The women's basketball team of Ukraine designed the final stage of the 2019 European Championship.

In the final match of the group stage, the “blue-yellows” suffered an away defeat from the Spanish national team with a score of 71:84 (14:21, 18:18, 24:22, 15:23).

Despite this result, the wards of Goran Boshkovich took the second line in the quartet, having 10 points. This allowed the Ukrainian team to enter the six best teams, who took second place in their groups. As for Spain, they won all six fights in the group.

As in the last meeting against Bulgaria, Alina Yagupova was the best basketball player in the Ukrainian team.. The leader of the “blue-yellows” scored 28 points for the entire match, gave 5 assists and made 6 rebounds. In addition, Yagupova became the most effective in the whole group qualification stage for the European Championship. For six games she managed to score 193 points (32.

2 on average per game, note.

Note. that for the national team of Ukraine is the eighth in a row and the fourth in a row to reach the continental championship. Recall that in the past Eurobasket, which was played in 2017, the Ukrainian team took only the tenth line. "Blue and yellow" won the European Championship once (in 1995).

Eurobasket 2019 will be held from June 27 to July 7 in Serbia and Latvia. The draw for the final stage will be held December 12, 2018.