The Ukraine student football team represents

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in international student football competitions and is controlled by the

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, the governing body for football in

, and sports section of the Ministry of Education.

History

Until

fall of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of Nationalities, Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. :s: ...

in 1991, Ukrainian student footballers had chance to compete at Universiades as part of the Soviet Union football team.Valerko, Artur.
Analysis of the football team: one more team of Ukraine departed for medals (Розбір збірної: ще одна команда України вирушила за медалями)
'. Sport Arena. 4 July 2019 The Soviet football team debuted at the 1987 Universiades and won the tournament. It was based primarily on the Vilnius team of FK Zalgiris (all Lithuanian team). The Ukraine student football team debuted in 1995 in Japan. The team was mainly based on

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(not to be confused with its other contemporary FC CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv) that was recently promoted to the

1995–96 Ukrainian Second League The 1995–96 Ukrainian Second League was the fifth season of 3rd level professional football in Ukraine. The league was reorganized and, since being split three seasons ago, merged with the lower league tier known as Ukrainian Third League. ...

. The team was led by Volodymyr Lozynskyi and

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reached semifinal where it lost and later for the third place it also yielded to Russia student football team (based on

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). The Ukrainian forward Pavlo Matviychenko with 5 goal tallies became the top scorer of the tournament in Japan. In 1997 the team departed under leadership of former Soviet international footballer and Ukrainian head coach

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who had on his team such Ukrainian footballers like

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, as well as Serhiy Perkhun. The team however did not disclose its full potential by placing fourth repeating achievement of the previous Bezsonov-Lozynskyi's squad. To the 1999 tournament the team was formed by Viktor Zhylin and was based on

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that was managed by Zhylin at that time. In 2001 the team led by Anatoliy Buznik won its first medals when in final game Ukraine lost to the team of Japan. The Ukraine student football team of Buznik was also helped by Ihor Yakubovskyi and consisted of following players * Goalkeepers:

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( Nafkom-Akademia Irpin), Vadym Zhukov ( Olkom Melitopol) * Defenders: Vasyl Hrechanyi ( Podillia Khmelnytskyi), Yevhen Bredun, Oleh Shkred (both

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), Dmytro Kondratovych (

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), Andriy Yerokhin (

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), Serhiy Klyuchyk (

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), Oleksandr Batrachenko, Ivan Oleksiyenko (both

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), Volodymyr Brayila ( Metalurh Mariopol), Dmytro Bermudes (

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) * Forwards: Oleksandr Antonenko, Ivan Kozoriz (both Systema-Boreks Borodyanka), Oleksiy Telyatnykov (

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), Yaroslav Skydan (

) The winning squads of 2007 and 2009 tournaments were led by Volodymyr Lozynskyi and assisted by Ivan Shepelenko. The 2007 consisted of following players * Goalkeepers: Volodymyr Ikonnykov ( Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk), Artem Shtanko ( Illichivets Mariupol) * Defenders: Andriy Zaporozhan (

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( Krymteplytsia Molodizhne), Roman Bochkur (

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) * Midfielders: Artem Starhorodskyi (

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), Roman Voynarovskyi ( Krymteplytsia Molodizhne), Andriy Misyaylo ( Illichivets Mariupol), Ihor Hordya (

), Dmytro Pronevych ( Dnipro Cherkasy), Roman Lutsenko (

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), Mykola Revutskyi ( Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk), Vadym Hostiev ( Podillya Khmelnytskyi), Oleh Herasymyuk (

) * Forwards: Ihor Khudobyak ( Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk),

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(

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), Dmytro Hunchenko ( Illichivets Mariupol) The 2009 consisted of following players * Goalkeepers: Yuriy Bakhtiyarov ( Bukovyna Chernivtsi), Yuriy Kyslytsia ( Feniks-Illichovets Kalinine) * Defenders: Vladyslav Piskun, Andriy Bashlay (both

(

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), Ihor Hrebynskyi ( Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk), Andriy Zaporozhan ( PFC Oleksandriya) * Midfielders: Oleksiy Repa, Artem Starhorodskyi (both

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(

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), Oleksandr Krokhmalyuk (

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), Ihor Hordya (

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), Andriy Misyaylo (

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), Mykola Revutskyi ( Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk),

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( Nyva Ternopil) * Forwards: Ihor Khudobyak ( Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk),

(

), Dmytro Hunchenko ( Illichivets Mariupol),

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(

) On 17 August 2018 there first gathered Ukraine national female student football team for the 2019 Universiade preparation. The head coach of the team was appointed the head coach of

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Competitive record

Universiade

Last games

Group B

Quarterfinals

5th–8th place semifinals

Fifth place match

Current squad

''Squad as of 01 July 2019''Botsyun, Kostiantyn.
Ukraine student football team at the 2019 Summer Universiade: announcements, forecasts, games schedule, where to watch them (Сборная Украины на Летней Универсиаде-2019: анонс, прогнозы, расписание игр, где смотреть)
Footboom. 1 July 2019

Coaching Staff

* Head coach: Anatoliy Buznyk * Assistant: Stepan Yurchyshyn * Assistant: Oleksiy Yatsenko

Former coaches

* 1995 Bezsonov & Volodymyr Lozynskyi * 1997

* 1999 Viktor Zhylin * 2001 Anatoliy Buznyk * 2003 Anatoliy Buznyk * 2007 Volodymyr Lozynskyi * 2009 Volodymyr Lozynskyi * 2011 Volodymyr Lozynskyi * 2013 Volodymyr Lozynskyi * 2015 Volodymyr Lozynskyi * 2017 Anatoliy Buznyk * 2019 Anatoliy Buznyk

Top scorers

Since 2009 * Anton Kotlyar – 6 * Serhiy Kravchenko – 4 * Alisher Yakubov – 2 *

Ihor Kurylo Ihor Mykhaylovych Kurylo (; born 3 May 1993) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender for FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv, Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. Club career He began playin ...

– 2 * Vladyslav Piskun – 2

Achievements

Football at the Summer Universiade Football was an optional sport at the 1979 edition and two of the optional sports at the 1985 edition of the Universiade. Between 1987 and 2019, it was a recognized mandatory sport. The women's football competition began in the 1993 edition as ...

**Winners (2):

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

**Runners-up (1):

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

References

External links

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