Ukraine National Football Team is the national football team of Ukraine and is controlled by the Football Federation of Ukraine. After Ukrainian Independence and breakaway from the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Hungary on 29 April 1992. The team's biggest success is reaching the last eight at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which also marked the team's debut in the finals of a major championship. As a host nation Ukraine is automatically qualified for Euro 2012, this will be its debut in a European Football Championship.
Ukraine got their UEFA EURO 2012 preparations off to an ideal start as the co-hosts registered a 4-0 win against Estonia in Austria.
The unlucky trio of goalkeeper Oleksandr Bandura, defender Vitaly Mandziuk and midfielder Taras Stepanenko flew home from Munich at lunchtime today after Ukraine coach Oleh Blokhin decided to leave them out of his final 23-man squad for UEFA EURO 2012. The three players had formed part of Blokhin's 26-man group preparing for the finals in Austria but found themselves on the outside when the coach finalised his squad after the 4-0 friendly win against Estonia last night. They boarded a flight out of Munich at 13.30CET. Ukraine will step up their preparations in their remaining two warm-up games against Austria in Innsbruck on Friday and Turkey in Ingolstadt on 5 June before the co-hosts begin their Group D campaign against Sweden on 11 June.
UEFA Euro 2012 Ukraine Squad
Goal Keeper
1 Maksym Koval 9 December 1992 Dynamo Kyiv
12 Andriy Pyatov 28 June 1984 Shakhtar Donetsk
23 Oleksandr Horyainov 29 June 1975 Metalist Kharkiv
Defender
2 Yevhen Selin 9 May 1988 Vorskla Poltava
3 Yevhen Khacheridi 28 July 1987 Dynamo Kyiv
5 Oleksandr Kucher 22 October 1982 Shakhtar Donetsk
13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk 13 May 1979 Shakhtar Donetsk
17 Taras Mykhalyk 28 October 1983 Dynamo Kyiv
20 Yaroslav Rakitskiy 3 August 1989 Shakhtar Donetsk
21 Bohdan Butko 13 January 1991 Illichivets Mariupol
Midfielder
4 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 30 March 1979 Bayern Munich
6 Denys Harmash 19 April 1990 Dynamo Kyiv
8 Oleksandr Aliyev 3 February 1985 Dynamo Kyiv
9 Oleh Husyev 25 April 1983 Dynamo Kyiv
11 Andriy Yarmolenko 23 October 1989 Dynamo Kyiv
14 Ruslan Rotan 29 October 1981 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
18 Serhiy Nazarenko 16 February 1980 Tavriya Simferopol
19 Yevhen Konoplyanka 29 September 1989 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Forward
7 Andriy Shevchenko (captain) 29 September 1976 Dynamo Kyiv
10 Andriy Voronin 21 July 1979 Dynamo Moscow
15 Artem Milevskiy 12 January 1985 Dynamo Kyiv
16 Yevhen Seleznyov 20 July 1985 Shakhtar Donetsk
22 Marko Devych 27 October 1983 Shakhtar Donetsk
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
Andriy Pyatov
Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Voronin
Denys Harmash
Maksym Koval
Oleksandr Horyainov
Yevhen Selin
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