Rebrov has made his choice: who will play for Ukraine against France and Iceland
Serhiy Rebrov, head coach of the Ukrainian national team, has announced the list of players who will prepare for the final qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup.
The Blue and Yellows have two important matches ahead of them:
📅 November 13 – against France in Paris,
📅 November 16 – against Iceland in Warsaw.
The main squad includes 25 players, with another 10 on the reserve list.
Goalkeepers:
Yevhen Volynets (Polissya), Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica), Dmytro Riznyk (Shakhtar).
Defenders:
Ilya Zabarnyi (PSG), Oleksandr Svatok (Austin), Valeriy Bondar, Mykola Matvienko, Yukhim Konoplya (all – Shakhtar), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton), Bohdan Mykhailichenko (Polissya), Oleksandr Karavaev (Dynamo), Arseniy Batagov (Trabzonspor). Midfielders:
Yegor Yarmolyuk (Brentford), Ivan Kalyuzhny (Metalist 1925), Mykola Shaparenko, Volodymyr Brazhko (both Dynamo), Georgiy Sudakov (Benfica), Oleg Ocheretko (Shakhtar), Oleksiy Hutsulyak (Polissya), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Genoa), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona), Oleksandr Zubkov (Trabzonspor).
Forwards:
Artem Dovbyk (Roma), Vladyslav Vanat (Girona), Roman Yaremchuk (Olympiacos).
Reserve list:
Ruslan Neshcheret, Kostyantyn Vivcharenko, Oleksandr Tymchik, Oleksandr Pikhalyonok, Nazar Voloshin (all – Dynamo), Maksym Taloverov (Stoke City), Artem Bondarenko, Yegor Nazarina (Shakhtar), Oleksandr Nazarenko, Vladyslav Veletien (Polissya).
The national team will begin training on November 10.
Players who play in the Ukrainian league will travel to Rzeszów, Poland, and from there they will fly to Paris, where they will be joined by foreign-based players.
On November 12, an official press conference with Serhiy Rebrov and one of the players will be held at the Parc des Princes stadium, as well as a training session for the national team.
After the match against France, the team will fly to Warsaw on November 14 to complete the qualifiers in a match against Iceland.
The decisive stage of qualification lies ahead.
The guys are ready to fight to the end.
We believe in the blue and yellow!
