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 captaincy periods of the various captains throughout the years. [2] [3]
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 |
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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 | Andriy Yarmolenko | 28 | 122 | 46 | 2009–2024 | 2018–2024 |
5 | Ruslan Rotan | 24 | 100 | 8 | 2003–2018 | 2012–2017 |
Andriy Pyatov | 24 | 102 | 0 | 2007–2022 | 2017–2022 | |
7 | 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 | Taras Stepanenko | 7 | 85 | 4 | 2010–2024 | 2021–2024 |
12 | Oleksandr Zinchenko | 6 | 66 | 9 | 2015–2024 | 2021–2024 |
13 | Yevhen Konoplyanka | 5 | 87 | 21 | 2010–2023 | 2015–2018 |
14 | 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 | |
17 | 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 | |
20 | 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 | |
Mykola Matviyenko | 2 | 68 | 0 | 2017–2024 | 2024–2024 | |
24 | 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 | |
Serhiy Rebrov | 1 | 75 | 15 | 1992–2006 | 2002 | |
Total | 31 players | 315 | 1992–2024 | 1992–2024 | ||
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