The head coach of the Ukraine national team, Serhiy Rebrov, has called up defender Oleh Ocheretnyk from Shakhtar Donetsk for the upcoming 2026 World Cup qualification matches against Iceland (October 10, Reykjavik) and Azerbaijan (October 13, Krakow).

The midfielder will replace Oleksandr Zubkov of Turkish Trabzonspor in the blue-and-yellow squad.

Squad for Ukraine

Goalkeepers: Yuriy Bushchan ("Polesye" Zhytomyr), Anatoliy Trubin ("Benfica" Lisbon, Portugal), Dmytro Rytsnik ("Shakhtar" Donetsk).

Defenders: Ilya Zabarnyi ("Paris Saint-Germain" Paris, France), Oleksandr Svatok ("Austin", USA), Valeri Bondar, Mykola Matviyenko, Yurym Konoplyan (all — "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Oleksandr Timchuk ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Vitaliy Mykolenko ("Everton" Liverpool, England), Bohdan Mykhaylichenko ("Polesye" Zhytomyr).

Midfielders: Yegor Yarmoluk ("Brentford", England), Ivan Kaluzhnyy ("Metalist 1925" Kharkiv), Mykhailo Shaparenko, Volodymyr Bражko, Nazar Volosin (all — "Dynamo" Kyiv), Georgiy Sudakov ("Benfica" Lisbon, Portugal), Artem Bondarenko, Oleh Ocheretnyk (both — "Shakhtar" Donetsk), Oleksiy Hutsulyak, Oleksandr Nazarenko, Vladyslav Velenteyn (all — "Polesye" Zhytomyr), Viktor Tsygankov ("Girona", Spain), Ruslan Malinovskyi ("Genoa" Genoa, Italy).

Forwards: Artem Dovbyk ("Roma" Rome, Italy), Vladyslav Vanat ("Girona", Spain).

Reserve List

Ruslan Neschyret, Oleksandr Pykhalyonok (both — "Dynamo" Kyiv), Dmytro Kryskiv ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Yevhen Cheberko ("Columbus Crew" USA), Maxim Talovoyver ("Stoke City" Stoke-on-Trent, England).

The national team's training camp began today, October 6, in Poland. On the 8th, the blue-and-yellow squad will travel to Reykjavik where on the 9th a traditional pre-match press conference with Serhiy Rebrov and one of his players (start at 20:30 Kyiv time) and training session (21:00 Kyiv time) will take place at the Iceland vs. Ukraine stadium, "Laugardalsvöllur". Return to Poland is scheduled for October 11.

On October 12 in Krakow, traditional pre-match events for the match between Ukraine and Azerbaijan will be held. At 17:30 local time, a press conference with Serhiy Rebrov and one of his players will begin, followed by training at 18:00.

Communication with representatives of Azerbaijani media and training sessions for our opponents will start at 19:30 and 20:00 local time respectively.

World Cup 2026 Qualification. Group D: Match Details, Standings, Regulations