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

Andriy Shevchenko is a player with the most captaincies in the history of Ukraine with 58 matches.
Andriy Yarmolenko is a current captain of the Ukraine national team.

List of captaincy periods of the various captains throughout the years.[2][3]

As of 19 November 2024, after the game against  Albania

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 29 124 46 2009–2024 2018–2024
5 Ruslan Rotan 24 100 8 2003–2018 2012–2017
Andriy Pyatov 24 102 0 2007–2022 2017–2022
7 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 Taras Stepanenko 7 87 4 2010–2024 2021–2024
12 Oleksandr Zinchenko 6 69 10 2015–2024 2021–2024
Mykola Matviyenko 6 74 0 2017–2024 2024–2024
14 Yevhen Konoplyanka 5 87 21 2010–2023 2015–2018
15 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
18 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
21 Andriy Rusol 2 49 3 2004–2010 2008
Serhiy Sydorchuk 2 62 3 2013–2024 2022–2022
Vladyslav Vashchuk 2 63 1 1996–2007 2001–2002
24 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
Serhiy Rebrov 1 75 15 1992–2006 2002
Total 31 players 320 1992–2024 1992–2024

Notes

  1. ^ 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

  1. ^ ""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.
  2. ^ Ukraine national football team at EU-football.info
  3. ^ Вербицький, Іван. "Шевчук – 25-й у історії збірної України капітан" (in Ukrainian).
  4. ^ "Ukraine FA calls for ex-captain to be punished". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 March 2022.