Today, on July 29 at 19:30, Ukrainian National basketball team is playing its first match under the heading of the new head coach Vitalii Stepanovskyi. In the control confrontation, our National team will play in Panevezys against Lithuanian team. As a reminder, Ukrainians currently are getting ready for the Olympic-2024 pre-qualification; our opponent are preparing for the World Cup-2023. In Ukraine, XSPORT TV channel will broadcast the match live.

As a reminder, so far there are four “Prometey” players in the roster of the National team – Oleksandr Lypovyy, Viacheslav Petrov, Issuf Sanon and Andrii Voinalovych.

In total, Ukrainian team will play four friendly matches:

July 29
Panevezys, Lithuania
19:30 Lithuania – Ukraine

July 31
Riga, Latvia. Olympic centre
18:30 Ukraine – Sweden

August 5
Riga, Latvia. Olympic centre
18:30 Ukraine – Israel

August 7
Riga, Latvia. Arena Riga
13:00 Ukraine – Netherlands

Olympic pre-qualification will be held between August 12 and 20 in Istanbul. In the group round, the teams of Turkey, Bulgaria and Iceland will be the rivals of Ukrainian National team.