The new coach of the Ukrainian national team will be the former coach of "Dynamo", "Al-Ahli Saudi FC" and "Ferencvárosi TC" Sergey Rebrov.

The 47-year-old coach has agreed to break the contract with Al-Ain and will be presented as a coach of the Ukrainian national team on Monday 09 August. He will replace Andriy Shevchenko.

Rebrov will sign a 2 + 1 contract. Thus, the specialist will lead the "blue-yellow" in the selection for the World Cup 2022 and European Championship 2024. After the selection for the continental championship is over, the agreement may be extended for another year.

The official website of Al-Ahli Saudi FC has not yet confirmed this information. Rebrov led the team from the UAE only two months ago.

Sergey Rebrov gained international fame as an attacking partner of Andriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kyiv throughout the 1990s and as of August 2017 is the all-time top scorer of the Ukrainian Premier League together with Maksim Shatskikh.

He was born in Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast. From his debut in 1992, he was capped 75 times by Ukraine, scoring 15 goals. Rebrov moved from the Eastern team to Dynamo in 1992, and stayed there for 8 years, until he was invited by the English club Tottenham. The forward played in Europe until 2005 and returned to his already native Kyiv club.

He played in the nation's first-ever World Cup, in 2006. He finished his career as a professional football player in 2009, after which he worked as a coach.