Ukraine national rugby union team


The Ukraine national rugby union team has been playing international rugby union since the early 1990s. So far they have not qualified for a Rugby World Cup. They participate in the European Nations Cup.
The national side is ranked 37th in the world.

History

Ukraine made their international debut against Georgia in 1991, losing a close game 15-19. The nations played again three days later, and Georgia won again, six to nil. The following year Ukraine met Georgia again for a two match series, again losing both. In their first match of 1993 they defeated Hungary 41-3 for their first win. This was followed by another three wins in succession, against Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. The streak ended in 1994 with a loss to Denmark.
In 1996 Ukraine defeated Latvia 19-3, which would be the start of a nine match winning streak, which would be the longest thus far. The wins carried on into late 1997, until they lost to the Netherlands 13-35. The late 1990s saw mixed results for Ukraine, who defeated teams like Poland and the Czech Republic, but lost games to the likes of Russia, Georgia and Romania.
Ukraine played in the 2005-06 European Nations Cup, which also served as a qualifier for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. Ukraine lost all ten of their fixtures and were relegated to the Division 2A. The bottom three teams went on to Round 4 of the European World Cup qualifiers, so Ukraine played Russia twice to determine who goes through. Ukraine lost the games 11-25 and 37-17.

Record

Overall

Below is table of the representative rugby matches played by a Ukraine national XV at test level up until 17 November 2018
AgainstPlayedWonLostDrawnWin percentage
2200100%
532060%
541075%
945028.57%
321066.67%
90900%
825133.33%
3201100%
1100100%
431066.67%
4310100%
1100100%
936060%
743060%
1082087.5%
514025%
70700%
80800%
1100100%
1100100%
20200%
6600100%
3300100%
Total1115455248.15%

World Cup

Ukraine squad for the 2011–12 European Nations Cup First Division.
PlayerPositionClub
Nikolai DelierguevScrum-half RC Kredo-63
Zurab KikacheishviliScrum-half RC Kredo-63
Sergei TserkovniyFly-half RC Olymp
Sergiy GarkavyiCentre RC Olymp
Oleg KosarievCentre RC Olymp
Taras MarchenkoCentre RC Kredo-63
Denys MasiukovCentre RC Kredo-63
Vitaliy KrasnodemskiyWing RC Kredo-63
Maxim KravchenkoWing RC Olymp
Artyom KulikWing RC Antares
Miroslav ShulyakWing RC Obolon-University
Sergei MonastyrovFullback RC Kredo-63
Vyacheslav PonomarenkoFullback RC Olymp

PlayerPositionClub
Mykola Kirsanov Hooker RC Olymp
Dennis MilovHooker RC Kredo-63
Ievgen ChaikaProp RC Kredo-63
Vitaly KramarenkoProp RC Kredo-63
Oleg LitvinenkoProp RC Olymp
Oleksandr PolianskiProp RC Kredo-63
Eduard VertyletskiyProp RC Kredo-63
Vyacheslav KrasyknykLock RC Olymp
Aleksandr LomakinLock RC Olymp
Matthew WaksmunskiLock RC Olymp
Andrei DremovFlanker RC Polytechnic
Dimitri FedyshynFlanker RC Kredo-63
Yuri PidganyakFlanker RC Kredo-63
Ruslan RadchukFlanker RC Kredo-63
Jaba MalaguradzeNumber eight RC Kredo-63
Oleg ShevchenkoNumber eight RC Dinamo-Center

Notable players