The Ukrainian youth football team has named its squad for the September matches of the Euro 2025 qualifiers

Unai Melgosa's team will play against Serbia and Northern Ireland.

The Ukrainian youth football team (U-21)announced the roster for the September matches of the qualification for the 2025 European Championship.

For the matches against Serbia and Northern Ireland, the head coach of the “blue-yellows” Unai Melgos called up 24 football players to the team, the official website of the UAF reports.

The composition of the youth team of Ukraine (U-21)

Goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Kyrylo Fesyun (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yakov Kinareykin (Karpaty Lviv).

Defenders:Arseniy Batagov (Trabzonspor, Turkey), Vladimir Salyuk (Metalist 1925 Kharkov), Roman Didyk, Vitaly Roman (both “Rukh” Lvov), Taras Mikhavko, Konstantin Vivcharenko (both “Dynamo” Kiev), Ilya Krupsky (Vorskla Poltava), Artem Smolyakov (Polesie Zhytomyr).

Midfielders:Ivan Varfolomeyev (Slovan, Czech Republic), Maksym Melnichenko, Oleh Ocheretko (both from Karpaty Lviv), Valentin Rubchinskiy, Nazar Voloshin, Maksym Bragaru (all from Dynamo Kyiv), Yegor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Oleksandr Yatsyk (Zorya Luhansk), Oleh Fedor, Ilya Kvasnitsa (both from Rukh Lviv), Maksym Khlan (Lechia, Poland).

Forwards: Igor Krasnopir (Rukh Lviv), Igor Gorbach (Zorya Luhansk).

The Ukrainians will play their home match against Serbia on September 6 in Riga, Latvia (kick-off at 19:00 Kyiv time), and the away match against Northern Ireland will take place on September 10 in Ballymena (kick-off at 21:45 Kyiv time).

Tournament position in the group of the Ukrainian national team in the qualification for Euro 2025 (U-21)

1. Ukraine – 18 points (6 matches), 15:2 (goal difference)

2. England – 18 points (7), 32:5

3. Serbia – 10 points (7), 9:16

4. Northern Ireland – 6 points (6), 4:8

5. Luxembourg – 4 points (8), 4:23

6. Azerbaijan – 3 points (6), 4:14

There will be 16 teams competing in the final part of Euro 2025 (U-21): Slovakia (the host of the final tournament) and 15 more teams that will join it based on the results of the selection (nine group winners, three best teams among the runners-up and three winners of the playoff, in which the six runners-up will play).