995-11-02) 2 November 1995 (age 28)   Mykolaiv
3 2DF Andriy Spivakov (1995-05-15) 15 May 1995 (age 28)   Berkut-Lehion Brovary
20 2DF Ernest Astakhov (1998-08-21) 21 August 1998 (age 25)   Kremin Kremenchuk
2 2DF Oleh Sokolov (1999-07-12) 12 July 1999 (age 24)   Oleksandriya

16 3MF Roman Tolochko (1998-10-25) 25 October 1998 (age 25)   Karpaty Lviv
8 3MF Maksym Hrysyo (1996-05-14) 14 May 1996 (age 27)   Karpaty Lviv
7 3MF Taras Zaviyskyi (1995-04-12) 12 April 1995 (age 29)   Buchonia Flieden
6 3MF Andriy Ponedelnik (1997-02-28) 28 February 1997 (age 27)   Bukovyna Chernivtsi
14 3MF Artur Dumanyuk (1996-11-15) 15 November 1996 (age 27)   Ahrobiznes Volochysk
13 3MF Arsentiy Doroshenko (2000-06-27) 27 June 2000 (age 23)   Kolos Kovalivka
9 3MF Artem Radchenko (1995-01-02) 2 January 1995 (age 29)   Mykolaiv
10 3MF Yevhen Chumak (1995-08-25) 25 August 1995 (age 28)   Shevardeni-1906 Tbilisi
18 3MF Denys Kostyshyn (1997-08-31) 31 August 1997 (age 26)   Kolos Kovalivka

17 4FW Andriy Shtohrin (1998-12-14) 14 December 1998 (age 25)   Chornomorets Odesa
19 4FW Mykhaylo Udod (1997-02-17) 17 February 1997 (age 27) Unattached
11 4FW Anatoliy Nuriyev (1996-05-20) 20 May 1996 (age 27)   Mynai

Coaching Staff edit

Former coaches edit

Top scorers edit

Since 2009

Achievements edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ukraine student football team departed for the Universiade in Taipei (Студентська збірна України з футболу вирушила на Універсіаду в Тайбей). UNIAN. 16 August 2017
  2. ^ a b Mykhailov, V. Ukraine team through Amsterdam flies for victories to Taiwan (Сборная Украины через Амстердам летит за победами на Тайвань). Zbirna. 15 August 2017
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Valerko, Artur. Analysis of the football team: one more team of Ukraine departed for medals (Розбір збірної: ще одна команда України вирушила за медалями). Sport Arena. 4 July 2019
  4. ^ Historical assembly of Ukrainian female student football team (Історичний збір жіночої студентської збірної України з футболу). Womensfootball.com.ua. 14 August 2018
  5. ^ Summer Universiades - Football Tournaments. RSSSF
  6. ^ "Ukraine's Student Team Goes to Italy at World University - Official site of Ukrainian Football Association".
  7. ^ Botsyun, Kostiantyn. Ukraine student football team at the 2019 Summer Universiade: announcements, forecasts, games schedule, where to watch them (Сборная Украины на Летней Универсиаде-2019: анонс, прогнозы, расписание игр, где смотреть). Footboom. 1 July 2019

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