List of Ukraine national football team captains

This is a list of all the players who have captained the Ukraine national football team.

Yuriy Shelepnytskyi was the first captain of the Ukraine national football team.[1]

Andriy Shevchenko wore the captain band the most times: 58.

Andriy Pyatov is the current captain of the national team.

List of captains
Yuriy Shelepnytskyi was the first captain in the history of Ukraine.
Andriy Shevchenko is a player with the most captaincies in the history of Ukraine with 58 matches.
Andriy Pyatov is a current captain of the Ukrainian national team.

List of captaincy periods of the various captains throughout the years.[2][3]

As of 16 November 2021, after the game against  Bosnia and Herzegovina

Players in bold are still active. Years in italics indicate last year, when still an active player was a captain.

# Name Captain Appearances Goals National years Captaincy years
1 Andriy Shevchenko 58 111 48 1995–2012 2002–2012
2 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk[lower-alpha 1] 41 144 4 2000–2016 2004–2015
3 Oleh Luzhnyi 39 52 0 1992–2003 1994–2003
4 Ruslan Rotan 24 100 8 2003–2018 2012–2017
5 Andriy Pyatov 23 101 0 2007– 2017–2021
6 Andriy Yarmolenko 17 106 43 2009– 2018–2021
07 Yuriy Kalitvintsev 13 22 1 1995–1999 1996–1999
Oleksandr Holovko 13 58 0 1995–2004 1998–2004
9 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi 12 92 0 1994–2012 2005–2011
10 Oleksandr Kucher 8 57 2 2006–2017 2013–2017
11 Yevhen Konoplyanka 5 86 21 2010– 2015–2018
012 Serhiy Bezhenar 4 23 1 1992–1997 1993–1997
Yuriy Maksymov 4 27 5 1992–2002 1995–1997
Vyacheslav Shevchuk 4 56 0 2003–2016 2016
015 Ihor Kutepov 3 4 0 1992–1993 1993
Serhiy Diryavka 3 9 0 1992–1995 1993–1994
Oleksandr Zinchenko 3 48 6 2015– 2021–2021
Andriy Husin 3 71 9 1993–2006 2003–2006
019 Andriy Rusol 2 49 3 2004–2010 2008
Vladyslav Vashchuk 2 63 1 1996–2007 2001–2002
021 Yuriy Shelepnytskyi 1 1 0 1992 1992
Serhiy Tretyak 1 2 0 1992 1992
Yevhen Drahunov 1 2 0 1992 1992
Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko 1 2 0 1992–1994 1992
Ihor Petrov 1 3 0 1994 1994
Hennadiy Lytovchenko 1 4 0 1993–1994 1994
Artem Fedetskyi 1 53 2 2010–2016 2016
Taras Stepanenko 1 69 4 2010– 2021–2021
Serhii Rebrov 1 75 15 1992–2006 2002
Total 29 players 290 1992–2021 1992–2021

Notes
  1. On 11 March 2022, UAF annulled Tymoshchuk's caps and goals for the national team due to his refusal to speak out against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

References
  1. ""Тимощук? Не хочу навіть його імені називати". Перший капітан збірної України грав проти Шукюра і двічі відмовляв Динамо" (in Ukrainian). football24.ua. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  2. Ukraine national football team at EU-football.info
  3. Вербицький, Іван. "Шевчук – 25-й у історії збірної України капітан" (in Ukrainian).
  4. "Ukraine FA calls for ex-captain to be punished". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
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