UEFA EURO 2016 MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Pierre Mauroy - Villeneuve d'Ascq Sunday 12 June 2016 - 21.00CET Germany Group C - Matchday 1 Ukraine #GERUKR Last updated 25/02/2019 19:07CET EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 9 Match-by-match lineups 13 Team facts 17 Legend 19 1 Germany - Ukraine Sunday 12 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Previous meetings Head to Head FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Ballack 4, 51, Neuville 4-1 14/11/2001 PO Germany - Ukraine Dortmund 11, Rehmer 15; agg: 5-2 Shevchenko 90 10/11/2001 PO Ukraine - Germany 1-1 Kyiv Zubov 18; Ballack 31 FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 07/06/1997 QR (GS) Ukraine - Germany 0-0 Kyiv 30/04/1997 QR (GS) Germany - Ukraine 2-0 Bremen Bierhoff 62, Basler 72 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 Germany - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FIFA* Germany 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 - - - - 4 2 2 0 7 2 Ukraine 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 - - - - 4 0 2 2 2 7 Friendlies Germany - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 1 0 3 3 Ukraine - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 1 0 3 3 Total Germany 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 - - - - 5 2 3 0 10 5 Ukraine 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 - - - - 5 0 3 2 5 10 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Germany - Ukraine Sunday 12 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Match background Positive omens abound for Germany as they look ahead to their opening UEFA EURO 2016 Group C game against Ukraine. Previous meetings • Germany have yet to lose in five games against Ukraine (W2 L3), including four competitive encounters (W2 D2). • Germany maintained their record of never having failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup when they overcame Ukraine 5-2 on aggregate in a play-off for the 2002 tournament. The second leg in Dortmund, a 4-1 home win, was Ukraine's last match under Valeriy Lobanovskiy. • The teams first met in qualifying for the 1998 World Cup. Oliver Bierhoff and Mario Basler scored Germany's goals in a 2-0 home victory before a 0-0 draw in Kyiv. • The first friendly between the countries took place on 11 November 2011 and produced a thrilling 3-3 draw in the inaugural international staged at the refurbished UEFA EURO 2012 final venue in Kyiv. Germany came from 3-1 down to level with a 77th-minute strike from Thomas Müller. First-half goals from Andriy Yarmolenko and Yevhen Konoplyanka had put the hosts 2-0 up. EURO facts – Germany • Germany are competing in their 12th successive EURO since missing out on the final tournament as West Germany, their first attempt, in 1968. • EURO winners in 1972, 1980 and 1996 – and three-time beaten finalists – Germany have failed to make it through the group stage on three occasions, in 1984, 2000 and 2004. • The world champions' record in qualifying was W7 D1 L2. • Lille have played four home games against German sides (W1 D1 L2), with the last two Bundesliga visitors both winning – Müller's penalty earned Bayern a 1-0 UEFA Champions League triumph in October 2012, while Wolfsburg were 3-0 victors at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in the UEFA Europa League in December 2014. EURO facts – Ukraine • Ukraine are participating at their second EURO. They appeared as co-hosts of UEFA EURO 2012 but qualified this time round via a play-off success against Slovenia. • Ukraine's biggest international success to date is making it to the quarter-finals of their only World Cup, in Germany in 2006. • Ukraine's record in qualifying was W7 D2 L3 – including their play-off results against Slovenia. • The only Ukrainian side to have played in Lille is Shakhtar Donetsk, who lost 3-2 to Lille in a 2005/06 UEFA Cup round of 32 first leg. Ukraine midfielder Anatoliy Tymoshchuk played in that match. Coach and player links • Have played together: Jérôme Boateng, Mario Gomez, Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer and Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany) & Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Ukraine) – Bayern, 2009–13. • Boateng, Mario Götze and Müller (2) scored in Bayern's 7-0 2014/15 UEFA Champions League round of 16 second- leg win against a Shakhtar side featuring Andriy Pyatov, Yaroslav Rakitsky, Vyacheslav Shevchuk and Taras Stepanenko. Defender Oleksandr Kucher was sent off three minutes into that game. • Yarmolenko scored in Dynamo Kyiv's 3-1 victory against a Mönchengladbach team containing Marc-André ter Stegen in 2012/13 UEFA Champions League qualifying. Ukraine's Denys Garmash also played for Dynamo in that play-off first leg. • Sami Khedira's Juventus defeated a Sevilla FC XI featuring Ukraine's Konoplyanka 2-0 in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage. • Germany's Bernd Leno met Shakhtar in the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League group stage (4-0h, 0-0a), the Leverkusen man coming up against Ukraine's Pyatov, Rakitskiy, Shevchuk and Kucher. • Mats Hummels and Götze scored against Shakhtar in a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie won 5-2 on aggregate by Borussia Dortmund, with Pyatov, Rakitskiy, Stepanenko and Kucher on the losing side. 3 Germany - Ukraine Sunday 12 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Squad list Germany Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Manuel Neuer 27/03/1986 30 Bayern - 9 0 0 0 12 Bernd Leno 04/03/1992 24 Leverkusen - 0 0 0 0 22 Marc-André ter Stegen 30/04/1992 24 Barcelona - 0 0 0 0 Defenders 2 Shkodran Mustafi 17/04/1992 24 Valencia - 1 0 0 0 3 Jonas Hector 27/05/1990 26 Köln - 7 0 0 0 4 Benedikt Höwedes 29/02/1988 28 Schalke - 1 0 0 0 5 Mats Hummels 16/12/1988 27 Dortmund - 7 0 0 0 16 Jonathan Tah 11/02/1996 20 Leverkusen - 0 0 0 0 17 Jérôme Boateng 03/09/1988 27 Bayern - 10 0 0 0 21 Joshua Kimmich 08/02/1995 21 Bayern - 0 0 0 0 Midfielders 6 Sami Khedira 04/04/1987 29 Juventus - 2 0 0 0 7 Bastian Schweinsteiger 01/08/1984 31 Man. United - 4 0 0 0 8 Mesut Özil 15/10/1988 27 Arsenal - 6 0 0 0 9 André Schürrle 06/11/1990 25 Wolfsburg - 7 3 0 0 11 Julian Draxler 20/09/1993 22 Wolfsburg - 2 0 0 0 14 Emre Can 12/01/1994 22 Liverpool - 2 0 0 0 15 Julian Weigl 08/09/1995 20 Dortmund - 0 0 0 0 18 Toni Kroos 04/01/1990 26 Real Madrid - 9 1 0 0 19 Mario Götze 03/06/1992 24 Bayern - 9 3 0 0 20 Leroy Sané 11/01/1996 20 Schalke - 0 0 0 0 Forwards 10 Lukas Podolski 04/06/1985 31 Galatasaray - 7 0 0 0 13 Thomas Müller 13/09/1989 26 Bayern - 9 9 0 0 23 Mario Gomez 10/07/1985 30 Beşiktaş - 0 0 0 0 Coach - Joachim Löw 03/02/1960 56 - 10 0 0 0 4 Germany - Ukraine Sunday 12 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Ukraine Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Denys Boyko 29/01/1988 28 Beşiktaş - 0 0 0 0 Shakhtar 12 Andriy Pyatov 28/06/1984 31 - 12 0 0 0 Donetsk 23 Mykyta Shevchenko 26/01/1993 23 Zorya - 0 0 0 0 Defenders 2 Bohdan Butko 13/01/1991 25 Amkar - 0 0 0 0 Dynamo 3 Yevhen Khacheridi 28/07/1987 28 - 10 0 0 0 Kyiv Shakhtar 5 Olexandr Kucher 22/10/1982 33 - 6 0 0 0 Donetsk Shakhtar 13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk 13/05/1979 37 - 12 0 0 0 Donetsk 17 Artem Fedetskiy 26/04/1985 31 Dnipro - 11 0 0 0 Shakhtar 20 Yaroslav Rakitskiy 03/08/1989 26 - 9 0 0 0 Donetsk Midfielders 4 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 30/03/1979 37 Kairat - 5 0 0 0 Shakhtar 6 Taras Stepanenko 08/08/1989 26 - 9 0 0 0 Donetsk Dynamo 7 Andriy Yarmolenko 23/10/1989 26 - 12 6 0 0 Kyiv Shakhtar 9 Viktor Kovalenko 14/02/1996 20 - 0 0 0 0 Donetsk 10 Yevhen Konoplyanka 29/09/1989 26 Sevilla - 11 2 0 0 14 Ruslan Rotan 29/10/1981 34 Dnipro - 8 0 0 0 Dynamo 16 Serhiy Sydorchuk 02/05/1991 25 - 7 2 0 0 Kyiv Dynamo 18 Serhiy Rybalka 01/04/1990 26 - 6 0 0 0 Kyiv Dynamo 19 Denys Garmash 19/04/1990 26 - 6 1 0 0 Kyiv 21 Olexandr Zinchenko 15/12/1996 19 Ufa - 1 0 0 0 22 Olexandr Karavaev 02/06/1992 24 Zorya - 2 0 0 0 Forwards 8 Roman Zozulya 17/11/1989 26 Dnipro - 5 0 0 0 Shakhtar 11 Yevhen Seleznyov 20/07/1985 30 - 5 2 0 0 Donetsk 15 Pylyp Budkivskiy 10/03/1992 24 Zorya - 4 0 0 0 Coach - Mykhailo Fomenko 19/09/1948 67 - 12 0 0 0 5 Germany - Ukraine Sunday 12 June 2016 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Head coach Joachim Löw Date of birth: 3 February 1960 Nationality: German Playing career: SC Freiburg (three times), VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt, Karlsruher SC, FC Schaffhausen, FC Winterthur, FC Frauenfeld Coaching career: FC Winterthur (youth), FC Frauenfeld, VfB Stuttgart, Fenerbahçe SK, Karlsruher SC, Adanaspor AŞ, FC Tirol Innsbruck, FK Austria Wien, Germany (assistant), Germany • A native of the Black Forest in south-west Germany, Löw spent most of his playing days with local club Freiburg, where he had three spells, before winding down his career in Switzerland.