Ukrainian Footballer of the Year

The Ukrainian Footballer of the Year is an annual journalist award given by the Ukrainskiy Football ("Ukrainian Football") newspaper to the best professional Ukrainian footballer since 1991. From 1969 till 1990, the Ukrainian newspaper Molod Ukrainy ("Youth of Ukraine") conducted polls to determine the footballer of the year, and subsequently Ukrainskiy Football took over (which is published by the same publisher as Molod Ukrainy) from 1991. Until 1991 not all players who were honored as the Ukrainian Footballer were Ukrainians.

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.

Overview

Before 1969, a similar award was given out by another Kiev publishers. The very first one was awarded in 1950 by the Football Federation of Ukraine, but its award discontinued in 1960. Since 1960, the honours of awarding player of the year was picked up by the weekly Radyanskyi sport ("Soviet sports"), which in 1965 changed its name to Sportyvna Hazeta ("Sports Gazette"). For unknown reasons, the tradition was interrupted and in 1968 it was given out by another former Kievan Russian language newspaper Komsomolskoe znamya ("Banner of the Communist Union of Youth"), which announced both Vasyl Turyanchyk and Volodymyr Muntyan as the best players of Ukraine, then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. As with the "Sportyvna Gazeta", it is unknown whether the newspaper continued to conduct such polls following years, but it is certain that this tradition was picked up by a Ukrainian language, Kiev-based newspaper Molod Ukrainy ("Youth of Ukriane") that conducted the voting since 1969 on regular basis.

Football Section (Federation) of Ukraine

Year	Footballer	Club
1950	Viktor Fomin 2nd Pavlo Vinkovatov 3rd Dezso Toth	Shakhter Donetsk Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1951	Oleksandr Ponomaryov 2nd Oleksandr Aplatov 3rd Fedir Dashkov	Shakhter Donetsk Shakhter Donetsk Dinamo Kiev
1952	Vitaliy Golubyev 2nd Andrei Zazroyev 3rd Mykhailo Mykhalyna	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1953	Heorhiy Borzenko 2nd Mihaly Koman 3rd Vitaliy Golubyev	Lokomotiv Kharkov Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1954	Viktor Fomin 2nd Mihaly Koman 3rd Andrei Zazroyev	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1955	Mihaly Koman 2nd Oleg Makarov 3rd Viktor Fomin	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1956	Mihaly Koman 2nd Yuriy Voynov 3rd Viktor Terentiev	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1957	Yuriy Voynov 2nd Mihaly Koman 3rd Viktor Fomin	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1958	Yuriy Voynov 2nd Viktor Kanevskyi 3rd Adamas Golodets	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1959	Yuriy Voynov 2nd Valeriy Lobanovsky 3rd Vasyl Turyankchyk	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Verkhovyna Uzhhorod/Dinamo Kiev

Radyanskyi Sport

Year	Footballer	Club
1960	Yuriy Voynov 2nd Valeriy Lobanovsky 3rd Viktor Kanevskyi	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1961	Oleg Makarov 2nd Viktor Kanevskyi 3rd Oleh Bazylevych	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1962	Valeriy Lobanovsky 2nd Andriy Biba 3rd Viktor Serebryanikov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1963	Valeriy Lobanovsky 2nd Viktor Kanevskyi 3rd Viktor Serebryanikov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1964	Viktor Bannikov 2nd Viktor Kanevskyi 3rd Vasyl Moskalenko	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Chernomorets Odessa

Sportyvna Hazeta

Year	Footballer	Club
1965	Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi 2nd Viktor Bannikov 3rd Yozhef Sabo	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1966	Andriy Biba 2nd Anatoliy Byshovets 3rd Yozhef Sabo	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1967	Vasyl Turyanchyk 2nd Anatoliy Byshovets 3rd Viktor Bannikov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev

Komsomolskoye Znamie

Year	Footballer	Club
1968	Vasyl Turyanchyk Volodymyr Muntyan 3rd Yuriy Dehteryov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Shakhter Donetsk

Molod Ukrainy

Year	Footballer	Club
1969	Viktor Serebryanikov 2nd Volodymyr Muntyan 3rd Yevgeniy Rudakov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Shakhter Donetsk
1970	Volodymyr Muntyan 2nd Yozhef Sabo 3rd Yanosh Habovda	Dinamo Kiev Zoria Voroshilovgrad Karpaty Lvov
1971	Yevgeniy Rudakov 2nd Viktor Kolotov 3rd Vadym Sosnykhin	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1972	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Yevgeniy Rudakov 3rd Viktor Kolotov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1973	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Volodymyr Muntyan 3rd Anatoliy Shepel	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Chernomorets Odessa
1974	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Volodymyr Onyshchenko 3rd Vladimir Veremeyev	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1975	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Volodymyr Onyshchenko 3rd Vladimir Veremeyev	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1976	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Leonid Buryak 3rd Volodymyr Danylyuk	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Karpaty Lvov
1977	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Yuriy Dehtyaryov 3rd Anatoliy Konkov	Dinamo Kiev Shakhter Donetsk Dinamo Kiev
1978	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Volodymyr Bezsonov 3rd Yuriy Dehtyaryov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Shakhter Donetsk
1979	Vitali Starukhin 2nd Stepan Yurchyshyn 3rd Oleh Blokhin	Shakhter Donetsk Karpaty Lvov Dinamo Kiev
1980	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Volodymyr Bezsonov 3rd Leonid Buryak	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1981	Oleh Blokhin 2nd Leonid Buryak 3rd Anatoly Demyanenko	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1982	Anatoly Demyanenko 2nd Leonid Buryak 3rd Serhiy Baltacha	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1983	Oleh Taran 2nd Viktor Hrachov 3rd Anatoly Demyanenko	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Shakhter Donetsk Dinamo Kiev
1984	Hennadiy Lytovchenko 2nd Oleh Blokhin 3rd Oleh Protasov	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Dinamo Kiev Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
1985	Anatoly Demyanenko 2nd Oleh Protasov 3rd Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Dinamo Kiev
1986	Oleksandr Zavarov 2nd Ihor Byelanov 3rd Oleh Blokhin	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev
1987	Oleksiy Mykhailychenko 2nd Oleh Protasov 3rd Oleksandr Zavarov	Dinamo Kiev Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Dinamo Kiev
1988	Oleksiy Mykhailychenko 2nd Oleksandr Zavarov 3rd Yevhen Shakhov	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
1989	Volodymyr Bessonov 2nd Hennadiy Lytovchenko 3rd Mykola Kudrytsky	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
1990	Sergei Yuran 2nd Oleh Kuznetsov 3rd Oleg Salenko	Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Kiev

Ukrainskiy Football

Year	Footballer	Club
1991	Akhrik Tsveiba 2nd Serhiy Yuran 3rd Oleg Salenko	/ FC Dynamo Kyiv / FC Dynamo Kyiv / FC Dynamo Kyiv
1992	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Andriy Polunin 3rd Oleksandr Pomazun	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Metalist Kharkiv
1993	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Timerlan Huseinov 3rd Dmytro Mykhailenko	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odessa FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1994	Viktor Leonenko 2nd Oleksandr Shovkovsky 3rd Ihor Petrov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
1995	Yuriy Kalitvintsev 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Suslov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odessa
1996	Serhiy Rebrov 2nd Oleh Suslov 3rd Yuri Maximov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odessa FC Dynamo Kyiv
1997	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhiy Rebrov 3rd Yuriy Kalitvintsev	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1998	Serhiy Rebrov 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Luzhny	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1999	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhiy Rebrov 3rd Oleksandr Shovkovsky	FC Dynamo Kyiv / Milan FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
2000	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Andriy Vorobei 3rd Serhiy Rebrov	Milan FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv / Tottenham Hotspur
2001	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Hennadiy Zubov 3rd Olexandr Melaschenko	Milan FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv
2002	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Husyn	FC Shakhtar Donetsk Milan FC Dynamo Kyiv
2003[1]	Oleh Venglinsky 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Milan FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2004	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Andriy Voronin	Milan FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1. FC Köln / Bayer Leverkusen
2005	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Ruslan Rotan	Milan FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk / FC Dynamo Kyiv
2006[2]	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Serhiy Rebrov	FC Shakhtar Donetsk Milan / Chelsea FC Dynamo Kyiv
2007	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2nd Andriy Voronin 3rd Oleksandr Hladkiy	FC Shakhtar Donetsk / Zenit Bayer Leverkusen / Liverpool FC Kharkiv / FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2008	Artem Milevskiy 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Serhiy Kravchenko	FC Dynamo Kyiv Zenit FC Vorskla Poltava
2009[3]	Artem Milevskiy 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Pyatov	FC Dynamo Kyiv Milan / Chelsea / FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2010[4]	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Yaroslav Rakitskiy 3rd Marko Dević	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Metalist Kharkiv
2011[5]	Andriy Voronin 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Bayern Munich
2012[6]	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Ruslan Rotan 3rd Oleh Husyev	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv
2013[7]	Andriy Yarmolenko Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Marko Dević	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Metalist Kharkiv
2014[8]	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Ruslan Rotan	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2015	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Yevhen Seleznyov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk / Sevilla FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Komanda

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	Serhiy Rebrov 2nd Yuriy Maksymov 3rd Oleh Suslov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Chornomorets Odesa
1997	Andriy Shevchenko 2nd Serhiy Rebrov 3rd Yuriy Kalitvintsev	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1998	Serhiy Rebrov 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Oleh Luzhnyi	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv
1999	Serhiy 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[9]	Valyantsin Byalkevich 2nd Oleh Venhlynskyi 3rd Serhiy Fedorov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv
2004[10]	Oleksandr Rykun 2nd Oleksandr Shovkovskiy 3rd Matuzalém	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2005[11]	Oleh Husyev 2nd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 3rd Matuzalém	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2006[12]	Serhiy Nazarenko 2nd Matuzalém 3rd Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2007[13]	Serhiy Nazarenko 2nd Oleksandr Gladkiy 3rd Fernandinho	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2008[14]	Jajá 2nd Artem Milevskiy 3rd Serhiy Kravchenko	FC Metalist Kharkiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Vorskla Poltava
2009[15]	Artem Milevskiy 2nd Andriy Shevchenko 3rd Andriy Pyatov	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2010[16]	Andriy Pyatov 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Darijo Srna	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2011[17]	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Taison 3rd Oleksandr Rybka	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Metalist Kharkiv FC Obolon Kyiv / FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2012[18]	Henrikh Mkhitaryan 2nd Willian 3rd Yevhen Konoplyanka	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2013[19]	Yevhen Konoplyanka 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Marko Dević	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Metalist Kharkiv
2014[20]	Andriy Yarmolenko 2nd Yevhen Konoplyanka 3rd Cleiton Xavier	FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Metalist Kharkiv
2015[21]	Alex Teixeira 2nd Andriy Yarmolenko 3rd Yevhen Khacheridi	FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv

See also

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

References

1. 2003 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (Russian)
2. 2006 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (Russian)
3. 2009 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (Russian)
4. 2010 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (Russian)
5. 2011 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (Russian)
6. 2012 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (Russian)
7. 2013 Ukrainskiy Football Award (Russian)
8. 2014 Ukrainskiy Football Award (Ukrainian)
9. 2003 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
10. 2004 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
11. 2005 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
12. 2006 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
13. 2007 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
14. 2008 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
15. 2009 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
16. 2010 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
17. 2011 Komanda Award at UA-Football (Russian)
18. 2012 Komanda Award at NB News (Russian)
19. 2013 Komanda Award at Sport.ua (Russian)
20. 2014 Komanda Award at Football24.ua (Russian)
21. http://ua.112.ua/sport/futbol-aleks-teisheira-nazvanyi-naikrashchym-futbolistom-ukrainy-u-2015-rotsi-281769.html

External links

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