Sports news, competitions and athletes from Kyiv region and Ukraine
On September 28, Ukraine's national team will play against Georgia in Tbilisi, with seven victories and no defeats in head-to-head meetings behind them. An unexpected detail: the Georgian field itself has historically not prevented Ukrainians from winning.
Kalynina and Svitolina defeated Italy 2:0 and brought Ukraine's national team to the first final in the tournament's history. Their opponent is Czechia, a country with developed tennis infrastructure that Ukraine cannot boast of.
Ukraine defeated Hungary away 1:0 and claimed the opening three points in the new Nations League season, while the coaching staff is already thinking about squad issues ahead of the Georgia match.
Yegor Kurtsev won his first silver medal at the junior Grand Prix stage in Ankara — and returned to Ukraine a medal in men's singles figure skating that the country had not won in seven years.
Ukraine's national team defeated Cyprus 3:1 in the Davis Cup World Group II. The decisive point was won by Georgy Kravchenko.
Hrihoriy Ilchyshyn and Yaroslav Tkach won the speed relay in Chongqing, twice breaking the continental record and ending an eight-year gap without World Series gold for Ukraine.
Ahead of the new coach's debut in the Nations League, the player list raises more questions than answers: five players from Dynamo, which failed to start the season successfully, and zero representatives from the third-ranked team in the championship.
The UAF did not search for a new coach from outside — the head of the professional football committee took the position of head coach of the youth national team himself. This says more about the association's personnel shortage than about the U-19 development plan.
In the final of the "Diamond League" in Brussels, it was not so much Elaine Patterson who dealt defeat to Yaroslava Mahuchikh, but rather the psychology of competing against her own best result of the season.
Danylo Kravchenko won gold at the European Junior Judo Championship, defeating a Russian athlete in the final. Each such competition serves as a reminder that athletes from the aggressor country continue to compete in international tournaments during the war.
Marta Kostyuk defeated Mirra Andreeva 4:6, 6:0, 6:2 at the WTA 1000 tournament in Cincinnati. In the quarterfinals, she will face either Gauff or Bouzkova.
# Silver medalist Ilya Kovtun became European champion in combined events competing for Croatia. The story of his transition is not just a change of flag, but a conflict with the sports federation against the backdrop of war.
Taisiia Onofirichuk won the hoop final at the 2026 World Championships in Frankfurt — Ukraine's first gold medal at a world championship since 2013, when Hanna Rizatdinova triumphed.
# Kyiv Club Brings 1-0 Victory to Baku, but Bookmakers Doubt Their Advance. The Reason Is Not Football, but the Calendar.
Infantino's plan to attract $4.2 billion from private investors lasted less than a week — from presentation to capitulation under UEFA pressure, the resignation of an adviser, and a rebellion within his own office.
Kseniia Bailo and Sofiia Vystavkina won bronze at the European Championship in synchronized diving from the platform — and they achieved this in their very first attempt as a tandem, without any experience of competing together before this tournament.
# Translation A four-year ban on the footballer has been lifted, but this does not mean that the doping test was found to be incorrect — the investigation simply concluded differently. The difference between "overturned" and "exonerated" will determine how Mudryk is received by fans and clubs.
The Cherkasy club was eliminated from the Conference League in a rare scenario: two matches, two extra times—and no goals scored across both encounters. Penalties decided the outcome.
Victory over a tennis player who changed the Russian flag to Uzbek advanced Svitolina to the Washington quarterfinals. But what's more interesting is how sports citizenship has become a tool for circumventing sanctions in tennis.
Annual lease with the option to buy is not about the club's faith in the striker, but rather Roma's attempt to gloss over a failed transfer worth over 30 million euros. Three goals in a season hampered by injuries — that's what Bologna actually bought.
Kyiv Dynamo has signed right-back Oleksiy Sych from Carpathians under conditions that make the Carpathians a financial co-owner of the player: 50% of future sale proceeds and a right of first refusal on purchase.
The match against "Livy Bereg," postponed from August 2 due to the European cup marathon, is the first rescheduled game of the 2026/27 UPL season. The regulations allow clubs participating in UEFA competitions to shift up to two opening matches.
Nearly 1.8 million people took to the streets of Madrid to welcome the national team after their victory over Argentina. But the real price of the title is measured not by the crowds, but by how much of that money will remain in the Spanish economy — and whether it will remain at all.
Tom Holland revealed on The Tonight Show how Erling Haaland ignored his invitation — not out of arrogance, but simply because he doesn't watch movies. Holland read the interview and responded in the comments.
# US President Publicly Asks FIFA to Hold Next World Cup Exclusively on American Territory At a reception in Trump Tower, the US president publicly requested that FIFA hold the next World Cup solely on American soil—excluding Canada and Mexico. Behind the scenes: trade wars, personal friendship with Infantino, and an already prepared plan for 2038.
On July 19 at MetLife Stadium, Trump, together with FIFA President Infantino, will present the World Cup to the winner of the Spain-Argentina match. The same Spain that he accused several weeks earlier of betraying allied obligations.
Kyiv Dynamo advanced past Romanian Universitatea in the first qualifying round of the Europa League, winning 4-2 on penalties after a 0-0 draw in regular and extra time across both matches. The next opponent is PAOK under Razvan Lucescu, featuring former Dynamo player Kendzora and ex-Shakhtar player Tyson.
On July 15, the International Handball Federation Council lifted sanctions imposed in 2022 against the national teams of Russia and Belarus, with full restoration of national symbols — citing International Olympic Committee decisions from May 7 and July 7, 2026. The federation simultaneously expressed "solidarity with Ukraine," however it provided no mechanism to suspend reintegration in case of escalation of the war.
After a goalless first match, Dynamo takes to the field at Cluj Arena with no room for error — any goal conceded complicates their path to PAOK.
Artem Dovbyk has agreed to a move to Genoa and reunification with coach Daniele De Rossi — but negotiations between the clubs have stalled on a key issue: loan or permanent transfer.