The Ukrainian U-21 national team will play friendlies with top opponents

The Ukrainian youth national team will prepare for the 2025 European Championship with friendly matches against top national teams. As part of the preparation for the final part of the Youth Euro-2025, Unai Melgosa's team will play with peers from Portugal and Italy. This was reported by the official website of the UAF.

Both friendlies will take place away in November.

It is known that the meeting with the Portuguese will be held on November 15. The friendly game will take place in the Lisbon district of Alverca do Ribatejo. It will start at 19:30 Kyiv Time.

And the Italy – Ukraine match will take place in La Spezia on November 19. The sparring at the Alberto Picco stadium will start at 19:15.

We remind you that the Ukrainian national football team has started the qualification for the women's European Championship-2025. They played their first match against the Kosovo team.

Earlier it became known that the Ukrainian youth national team lost to the Serbs and reached Euro-2025 from the second place in the group, allowing peers from England to take the first place.