Andriy Yarmolenko ended up on the reserve list instead of the main one.
The head coach of the Ukrainian national team Serhiy Rebrov announced the names of the players called up for the October matches Nations League 2024/25 against Georgia and the Czech Republic.
The main list includes 25 players, another eight players were included in the reserve list, the official website of the UAF reports.
It should be noted that the captain of the Ukrainian national team Andriy Yarmolenko was on the reserve list instead of the main one.
Shakhtar midfielder Dmytro Kryskiv received his debut call-up to the national team, but his teammate Artem Bondarenko was only included in the reserve list.
Due to injuries, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Ruslan Malinovskyi were not called up to the camp of the “blue-yellows”.
The Ukrainian national team roster for the October matches of the League of Nations
Goalkeepers: Georgiy Bushchan (Dynamo Kyiv), Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica Lisbon, Portugal), Andriy Lunin (Real Madrid, Spain).
Defenders:Mykola Matviyenko, Yefim Konoplya, Valeriy Bondar (all from Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Tymchyk (Dynamo Kyiv), Bohdan Mykhailychenko (Polesye Zhitomir), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton Liverpool, England), Ilya Zabarnyi (Bournemouth, England), Maksym Taloverov (LASK Linz, Austria).
Midfielders: Mykola Shaparenko, Volodymyr Brazhko, Vladislav Kabayev, Oleksandr Pikhalenok (all from Dynamo Kyiv), Taras Stepanenko, Georgiy Sudakov, Dmytro Kryskiv, Oleksandr Zubkov (all from Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksiy Gutsulyak (Polesye Zhitomir), Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea London, England), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona, Spain).
Forwards:Artem Dovbyk (Roma, Rome, Italy), Roman Yaremchuk (Olympiacos Piraeus, Greece), Vladislav Vanat (Dynamo Kyiv).
Reserve list
Dmytro Riznyk (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Svatok (Austin, USA), Oleksandr Martynyuk (Oleksandria), Andriy Yarmolenko, Vitaliy Buyalsky (both – Dynamo Kyiv), Artem Bondarenko, Danylo Sikan (both – Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Nazarenko (Polesye Zhytomyr).
In October, the Ukrainian national team will play two nominally home matches of the League of Nations. On October 11, in the 3rd round, the “blue-yellows” will host Georgia in Poznan, and on October 14, in the 4th round, they will play against the Czech Republic in Wroclaw.
Recall that in the 2024/25 Nations League season, Rebrov's team is competing in Group B1 against the Czech Republic, Albania and Georgia.
In the opening matches of the tournament, the Ukrainians suffered defeats from Albania (1:2) and the Czech Republic (2:3). After two rounds, the Ukrainian team is in last place in its group, without scoring a single point. Georgia is leading with 6 points, Albania and the Czech Republic have 3 points each.