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title: "Foundation for the Champions League: How Shakhtar is Preparing Players for the New Season"
description: "Shakhtar has started summer training camps in Slovenia with an emphasis on physical preparation. Yegor Nazaryna told how the team is laying the foundation for the fight in the Champions League. 🏃‍♂️⚽"
date: 2026-07-09T16:22:00.000Z
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# Foundation for the Champions League: How Shakhtar is Preparing Players for the New Season

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Donetsk Shakhtar has already begun its summer training camp in Slovenia. The team is laying the foundation for the new season, which will start with the fight in the Champions League. Midfielder of the "miners" Yegor Nazaryna revealed details of the intensive work at the first stage of preparation.

### Maximum loads and tactical developments

According to the player, the coaching staff has bet on endurance. The first stage of the training camp passed under the sign of maximum physical loads. "For now, it requires running, running and running again, because at the first training camp we lay the foundation of physical training, with which we go for a whole season," noted Nazaryna.

However, the work is not limited to running only. Evening training sessions are devoted to tactical developments with the ball. "This is also an important aspect that we take into account," added the midfielder.

### Experience of last summer

Such a training schedule the "miners" have already gone through a year ago, and this experience brought solid results on the international arena. "A year ago we laid a good foundation in the summer. Then we had many matches, if I'm not mistaken, we played eight matches in the European competitions qualification, but we laid that foundation with which we went throughout the season," the player is sure.

The result of such work was that the team was well prepared and, according to Nazaryna, did not lose physically to any opponent.

### Ambitious goals

The benchmarks of the Donetsk giant remain consistently high. The club is setting itself up for the fight for the most prestigious awards on all fronts. "We are Shakhtar, and we always have the highest goals: this is victory in every tournament in which we participate, in the championship and the Cup of Ukraine, of course, we want to go as far as possible in the Champions League. I think we can do it, we are preparing for it," Nazaryna summed up.

### Season start calendar

The first official match in the new season Shakhtar will play in the framework of the opening round of the Ukrainian Premier League against Kudrivka. The match will take place on August 3. And in September the champions of Ukraine will start their path in the main tournament of the Champions League.