This team isn't based on sole international performance, but the best players from this nation in a suitable formation.
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STARTING XI
REMAINING SQUAD MEMBERS
3 best players not in the squad:
Prior to the Ukraine national team, if a player was born in Ukraine and played only for the Soviet Union national team, then I considered them here. In 1988, the Soviet Union reached the final of the European Championships. They won it in 1960, but the '88 team was led by many Ukranian players from Dynamo Kiev, while the 1972 Euro runners-up also had several. 18 of the 23 players in the squad hence come from the 70's & 80's. As Ukraine, they reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup. Andriy Lunin could enter this squad in future. Without him, Kaplychnyi is the only player in this squad who hasn't played for Dynamo Kyiv, and there is only one change to the starting XI for the All-Time Dynamo Kyiv Team compared to this starting XI - with Rudakov coming in for the club team (I consider him Russian). The club were regularly the top performing Ukrainian club in the Soviet League during the strongest periods of the national team. Oleksandr Zinchenko and Viktor Matviyenko were close to a spot as the back-up left-back, with the former still able to make it in future. Konkov covers as centre-back and back-up holding midfielder in the squad. Veremeyev, Kolotov, Buryak and Mykhaylychenko can then act as cover for 3 furthest forward midfield roles, with the likes of Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Ivan Privalov, Andriy Biba and Hennadiy Lytovchenko missing out among the wealth of great Ukrainian midfielders. Because Belanov could also play upfront, there was no overload of options in the midfield diamond. Blokhin and Shevchenko start upfront as comfortably the two greatest Ukranian players of all-time - they were both generational forwards who won the Balon D'Or, as did Belanov behind them. Protasov acts as another option upfront, while the final spot in the squad went to Byshovets as a makeshift right-wing option, as there was previously none in the squad. Volodymyr Onyshchenko was close to making it as an option here. There was no space for centre-forwards Serhiy Rebrov and Aleksandr Ponomarev. Players by Decade: 1980's (10), 1970's (8), 1960's (2), 2000's (1), 1990's (1), 1950's (1) Top 10 Ukranian Players of All-Time (& their all-time positional rank)
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