List of Ukraine national football team captains
This is a list of all the players who have captained the Ukraine national football team.
Yuriy Shelepnytskyi was the first captain of the Ukraine national football team.[1]
Andriy Shevchenko wore the captain band the most times: 58.
Andriy Yarmolenko is the current captain of the national team.
List of captains
List of captaincy periods of the various captains throughout the years.[2][3]
- As of 26 March 2024, after the game against
Iceland
Players in bold are still active. Years in italics indicate last year, when still an active player was a captain.
| # | Name | Captain | Appearances | Goals | National years | Captaincy years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andriy Shevchenko | 58 | 111 | 48 | 1995–2012 | 2002–2012 |
| 2 | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk[a] | 41 | 144 | 4 | 2000–2016 | 2004–2015 |
| 3 | Oleh Luzhnyi | 39 | 52 | 0 | 1992–2003 | 1994–2003 |
| 4 | Andriy Yarmolenko | 26 | 116 | 46 | 2009–2023 | 2018–2023 |
| 05 | Ruslan Rotan | 24 | 100 | 8 | 2003–2018 | 2012–2017 |
| Andriy Pyatov | 24 | 102 | 0 | 2007–2022 | 2017–2022 | |
| 07 | Yuriy Kalitvintsev | 13 | 22 | 1 | 1995–1999 | 1996–1999 |
| Oleksandr Holovko | 13 | 58 | 0 | 1995–2004 | 1998–2004 | |
| 9 | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | 12 | 92 | 0 | 1994–2012 | 2005–2011 |
| 10 | Oleksandr Kucher | 8 | 57 | 2 | 2006–2017 | 2013–2017 |
| 11 | Oleksandr Zinchenko | 6 | 60 | 9 | 2015–2024 | 2021–2024 |
| 12 | Yevhen Konoplyanka | 5 | 87 | 21 | 2010–2023 | 2015–2018 |
| 013 | Serhiy Bezhenar | 4 | 23 | 1 | 1992–1997 | 1993–1997 |
| Yuriy Maksymov | 4 | 27 | 5 | 1992–2002 | 1995–1997 | |
| Vyacheslav Shevchuk | 4 | 56 | 0 | 2003–2016 | 2016 | |
| Taras Stepanenko | 4 | 81 | 4 | 2010–2023 | 2021–2023 | |
| 017 | Ihor Kutepov | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1992–1993 | 1993 |
| Serhiy Diryavka | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1992–1995 | 1993–1994 | |
| Andriy Husin | 3 | 71 | 9 | 1993–2006 | 2003–2006 | |
| 020 | Andriy Rusol | 2 | 49 | 3 | 2004–2010 | 2008 |
| Serhiy Sydorchuk | 2 | 60 | 3 | 2013–2023 | 2022–2022 | |
| Vladyslav Vashchuk | 2 | 63 | 1 | 1996–2007 | 2001–2002 | |
| 023 | Yuriy Shelepnytskyi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1992 | 1992 |
| Serhiy Tretyak | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1992 | 1992 | |
| Yevhen Drahunov | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1992 | 1992 | |
| Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1992–1994 | 1992 | |
| Ihor Petrov | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1994 | 1994 | |
| Hennadiy Lytovchenko | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1993–1994 | 1994 | |
| Artem Fedetskyi | 1 | 53 | 2 | 2010–2016 | 2016 | |
| Mykola Matviyenko | 1 | 62 | 0 | 2017–2024 | 2024–2024 | |
| Serhiy Rebrov | 1 | 75 | 15 | 1992–2006 | 2002 | |
| Total | 31 players | 309 | 1992–2024 | 1992–2024 |
Notes
- ^ On 11 March 2022, UAF annulled Tymoshchuk's caps and goals for the national team due to his refusal to speak out against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]
References
- ^ ""Тимощук? Не хочу навіть його імені називати". Перший капітан збірної України грав проти Шукюра і двічі відмовляв Динамо" (in Ukrainian). football24.ua. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ Ukraine national football team at EU-football.info
- ^ Вербицький, Іван. "Шевчук – 25-й у історії збірної України капітан" (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "Ukraine FA calls for ex-captain to be punished". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
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