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 Yarmolenko is the current captain of the national team.

List of captains

Yuriy Shelepnytskyi was the first captain in the history of the national team.

Andriy Shevchenko is a player with the most captaincies in the history of Ukraine with 58 matches.

Andriy Yarmolenko is a current captain of the Ukraine national team.

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

As of 13 October 2025, after the game against   Azerbaijan

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 [a]	41	144	4	2000–2016	2004–2015
3	Oleh Luzhnyi	39	52	0	1992–2003	1994–2003
4	Andriy Yarmolenko	29	125	46	2009–2025	2018–2024
05	Ruslan Rotan	24	100	8	2003–2018	2012–2017
	Andriy Pyatov	24	102	0	2007–2022	2017–2022
07	Yuriy Kalitvintsev	13	22	1	1995–1999	1996–1999
	Oleksandr Holovko	13	58	0	1995–2004	1998–2004
	Mykola Matviyenko	13	81	0	2017–2025	2024–2025
10	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	12	92	0	1994–2012	2005–2011
11	Oleksandr Kucher	8	57	2	2006–2017	2013–2017
12	Taras Stepanenko	7	87	4	2010–2024	2021–2024
13	Oleksandr Zinchenko	6	75	12	2015–2025	2021–2024
14	Yevhen Konoplyanka	5	87	21	2010–2023	2015–2018
015	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
018	Ihor Kutepov	3	4	0	1992–1993	1993
	Serhiy Diryavka	3	9	0	1992–1995	1993–1994
	Andriy Husin	3	71	9	1993–2006	2003–2006
021	Andriy Rusol	2	49	3	2004–2010	2008
	Serhiy Sydorchuk	2	62	3	2013–2024	2022–2022
	Vladyslav Vashchuk	2	63	1	1996–2007	2001–2002
024	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
	Illya Zabarnyi	1	53	3	2020–2025	2025–2025
	Artem Fedetskyi	1	53	2	2010–2016	2016
	Serhiy Rebrov	1	75	15	1992–2006	2002
Total	32 players	328			1992–2025	1992–2025

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. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
2. Ukraine national football team at EU-football.info
3. Вербицький, Іван (30 May 2016). "Шевчук – 25-й у історії збірної України капітан" (in Ukrainian).
4. "Ukraine FA calls for ex-captain to be punished". BBC Sport. 9 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.