{"id":1374927,"date":"2026-03-27T18:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rebrov-will-step-down-as-head-coach-of-the-ukrainian-national-football-team-who-could-become-his-successor\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:57:32","slug":"rebrov-will-step-down-as-head-coach-of-the-ukrainian-national-football-team-who-could-become-his-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/rebrov-will-step-down-as-head-coach-of-the-ukrainian-national-football-team-who-could-become-his-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebrov will step down as head coach of the Ukrainian national football team: who could become his successor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ukrainian national football team may get a new head coach after a 1:3 defeat to Sweden and failure to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. It is expected that the contract with the current coach will not be extended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/sport.ua\/uk\/news\/854058-rebrov-pide-ye-dva-kandidati-na-posadu-koucha-zbirnoi-ukraini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sport.ua<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to the publication, the friendly match against Albania on March 31 will be the last for the coaching staff led by Serhiy Rebrov. The Ukrainian Football Association does not plan to continue cooperation with him.<\/p>\n<p> Candidates for the position of new head coach are currently being considered. Among them are <strong>Unai Melhos<\/strong> , who heads the Ukrainian U-21 national team, and <strong>Ruslan Rotan<\/strong> , the current coach of Polissya Zhytomyr.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that Ruslan Rotan previously worked with the Ukrainian youth national team, which reached the semi-finals of Euro 2023 and qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. He also served as the head coach of the national team in 2023.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth adding that Serhiy Rebrov has been leading the national team since 2023. Under his leadership, the Ukrainian national team qualified for Euro 2024, but failed to make it to the play-off stage.<\/p>\n<p> Ukraine has only appeared in the finals of the World Cup once \u2014 in 2006 in Germany, when the team led by Oleg Blokhin reached the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p> The 2026 World Cup will be held from June 11 to July 19 in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p> The day before, the president of the Ukrainian Football Association Andriy <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/doliu-rebrova-vyrishat-pislia-matchu-z-albaniieiu-shevchenko\/\">Shevchenko said that a decision on the future head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Serhiy Rebrov, will be made after the friendly match against Albania<\/a> on March 31.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian national football team may get a new head coach after a 1:3 defeat to Sweden and failure to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. It is expected that the contract with the current coach will not be extended. This is reported by Sport.ua . According to the publication, the friendly match against Albania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1374921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1374927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}