Ukrainian Footballer of the Year

The Ukrainian Footballer of the Year is an annual poll carried out by the Ukrainskiy Football ("Ukrainian Football") newspaper. The poll is conducted among sports journalists, footballers, football managers and other people connected with football.

The purpose of the poll is to select the best Ukrainian footballer since 1969. Establishment of the poll was influenced by the French football award "Ballon d'Or" and later similar poll established in the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union, sports journalists of the Soviet sports magazine "Futbol-Khokey" (Football-Ice Hockey) in 1964 initiated a similar poll as it was carried out by the French magazine France Football. Unlike France Football, Futbol-Khokey was not giving an award like Ballon D'Or, but published results of the poll that it supposed to carried out among its journalists. Whether or not the poll was actually held or any of sports journalists were asked for their opinion, cannot be verified.

Few years later a similar poll started to be held for the Ukrainian footballers on initiative of the newspaper Molod Ukrayiny ("The Youth of Ukraine") published by the Ukrainian branch of Komsomol (LKSMU, not VLKSM). As a sidenote, in the Soviet Union, anything to do with sport was supervised by the Komsomol. Since starting to be held during the Soviet period, the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year poll is carried out to cast a vote for footballer who are native Ukrainians and so such tradition was kept following the fall of the Soviet Union.

Sometime in 1990s Molod Ukrayiny started to publish a separate specialized addition that was concentrated on football, Ukrainskiy Futbol (Ukrainian football). Since 1991 the voting for the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year was taking place in Ukrainskiy Futbol, which with time transformed into a separate sports newspaper.

There is also another award of the best footballer in the Ukrainian Premier League that was established in 1995 by the other newspaper Komanda. That award is not restricted to the Ukrainian nationals as in case of Ukrainian Football, but rather to the Premier League players.

Recipients

Molod Ukrainy

Year	Footballer	Club
1969	Viktor Serebryanikov	Dinamo Kiev
1970	Volodymyr Muntyan	Dinamo Kiev
1971	Yevgeniy Rudakov	Dinamo Kiev
1972	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1973	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1974	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1975	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1976	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1977	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1978	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1979	Vitali Starukhin	Shakhter Donetsk
1980	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1981	Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev
1982	Anatoly Demyanenko	Dinamo Kiev
1983	Oleh Taran	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
1984	Hennadiy Lytovchenko	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
1985	Anatoly Demyanenko	Dinamo Kiev
1986	Oleksandr Zavarov	Dinamo Kiev
1987	Oleksiy Mykhailychenko	Dinamo Kiev
1988	Oleksiy Mykhailychenko	Dinamo Kiev
1989	Volodymyr Bessonov	Dinamo Kiev
1990	Sergei Yuran	Dinamo Kiev

Ukrainskiy Football (newspaper)

The below table lists only the top three leaders of voting for the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year.

Year	Footballer	Club	Results
1991 [1]	Akhrik Tsveiba 2nd Serhiy Yuran 3rd Oleg Salenko	/ Dynamo Kyiv / Dynamo Kyiv / Dynamo Kyiv	241 (49-43-8) 148 (35-16-11) 99 (17-16-16)
1992 [1]	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Andriy Polunin 3rd Oleksandr Pomazun	Dynamo Kyiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Metalist Kharkiv	307 (83-20-18) 110 (23-13-15) 56 (5-16-9)
1993 [1]	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Timerlan Huseinov 3rd Dmytro Mykhailenko	Dynamo Kyiv Chornomorets Odesa Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	376 (108-24-4) 87 (8-24-15) 76 (4-24-16)
1994 [1]	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Oleksandr Shovkovskyi 3rd Ihor Petrov	Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk	395 (95-43-24) 351 (69-58-28) 182 (17-41-49)
1995 [1]	Yuriy Kalitvintsev 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Suslov	Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv Chornomorets Odesa	667 (192-37-17) 231 (27-57-36) 197 (20-43-51)
1996 [1]	Serhii Rebrov 2nd Oleh Suslov 3rd Yuri Maximov	Dynamo Kyiv Chornomorets Odesa Dynamo Kyiv	538 (121-65-45) 456 (82-82-46) 302 (43-55-63)
1997 [1]	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhii Rebrov 3rd Yuriy Kalitvintsev	Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv	814 (241-39-13) 414 (41-119-53) 290 (12-82-90)
1998 [1]	Serhii Rebrov 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Luzhnyi	Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv	1056 (256-128-32) 612 (73-135-123) 578 (91-104-97)
1999 [1]	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhii Rebrov 3rd Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	Dynamo Kyiv / Milan Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv	1425 (407-86-32) 1005 (118-282-87) 251 (20-47-97)
2000 [1]	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Andriy Vorobei 3rd Serhii Rebrov	Milan Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv / Tottenham Hotspur	1618 (507-46-5) 1090 (78-388-80) 207 (1-56-92)
2001 [1]	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Hennadiy Zubov 3rd Olexandr Melaschenko	Milan Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv	1593 (511-25-10) 848 (49-304-93) 244 (3-61-113)
2002 [1]	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Husyn	Shakhtar Donetsk Milan Dynamo Kyiv	744 (167-96-51) 494 (122-41-46) 438 (74-76-64)
2003 [1] [2]	Oleh Venglinsky 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Milan Shakhtar Donetsk	963 (220-129-45) 660 (147-92-35) 309 (30-58-103)
2004 [1]	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Andriy Voronin	Milan Shakhtar Donetsk 1. FC Köln / Bayer Leverkusen	1376 (412-57-26) 656 (71-163-117) 463 (27-149-84)
2005 [1]	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Ruslan Rotan	Milan Shakhtar Donetsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk / Dynamo Kyiv
2006 [3]	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Serhii Rebrov	Shakhtar Donetsk Milan / Chelsea Dynamo Kyiv
2007	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Voronin 3rd Oleksandr Hladkiy	Shakhtar Donetsk / Zenit Saint Petersburg Bayer Leverkusen / Liverpool FC Kharkiv / Shakhtar Donetsk
2008	Artem Milevskyi 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Serhiy Kravchenko	Dynamo Kyiv Zenit Saint Petersburg Vorskla Poltava
2009 [4]	Artem Milevskyi 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Pyatov	Dynamo Kyiv Milan / Chelsea / Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk
2010 [5]	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Yaroslav Rakitskiy 3rd Marko Dević	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Shakhtar Donetsk Metalist Kharkiv
2011 [6]	Andriy Voronin 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	Dynamo Moscow Dynamo Kyiv Bayern Munich
2012 [7]	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Ruslan Rotan 3rd Oleh Husyev	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kyiv
2013 [8]	Andriy Yarmolenko Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Marko Dević	Dynamo Kyiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Metalist Kharkiv
2014 [9]	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Ruslan Rotan	Dynamo Kyiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2015	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Yevhen Seleznyov	Dynamo Kyiv Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk / Sevilla Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2016 [10]	Ruslan Rotan 2nd Andriy Pyatov 3rd Andriy Yarmolenko	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv
2017	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Taras Stepanenko 3rd Denys Harmash	Dynamo Kyiv / Borussia Dortmund Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv

Ukrainskiy Football (website)

Year	Footballer	Club
2018 [11]	Viktor Tsyhankov 2nd Marlos 3rd Ruslan Malinovskyi	Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk Genk
2019 [12]	Oleksandr Zinchenko 2nd Viktor Tsyhankov 3rd Ruslan Malinovskyi	Manchester City Dynamo Kyiv Genk / Atalanta
2020 [13]	Denys Favorov 2nd Vitalii Mykolenko 3rd Viktor Tsyhankov	Desna Chernihiv / Zorya Luhansk Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kyiv
2022 [14]	Mykhailo Mudryk 2nd Artem Dovbyk 3rd Vitaliy Buyalskyi	Shakhtar Donetsk Dnipro-1 Dynamo Kyiv

Alternative awards

Komanda award (1995–2016)

The Komanda award for the best footballer in the Ukrainian Premier League was established in 1995 by the Komanda newspaper. It is actually called the Ukrainian Premier League Footballer of the Year (Vyscha Liha Footballer of the Year before 2008). It is being evaluated by the participants of the League, players and coaches.

Year	Footballer	Club
1995	Yuriy Kalitvintsev 2nd Oleh Suslov 3rd Andriy Shevchenko	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odesa FC Dynamo Kyiv
1996	Serhii Rebrov 2nd Yuriy Maksymov 3rd Oleh Suslov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odesa
1997	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhii Rebrov 3rd Yuriy Kalitvintsev	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1998	Serhii Rebrov 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Luzhnyi	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1999	Serhii Rebrov 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Vladyslav Vashchuk	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv / AC Milan FC Dynamo Kyiv
2000	Andriy Vorobey 2nd Valyantsin Byalkevich 3rd Yuriy Virt	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2001	Valyantsin Byalkevich 2nd Hennadiy Zubov 3rd Serhiy Shyshchenko	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Metalurh Donetsk
2002	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Valyantsin Byalkevich 3rd Oleh Venhlynskyi	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv / FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2003 [15]	Valyantsin Byalkevich 2nd Oleh Venhlynskyi 3rd Serhiy Fedorov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv
2004 [16]	Oleksandr Rykun 2nd Oleksandr Shovkovskyi 3rd Matuzalém	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2005 [17]	Oleh Husyev 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Matuzalém	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2006 [18]	Serhiy Nazarenko 2nd Matuzalém 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2007 [19]	Serhiy Nazarenko 2nd Oleksandr Gladkiy 3rd Fernandinho	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2008 [20]	Jajá 2nd Artem Milevskyi 3rd Serhiy Kravchenko	FC Metalist Kharkiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Vorskla Poltava
2009 [21]	Artem Milevskyi 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Pyatov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2010 [22]	Andriy Pyatov 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Darijo Srna	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2011 [23]	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Taison 3rd Oleksandr Rybka	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Metalist Kharkiv FC Obolon Kyiv / FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2012 [24]	Henrikh Mkhitaryan 2nd Willian 3rd Yevhen Konoplyanka	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2013 [25]	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Marko Dević	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Metalist Kharkiv
2014 [26]	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Cleiton Xavier	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Metalist Kharkiv
2015	Alex Teixeira 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Yevhen Khacheridi	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
2016 [27]	Marlos 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Darijo Srna	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Komanda also runs a list The best 33 football players of Ukraine (33 найкращі футболісти України) as an annual composed list of the three best football (soccer) players in each position (amplua) for the annual calendar. This is based on the Spisok 33 (ru:Список 33 лучших футболистов сезона в СССР) which ran in the Soviet era until 1992, when it became the Russian league List of 33 (ru:Список 33 лучших футболистов чемпионата России).

Komanda1 award

Year	Footballer	Club
2017 [28]	Marlos 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Fred	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2018 [29]	Marlos 2nd Viktor Tsyhankov 3rd Taison	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2019 [30]	Taison 2nd Viktor Tsyhankov 3rd Vitalii Mykolenko	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
2020 [31]	Viktor Tsyhankov 2nd Taison 3rd Shahab Zahedi	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Olimpik Donetsk

See also

• Soviet Footballer of the Year
• Heroes of Sports Year (Ukraine)

References

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2. 2003 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
3. 2006 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
4. 2009 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
5. 2010 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
6. 2011 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
7. 2012 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
8. 2013 Ukrainskiy Football Award (in Russian)
9. 2014 Ukrainskiy Football Award (in Ukrainian)
10. 2016 Ukrainskiy Football Award (in Ukrainian)
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16. 2004 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
17. 2005 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
18. 2006 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
19. 2007 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
20. 2008 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
21. 2009 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
22. 2010 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
23. 2011 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
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27. Тяжело, но уверенно: Хавбек донецкого «Шахтера» Марлос победил по всем версиям
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External links

• Ukraine - Player of the Year Awards, rsssf.com.