Ukraine Olympic football team

The Ukraine Olympic football team (Олімпійська збірна України з футболу, also known as Ukraine Under-23) represents Ukraine in international football competitions in Olympic Games. The team is one of the Ukrainian junior football teams and only is called when Ukraine qualifies for Summer Olympics.

It is expected to make its debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris headed by Ruslan Rotan.

History
On 2 July 2023 the Ukraine national under-21 football team beat their peers from France at the European Championship quarterfinals and for their first time in its history qualified to the Summer Olympics football tournament. Along with the Ukrainian team to the competition also qualified Israel and Spain.

On 4 July 2023 it was announced that according to previous agreements, Ruslan Rotan will be the head coach of the team at the Olympic Games.

The first match of the Olympic team of Ukraine was a control and took place on 25 March 2024 at the Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture against the Japan national under-23 football team (0:2).

In June 2024 the Ukraine Olympic participated at the Maurice Revello Tournament and won their first title by defeating Ivory Coast 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out in the final, after the match had finished in a 2–2 draw.

Results and fixtures
The following is a list of all match results, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Coaching staff
Currently approved for the 2024 Summer Olympics:

Current squad
All the players must be born on or after 1 January 2001, with a maximum of three overage players permitted. Names in bold denote players who have been capped for the senior team.

The following players were called up for the frienaly and 2024 Summer Olympics matches against, , , and  on 14, 18, 24, 27 and 30 July 2024, respectively.


 * Caps and goals correct as of 18 July 2024, after the match vs.

Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up for the team within the last 12 months.


 * Notes
 * U21 = Was called up to national U21 squad instead.
 * WD = Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.
 * INJ = It is not part of the current squad due to injury.
 * RES = Reserves squad – replaces a member of the squad in case of injury/unavailability.
 * PRE = Preliminary squad/standby.

Overage players in Olympic Games
Since 1992, the olympic roster may consist out of under-23-year-old players, plus three over the age players.

Honours

 * Maurice Revello Tournament: 2024

Head-to-head record
, after the match against .

The following table shows Ukraine Olympic team's all-time international record.

Ukrainian players on the Soviet Union roster

 * 1964: Andriy Biba, Viktor Serebryanikov, Valeriy Lobanovskyi
 * 1972: Oleksandr Tkachenko, Vadym Sosnykhin, Stefan Reshko, Viktor Matviyenko, Rostyslav Potochnyak, Viktor Zvyahintsev, Serhiy Bondarenko, Volodymyr Troshkin, Volodymyr Veremeyev, Leonid Buryak, Eduard Kozynkevych, Bohdan Hreshchak, Oleh Blokhin
 * 1976: Volodymyr Troshkin, Viktor Zvyahintsev, Leonid Buryak
 * 1980: Volodymyr Bezsonov, Sergei Baltacha
 * 1984: Oleksandr Sorokalet, Viktor Kaplun, Viktor Kuznetsov, Hennadiy Lytovchenko, Viktor Hrachov, Ihor Belanov
 * 1988: Oleksiy Cherednyk, Vadym Tyshchenko, Volodymyr Lyutyi, Yevgeny Yarovenko, Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko