Kharkiv - Veres. Preview and prediction for the UPL match on 01.08.2026
Football.ua presents a preview of the Ukrainian championship match, which will take place on August 1 and will start at 15:30.
Kharkiv — Veres
Saturday, August 1, 15:30. Arena Livyi Bereh, Kyiv. Head referee — Mykhailo Raida (Zakarpattia region). Live broadcast on UPL.TV
After two months without football, well, except for the World Cup where Spain triumphed, fans are awaiting a new round of the Ukrainian championship, which as always will have its own intrigues, scandals, and investigations. But we still need to live to see that, and now the opening round of the Premier League is just around the corner, and every team wants to start as best as possible.
The most unexpected thing in Ukrainian football during the summer break was the rebranding of the Kharkiv club Metalist 1925, which is now called Kharkiv. The team has changed its face, acquired new partners, and is ready for new challenges — at least on paper.
During the summer break, Mladen Bartulovich's team played eight friendly matches and won only once — at the start of the training camp against Qarabag (6:2), who will face Kyiv's Dynamo in the Conference League qualification next week. However, the opponents of Kharkiv were of a fairly high level — for example, Young Boys (0:2), Salzburg (0:4), Wolfsberg (3:3), Jablonec (0:1), Gra...
