Ukraine’s Serhiy Rebrov has confirmed his 26-man squad that will compete at EURO2024, with the tournament getting underway in Germany next month.
Rebrov, himself capped 75 times as a striker for Ukraine, will oversee his first major tournament with the Blue and Yellow since taking the reins last June.
Rebrov has opted to go with experience, naming no uncapped players as Ukraine find themselves battling to progress from Group E alongside Belgium, Romania and Slovakia. His side will prepare for the tournament by playing friendlies against Germany and Poland, in Nuremberg and Warsaw respectively.
Embed from Getty ImagesBournemouth’s Illya Zabarnyi is the joint-youngest player in the squad alongside Heorhiy Sudakov, with the pair set to turn 22 on 1 September – but it’s Volodymyr Brazhko and Maksym Taloverov with the least experience. Both players have been capped just twice for the senior side.
The majority of Rebrov’s squad play at home in the Ukrainian top flight, meaning Zabarnyi is just one of four Premier League players to make the cut. He’s joined by Chelsea’s Mykhaylo Mudryk, Everton’s Vitaliy Mykolenko and Arsenal’s Oleksandr Zinchenko, who will captain the side.
The squad
GK: heorhiy bushchan, anatoliy trubin, andriy lunin
DEF: yukhym konoplya, bohdan mykhaylichenko, maksym taloverov, illya zabarnyi, vitaliy mykolenko, valeriy bondar, mykola matviyenko, oleksandr tymchyk, oleksandr svatok
MID: serhiy sydorchuk, taras stepanenko, ruslan malinovskyi, mykhaylo mudryk, volodymyr brazhko, viktor tsyhankov, oleksandr zinchenko, mykola shaparenko, heorhiy sudakov
ATT: andriy yarmolenko, roman yaremchuk, artem dovbyk, oleksandr zubkov, vladyslav vanat