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.
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.
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
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Artur Valerko (19 December 2022). Референдум «УФ»: як Шевченко, Леоненко та Ярмоленко ставали найкращими в Україні. ukrfootball.ua.
- ^ 2003 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2006 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2009 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2010 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2011 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2012 Ukrainskiy Football Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2013 Ukrainskiy Football Award (in Russian)
- ^ 2014 Ukrainskiy Football Award (in Ukrainian)
- ^ 2016 Ukrainskiy Football Award (in Ukrainian)
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- ^ "Зінченко, П'ятов, Тайсон… | Український футбол".
- ^ "Опитування-2020: Neverending story | Український футбол".
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- ^ 2003 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2004 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2005 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2006 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2007 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2008 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2009 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2010 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2011 Komanda Award at UA-Football (in Russian)
- ^ 2012 Komanda Award at NB News (in Russian) Archived 2016-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 2013 Komanda Award at Sport.ua (in Russian)
- ^ 2014 Komanda Award at Football24.ua (in Russian)
- ^ Тяжело, но уверенно: Хавбек донецкого «Шахтера» Марлос победил по всем версиям
- ^ "Марлос - лучший футболист Премьер-лиги 2017 года!". Команда №1.
- ^ "Референдум КОМАНДЫ1: Марлос — лучший футболист Премьер-лиги 2018 года!".
- ^ "Тайсон — лучший футболист Премьер-лиги в 2019 году!".
- ^ "Виктор Цыганков: "Приятно получить приз лучшего игрока УПЛ, но успех команды важнее"".
External links
- Ukraine - Player of the Year Awards, rsssf.com.