Changes in the composition of the Ukrainian national team
Two players dropped out due to health issues.
Changes have been made to the lineup of the Ukrainian national team. Due to an injury sustained at the club, Artem Dovbyk is out, while Oleksandr Andriievskyi will miss joining the national team due to appendicitis. Instead of them, head coach Andrea Maldera called up two players from the reserve list: midfielder Oleksandr Pikhalyonok and forward Ihor Krasnopyra.
Ukrainian national team lineup.
Goalkeepers: Anatolii Trubin ("Benfica" Lisbon, Portugal), Dmytro Riznyk ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Heorhii Yermakov ("Kharkiv").
Defenders: Illya Zabarnyi ("Paris Saint-Germain", France), Mykola Matviienko, Valerii Bondar (both - "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Eduard Sobol, Bohdan Mykhailichenko (both - "Polissya" Zhytomyr), Vitalii Mykolenko ("Everton" Liverpool, England), Taras Mykhavko ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Illya Kryvtskiy ("Kharkiv"), Oleksandr Drambaiev ("LNZ" Cherkasy).
Midfielders: Oleh Ocheretko, Yehor Nazarina (both - "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Volodymyr Brazhko, Mykola Shaparenko, Andrii Yarmolenko, Oleksandr Pikhalyonok (all - "Dynamo" Kyiv), Oleksandr Nazarenko ("Polissya" Zhytomyr), Ivan Varfolomeyev ("Lincoln", England), Heorhii Sudakov ("Benfica" Lisbon, Portugal), Maksym Khlan ("Gornik" Zabrze, Poland), Oleksandr Zubkov ("AEK" Athens, Greece), Viktor Tsyhankov ("Ajax" Amsterdam, Netherlands).
Forwards: Danylo Sikan ("Anderlecht" Brussels, Belgium), Artem Stepanov ("Utrecht", Netherlands), Matviy Ponomarenko ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Vladyslav Vanat ("Girona", Spain), Roman Yaremchuk ("Olympiacos" Piraeus, Greece), Ihor Krasnopyr ("Polissya" Zhytomyr).
Reserve list.
Oleksandr Romanchuk ("Universitatea" Craiova, Romania), Roman Vantukh ("Karpaty" Lviv), Dmytro Kryskiv, Oleksandr Karavaiev (both - "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Artem Bondarenko ("Al-Ahli" Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Vladyslav Veleten ("Polissya" Zhytomyr), Artem Shabanov ("Kharkiv"), Hennadii Synchuk ("Montreal", Canada).
Schedule of matches of the Ukrainian national team in the Nations League 2026/2027
September 25: Hungary - Ukraine
September 28: Georgia - Ukraine
October 2: Ukraine - Northern Ireland
October 5: Ukraine - Hungary
November 14: Northern Ireland - Ukraine
November 17: Ukraine - Georgia
