Ukraine national football team

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The Ukraine national football team (Ukrainian: Збірна України з футболу, romanized: Zbirna Ukrainy z futbolu) represents Ukraine in men's international football, and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. Ukraine's home ground is the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv. The team has been a full member of UEFA and FIFA since 1992. After the restoration of the Ukrainian independence, the team played their first match against Hungary on 29 April 1992. In their debut in a major world championship, the team reached the quarter-finals in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Ukraine is one of only three post-Soviet states to have qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals, the others being Uzbekistan and Russia. As the host nation, Ukraine automatically qualified for UEFA Euro 2012. Four years later, Ukraine finished third in their qualifying group for Euro 2016 and advanced for the first time, via the play-off route and qualifiers, to reach a UEFA European...

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