The Ukraine national bandy team is Ukraine's national representative in the winter team sport of bandy. Two national teams exist, one for men and one for women. Both teams are organized by the Ukrainian Bandy and Rink bandy Federation. A national junior boys team has also competed internationally for Ukraine. This article deals chiefly with the men's senior national team. The national team's kit is in the Ukrainian colours of yellow and blue.Ukrainian Bandy and Rink bandy Federation, seen 16 May 2015
The Ukraine national men's bandy team made its debut at the 2013 Bandy World Championship. The Ukraine women's national bandy team was scheduled to make its world debut at the 2022 Women's Bandy World Championship but had to withdraw due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ukraine women's national bandy team made its debut at the 2023 Women's Bandy World Championship in Sweden, finishing 6th.
History
The national team made its debut at the men's 2013 Bandy World Championship (XXXIIIrd), and also participated at the 2014 Bandy World Championship (XXXIVth). For the 2015 Bandy World Championship, the team withdrew for political reasons due to the conflict with Russia over Crimea. At the 2016 Bandy World Championship (XXXVIth) they returned, capturing bronze in Division B, currently the national team's best performance in history.
The men's national team did not participate in the 2022 Bandy World Championship which was to be the first time the men's tournament was to be held since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The tournament was cancelled due to the unforeseen impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion also caused significant damage to the sport's infrastructure in Ukraine; the "Saltivskyi lid" rink in Kharkiv was hit by rocket attacks, and training for national teams was relocated to Dnipro.
World Championship record Seniors
The Ukraine national men's senior bandy team began competing in the Bandy World Championship making its debut at the 2013 Bandy World Championship. It did not compete in the 2015, 2022, or 2023 tournaments.
Bandy World Championship YearLocation Result 2013 Norway and Sweden 8th (Division B) 2014 Irkutsk and Shelekhov 8th (Division B) 2015 Withdrewdue to the conflict with Russia over Crimea 2016 Ulyanovsk Oblast, Ulyanovsk Bronze(Division B) 2017 Slättbergshallen in Trollhättan 5th (Division B) 2018 Harbin, Heilongjiang 6th (Division B) 2019 Vänersborg 9th (Division B) 2020 Irkutsk Silver(Division B) 2022 Tournament cancelleddue to the Russian invasion of Ukraine2023Did not enter
Y15 Ukraine
Y15 Bandy World Championship YearLocation Result 2014 Russia 4th 2016 Russia Did not compete 2018 Russia Did not competeПервенство мира среди мл. юношей U-15 - 2018 2020 Tournament cancelleddue to the COVID-19 pandemic 2022 Tournament cancelleddue to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Team Ukraine Senior
2013 Seniors
The Ukraine national bandy team competed in the 2013 Bandy World Championship in Division B with the following roster:
2014 Seniors The Ukraine national bandy team competed in the 2014 Bandy World Championship in Division B with the following roster:
2015 Seniors The Ukraine national bandy team did not compete in the 2015 Bandy World Championship. The national team withdrew from the tournament due to the conflict with Russia over Crimea.
2016 Seniors The Ukraine national bandy team competed in the 2016 Bandy World Championship in Division B with the following roster:
2017 Seniors
The Brändö municipality in Finland was sponsor of the Ukraine national bandy team at the 2017 Bandy World Championship.Спонсором збірної України з хокею з м’ячем став острів у Фінляндії, sport.ua, 6 July 2017 (in Ukrainian).Українська федерація хокею з м'ячем (see "Збірні України на чемпіонатах світу 2017 року"). The Ukraine national bandy team competed in the 2017 World Championship in Division B with the following roster:
Pos.NumberNameGoalkeeperAndrii KurudzGoalkeeperDmytro BalashovField playerOleh ChykarievField playerOleksandr BadamshynField playerDmytro ZiuzField playerSergii MozgovoiField playerViacheslav KuzminField playerDmytro TsymbalField playerIllia IvanovField playerRoman LevchenkoField playerYurii SuzdalevField playerAndrii VershetskyiField playerMatviy KhotyaintsevField playerAnton LozovoiField playerIvan ShvedchenkoField playerAndrey MarkovichenkoField playerMykhailo SkalytskyiField playerOleksandr MitlenkoAdministrative and coaching staffHead coachMagnus AlmCoachSergii BabenkoUBRF PresidentIhor SkalytskyiPress OfficerHennadii Babenko
2018 Seniors
The Ukraine national bandy team competed in the 2018 Bandy World Championship in Division B.
2019 Seniors
The Ukraine national bandy team competed in the 2019 Bandy World Championship in Division B.
2020 Seniors
The Ukraine national bandy team competed in the 2020 Bandy World Championship in Division B.
2021 Seniors
The Ukraine national bandy team did not compete in the 2021 Bandy World Championship because it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022 Seniors
The Ukraine national bandy team did not compete in the 2022 Bandy World Championship which was cancelled due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Team Ukraine Junior
The Bandy World Championship for youth teams are held in a number of different age classes and are held regularly for athletes who do not compete for the national senior team. The following are the age classes for males:
World Championship Y15 – for boys' teams up to age 15 World Championship Y17 – for boys' teams up to age 17 World Championship Y19 – for young men's teams up to age 19 World Championship Y23 – for young men's teams up to age 23
The first World Championship Y16 was held in 1994. Since 2002, it has been for Y15 teams only.
2014 Y15
The following was the Ukrainian youth team squad for the 2014 Y15 Youth Bandy World Championship who finished in 4th place:
Pos.NumberNameClubGoalkeeper1Georgiy SosyedkaGoalkeeper20Ignat Lemeshevskii2Dmytro PoperezhaiDnipro Dnipropetrovsk3Bohdan SuzdalevDnipro Dnipropetrovsk4Dmytro BerezaDnipro Dnipropetrovsk5Artem Zakharchenco6Mykhaylo Skalyts'kyyDnipro Dnipropetrovsk7Mykola Baranov8Yevgeniy Medvedyev10Ilia Nasekin11Ivan Sharkov13Volodymyr GoletsDnipro Dnipropetrovsk15Sergiy Terent'yevDnipro Dnipropetrovsk21Oleksandr Malko22Semyon Zavarinski25Mykhaylo IvanovDnipro DnipropetrovskTeam StaffHead coachAssistant coachAssistant coachTrainer
2015 Y15 The Ukraine national youth team did not compete in the 2015 Y15 Youth Bandy World Championship. The national Y15 team withdrew from the tournament due to the conflict with Russia over Crimea. The intended roster had been as follows:
Yuri Vyborov (gk) Arkadiy Nagoga Kyrylo Shmatchenko Sergei Smurov Anton Riapolov Kiril Dolgikh Bogdan Arabov Artur Sysoev Evgenii Gromnitskii Volodymyr Golets Mykhaylo Skalyts`kyy Maksym Melnychuk (gk) Ivan Shvvedchenko Bohdan Sukharov
2016 Y15
The Ukrainian youth team squad competed in the 2016 Y15 Youth Bandy World Championship.
2020 Y15
The 2020 World Championship Y15 tournament in Arkhangelsk, Russia, was cancelled.
Notable players , Suzdalev Yuriy Vasyliovych
Gallery
External links Ukrainian bandy and Rink Bandy Federation
References