EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS National Arena Todor Proeski - Skopje Friday 9 October 2015 North Macedonia 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Ukraine Group C - Matchday -4 Last updated 12/07/2021 18:14CET 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 North Macedonia - Ukraine Friday 9 October 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit National Arena Todor Proeski, Skopje Previous meetings Head to Head 2016 UEFA European Championship Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 12/10/2014 QR (GS) Ukraine - North Macedonia 1-0 Lviv Sydorchuk 45+2 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 North Macedonia - - - - 1 0 0 1 - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 1 Ukraine 1 1 0 0 - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 1 0 FIFA* North Macedonia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friendlies North Macedonia - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 1 1 0 1 0 Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 0 1 1 0 1 Total North Macedonia - - - - 1 0 0 1 - - - - 3 1 1 1 1 1 Ukraine 1 1 0 0 - - - - - - - - 3 1 1 1 1 1 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 North Macedonia - Ukraine Friday 9 October 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit National Arena Todor Proeski, Skopje Match background FYR Macedonia will try to lift themselves off the foot of UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group C, with visitors Ukraine eager to retain their hopes of an automatic finals slot. • FYR Macedonia can no longer qualify for the finals. • Third-placed Ukraine are sure of at least a play-off spot, but have an inferior head-to-head record against second- ranked Slovakia, whom they trail by three points. • Ukraine host current leaders Spain in their final game; they can only overhaul the European champions if Vicente del Bosque's side fail to defeat Luxembourg on 9 October. Previous meetings • Serhiy Sydorchuk scored the only goal, while Andriy Yarmolenko missed a penalty in Ukraine's 1-0 victory in the sides' Group C encounter in Lviv last October. • The teams' only two previous meetings were friendly matches: a 0-0 draw in Kyiv in 2003 and a 1-0 win for FYR Macedonia in Skopje in March 2004, in which Goran Stavrevski (26) got the goal. Form guide • The hosts are on a six-game losing streak in Group C since a 3-2 success against Luxembourg on 9 October 2014 – and failed to score in their two September qualifiers. • Ukraine have not scored in their last two competitive away fixtures – a 1-0 loss in Spain followed by a 0-0 draw in Slovakia. Disciplinary • Denys Garmash is available after a one-game ban; Yevhen Khacheridi, Olexandr Kucher, Ruslan Rotan, Taras Stepanenko and Serhiy Sydorchuk will incur a suspension with their next bookings. • Besart Abdurahimi and Stefan Ristovski are available after one-game suspensions; Vance Sikov and Aleksandar Trajkovski are a yellow card away from a ban. Trivia and links • In four encounters between the nations' clubs in UEFA competition, Ukrainian sides have won three games to the Macedonian clubs' one. • These countries have met twice in UEFA age-group tournaments: Ukraine's Under-19s won the first instalment 3-0 in 2011, but the Macedonian U21s struck back in September this year, Marjan Radeski netting the late winner in a 1-0 victory in Skopje. 3 North Macedonia - Ukraine Friday 9 October 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit National Arena Todor Proeski, Skopje Squad list North Macedonia Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Tome Pacovski 28/06/1982 33 Vardar - 8 0 0 0 46 - - Stole Dimitrievski 25/12/1993 21 Granada - 0 0 0 0 - - - David Mitov Nilson 12/01/1991 24 Norrköping - 0 0 0 0 - - Defenders Austria - Vance Sikov 19/07/1985 30 * 7 0 0 0 41 3 Wien Adana - Daniel Mojsov 25/12/1987 27 - 5 0 0 0 29 - Demirspor - Kire Ristevski 22/10/1990 24 Rabotnicki - 2 0 0 0 7 - - Stefan Aškovski 24/02/1992 23 Novi Pazar - 2 0 0 0 2 - - Stefan Ristovski 12/02/1992 23 Rijeka - 6 0 0 0 17 - - Vladica Brdarovski 07/02/1990 25 Vardar - 1 0 0 0 3 - - Mite Cikarski 06/01/1993 22 Rabotnicki - 0 0 0 0 1 - - Leonard Zhuta 09/08/1992 23 Rijeka - 3 0 0 0 3 - Midfielders - Ivan Tričkovski 18/04/1987 28 Legia - 0 0 0 0 34 4 - Agim Ibraimi 29/08/1988 27 Maribor - 6 1 0 0 33 7 - Armend Alimi 11/12/1987 27 Shkëndija - 0 0 0 0 9 - - Besart Abdurahimi 31/07/1990 25 Lokeren - 7 1 0 0 10 1 - Milovan Petrovikj 23/01/1990 25 Rabotnicki - 2 0 0 0 2 - Forwards - Ostoja Stjepanovic 17/01/1985 30 Beograd - 0 0 0 0 9 - - Mirko Ivanovski 31/10/1989 25 Videoton - 5 0 0 0 26 1 Inter - Ilija Nestorovski 12/03/1990 25 - 0 0 0 0 - - Zaprešić - Feran Hasani 18/06/1990 25 Shkëndija - 3 0 0 0 22 1 - Aleksandar Trajkovski 05/09/1992 23 Palermo * 8 2 0 0 24 4 - Blazhe Ilijoski 09/07/1984 31 Rabotnicki - 1 0 0 0 1 - Coach - Ljubinko Drulović 11/09/1968 47 - 3 0 0 0 3 - 4 North Macedonia - Ukraine Friday 9 October 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit National Arena Todor Proeski, Skopje 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 31 - 8 0 0 0 57 - Donetsk - Denys Boyko 29/01/1988 27 Dnipro - 0 0 0 0 3 - - Mykyta Shevchenko 26/01/1993 22 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 - - Defenders Shakhtar - Vyacheslav Shevchuk 13/05/1979 36 - 8 0 0 0 47 - Donetsk Shakhtar - Olexandr Kucher 22/10/1982 32 * 5 0 0 0 46 2 Donetsk - Artem Fedetskiy 26/04/1985 30 Dnipro - 7 0 0 0 41 2 Shakhtar - Yaroslav Rakitskiy 03/08/1989 26 - 5 0 0 0 34 4 Donetsk Dynamo - Yevhen Khacheridi 28/07/1987 28 * 7 0 0 0 36 3 Kyiv - Andriy Pylyavskyi 04/12/1988 26 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 1 - Midfielders - Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 30/03/1979 36 Kairat - 4 0 0 0 139 4 - Ruslan Rotan 29/10/1981 33 Dnipro * 6 0 0 0 82 7 Dynamo - Oleh Gusev 25/04/1983 32 - 2 0 0 0 97 13 Kyiv Shakhtar - Taras Stepanenko 08/08/1989 26 * 7 0 0 0 23 1 Donetsk - Yevhen Konoplyanka 29/09/1989 26 Sevilla - 7 2 0 0 47 11 - Oleksandr Karavayev 02/06/1992 23 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 - - Dynamo - Serhiy Sydorchuk 02/05/1991 24 * 4 2 0 0 6 2 Kyiv Dynamo - Serhiy Rybalka 01/04/1990 25 - 2 0 0 0 4 - Kyiv - Mykyta Kamenyuka 03/06/1985 30 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 - - - Ruslan Malinovskiy 04/05/1993 22 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 1 - Forwards Dynamo - Artem Kravets 03/06/1989 26 - 4 2 0 0 8 3 Kyiv - Yevhen Seleznyov 20/07/1985 30 Dnipro - 1 0 0 0 44 9 Dynamo - Andriy Yarmolenko 23/10/1989 25 - 8 4 0 0 51 20 Kyiv - Pylyp Budkivskiy 10/03/1992 23 Zorya - 4 0 0 0 6 - Coach - Mikhail Fomenko 19/09/1948 67 - 8 0 0 0 26 - 5 North Macedonia - Ukraine Friday 9 October 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit National Arena Todor Proeski, Skopje Head coach Ljubinko Drulović Coach: Ljubinko Drulović Date of birth: 11/04/1968 Nationality: Serbian Playing career: FK Zlatar, FK Sloga Kraljevo, FK Sloboda Point, FK Rad, Gil Vicente FC, FC Porto, SL Benfica, FK Partizan, FC Penafiel Coaching career: GD Tourizense, FK Banat Zrenjanin, NK Drava, CD Primeiro do Agosto, Serbia Under-19, Serbia (caretaker), FYR Macedonia • A winger, Drulović made 38 appearances and scored three goals for Yugoslavia, playing at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 2000 final rounds. • Quick and skilful, the left-sided player spent the best years of his career in Portugal, winning five Liga titles and four Portuguese Cups during a successful spell with Porto from 1994–2001. • Having ended his playing days with Penafiel, he started out as a coach with modest Tourizense, taking up further posts in Serbia, Slovenia and Angola before being tasked with leading Serbia's U19 squad in 2012. • Drulović struck gold the next year, guiding Serbia to their first UEFA European U19 Championship crown, overseeing a final victory against France in Lithuania. • Following a brief stint in temporary charge of the senior side in 2014, Drulović signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with FYR Macedonia in April 2015, becoming their fourth foreign coach. 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.