On Tuesday, August 19, the VII International Valeriy Lobanovskiy Memorial kicks off in Kyiv with U-21 teams of Ukraine, Bulgaria, Ireland and Poland participating in. The first day of the competition − the semifinals − will see Britons and Poles struggling, whereas Ukrainians will face Bulgarians. Next day the match for the third place and the final are scheduled. All the encounters will be played on Victor Bannikov stadium.
Ukraine U-21 team squad:
Team A
Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Rybka (Dynamo), Bohdan Shust (Shakhtar);
Defenders: Oleh Dopilka (Dynamo), Ihor Korotetskiy (Zorya), Maksym Pashayev (both from Dnipro), Evgen Yevseev (Arsenal);
Halfbacks: Volodymyr Bidlovskiy (Karpaty), Kostyantyn Kravchenko (Shakhtar), Egor Lugachov (Spartak Moscow, Russia),Dmytro Lyopa (Dnirpo), Denis Oliynyk (Arsenal), Taras Stepanenko (Metalurh Z), Valeriy Fedorchuk (Lviv), Oleksandr Yakovenko (Anderlecht Brussels, Belgium), Kostyantyn Yaroshenko (Illichivets);
Forwards: Oleksandr Hladkiy (Shakhtar), Artem Kravets (Dynamo), Volodymyr Lysenko (Arsenal), Ruslan Fomin (Metalist), Oleksiy Chychykov (Vorskla).
Team B
Goalkeepers: Denis Boyko (Dynamo), Anton Kanibolitskiy (Dnipro);
Defenders: Andriy Hurskiy (Karpaty), Pavlo Pashayev (Dnipro), Evgen Selin (Metalist), Adnriy Fartushnyak (Dynamo), Volodymyr Chesnakov (Vorskla);
Halfbacks: Oleh Holodyuk, Yaroslav Martynyuk (both from Karpaty), Oleh Mischenko (Stal Alchevsk), Mykola Morozyuk (Dynamo);
Forwards: Denis Vasin (Chornomorets), Roman Zozulya, Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo), Evgen Konoplyanka (Dnipro), Vadym Kucherevskiy (Vorskla).