The match will take place on Wednesday, September 18.
Donetsk Shakhtar" arrived in Italy for the match of the first round of the main stage of the Champions League season 2024/25 against Bologna".
As reported on the official website of the “miners”, the head coach of the “orange-blacks” Marino Pusic took 28 football players to the match.
Shakhtar's roster for the match against “Bologna”
Goalkeepers: Dmitry Riznyk, Denis Tvardovsky, Kirill Fesyun, Timur Puzankov
Defenders: Bartol Franjic, Valeriy Bondar, Pedro Henrique, Irakli Azarov, Vinicius Tobias, Alaa Gramm, Nikolay Matvienko, Efim Konoplya, Maryan Farina
Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Dmytro Kryskiv, Maryan Shved, Georgiy Sudakov, Oleksandr Zubkov, Anton Glushchenko, Artem Bondarenko, Egor Nazarina, Marlon Gomez, Kevin, Pedrinho, Neverton
Forwards: Lassina Traore, Eguinaldo, Daniil Sikan
On Tuesday, September 17, the Donetsk team will have traditional media events – a pre-match press conference and an open training session.
The Bologna – Shakhtar match will take place on Wednesday, September 18, at the Renato Dall'Ara stadium. The match starts at 19:45 Kyiv time.
The online text broadcast of the Bologna vs. Shakhtar match will be available on our website.
We remind you that in the updated Champions League format, the Miners will play in a single league, where they will play against eight different teams (four home and four away matches).
In addition to Bologna, the current champion of Ukraine will face Atalanta (Italy), Arsenal London (England), Young Boys (Switzerland), PSV (Netherlands), Bayern (Germany), Brest (France) and Borussia Dortmund (Germany).
The eight best teams of the main stage of the Champions League will reach the 1/8 finals. The clubs that take places 9th to 24th in the overall standings will play paired play-off matches for a place in the 1/8 finals. The rest will finish their performance in European competitions.