The wards of Oleksandr Kosenko started the match cautiously but managed to open the score as early as the 6th minute. Rostyslav Semenchenko broke through from the left flank, the French goalkeeper parried it, but Igor Korsun perfectly finished off the rebound. After this, our opponents took the initiative and could have equalized three times before halftime, but each time the blue-and-yellow goalkeeper Oleksandr Sukhov was up to the task.

After the break, Ukrainians doubled their lead. A mistake by the French goalkeeper led to a situation where he had three of our players against him. The combination ended with Vladyslav Pervezhev. On the 33rd minute, only a save kept Le Ble from conceding a third goal. But just a minute later, Igor Chernyavsky did extend our team's lead after successfully executing an out pass. Only then could Stéphane Bendali manage to break the deadlock for the home side. The French were unable to score more.

So, 3:1 — victory for Ukraine.

International friendly match in futsal

France – Ukraine – 1:3 (0:1)

Goals: Bendali (36) — Korsun (6), Pervezhev (26), Chernyavsky (34).

France: Locoka — Saadouï, Mohammed, Muhudin, M. S. Touré; Marque, Ramírez, M. Touré, Bendali, Bouyita, Jiroux, Lutin, Gendura, Tchaptche. 

Ukraine: Sukhov — Semenchenko, Shved, Abakshyn, Korsun; Savenko, Belymov, Shoturma, Pervezhev, Chernyavsky, Zhuk, Farenyuk, Zvarych, Mykytyuk.

Yellow cards: Saadouï (9), M. S. Touré (19) — Shoturma (11), Semenchenko (34).

Schedule of Ukraine's national team matches in the group stage of Euro-2026

January 22, 2026

Vermenia — Ukraine (17:00) 

January 25, 2026

Ukraine — Lithuania (17:00)

January 28, 2026

Czech Republic — Ukraine (20:30)

Match times are in Kyiv time.

Euro-2026 Futsal Group Stage

Group A: Latvia, Croatia, Georgia, France.

Group B: Lithuania, Vermenia, Czech Republic, Ukraine.

Group C: Slovenia, Belarus, Spain, Belgium.

Group D: Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Poland.  

The top two teams from each group will advance to the quarter-finals.

Quarter-Finals

1. Group B winner — second place in Group A

2. Group A winner — second place in Group B

3. Group C winner — second place in Group D

4. Group D — second place in Group C

Semi-Finals

5. Quarter-final 2 — quarter-final 4

6. Quarter-final 1 — quarter-final 3

Match for third place

7. Winner of match 5 — winner of match 6

Final

8. Winner of match 5 — winner of match 6

Recall that Euro-2026 will take place from January 21 to February 7 next year in the arenas of Latvia's Riga, Lithuania's Kaunas and Slovenia's Ljubljana.