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Ukraine Olympic football team

The Ukraine Olympic football team (, also known as Ukraine Under-23) represents Ukraine in international football competitions in Olympic Games. The team is one of the Ukrainian junior football teams and only is called when Ukraine qualifies for Summer Olympics.

Ukraine made its football debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, headed by Ruslan Rotan.

History

On 2 July 2023 the Ukraine national under-21 football team beat their peers from France at the European Championship quarterfinals and for their first time in its history qualified to the Summer Olympics football tournament. Along with the Ukrainian team to the competition also qualified Israel and Spain.

Ruslan Rotan, the coach of Ukraine under-21 team, became the head coach of the team for the Olympic Games.

The first match of the Olympic team of Ukraine was a control and took place on 25 March 2024 at the Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture against the Japan national under-23 football team (0:2).

The same year in June the Ukraine Olympic participated at the Maurice Revello Tournament and won their first title by defeating Ivory Coast U20 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out in the final, after the match had finished in a 2–2 draw.

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of all match results, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2024

Coaching staff

Currently approved for the 2024 Summer Olympics:

Head coaches

Players

Current squad

All the players must be born on or after 1 January 2001, with a maximum of three overage players permitted. Names in bold denote players who have been capped for the senior team.

The following players were called up for the friendly and 2024 Summer Olympics matches against Egypt, Paraguay, Iraq, Morocco and Argentina on 14, 18, 24, 27 and 30 July 2024, respectively.

  • Caps and goals correct as of 30 July 2024, after the match vs Argentina.

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up for the team within the last 12 months.

Notes
  • <sup>U21</sup> = Was called up to national U21 squad instead.
  • <sup>WD</sup> = Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.
  • <sup>INJ</sup> = It is not part of the current squad due to injury.
  • <sup>RES</sup> = Reserves squad – replaces a member of the squad in case of injury/unavailability.
  • <sup>PRE</sup> = Preliminary squad/standby.

Overage players in Olympic Games

Since 1992, the Olympic roster may consist of under-23 players, plus three over-age players.

Honours

Head-to-head record

, after the match against Argentina.

The following table shows Ukraine Olympic team's all-time international record.

Olympic record

Ukrainian players on the Soviet Union roster

References

External links