Greece and Ukraine men will face each other in a double-header of games this weekend for the Unity Cup. The matches will be played in Athens at the Gkorytsa Stadium, Aspropygos on Saturday (tomorrow) with a 4pm kick off local time, and on Sunday at the Gkorytsa Stadium, Aspropygos, kick off 4pm.

 

The winners will be decided by an aggregate score, with both senior internationals counting for world ranking points.

 

It will be Ukraine’s first senior men’s fixture since 2021 and in the wake of the russian invasion since.

Ukraine have named 21 players to make the journey:

Liubomyr Beznoshchuk, Maksym Dulia, Oleksandr Levandovskyi (Carpathian Trinity), Yevhen Checheta, Anatolii Hrankovskyi, Volodymyr Karpenko, Taras Kolisnyk, Volodymyr Mashkin, Vadym Milanko, Oleksandr Shcherbyna, Dmytro Semerenko, Oleksandr Skorbach, Oleksandr Syvokoz, Mykhailo Troian, Yevhenii Trusov, Ihor Yurkin (Kharkiv Legion XIII), Vasyl Kravchuk (Khmelnytskyi Eagles), Orest Adamyk, Ostap Hryshchenko, Valentyn Korchak (Lviv Tigers), Danylo Vedler (Rivne Giants).

 

UkraineRL president, Artur Martyrosian, noted: “Ukraine Rugby League is very grateful for the organization of this Unity Cup. Our players have really missed international rugby league and are really looking forward to this series.”

 

In connection with this event, Ukraine Rugby League opened a fundraising for the families of the deceased rugby league players.

The fundraising begun on 1st of October 2023 and will end on 1st of November 2023, on the Birthday of the Ukraine Rugby League, which is already 17 years old this year.  We are grateful in advance to everyone who supports Ukraine and our favorite sport in such fateful times for our country!

 

Fundraising details:

Реквізити збору:

 

Beneficiary – Martyrosian Artur

Отримувач – Мартиросян А.А.

 

USD/EUR/GBP/AUD

PayPal:

arturrugby@hotmail.com

 

SWIFT:

BANK OF BENEFICIARY

JSC CB PRIVATBANK, 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE

SWIFT CODE/BIC: PBANUA2X

 

EUR:

IBAN – UA933052990000026203885824825

 

UAH – Приват:

4149629351004205

 

UAH – Моно:

5375411422955901