Ukraine Cup Draw: Dynamo will play against Shakhtar in the Round of 16

Today, September 26, the draw for the Round of 16 of the Ukraine Cup for the 2025/2026 season took place. 'Glavkom' reports this with reference to UAF.

The ceremony was attended by the representative of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade Ivan Zarubin and the head coach of the Ukraine national team Serhiy Rebrov. The youth national team of Ukraine (U-16), which is currently in training camp, also attended the ceremony in full force.

Ukraine Cup 2025/2026. Round of 16

• «Viktoria» (Sumy) – «Inhulets» (Petrove) 
• «Dynamo» (Kyiv) – «Shakhtar» (Donetsk) 
• «Agrotechnics» (Tyshkivka, Kirovohrad region) – «Phoenix-Mariupol» (Mariupol)
• «Bucovina» (Chernivtsi) – «Niva» (Ternopil) 
• «Chernihiv» – «Lisne» (Kyiv)
• LNZ (Cherkasy) – «Rukh» (Lviv)
• «Metalist 1925» (Kharkiv) – «Agrobusiness» (Volochysk)
• «Lokomotiv» (Kyiv) – «Niva» (Vinnytsia) 

The matchups will consist of single matches, and in case of a draw in normal time, there will be a penalty shootout. The basic dates for the Round of 16 matches are scheduled for October 28-30, 2025.

In another football event, in the World Cup 2026 qualifying match, the Ukrainian national team drew with Azerbaijan with a score of 1:1. The next match of the qualifying tournament will take place against Iceland on October 10.

World Cup Qualifying. Group D

Azerbaijan – Ukraine 1:1 (0:0).

Goals: Makhmudov (72, pen.) – Sudakov (51).

Also, earlier in the qualifying match for the World Cup 2026, the Ukrainian national team lost to France with a score of 0:2. The match took place at the stadium in Wrocław, Poland. Ukrainian fans showed their support for their team by unfurling a huge banner reading 'Fortress of Europe'.

Summary

Today we learned the pairs for the Round of 16 of the Ukraine Cup and the result of the match between the Ukrainian national team and Azerbaijan in the qualifying round for the World Cup 2026. Ukrainian football teams are preparing for important competitions, and fans are already creating an atmosphere of support for their favorites.