We tell about Ukrainian football players in the leading European championships
Club football is back. This weekend. The championships of Spain, England, France and Italy have started. Next time – The 2024/2025 season will begin in the Bundesliga. There will be Ukrainians in La Liga, the Premier League, Ligue 1 and Serie A. In the Bundesliga, there will be a player with a Ukrainian passport. In general, 18 Ukrainian footballers will be in the 10 strongest European Championships according to the UEFA ratingand there are no representatives of our country in only one tournament. We tell you about Ukrainians in the leading European championships of the 2024/2025 season.
EPL
- Total number of legionnaires: 383
- Ukrainians – 5
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 1.3
The English Premier League has the largest representation of Ukraine. Arsenal defender Oleksandr Zinchenko will begin his third season with the Gunners and his eighth in England. Vitaliy Mykolenko is third at Everton, Ilya Zabarnyi and Mykhailo Mudryk are second at Bournemouth and Chelsea, Yegor Yarmolyuk is second in the Brentford first team.
La Liga
- Total number of legionnaires: 198
- Ukrainians – 2
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 1.01
There is one less Ukrainian in Primera. The new season in Spain will be started by Viktor Tsygankov, who moved to Girona last winter, and Real Madrid goalkeeper Andriy Lunin, who moved to Madrid back in the summer of 2018.
Serie A
- Total number of legionnaires: 395
- Ukrainians – 3
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 0.76
The third Ukrainian in Spain could have been Artem Dovbyk, but the Ukrainian national team forward moved to Rome this summer, to Roma, joining Genoa midfielder Ruslan Malinovsky and Atalanta midfielder Viktor Kovalenko in Serie A. For Malinovsky, the upcoming season is the sixth in Serie A, for Kovalenko – the fourth.
Bundesliga
- Total number of legionnaires: 271
- Players with Ukrainian passport – 1
- % of players with Ukrainian passports from the total number of legionnaires – 0.37
In the strongest division of German professional football, there is currently only one player with a Ukrainian passport – defender Ivan Ordets, for whom this will be his third season in Bochum.
League 1
- Total number of legionnaires: 293
- Ukrainians – 1
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 0.34
In Ligue 1, Ukraine’s representation is currently limited to one player – Eduard Sobol may spend his third season in Strasbourg.
Eredivisie
- Total number of legionnaires: 231
- Ukrainians – 0
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 0
Surprisingly, there are no Ukrainians yet in the hospitable and legionnaire-friendly Dutch championship.
Primeira
- Total number of legionnaires: 303
- Ukrainians – 1
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 0.33
In the elite division of the Portuguese championship there is only one Ukrainian so far – the goalkeeper of the Ukrainian national team Anatoliy Trubin, who is spending his second season in Benfica.
Jupiler League
- Total number of legionnaires: 293
- Ukrainians – 1
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 0.34
There are no changes in the Belgian championship yet – in the Jupiler League there is one Ukrainian: midfielder Serhiy Sydorchuk, who moved to Westerlo from Dynamo a year ago.
Turkish Super League
- Total number of legionnaires: 266
- Ukrainians – 1
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 0.37
In the elite division of the Turkish championship, there is only one Ukrainian so far, Arseniy Batagov, who moved to Trabzonspor from Zorya a week ago.
Chance League Czech Republic
- Total number of legionnaires: 140
- Ukrainians – 3
- % of Ukrainians from the total number of legionnaires – 0.47
Three Ukrainians will start the new season in the Czech elite division: 20-year-old midfielder of the Ukrainian youth team Ivan Varfolomeyev, who played for the youth teams of Rukh before moving to Slovan in 2022, his colleague in the same position, who is trying to gain a foothold in Teplice, 22-year-old Yegor Tsikalo, and 21-year-old Danylo Golovatsky, who was included in the Hradec Kralove application.
Source: Sportarena
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