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EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2016/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Tampere Stadium - Tampere Sunday 11 June 2017 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Finland Group I - Matchday 6 Ukraine Last updated 11/06/2017 01:29CET EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Squad list 3 Head coach 5 Match officials 6 Competition facts 7 Match-by-match lineups 8 Legend 10 1 Finland - Ukraine Sunday 11 June 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadium, Tampere Previous meetings Head to Head FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 12/11/2016 QR (GS) Ukraine - Finland 1-0 Odessa Kravets 25 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 Finland - - - - 1 0 0 1 - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 1 Ukraine 1 1 0 0 - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 Finland - Ukraine Sunday 11 June 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadium, Tampere Squad list Finland Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Anssi Jaakkola 13/03/1987 30 Reading - 0 0 0 0 - Lukas Hradecky 24/11/1989 27 Häcken * 5 0 0 0 - Jesse Joronen 21/03/1993 24 Fulham - 0 0 0 0 Defenders - Niklas Moisander 29/09/1985 31 Bremen - 4 0 0 0 - Markus Halsti 19/03/1984 33 Midtjylland * 3 0 0 0 - Kari Arkivuo 23/06/1983 33 Häcken - 4 0 0 0 Columbus - Jukka Raitala 15/09/1988 28 - 4 0 0 0 Crew - Juhani Ojala 19/06/1989 27 Häcken - 1 0 0 0 - Juha Pirinen 22/10/1991 25 HJK - 0 0 0 0 Waasland- - Valtteri Moren 15/06/1991 25 - 0 0 0 0 Beveren - Thomas Lam 18/12/1993 23 Nottm Forest - 3 0 0 0 - Janne Saksela 14/03/1993 24 Sparta - 2 0 0 0 - Jere Uronen 13/07/1994 22 Genk * 2 0 0 0 - Sauli Väisänen 05/06/1994 23 AIK * 3 0 0 0 Midfielders - Kasper Hämäläinen 08/08/1986 30 Legia - 2 0 0 0 - Mehmet Hetemaj 08/12/1987 29 SJK - 0 0 0 0 - Robin Lod 17/04/1993 24 Panathinaikos - 5 1 0 0 - Moshtagh Yaghoubi 08/11/1994 22 HJK - 1 0 0 0 - Fredrik Jensen 09/09/1997 19 Twente - 0 0 0 0 Forwards - Riku Riski 16/08/1989 27 Odd - 0 0 0 0 - Teemu Pukki 29/03/1990 27 Brøndby * 5 1 0 0 - Joel Pohjanpalo 13/09/1994 22 Leverkusen - 2 0 0 0 - Eero Markkanen 03/07/1991 25 AIK - 3 0 0 0 Coach - Markku Kanerva 24/05/1964 53 - 1 0 0 0 3 Finland - Ukraine Sunday 11 June 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadium, Tampere Ukraine Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers Shakhtar - Andriy Pyatov 28/06/1984 32 - 5 0 0 0 Donetsk Shakhtar - Mykyta Shevchenko 26/01/1993 24 - 0 0 0 0 Donetsk - Andriy Lunin 11/02/1999 18 Dnipro - 0 0 0 0 Defenders Shakhtar - Olexandr Kucher 22/10/1982 34 * 5 0 0 0 Donetsk Dynamo - Mykola Morozyuk 17/01/1988 29 - 0 0 0 0 Kyiv Shakhtar - Serhiy Kryvtsov 15/03/1991 26 - 0 0 0 0 Donetsk Shakhtar - Bohdan Butko 13/01/1991 26 - 5 0 0 0 Donetsk Shakhtar - Ivan Ordets 08/07/1992 24 * 3 0 0 0 Donetsk Shakhtar - Yaroslav Rakitskiy 03/08/1989 27 * 2 0 0 0 Donetsk - Eduard Sobol 20/04/1995 22 Zorya - 4 0 0 0 - Mykola Matviyenko 02/05/1996 21 Karpaty - 1 0 0 0 Midfielders - Yevhen Shakhov 30/11/1990 26 PAOK - 2 0 0 0 Shakhtar - Taras Stepanenko 08/08/1989 27 * 5 0 0 0 Donetsk Dynamo - Serhiy Sydorchuk 02/05/1991 26 - 3 0 0 0 Kyiv - Ruslan Malinovskiy 04/05/1993 24 Genk - 0 0 0 0 Shakhtar - Viktor Kovalenko 14/02/1996 21 - 5 0 0 0 Donetsk Dynamo - Viktor Tsygankov 15/11/1997 19 - 1 0 0 0 Kyiv Shakhtar - Maksym Malyshev 24/12/1992 24 - 0 0 0 0 Donetsk Dynamo - Volodymyr Shepeliev 01/06/1997 20 - 0 0 0 0 Kyiv Forwards - Yevhen Seleznyov 20/07/1985 31 Karabükspor - 1 0 0 0 - Yevhen Konoplyanka 29/09/1989 27 Schalke - 5 0 0 0 Dynamo - Andriy Yarmolenko 23/10/1989 27 - 5 3 0 0 Kyiv Dynamo - Artem Besedin 31/03/1996 21 - 1 0 0 0 Kyiv Coach - Andriy Shevchenko 29/09/1976 40 - 5 0 0 0 4 Finland - Ukraine Sunday 11 June 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadium, Tampere Head coach Markku Kanerva Date of birth: 24 May 1964 Nationality: Finnish Playing career: HJK Helsinki (twice), IF Elfsborg, Finnairin Palloilijat Coaching career: HJK Helsinki (assistant), FC Viikingit, Finland Under-21s, Finland (assistant), Finland (caretaker, twice), Finland • A defender in his playing days, Markku Kanerva started out at home-town club HJK and won five Finnish titles and three Finnish Cups over two spells, returning for four years until his retirement in 1998 after an initial stay from 1983 to 1990. • Contested five games in the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League with HJK, having rejoined after stints with Swedish side Elfsborg and Finnish outfit FinnPa; Kanerva also picked up 59 caps for his national team, scoring once. • Began his coaching career as an assistant at HJK before briefly holding the reins at Viikingit in 2003 and entering the Football Association of Finland (SPL-FBF) coaching set-up the following year. • Took charge of Finland's U21s between 2004 and 2009, earning recognition as Finland's coach of the year in 2008 after booking the side a historic maiden place at the 2009 UEFA European U21 Championship finals. • Assistant coach of Finland's senior team between 2010 and 2016, Kanerva took over in an interim capacity in both 2011 and 2015 before being handed the role full time as Hans Backe's replacement in December 2016. Andriy Shevchenko Date of birth: 29 September 1976 Nationality: Ukrainian Playing career: FC Dynamo Kyiv (twice), AC Milan (twice), Chelsea FC 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 topped the UEFA Champions League charts with ten 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 FC. • Left Milan in 2006 with 127 Serie A and 38 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, 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. 5 Finland - Ukraine Sunday 11 June 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadium, Tampere Match officials Referee Alon Yefet (ISR) Assistant referees Danny Krasikow (ISR) , Amihay Yehoshua Mozes (ISR) Fourth official Erez Papir (ISR) FIFA Match Commissioner Mike Appleby (ENG) Referee observer Andreas Schluchter (SUI) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Alon Yefet 01/09/1972 5 89 FIFA Wold Cup matches involving teams from 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 28/07/2010 UCL 3QR FK Partizan HJK Helsinki 3-0 Belgrade 08/11/2012 UEL GS SSC Napoli FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4-2 Naples 21/08/2014 UEL PO Ruch Chorzów FC Metalist Kharkiv 0-0 Gliwice 05/08/2015 UCL 3QR FC Astana HJK Helsinki 4-3 Astana 22/10/2015 UEL GS FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk AS Saint-Étienne 0-1 Dnipropetrovsk 6 Finland - Ukraine Sunday 11 June 2017 - 18.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Tampere Stadium, Tampere Competition facts The Week of Football concept enables fans around the world to enjoy the very best action from the European Qualifiers – which will determine UEFA's representatives at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup comprises nine groups of six teams, with matches played on a home-and- away basis. Qualifying takes place under the 'Week of Football' concept, introduced ahead of the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying campaign, in which games are spread out from Thursday to Tuesday, shining the spotlight on more teams on the road to the finals in Russia.