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EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Josy Barthel - Luxembourg Saturday 15 November 2014 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Luxembourg Group C - Matchday -9 Ukraine Last updated 12/07/2021 17:13CET Official Partners of UEFA EURO 2020 Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Team facts 11 Legend 13 1 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg 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 EURO Luxembourg - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FIFA* Luxembourg - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friendlies Luxembourg - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 3 Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 3 0 Total Luxembourg - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 3 Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 3 0 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Match background Luxembourg will be keen to put in a better performance against Ukraine than they managed the last time the teams met, eight years ago, as they go head to head again in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group C. Match background • The sides' only previous encounter was a 3-0 away win for Ukraine on 8 June 2006, with Oleh Blokhin's side warming up for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals. Second-half goals from Andriy Voronin and Andriy Shevchenko – both half-time substitutes – and Maxym Kalinichenko settled the game at Stade Josy Barthel. • Ukraine have won both of their UEFA age-group meetings with Luxembourg, recording a 6-0 victory in the most recent encounter, a UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifier on 4 November 2012. • Ukraine goalkeeper Dmytro Bezotosniy celebrates his 31st birthday on the day of the Luxembourg game; team- mate Roman Zozulya turns 25 two days later. 3 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Squad list Luxembourg Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Jonathan Joubert 12/09/1979 35 Dudelange - 3 0 0 0 72 - Standard - Anthony Moris 29/04/1990 24 - 0 0 0 0 2 - Liège - Charly Schinker 05/11/1987 27 Rumelange - 0 0 0 0 - - Defenders Jeunesse - Eric Hoffmann 21/06/1984 30 - 0 0 0 0 88 - Esch - Tom Schnell 08/10/1985 29 Dudelange - 1 0 0 0 40 - - Massimo Martino 18/09/1990 24 Grevenmacher - 0 0 0 0 17 - - Mathias Jänisch 27/08/1990 24 Differdange - 3 0 0 0 39 1 - Laurent Jans 05/08/1992 22 Fola - 3 0 0 0 17 - Jeunesse - Marvin Martins 17/02/1995 19 - 0 0 0 0 1 - Esch - Maxime Chanot 21/11/1989 24 Kortrijk - 2 0 0 0 7 1 Midfielders - Ben Payal 08/09/1988 26 Fola - 2 0 0 0 61 - - Mario Mutsch 03/09/1984 30 St Gallen - 2 0 0 0 75 2 - Lars Gerson 05/02/1990 24 Norrköping - 3 1 0 0 40 3 - Chris Philipps 08/03/1994 20 Metz * 3 0 0 0 20 - - Dwayn Holter 15/06/1995 19 Fürth - 3 0 0 0 5 - - Christopher Martins 19/02/1997 17 Lyon - 3 0 0 0 3 - Forwards - Daniel Da Mota 11/09/1985 29 Dudelange - 3 0 0 0 58 4 - Stefano Bensi 11/08/1988 26 Fola - 3 1 0 0 24 4 - Aurélien Joachim 10/08/1986 28 CSKA Sofia - 0 0 0 0 50 7 - Maurice Deville 31/07/1992 22 Kaiserslautern - 2 0 0 0 17 3 - Antonio Luisi 07/10/1994 20 Differdange - 1 0 0 0 6 - - David Turpel 19/10/1992 22 Dudelange - 3 1 0 0 12 1 Coach - Luc Holtz 14/06/1969 45 - 3 0 0 0 40 - 4 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Ukraine Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers Shakhtar - Andriy Pyatov 28/06/1984 30 - 3 0 0 0 52 - Donetsk - Denys Boyko 29/01/1988 26 Dnipro - 0 0 0 0 - - - Nikita Shevchenko 26/01/1993 21 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 - - Defenders Shakhtar - Vyacheslav Shevchuk 13/05/1979 35 - 3 0 0 0 40 - Donetsk Metalurh - Mykola Morozyuk 17/01/1988 26 - 0 0 0 0 10 1 Donetsk - Artem Fedetskiy 26/04/1985 29 Dnipro * 3 0 0 0 35 2 - Vitaliy Vernydub 11/10/1987 27 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 - - Shakhtar - Ivan Ordets 08/07/1992 22 - 0 0 0 0 1 1 Donetsk Shakhtar - Yaroslav Rakitskiy 03/08/1989 25 - 1 0 0 0 28 4 Donetsk - Yevhen Khacheridi 28/07/1987 27 Dynamo Kyiv - 2 0 0 0 30 3 - Andriy Pylyavskyi 04/12/1988 25 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 - - Midfielders - Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 30/03/1979 35 Zenit - 2 0 0 0 135 4 - Ruslan Rotan 29/10/1981 33 Dnipro - 2 0 0 0 76 7 - Oleh Gusev 25/04/1983 31 Dynamo Kyiv - 1 0 0 0 93 13 - Denys Oliynyk 16/08/1987 27 Vitesse - 0 0 0 0 9 - Chornomorets - Kyrylo Kovalchuk 11/06/1986 28 - 1 0 0 0 2 - Odesa - Roman Bezus 26/09/1990 24 Dynamo Kyiv - 1 0 0 0 17 4 - Serhiy Sydorchuk 02/05/1991 23 Dynamo Kyiv - 2 2 0 0 2 2 - Dmytro Khomchenovskiy 16/04/1990 24 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 2 - Forwards - Roman Zozulya 17/11/1989 24 Dnipro - 3 0 0 0 20 3 - Yevhen Konoplyanka 29/09/1989 25 Dnipro - 2 0 0 0 39 8 - Andriy Yarmolenko 23/10/1989 25 Dynamo Kyiv - 3 0 0 0 44 15 - Pylyp Budkivskiy 10/03/1992 22 Zorya - 2 0 0 0 2 - Coach - Mykhailo Fomenko 19/09/1948 66 - 3 0 0 0 18 - 5 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Head coach Luc Holtz Date of birth: 14 June 1969 Nationality: Luxembourger Playing career: Red Boys Differdange, FC Avenir Beggen, FC Etzella Ettelbruck Coaching career: FC Etzella Ettelbruck, Luxembourg Under-21s, Luxembourg • Holtz started his career with Red Boys Differdange, a club which today is part of successful outfit FC Differdange 03. • A creative playmaker with a keen eye for goal, Holtz moved to Avenir Beggen in 1992 where he went on to win the domestic double in 1993 and 1994. He was chosen as Luxembourg's footballer of the year in 1993. • Played until 2008 when, aged 38, he finished his career at Etzella having gone there from Beggen in 1999 to take over as player-coach. • Led Etzella to promotion to the top flight in 1999, his first season in charge. Lifted the cup two years later but was relegated in 2002, only to bounce back immediately. Proceeded to reach the cup final in 2003 and 2004, although both ended in defeat. • Having earned 55 caps for Luxembourg, he accepted an offer to coach the U21 national side in 2008. He was then handed the reins of the senior team following the resignation of Guy Hellers in August 2010. Mykhailo Fomenko Date of birth: 19 September 1948 Nationality: Ukrainian Playing career: FC Spartak Sumy, FC Zorya Luhansk, FC Dynamo Kyiv Coaching career: FC Frunzenets Sumy, FC Desna Chernihiv, FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, FC Guria Lanchkhuti, FC Rashid Baghdad, FC Avtomobilist Sumy, FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Veres Rivne, Guinea, FC CSKA Kyiv, FC Metalist Kharkiv (three times), SC Tavriya Simferopol, FC Salyut Belgorod, Ukraine • An integral part of the famous Dynamo Kyiv side of the 1970s, the defender lifted three Soviet league titles, three domestic cups, the 1975 European Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup, as the Ukrainian outfit established themselves as a major European force. • Earned 24 caps for the USSR between 1972 and 1976, and was a key member of the team during qualifying for the 1976 UEFA European Championship, which were defeated by eventual winners Czechoslovakia at the quarter-final stage. • First moved into coaching in 1979 with Frunzenets Sumy, working in Ukraine, Georgia and Iraq, before taking over at old club Dynamo Kyiv in 1993 and helping them to a Ukrainian league and cup double during his only season in charge. • Enjoyed a first taste of international management when taking the helm of Guinea, but swiftly returned to the domestic game. Had three separate stints at Metalist Kharkiv between 1996 and 2005, and also took CSKA Kyiv to the Ukrainian Cup final, only to fall to FC Shakhtar Donetsk. • Spells at Tavriya Simferopol and Russian side Salyut Belgorod followed, before he was called upon by the national federation to take permanent control of Ukraine after Oleh Blokhin stepped down following UEFA EURO 2012. Helped his country to a play-off place in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying; however, despite a 2-0 first-leg success against France, Ukraine fell 3-2 on aggregate to miss out on Brazil. 6 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Match officials Referee Kristinn Jakobsson (ISL) Assistant referees Gunnar Gunnarsson (ISL) , Johann Gudmundsson (ISL) Additional assistant referees Thoroddur Hjaltalin (ISL) , Thorvaldur Árnason (ISL) Fourth official Sigurdur Oli Thorleifsson (ISL) UEFA Delegate Michel Pralong (SUI) UEFA Referee observer Vitalijs Liholajs (LVA) Referee UEFA EURO Name Date of birth UEFA matches matches Kristinn Jakobsson 11/06/1969 7 93 Kristinn Jacobsson Referee since: 1990 First division: 1994 FIFA badge: 1997 Tournaments: 2006 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, 2001 UEFA European Under-16 Championship Finals 2006 UEFA European Under-19 Championship UEFA European Championship matches featuring the two countries involved in this match 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 26/11/2008 UCL GS FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Basel 1893 5-0 Donetsk 27/08/2009 UEL PO FK Austria Wien FC Metalurh Donetsk 3-2 Vienna 25/08/2011 UEL PO Paris Saint-Germain FC Differdange 03 2-0 Paris 29/09/2011 UEL GS FC Vorskla Poltava Hannover 96 1-2 Poltava 22/08/2013 UEL PO JK Nõmme Kalju FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-3 Tallinn 7 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Competition facts 8 Luxembourg - Ukraine Saturday 15 November 2014 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Match-by-match lineups Luxembourg European Qualifiers Matchday 1 (08/09/2014) Luxembourg 1-1 Belarus Goals: 1-0 Gerson 42, 1-1 Dragun 78 Luxembourg: Joubert, Jänisch, Schnell, Philipps, Gerson, Da Mota (67 Laterza), Bensi, C.