Overview

• Kickoff is set for Friday at 20:45 at Stadion Wroclaw in Poland, designated as Ukraine’s home venue for the qualifier.
• Ukraine has not played an official match on its own soil since the 2022 invasion, with its last home game a friendly on 11 November 2021 in Odessa.
• UEFA requires neutral sites because damaged infrastructure, curfews and travel controls make it impractical to host visiting teams in Ukraine.
• Wroclaw’s 44,000-seat stadium is a frequent base, with other recent ‘home’ games staged in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany and Spain.
• Despite a domestic league operating under relocations, adjusted schedules, closed doors and air-raid interruptions—and no Ukrainian club in this season’s Champions League—the squad features Ilya Zabarnyi, Andriy Lunin, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Artem Dovbyk and Georgiy Sudakov, while Mykhailo Mudryk remains suspended for doping.