The national team of Ukraine has faced personnel costs before the start of the World Championship qualification playoffs 2026 - two important Vikonian players will not play in the first match: Ruslan Malinovsky and Yukhim Hemp.

Our national team guaranteed a place in the playoffs after defeating Iceland (2:0), where Oleksandr Zubkov and Oleksiy Gutsulyak scored goals. However, in this match itself, the “blue-zhovti” lost two graves through sorting out yellow cards.

For everyone, this has become different in certain matches in the selection, and according to the tournament regulations, this automatically leads to disqualification for the next game - it will become the final playoff.

Previously, Malinovsky was ahead in the match against Azerbaijan (2:1), who also scored and gave an assist.

Hemp took away his first card from the goal-scoring thriller with Iceland (5:3).

- Hemp won 5 matches in the current selection and missed the game against France.

- Malinovsky Provіv 3 sustriches, scoring Iceland and Azerbaijan in the same year.

Playoff for the selection of Emergency 2026 will be held in the format of mini-tournaments with semi-final and final. The national team will be announced at four, on the 20th of leaf fall, at the hour of the draw.