Ukraine national football team 2009

In 2009, the Ukraine national football team played in UEFA Group 6 of the qualifying competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Ukraine were placed second in the group and entered the UEFA playoff stage, where they were knocked out by Greece. The team also played friendly matches against Serbia, Slovakia and Turkey. Serhiy Nazarenko and Andriy Shevchenko each scored 4 goals in international matches.

Historical results

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	10	9	0	1	34	6	+28	27	Qualification to 2010 FIFA World Cup		—	2–1	5–1	3–0	5–1	6–0
2	Ukraine	10	6	3	1	21	6	+15	21	Advance to second round		1–0	—	0–0	1–0	2–1	5–0
3	Croatia	10	6	2	2	19	13	+6	20			1–4	2–2	—	1–0	3–0	4–0
4	Belarus	10	4	1	5	19	14	+5	13			1–3	0–0	1–3	—	4–0	5–1
5	Kazakhstan	10	2	0	8	11	29	−18	6			0–4	1–3	1–2	1–5	—	3–0
6	Andorra	10	0	0	10	3	39	−36	0			0–2	0–6	0–2	1–3	1–3	—

Source:

Matches

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Second Round

2009-11-18

20:00 UTC+3

Ukraine	0 – 1	Greece
	Report	Salpingidis 31'

Donbass Arena, Donetsk

Attendance: 31,648

Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

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2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Second Round

2009-11-14

20:00 UTC+2

Greece	0 – 0	Ukraine
	Report

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 39,045

Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)

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FIFA World Cup qualification

2009-10-14

17:30 UTC+2

Andorra	0 – 6	Ukraine
	Report	Shevchenko 22' Husyev 62' Lima 70' (o.g.) Rakytskiy 80' Seleznyov 81' Yarmolenko 83'

Comunal, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 820

Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

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FIFA World Cup qualification

2009-10-10

19:15 UTC+3

Ukraine	1 – 0	England
Nazarenko 29'	Report Reflection

Dnipro Arena, Dnipropetrovsk

Attendance: 31,000

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

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FIFA World Cup qualification

2009-09-09

20:00 UTC+3

Belarus	0 – 0	Ukraine
	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 21,727

Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

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FIFA World Cup qualification

2009-09-05

17:00 UTC+3

Ukraine	5 – 0	Andorra
Yarmolenko 18' Milevskiy 45+2', 90+1' (pen.) Shevchenko 72' (pen.) Seleznyov 90+5' (pen.)	Report

Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 14,870

Referee: Andrejs Sipailo (Latvia)

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Friendly

2009-08-12

21:00 UTC+3

Ukraine	0 – 3	Turkey
	Report	Tuncay 58' Servet 62' H. Altıntop 65'

Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Darko Ceferi (Slovenia)

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FIFA World Cup qualification

2009-06-10

20:00 UTC+3

Ukraine	2 – 1	Kazakhstan
Nazarenko 32', 47'	Report	Nusserbayev 18'

Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev

Attendance: 11,500

Referee: Bruno Paixao (Portugal)

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FIFA World Cup qualification

2009-06-06

20:15 UTC+2

Croatia	2 – 2	Ukraine
Petrić 2' Modrić 68'	Report	Shevchenko 13' Hai 54'

Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb

Attendance: 32,073

Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

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FIFA World Cup qualification

2009-04-01

20:02 UTC+1

England	2 – 1	Ukraine
Crouch 29' Terry 85'	Report	Shevchenko 74'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 87,548

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

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Friendly

2009-02-11

19:00 UTC+2

Serbia	0 – 1	Ukraine
	Report	Nazarenko 16'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 450

Referee: Leonidas Trattos (Cyprus)

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Friendly

2009-02-10

19:00 UTC+2

Slovakia	2 – 3	Ukraine
Vittek 42' Hamšík 69'	Report	Valyayev 9' Seleznyov 48' Milevskiy 83' (pen.)

Tsirion Stadium, Limassol

Attendance: 200

Referee: Panikos Kailis (Cyprus)

Roster

In bold are the overall records for the national team as opposed to the current-year records in regular script.

Note: In red are highlighted players for whom the international career in the Ukrainian football national team ended. In green are indicated players for whom this year was their debut. In pink are players who debuted this year and were never called upon afterward.

Goalkeepers

Name	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)	Most recent game
Oleksandr Shovkovsky	01.02.1975	Dynamo Kyiv	2 (-5) 86 (-74)	v Turkey, August 12, 2009
Andriy Pyatov	06.28.1984	Shakhtar Donetsk	8 (-5) 17 (-10)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Stanislav Bohush	10.25.1983	Dynamo Kyiv	1 (-1) 2 (-1)	v Kazakhstan, June 10, 2009
Rustam Khudzhamov	10.05.1982	Shakhtar Donetsk	1 (0)	v Serbia, February 11, 2009

Defenders

Name	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)	Most recent game
Andriy Nesmachny	02.28.1979	Dynamo Kyiv	1 (0) 67 (0)	v Slovakia, February 10, 2009
Andriy Rusol	01.16.1983	Dnipro Dnipropretrovsk	4 (0) 47 (3)	v Turkey, August 12, 2009
Dmytro Chyhrynskiy	11.07.1986	Shakhtar Donetsk Barcelona	8 (0) 20 (0)	v Belarus, September 12, 2009
Oleksandr Kucher	10.28.1983	Shakhtar Donetsk	8 (0) 19 (1)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Vyacheslav Shevchuk	05.13.1979	Shakhtar Donetsk	5 (0) 16 (0)	v Turkey, August 12, 2009
Taras Mykhalyk	10.28.1983	Dynamo Kyiv	5 (0) 16 (0)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Vitaliy Mandzyuk	01.24.1986	Arsenal Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv	7 (0) 13 (0)	v Belarus, September 12, 2009
Hryhory Yarmash	01.04.1985	Vorskla Poltava	2 (0) 8 (0)	v Turkey, August 12, 2009
Vasyl Kobin	05.24.1985	Shakhtar Donetsk	6 (0)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Yaroslav Rakytskiy	08.03.1989	Shakhtar Donetsk	4 (1)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Yevhen Khacheridi	07.28.1987	Dynamo Kyiv	4 (0)	v Greece, November 18, 2009

Midfielders

Name	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)	Most recent game
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	03.30.1979	Zenit Saint Petersburg Bayern Munich	11 (0) 92 (1)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Oleh Husyev	04.25.1983	Dynamo Kyiv	7 (1) 54 (7)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Maxym Kalynychenko	01.26.1979	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	6 (0) 43 (7)	v Turkey, August 12, 2009
Serhiy Nazarenko	16.02.1980	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	8 (4) 41 (11)	v Andorra, October 14, 2009
Ruslan Rotan	10.29.1981	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	7 (0) 39 (6)	v Greece, November 14, 2009
Oleksiy Hai	06.11.1982	Shakhtar Donetsk	8 (1) 22 (1)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Oleksandr Aliyev	02.03.1985	Dynamo Kyiv	5 (0) 9 (0)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Serhiy Kravchenko	04.24.1983	Dynamo Kyiv	1 (0) 8 (1)	v Slovakia, February 10, 2009
Yevhen Levchenko	02.01.1978	Groningen	1 (0) 8 (0)	v Serbia, February 11, 2009
Andriy Yarmolenko	10.23.1989	Dynamo Kyiv	6 (2)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Serhiy Valyayev	16.09.1978	Metalist Kharkiv	2 (1) 3 (1)	v England, April 1, 2009
Valentyn Slyusar	09.15.1977	Metalist Kharkiv	1 (0) 2 (0)	v England, April 1, 2009
Pavlo Pashayev	01.04.1988	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2 (0)	v Serbia, February 11, 2009

Forwards

Name	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)	Most recent game
Andriy Shevchenko	09.29.1976	Milan Chelsea Dynamo Kyiv	9 (4) 94 (43)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Andriy Voronin	07.21.1979	Hertha BSC Liverpool	5 (0) 61 (6)	v Belarus, September 12, 2009
Artem Milevskiy	01.12.1985	Dynamo Kyiv	11 (3) 27 (4)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Yevhen Seleznyov	07.20.1985	Shakhtar Donetsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	8 (3) 13 (4)	v Greece, November 18, 2009
Volodymyr Homenyuk	07.19.1985	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4 (0) 8 (0)	v Andorra, September 5, 2009
Marko Dević	10.27.1983	Metalist Kharkiv	1 (0) 2 (0)	v Serbia, February 11, 2009

Coach(es)

Name	Wins	Draws	Losses	Achievement/Remarks
Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	6 12	3 5	3 4

Season goalscorers

Players in bold script participated in the next season(s)

No.	Player	Career	Goals (caps)	Pct.	Playing status	Age
1	Serhiy Nazarenko	2003 - present	4 (8)	0.5	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	29
2	Andriy Shevchenko	1995 - present	4 (9)	0.444	Dynamo Kyiv	33
3	Yevhen Seleznyov	2008 - present	3 (8)	0.375	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	24
4	Artem Milevskiy	2006 - present	3 (11)	0.273	Dynamo Kyiv	24
5	Andriy Yarmolenko	2009 - present	2 (6)	0.333	Dynamo Kyiv	20
6	Serhiy Valyayev	2008 - present	1 (2)	0.5	Metalist Kharkiv	31
7	Yaroslav Rakytskiy	2009 - present	1 (4)	0.25	Shakhtar Donetsk	20
8	Oleh Husyev	2003 - present	1 (7)	0.143	Dynamo Kyiv	26
9	Oleksiy Hai	2002 - present	1 (8)	0.125	Shakhtar Donetsk	27

External links

• 2009 season at ukrsoccerhistory.com