# Golden talent of Ukraine

Golden talent of Ukraine is a unique national award for young Ukrainian footballers. Winners are determined on a basis of the calendar year results in two age categories – Under-21 (players who are not older than 21 at the end of the year) and Under-19 (players who are not older than 19 at the end of the year). Annual rating is based on monthly surveys of coaches, directors of sport schools, experts, journalists and fans. The final voting is held at the end of a year, to which the participants come with bonus points (for success in the monthly surveys).
The concept of the competition was developed by a football journalist named Andrii Kudyrko. In March 2013 the first monthly survey was held.

## The competition conditions

Surveys are conducted in months when matches are played in the Ukrainian Championship (March, April, May, August, September, October and November, according to circumstances – June and July). Respondents call their top three of young and youthful players on a basis of the month results, their votes are summed up (1st place – 3 points, 2nd place – 2 points, 3rd place – 1 point). Indicators of monthly surveys form the annual ranking in both age categories – Under-21 and Under-19.
The top ten of a year is allowed for the final voting with bonus points (1st place – 10, 2nd – 9, ..., 10th – 1). Besides, the players who are trapped in the top 5 of a month at least once and got some bonus points (1st place – 5, 2nd – 4, ..., 5th – 1) are allowed to the final year voting. This ensures the objectivity of the competition – the players who played more consistently during a year (and not only last few months before the final voting) get additional promotion, in traditional polls the one wins more often who proved to be brighter than others at the finish, as recent events are more memorable.
The situation in the category Under-21 in 2013 clearly demonstrated that a complicated procedure of determining the winner in the competition Golden Talent of Ukraine is fair. Serhiy Bolbat got the most points in a year voting, he played the autumn excellent, but with the bonus points for the whole year Ivan Ordets celebrated total victory, who consistently played in spring and autumn.

## Prizes

By the end of 2013 six best players (three winners in each of two age categories) received prizes provided by competition partners – diplomas, game shoes and watches.

## The voting winners
### 2013

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Ivan Ordets | FC Illichivets Mariupol | Eduard Sobol | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| April | Maksym Koval | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Eduard Sobol | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| May | Ivan Ordets | FC Illichivets Mariupol | Ivan Petryak | FC Zorya Luhansk |
| July | Maksym Koval | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Roman Pidkivka | FC Karpaty Lviv |
| August | Ivan Ordets | FC Illichivets Mariupol | Roman Pidkivka | FC Karpaty Lviv |
| September | Serhiy Bolbat | FC Metalurh Donetsk | Eduard Sobol | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| October | Serhiy Bolbat | FC Metalurh Donetsk | Dmytro Yarchuk | FC Tavriya Simferopol |
| November | Serhiy BolbatRedvan Memeshev | FC Metalurh DonetskFC Volyn Lutsk | Dmytro Yarchuk | FC Tavriya Simferopol |
| 2013 (final) | Ivan Ordets | FC Illichivets Mariupol | Eduard Sobol | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |

### 2014

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Serhiy Bolbat | FC Metalurh Donetsk | Roman Pidkivka | FC Karpaty Lviv |
| April | Mykyta Shevchenko | FC Zorya Luhansk | Roman Pidkivka | FC Karpaty Lviv |
| May | Serhiy Bolbat | FC Metalurh Donetsk | Eduard Sobol | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| August | Ruslan Malinovskyi | FC Zorya Luhansk | Valeriy Luchkevych | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| September | Serhiy Bolbat | FC Metalist Kharkiv | Valeriy Luchkevych | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| October | Mykyta Shevchenko | FC Zorya Luhansk | Valeriy Luchkevych | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| November | Serhiy Myakushko | FC Hoverla Uzhhorod | Valeriy Luchkevych | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| 2014 (final) | Ruslan Malinovskyi | FC Zorya Luhansk | Valeriy Luchkevych | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |

### 2015

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Serhiy Hryn | FC Illichivets Mariupol | Valeriy Luchkevych | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| April | Serhiy Hryn | FC Illichivets Mariupol | Maryan Shved | FC Karpaty Lviv |
| May | Serhiy Hryn | FC Illichivets Mariupol | Valeriy Luchkevych | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| August | Ivan Petryak | FC Zorya Luhansk | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| September | Ivan Petryak | FC Zorya Luhansk | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| October | Ivan Petryak | FC Zorya Luhansk | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| November | Ivan Petryak | FC Zorya Luhansk | Oleksandr Zinchenko | FC Ufa |
| 2015 (final) | Ivan Petryak | FC Zorya Luhansk | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |

### 2016

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Maryan Shved | Sevilla FC |
| April | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Oleksiy Hutsulyak | FC Karpaty Lviv |
| May | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Oleksiy Hutsulyak | FC Karpaty Lviv |
| August | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Denys Balanyuk | FC Dnipro |
| September | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| October | Roman Yaremchuk | FC Oleksandriya | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| November | Artem Besyedin | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| 2016 (final) | Viktor Kovalenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv |

### 2017

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Artem Besyedin | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Dnipro |
| April | Artem Besyedin | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Dnipro |
| May | Artem Besyedin | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Dnipro |
| July | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Stanislav Bilenkyi | FC Olimpik Donetsk |
| August | Mykola Matviyenko | FC Vorskla Poltava | Stanislav Bilenkyi | FC Olimpik Donetsk |
| September | Mykola Matviyenko | FC Vorskla Poltava | Andriy Lunin | FC Zorya Luhansk |
| October | Mykola Matviyenko | FC Vorskla Poltava | Andriy Lunin | FC Zorya Luhansk |
| November | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Zorya Luhansk |
| 2017 (final) | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Zorya Luhansk |

### 2018

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Zorya Luhansk |
| April | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Zorya Luhansk |
| May | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Andriy Lunin | FC Zorya Luhansk |
| July | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Vladyslav Supriaha | SC Dnipro-1 |
| August | Maryan Shved | FC Karpaty Lviv | Vladyslav Supriaha | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| September | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Vladyslav Vakula | FC Mariupol |
| October | Mykola Shaparenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| November | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| 2018 (final) | Viktor Tsyhankov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |

### 2019

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Heorhiy Tsitaishvili | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| April | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Heorhiy Tsitaishvili | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| May–June | Andriy Lunin | CD Leganés | Danylo Sikan | FC Mariupol |
| August | Bohdan Lyednyev | FC Zorya Luhansk | Oleksandr Nazarenko | SC Dnipro-1 |
| September | Bohdan Lyednyev | FC Zorya Luhansk | Vladyslav Supriaha | SC Dnipro-1 |
| October | Bohdan Lyednyev | FC Zorya Luhansk | Oleksandr Nazarenko | SC Dnipro-1 |
| November | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Danylo Sikan | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 2019 (final) | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Heorhiy Tsitaishvili | FC Dynamo Kyiv |

### 2020

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Vladyslav Supriaha | SC Dnipro-1 | Arseniy Batahov | SC Dnipro-1 |
| April–May | COVID-19 pandemic | COVID-19 pandemic | COVID-19 pandemic | COVID-19 pandemic |
| June | Andriy Lunin | Real Oviedo | Pavlo Isenko | FC Vorskla Poltava |
| Jule | Vladyslav Supriaha | SC Dnipro-1 | Anatoliy Trubin | FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
| September | Vladyslav Supriaha | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| October | Viktor Korniyenko | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| November | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| 2020 (final) | Vitalii Mykolenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |

### 2021

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| February | Anatoliy Trubin | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| March | Anatoliy Trubin | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| April | Anatoliy Trubin | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| May | Anatoliy Trubin | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| August | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| September | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| October | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| November | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| 2021 (final) | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Illya Zabarnyi | FC Dynamo Kyiv |

### 2022

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War |
| April | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War |
| May | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War | Russo-Ukrainian War |
| September | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Nazar Voloshyn | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih |
| October | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Marko Sapuha | FC Rukh Lviv |
| November | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Nazar Voloshyn | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih |
| 2022 (final) | Mykhailo Mudryk | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Nazar Voloshyn | FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih |

### 2023

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Heorhiy Sudakov | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Anton Tsarenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| April | Vladyslav Vanat | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Anton Tsarenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| May | Volodymyr Brazhko | FC Zorya Luhansk | Andriy Buleza | FC Mynai |
| August | Illya Zabarnyi | AFC Bournemouth | Bohdan Slyubyk | FC Rukh Lviv |
| September | Heorhiy Sudakov | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Bohdan Slyubyk | FC Rukh Lviv |
| October | Heorhiy Sudakov | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Yevheniy Pastukh | FC Rukh Lviv |
| November | Illya Zabarnyi | AFC Bournemouth | Yehor Yarmolyuk | Brentford F.C. |
| 2023 (final) | Heorhiy Sudakov | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | Yehor Yarmolyuk | Brentford F.C. |

### 2024

| Month | Player (Under-21) | Club | Player (Under-19) | Club |
| March | Nazar Voloshyn | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Taras Mykhavko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| April | Nazar Voloshyn | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Matviy Ponomarenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| May | Nazar Voloshyn | FC Dynamo Kyiv | Matviy Ponomarenko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| August | Illya Kvasnytsya | FC Rukh Lviv | Taras Mykhavko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| September | Illya Krupskyi | FC Vorskla Poltava | Taras Mykhavko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| October | Oleh Ocheretko | FC Karpaty Lviv | Taras Mykhavko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| November-december | Yehor Yarmolyuk | Brentford F.C. | Taras Mykhavko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |
| 2024 (final) | Yehor Yarmolyuk | Brentford F.C. | Taras Mykhavko | FC Dynamo Kyiv |