Ukrainian Footballer of the Year

Template:Short description 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	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1970	Volodymyr Muntyan	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1971	Yevgeniy Rudakov	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1972	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1973	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1974	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1975	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1976	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1977	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1978	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1979	Vitali Starukhin	Template:Flagicon Shakhter Donetsk
1980	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1981	Oleh Blokhin	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1982	Anatoly Demyanenko	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1983	Oleh Taran	Template:Flagicon Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
1984	Hennadiy Lytovchenko	Template:Flagicon Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
1985	Anatoly Demyanenko	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1986	Oleksandr Zavarov	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1987	Oleksiy Mykhailychenko	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1988	Oleksiy Mykhailychenko	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1989	Volodymyr Bessonov	Template:Flagicon Dinamo Kiev
1990	Sergei Yuran	Template:Flagicon 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	Akhrik Tsveiba 2nd Serhiy Yuran 3rd Oleg Salenko	Template:Flagicon / Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon / Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon / Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv	241 (49-43-8) 148 (35-16-11) 99 (17-16-16)
1992	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Andriy Polunin 3rd Oleksandr Pomazun	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Metalist Kharkiv	307 (83-20-18) 110 (23-13-15) 56 (5-16-9)
1993	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Timerlan Huseinov 3rd Dmytro Mykhailenko	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Chornomorets Odesa Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	376 (108-24-4) 87 (8-24-15) 76 (4-24-16)
1994	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Oleksandr Shovkovskyi 3rd Ihor Petrov	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk	395 (95-43-24) 351 (69-58-28) 182 (17-41-49)
1995	Yuriy Kalitvintsev 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Suslov	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Chornomorets Odesa	667 (192-37-17) 231 (27-57-36) 197 (20-43-51)
1996	Serhii Rebrov 2nd Oleh Suslov 3rd Yuri Maximov	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Chornomorets Odesa Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv	538 (121-65-45) 456 (82-82-46) 302 (43-55-63)
1997	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhii Rebrov 3rd Yuriy Kalitvintsev	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv	814 (241-39-13) 414 (41-119-53) 290 (12-82-90)
1998	Serhii Rebrov 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Luzhnyi	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv	1056 (256-128-32) 612 (73-135-123) 578 (91-104-97)
1999	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhii Rebrov 3rd Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv / Template:Flagicon Milan Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv	1425 (407-86-32) 1005 (118-282-87) 251 (20-47-97)
2000	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Andriy Vorobei 3rd Serhii Rebrov	Template:Flagicon Milan Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv / Template:Flagicon Tottenham Hotspur	1618 (507-46-5) 1090 (78-388-80) 207 (1-56-92)
2001	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Hennadiy Zubov 3rd Olexandr Melaschenko	Template:Flagicon Milan Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv	1593 (511-25-10) 848 (49-304-93) 244 (3-61-113)
2002	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Husyn	Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Milan Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv	744 (167-96-51) 494 (122-41-46) 438 (74-76-64)
2003	Oleh Venglinsky 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Milan Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk	963 (220-129-45) 660 (147-92-35) 309 (30-58-103)
2004	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Andriy Voronin	Template:Flagicon Milan Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon 1. FC Köln / Template:Flagicon Bayer Leverkusen	1376 (412-57-26) 656 (71-163-117) 463 (27-149-84)
2005	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Ruslan Rotan	Template:Flagicon Milan Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk / Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv
2006	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Serhii Rebrov	Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Milan / Template:Flagicon Chelsea Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv
2007	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Voronin 3rd Oleksandr Hladkiy	Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk / Template:Flagicon Zenit Saint Petersburg Template:Flagicon Bayer Leverkusen / Template:Flagicon Liverpool Template:Flagicon FC Kharkiv / Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk
2008	Artem Milevskyi 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Serhiy Kravchenko	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Zenit Saint Petersburg Template:Flagicon Vorskla Poltava
2009	Artem Milevskyi 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Pyatov	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Milan / Template:Flagicon Chelsea / Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk
2010	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Yaroslav Rakitskiy 3rd Marko Dević	Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Metalist Kharkiv
2011	Andriy Voronin 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Moscow Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Bayern Munich
2012	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Ruslan Rotan 3rd Oleh Husyev	Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv
2013	Andriy Yarmolenko Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Marko Dević	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Metalist Kharkiv
2014	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Ruslan Rotan	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2015	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Yevhen Seleznyov	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk / Template:Flagicon Sevilla Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2016	Ruslan Rotan 2nd Andriy Pyatov 3rd Andriy Yarmolenko	Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv
2017	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Taras Stepanenko 3rd Denys Harmash	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv / Template:Flagicon Borussia Dortmund Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv

Ukrainskiy Football (website)

Year	Footballer	Club
2018	Viktor Tsyhankov 2nd Marlos 3rd Ruslan Malinovskyi	Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Genk
2019	Oleksandr Zinchenko 2nd Viktor Tsyhankov 3rd Ruslan Malinovskyi	Template:Flagicon Manchester City Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Genk / Template:Flagicon Atalanta
2020	Denys Favorov 2nd Vitalii Mykolenko 3rd Viktor Tsyhankov	Template:Flagicon Desna Chernihiv / Template:Flagicon Zorya Luhansk Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv
2022	Mykhailo Mudryk 2nd Artem Dovbyk 3rd Vitaliy Buyalskyi	Template:Flagicon Shakhtar Donetsk Template:Flagicon Dnipro-1 Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon Yuriy Kalitvintsev Template:Flagicon 2nd Oleh Suslov Template:Flagicon 3rd Andriy Shevchenko	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odesa FC Dynamo Kyiv
1996	Template:Flagicon Serhii Rebrov Template:Flagicon 2nd Yuriy Maksymov Template:Flagicon 3rd Oleh Suslov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odesa
1997	Template:Flagicon Andriy Shevchenko Template:Flagicon 2nd Serhii Rebrov Template:Flagicon 3rd Yuriy Kalitvintsev	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1998	Template:Flagicon Serhii Rebrov Template:Flagicon 2nd Andriy Shevchenko Template:Flagicon 3rd Oleh Luzhnyi	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1999	Template:Flagicon Serhii Rebrov Template:Flagicon 2nd Andriy Shevchenko Template:Flagicon 3rd Vladyslav Vashchuk	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv / AC Milan FC Dynamo Kyiv
2000	Template:Flagicon Andriy Vorobey Template:Flagicon 2nd Valyantsin Byalkevich Template:Flagicon 3rd Yuriy Virt	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2001	Template:Flagicon Valyantsin Byalkevich Template:Flagicon 2nd Hennadiy Zubov Template:Flagicon 3rd Serhiy Shyshchenko	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Metalurh Donetsk
2002	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Template:Flagicon 2nd Valyantsin Byalkevich Template:Flagicon 3rd Oleh Venhlynskyi	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv / FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2003	Template:Flagicon Valyantsin Byalkevich Template:Flagicon 2nd Oleh Venhlynskyi Template:Flagicon 3rd Serhiy Fedorov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv
2004	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Rykun Template:Flagicon 2nd Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Template:Flagicon 3rd Matuzalém	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2005	Template:Flagicon Oleh Husyev Template:Flagicon 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Template:Flagicon 3rd Matuzalém	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2006	Template:Flagicon Serhiy Nazarenko Template:Flagicon 2nd Matuzalém Template:Flagicon 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2007	Template:Flagicon Serhiy Nazarenko Template:Flagicon 2nd Oleksandr Gladkiy Template:Flagicon 3rd Fernandinho	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2008	Template:Flagicon Jajá Template:Flagicon 2nd Artem Milevskyi Template:Flagicon 3rd Serhiy Kravchenko	FC Metalist Kharkiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Vorskla Poltava
2009	Template:Flagicon Artem Milevskyi Template:Flagicon 2nd Andriy Shevchenko Template:Flagicon 3rd Andriy Pyatov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2010	Template:Flagicon Andriy Pyatov Template:Flagicon 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka Template:Flagicon 3rd Darijo Srna	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2011	Template:Flagicon Andriy Yarmolenko Template:Flagicon 2nd Taison Template:Flagicon 3rd Oleksandr Rybka	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Metalist Kharkiv FC Obolon Kyiv / FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2012	Template:Flagicon Henrikh Mkhitaryan Template:Flagicon 2nd Willian Template:Flagicon 3rd Yevhen Konoplyanka	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2013	Template:Flagicon Yevhen Konoplyanka Template:Flagicon 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko Template:Flagicon 3rd Marko Dević	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Metalist Kharkiv
2014	Template:Flagicon Andriy Yarmolenko Template:Flagicon 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka Template:Flagicon 3rd Cleiton Xavier	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Metalist Kharkiv
2015	Template:Flagicon Alex Teixeira Template:Flagicon 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko Template:Flagicon 3rd Yevhen Khacheridi	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
2016	Template:Flagicon Marlos Template:Flagicon 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon Marlos Template:Flagicon 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko Template:Flagicon 3rd Fred	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2018	Template:Flagicon Marlos Template:Flagicon 2nd Viktor Tsyhankov Template:Flagicon 3rd Taison	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2019	Template:Flagicon Taison Template:Flagicon 2nd Viktor Tsyhankov Template:Flagicon 3rd Vitalii Mykolenko	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
2020	Template:Flagicon Viktor Tsyhankov Template:Flagicon 2nd Taison Template:Flagicon 3rd Shahab Zahedi	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Olimpik Donetsk

See also

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

External links

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