UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS City Stadium - Uherske Hradiste Thursday 6 September 2018 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Czech Republic Group B1 - Matchday 1 Ukraine Last updated 09/10/2018 14:22CET Previous meetings 2 Squad list 3 Head coach 5 Match officials 6 Competition facts 7 Match-by-match lineups 10 Legend 11 1 Czech Republic - Ukraine Thursday 6 September 2018 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit City Stadium, Uherske Hradiste Previous meetings Head to Head Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Total Czech Republic - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 1 1 0 4 0 Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 0 1 1 0 4 2 Czech Republic - Ukraine Thursday 6 September 2018 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit City Stadium, Uherske Hradiste Squad list Czech Republic League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Tomáš Vaclík 29/03/1989 29 Sevilla - 0 0 16 Tomáš Koubek 26/08/1992 26 Rennes - 0 0 Slavia 23 Ondřej Kolář 17/10/1994 23 - 0 0 Praha Defenders 2 Pavel Kadeřábek 25/04/1992 26 Hoffenheim - 0 0 3 Tomáš Kalas 15/05/1993 25 Bristol City - 0 0 4 Theodor Gebre Selassie 24/12/1986 31 Bremen - 0 0 5 Jakub Brabec 06/08/1992 26 Rizespor - 0 0 17 Radim Řezník 20/01/1989 29 Plzeň - 0 0 Slavia 18 Jan Bořil 11/01/1991 27 - 0 0 Praha Slavia 20 Vladimír Coufal 22/08/1992 26 - 0 0 Praha 22 Filip Novák 26/06/1990 28 Trabzonspor - 0 0 Midfielders Slavia 6 Jan Sýkora 29/12/1993 24 - 0 0 Praha Slavia 8 Jaromír Zmrhal 02/08/1993 25 - 0 0 Praha 9 Michal Trávník 17/05/1994 24 Jablonec - 0 0 Slavia 10 Josef Hušbauer 16/03/1990 28 - 0 0 Praha 12 Tomáš Hořava 29/05/1988 30 Plzeň - 0 0 14 Jakub Jankto 19/01/1996 22 Sampdoria - 0 0 Slavia 15 Tomáš Souček 27/02/1995 23 - 0 0 Praha 21 Ondřej Petrák 11/03/1992 26 Nürnberg - 0 0 Forwards Slavia 7 Stanislav Tecl 01/09/1990 28 - 0 0 Praha 11 Michael Krmenčík 15/03/1993 25 Plzeň - 0 0 19 Patrik Schick 24/01/1996 22 Roma - 0 0 Coach - Karel Jarolím 23/08/1956 62 - 0 0 3 Czech Republic - Ukraine Thursday 6 September 2018 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit City Stadium, Uherske Hradiste Ukraine League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers Dynamo 1 Denys Boyko 29/01/1988 30 - 0 0 Kyiv Shakhtar 12 Andriy Pyatov 28/06/1984 34 - 0 0 Donetsk 23 Andriy Lunin 11/02/1999 19 Leganés - 0 0 Defenders Shakhtar 2 Mykola Matviyenko 02/05/1996 22 - 0 0 Donetsk 3 Yevhen Khacheridi 28/07/1987 31 PAOK - 0 0 Shakhtar 4 Serhiy Kryvtsov 15/03/1991 27 - 0 0 Donetsk Dynamo 5 Mykyta Burda 24/03/1995 23 - 0 0 Kyiv 13 Andriy Tsurikov 05/10/1992 25 Olexandriya - 0 0 19 Yevhen Makarenko 21/05/1991 27 Anderlecht - 0 0 Shakhtar 20 Yaroslav Rakitskiy 03/08/1989 29 - 0 0 Donetsk Midfielders Shakhtar 6 Taras Stepanenko 08/08/1989 29 - 0 0 Donetsk 8 Ruslan Malinovskiy 04/05/1993 25 Genk - 0 0 Shakhtar 11 Marlos 07/06/1988 30 - 0 0 Donetsk Dynamo 14 Vitaliy Buyalskiy 06/01/1993 25 - 0 0 Kyiv Dynamo 15 Viktor Tsygankov 15/11/1997 20 - 0 0 Kyiv Dynamo 16 Serhiy Sydorchuk 02/05/1991 27 - 0 0 Kyiv 17 Olexandr Zinchenko 15/12/1996 21 Man. City - 0 0 Shakhtar 21 Oleg Danchenko 01/08/1994 24 - 0 0 Donetsk 22 Oleksandr Karavaev 02/06/1992 26 Zorya - 0 0 Forwards 7 Andriy Yarmolenko 23/10/1989 28 West Ham - 0 0 9 Yevhen Seleznyov 20/07/1985 33 Akhisar - 0 0 10 Yevhen Konoplyanka 29/09/1989 28 Schalke - 0 0 18 Roman Yaremchuk 27/11/1995 22 Gent - 0 0 Coach - Andriy Shevchenko 29/09/1976 41 - 0 0 4 Czech Republic - Ukraine Thursday 6 September 2018 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit City Stadium, Uherske Hradiste Head coach Karel Jarolím Date of birth: 23 August 1956 Nationality: Czech Playing career: Pardubice, Slavia Praha (three times), Dukla Praha, Dukla Tábor, Rouen, Amiens, Viktoria Žižkov, Benešov, Bohemians Praha, Česká Lípa Coaching career: FC Dukla, Slavia Praha (three times), Strasbourg, Slovácko, Slovan Bratislava, Al-Ahli, Al-Wahda, Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic • Karel Jarolím has Slavia Praha running through his veins. During his playing days with the club in the 1980s he was a skilful playmaker with great passing range and superb stamina. Slavia signed the 20-year-old Jarolím from Pardubice in 1977, but the midfielder won his only league title with crosstown rivals Dukla Praha during his military service in 1979. • Scored twice in 13 appearances for Czechoslovakia before moving to France, where he played for Rouen then Amiens during a four-year spell abroad. Jarolím returned home in 1991 and continued to play in the top flight until he was 39, finishing with 272 league games and 63 goals at that level. • Began his coaching career at FC Dukla (now 1.FK Příbram) in 1997, returning to Slavia as František Cipro's assistant in 2000. He replaced him as head coach ten games into the season and took Slavia to second place but his contract was not extended so Jarolím returned to France where he became assistant to Ivan Hašek at Strasbourg, helping the club to promotion. • After one year back in the Czech Republic at Slovácko he returned to Slavia in April 2005, winning league titles in 2008 and 2009. Guided Slovan Bratislava to the Slovakian double in 2011 before a spell in Saudi Arabia with Al-Ahli, who he took to the 2012 AFC Champions League final. • Jarolím, whose two sons David and Lukáš also became professional footballers, returned to his homeland with Mladá Boleslav in January 2014, winning the Czech Cup two years later. Appointed Czech Republic coach after UEFA EURO 2016, he was unable to take them to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Andriy Shevchenko Date of birth: 29 September 1976 Nationality: Ukrainian Playing career: Dynamo Kyiv (twice), AC Milan (twice), Chelsea Coaching career: Ukraine (assistant), Ukraine • Shevchenko enjoyed phenomenal early success with Dynamo Kyiv, the club he joined as a schoolboy, winning five successive Ukrainian titles and contributing 60 top-flight goals, including a league-best tally of 18 in 1998/99; that same season he also jointly topped the UEFA Champions League charts with eight goals as Dynamo reached the semi-finals. • Joined Milan in July 1999 and hit the ground running, finishing top of the Serie A goal charts in his debut season (the first foreigner to achieve the feat) with 24 goals, a tally he would match the following campaign and again in 2003/04, when he led the listings once more as Milan won the Scudetto; won the Ballon d'Or in December 2004 to go with his six Ukrainian footballer of the year titles. • Won the UEFA Champions League with the Rossoneri in 2003, scoring the decisive spot kick in the final against Juventus to crown an injury-curtailed campaign; however, missed crucially from the spot in the 2005 showpiece against Liverpool. • Left Milan in 2006 with 127 Serie A and 37 European goals to his credit, but a move to Chelsea did not work out and he returned to Milan for an equally unsuccessful loan spell in 2008/09 before making the permanent move back to Dynamo a year later. • Ukraine's record scorer by a distance with 48 goals in 111 appearances, he captained the team to the quarter-finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup and became the first player to reach the 100-cap milestone for Ukraine, in October 2010. Scored twice in a famous win against Sweden at UEFA EURO 2012, his international swansong; after a short-lived foray into politics, appointed assistant to Ukraine coach Mykhaylo Fomenko, taking over as head coach after UEFA EURO 2016 but losing out to Iceland and eventual runners-up Croatia in their qualifying section for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. 5 Czech Republic - Ukraine Thursday 6 September 2018 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit City Stadium, Uherske Hradiste Match officials Referee Anthony Taylor (ENG) Assistant referees Gary Beswick (ENG) , Adam Nunn (ENG) Additional assistant referees Paul Tierney (ENG) , Andre Marriner (ENG) Fourth official Lee Betts (ENG) UEFA Delegate Nebojša Ivkovic (SRB) UEFA Referee observer Peter Fröjdfeldt (SWE) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Anthony Taylor 20/10/1978 0 37 UEFA Nations League matches between the two teams No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Stage Date Competition Home Away Result Venue reached 31/07/2014 UEL 3QR FC Petrolul Ploieşti FC Viktoria Plzeň 1-1 Ploiesti 04/09/2014 U21 QR Ukraine Switzerland 2-0 Cherkassy 12/11/2014 U19 QR Ukraine Sweden 2-2 Shefayim 17/11/2014 U19 QR Israel Ukraine 0-5 Netanya 06/07/2015 U19 GS-FT Greece Ukraine 2-0 Veria 08/12/2015 UCL GS Paris Saint-Germain FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Paris 25/08/2016 UEL PO RSC Anderlecht SK Slavia Praha 3-0 Brussels 20/10/2016 UEL GS FC Shakhtar Donetsk KAA Gent 5-0 Lviv 6 Czech Republic - Ukraine Thursday 6 September 2018 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit City Stadium, Uherske Hradiste Competition facts What is the background to the UEFA Nations League? The rejuvenation of national team football – and the UEFA Nations League – stems from the desire of UEFA and its 55 member associations to improve the quality and standing of national team football.