Vyscha Liha Footballer of the Year

Vyscha Liha Footballer of the Year is an annual award given by the Komanda daily to the best performing player in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Unlike the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year award, this honor is available to domestic and foreign players alike. Also unlike Ukrainian Footballer of the Year (giving by Komanda) this one is evaluated by journalists press-media specialists.

Ukrainian Footballers of the Year

Year Footballer Club
1996 Andriy Polunin
2nd Oleh Matviiv
3rd Andriy Shevchenko
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Dynamo Kyiv
1997 Hennadiy Moroz
2nd Ihor Luchkevych
3rd Oleh Matviiv
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
FC Metalurh Zaporizhia
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
1998 Serhiy Rebrov
2nd Andriy Shevchenko
3rd Hennadiy Orbu
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
1999 Andriy Shevchenko
2nd Hennadiy Orbu
3rd Aliaksandr Khatskevich
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Dynamo Kyiv
2000 Serhiy Rebrov
2nd Valentin Belkevich
3rd Henadiy Zubov
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2001 Valentin Belkevich
2nd Florin Cernat
3rd Serhiy Dolhanskyi(goalie)
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Vorskla Poltava
2002 Valentin Belkevich
2nd Serhiy Shyschenko
3rd Vitaliy Pushkutsa
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Metalurh Donetsk
FC Metalist Kharkiv
2003 Valentin Belkevich
2nd Anatoliy Tymoschuk
3rd Oleh Venhlynskyi
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2004 Valentin Belkevich
2nd Serhiy Fedorov
3rd Ruslan Rotan
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2005 Matuzalem
2nd Diogo Rincon
3rd Anatoliy Tymoschuk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2006 Serhiy Rebrov
2nd Anatoliy Tymoschuk
3rd Serhiy Nazarenko
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2007 Diogo Rincon
2nd Matuzalem
3rd Serhiy Rebrov
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Dynamo Kyiv
2008 Fernandinho
2nd Marko Dević
3rd Jadson
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Metalist Kharkiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2009 Artem Milevskiy
2nd Darijo Srna
3rd Andriy Pyatov
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2010 Andriy Pyatov
2nd
3rd
FC Shakhtar Donetsk

2011 Andriy Yarmolenko
2nd Taison
3rd Oleksandr Rybka
FC Dynamo Kyiv
FC Metalist Kharkiv
Obolon / Shakhtar

There are also other nomination from the newspaper for the respective amplua such as goalie, fullback, centerback, stopper, forward, striker, Ukrainians, legionaire, seniors (over 33), and juniors (under 20). In 2007 those winners were (respectively to the above mentioned) V. Kernozenko (Dnipro), O. Husiev (Dynamo), A. Rusol (Dnipro), A. Tymoschuk (Shakhtar), D. Rincon (Dynamo), V. Gigiadze (Kryvbas), S. Rebrov (Dynamo), D. Rincon (Dynamo), S. Rebrov (Dynamo), O. Hladkyi (Kharkiv).

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