Experts determined the best coach, player, and symbolic team of the 3rd round
The Ukrainian Premier League continues to honor the heroes of the 2026/27 season and has compiled a symbolic team of the 3rd round of the UPL Championship, as well as named the best player and coach of the 3rd round. Traditionally, this was done in collaboration with hosts, experts, UPL commentators, and representatives of leading sports media in Ukraine. This time there were 38 of them.
In the survey by UPL.TB, the following participated: Yuriy Virt, Vitaliy Volochay, Volodymyr Zverov, Oleksandr Kostiuk, Serhiy Lukyanenko, Pavlo Lukyanchuk, Oleksandr Melnychenko, Vitaliy Pokhvala, Vadym Skichko, Vitaliy Shalota, and Dmytro Shpirko.
The journalists who voted were: Ilya Bereza (Football.ua), Dmytro Vatras, Volodymyr Maydan (collectively from "Tribuna"), Daniil Vereitin ("Champion Radio"), Mykhailo Hema (Channel 24), Oleksandr Zolotogorsky (FootballHub), Eduard Kinzersky ("Sport-arena"), Oleksiy Klykov ("Sportarena"), Andriy Kovalsky (ICTV), Andriy Kostenko ("RBC-Ukraine"), Pavlo Kushneruk ("Brutal Football"), Andriy Pavlechko (NV), Andriy Piskun ("Ukrainian Football"), Oleksandr Popov ("Dynamo from Shurik"), Artem Rossinsky ("SportObos"), Ihor Semyon (Ua-football), Serhiy Sytnyk ("Footboom"), Yevhen Sidash ("Dynamomania"), Mykhailo Smoloviy ("Ta To Take"), Valeriy Sokhan ("Autoradio"), Andriy Stolyarchuk ("Public Sports"), Andriy Todos ("Zorya Londonsk"), Anton Fedortsiv ("Glavkom"), Serhiy Tsyba (Sport.ua), Dmytro Chornobai (Sport-express.ua), Serhiy Shakhovets ("Champion"), Mykhailo Yukhymenko ("Football 24"), and Yevhen Yasenov ("Terrikon").
By the decision of the group of 38 experts, Viktor Skrypnyk was recognized as the best coach of the 3rd round, whose team from "Zorya" achieved a strong away victory over one of the season's favorites - "Polissya" (2:1). The second place with a slight lag was taken by the best UPL coach of the previous two rounds - Francisco Fernandes ("Karpaty" secured their third consecutive victory with a significant score - against "Bukovyna", 3:0). The top 3 was completed by Vitaliy Ponomariov: his LNZ finally won against "Chornomorets" (2:0).
The title of the best player of the 3rd round was awarded to Brazilian midfielder Felipe from "Karpaty", who performed very well in the previous round and scored the winning goal and provided an assist to Nazariy Rusyn in the match against "Bukovyna". He narrowly edged out another hero of the match - Danilo Kravchuk from LNZ (also a goal and assist in the match against "Chornomorets"). The top 5 with a significant gap from this duo included: Valentyn Horokh ("Veres"), Ivan Nesterenko ("Zorya"), and Yan Kostenko ("Karpaty").
Overall, the experts mentioned 30 players and 8 coaches when determining the heroes of the 3rd round, as well as 67 candidates for the symbolic team. Therefore, in addition to the 11 players in the hypothetical starting lineup, we traditionally added a hypothetical reserve of the round's symbolic team: Anton Yashkov ("Kudrivka"), Vinicius Tobias ("Shakhtar"), Taras Mykhavko ("Dynamo"), Anderson Jordan ("Zorya"), Anton Glushenko ("Zorya"), Volodymyr Brazhko ("Dynamo"), Artur Ryabov (LNZ), Oleksandr Demchenko ("Kolos"), Neverton ("Shakhtar"), Carlos Rochas ("Epicenter"), Nazariy Rusyn ("Karpaty"), Matviy Ponomarenko ("Dynamo").
