Ukraine national student football team
The Ukraine student football team represents Ukraine in international student football competitions and is controlled by the FFU, the governing body for football in Ukraine, and sports section of the Ministry of Education.
History
Until fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukrainian student footballers had chance to compete at Universiades as part of the Soviet Union football team. The Soviet football team debuted at the 1987 Universiades and won the tournament. It was based primarily on the Vilnius team of FK Zalgiris.The Ukraine student football team debuted in 1995 in Japan. The team was mainly based on FC CSKA Kyiv that was recently promoted to the 1995–96 Ukrainian Second League. The team was led by Volodymyr Lozynskyi and Volodymyr Bezsonov reached semifinal where it lost and later for the third place it also yielded to Russia student football team. 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 Anatoliy Konkov who had on his team such Ukrainian footballers like Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Andriy Vorobey, Andrei Karyaka, 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 FC Systema-Boreks Borodianka 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: Dmytro Kozachenko, Vadym Zhukov
- Defenders: Vasyl Hrechanyi, Yevhen Bredun, Oleh Shkred, Dmytro Kondratovych, Andriy Yerokhin
- Midfielders: Vitaliy Bielikov, Serhiy Klyuchyk, Oleksandr Batrachenko, Ivan Oleksiyenko, Volodymyr Brayila, Dmytro Bermudes
- Forwards: Oleksandr Antonenko, Ivan Kozoriz, Oleksiy Telyatnykov, Myroslav Bundash, Yaroslav Skydan
- Goalkeepers: Volodymyr Ikonnykov, Artem Shtanko
- Defenders: Andriy Zaporozhan, Anton Monakhov, Roman Bochkur, Andriy Bashlay
- Midfielders: Artem Starhorodskyi, Roman Voynarovskyi, Andriy Misyaylo, Ihor Hordya, Dmytro Pronevych, Roman Lutsenko, Mykola Revutskyi, Vadym Hostiev, Oleh Herasymyuk
- Forwards: Ihor Khudobyak, Andriy Shevchuk, Dmytro Hunchenko
- Goalkeepers: Yuriy Bakhtiyarov, Yuriy Kyslytsia
- Defenders: Vladyslav Piskun, Andriy Bashlay, Anton Monakhov, Ihor Hrebynskyi, Andriy Zaporozhan
- Midfielders: Oleksiy Repa, Artem Starhorodskyi, Vladyslav Mykulyak, Oleksandr Krokhmalyuk, Ihor Hordya, Andriy Misyaylo, Mykola Revutskyi, Vasyl Chornyi
- Forwards: Ihor Khudobyak, Andriy Shevchuk, Dmytro Hunchenko, Matviy Bobal
Current squad
''Squad as of 01 July 2019''Coaching staff
Head coach: Anatoliy BuznykAssistant: Stepan YurchyshynAssistant: Oleksiy YatsenkoFormer coaches
- 1995 Bezsonov & Volodymyr Lozynskyi
- 1997 Anatoliy Konkov
- 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 – 2
- Vladyslav Piskun – 2