A tight final group match left Ukraine chasing answers as they move into playoffs, with scoring spells and looming relegation battles set to test the squad.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian men\u2019s national beach soccer team has completed the group stage of the Euro Beach Soccer League 2026 in Division A.<\/p>\n
In the final group-stage match, the Ukrainians lost to Denmark 3-5.<\/p>\n
The goals were scored by Oleh Shchytnyk, who tallied a brace, and Ihor Levchenko.<\/p>\n
In the first round, the Ukrainians crushed Estonia 5-1, and in the second round they lost to Germany 2-3.<\/p>\n
Play-off prospects and standings<\/p>\n
Two playoff stages await the Ukrainian national team, the results of which will determine the positions from fifth to eighth.<\/p>\n
The two lowest-ranked teams of the tournament, which is being held in Spain with Turkey and the Czech Republic taking part and will continue in Moldova, will play in Viareggio in a round-robin format. The two lowest-ranked teams after these matches will be relegated to Division B.<\/p>\n
Thus, the group stage for Ukraine is complete; the playoff battle lies ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tight final group match left Ukraine chasing answers as they move into playoffs, with scoring spells and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,52260,66862,66861,66863,38,66864,66865],"class_list":["post-138522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-denmark-vs-ukraine","tag-ebsl-2026","tag-ebsl-2026-ukraine-beach-soccer-denmark-vs-ukraine-oleg-shchitnyk-ebsl-playoffs","tag-ebsl-playoffs","tag-news","tag-oleg-shchitnyk","tag-ukraine-beach-soccer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117016729020300762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}