Experts determined the best coach, player, and symbolic team of the 6th round
The Ukrainian Premier League continues to honor the heroes of the 2026/27 season and has compiled a symbolic team of the 6th round of the UPL Championship, as well as named the best player and coach of the 6th round. Traditionally, this was done together with hosts, experts, commentators of the UPL.TB, and representatives of leading sports media in Ukraine. This time there were 39 of them.
In the survey conducted by UPL.TB, Vitaliy Volochay, Volodymyr Zverov, Oleksandr Kostiuk, Serhii Lukyanenko, Pavlo Lukyanchuk, Oleksandr Melnychuk, Vadym Skichko, Vitaliy Shalota, Vadym Shevyakin, and Dmytro Shpirko took part.
Journalists who voted included Ilya Bereza (Football.ua), Ihor Boyko ("Maincast" / "UPL Evening"), Dmytro Vatras and Volodymyr Maidan (from "Tribuna"), Daniil Vereitin ("Champion Radio"), Mykhailo Hema (Channel 24), Oleksandr Zolotogorsky (FootballHub), Eduard Kinzersky ("Sport-arena"), Oleksiy Klykov ("Sportarena"), Serhii Koval (founder of the TG channel "Football from a helicopter"), Andrii Kovalsky (ICTV), Andrii Kostenko ("RBC-Ukraine"), Pavlo Kushneruk ("Brutal Football"), Andrii Pavlechko (NV), Andrii Piskun ("Ukrainian Football"), Oleksandr Popov ("Dynamo from Shurik"), Artem Rossinsky ("SportObzor"), Ihor Semyon (Ua-football), Serhii Sytnyk ("Footboom"), Yevhen Sidash ("Dynamomania"), Mykhailo Smolovyi ("That's It"), Valeriy Sokhan ("Autoradio"), Andrii Stolyarchuk ("Public Sports"), Andrii Todos ("Zorya Londonsk"), Anton Fedortsiv ("Glavkom"), Serhii Tsyba (Sport.ua), Dmytro Chornobai (Sport-express.ua), Serhii Shakhovets ("Champion"), Mykhailo Yukhymenko ("Football 24"), and Yevhen Yasenov ("Terrikon").
The best coach of the 6th round, according to the decision of the group of 39 experts, was recognized as Francisco Fernandes ("Karpaty"), whose team won against "Kolos" with a score of 2:0. Just slightly behind him after the points calculation was the coach of "Dynamo" Igor Kostiuk (Kyivans defeated "Epicenter" - 3:0), and with a significant gap from them, the top-3 was closed by Vitaliy Ponomariov (his LNZ defeated "Obolon" - 3:1).
The title of the best player of the 6th round was awarded to Dynamo's Andriy Yarmolenko, who scored a beautiful winning goal against "Epicenter" and repeated the historical record of the Ukrainian Championship for the number of goals scored in history - 124 (this record was held solely by Maksym Shatskyi for a long time). Yarmolenko significantly outperformed his competitors (20 top spots in 39 surveys!). The second place was taken by Nazariy Rusyn ("Karpaty"), and the top-5 also included Tedi Tsara (LNZ), Roman Mysak ("Karpaty"), and Matviy Ponomarenko ("Dynamo").
Overall, the experts mentioned 31 players and 8 coaches when determining the heroes of the 6th round, as well as 57 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: Oleksandr Saputin ("Zorya"), Oleksiy Sych ("Dynamo"), Tomash Kendziora ("Dynamo"), Roman Vantukh ("Karpaty"), Petro Stasiuk ("Bukovyna"), Viacheslav Tankovskyi ("Bukovyna"), Mykola Shaparenko ("Dynamo"), Oleksandr Andriievskyi ("Polissya"), Mustafa Yakubu (LNZ), Yade Papa Ndiaga (LNZ), Luka Meirelles ("Shakhtar").
It is worth noting that the round's results were summed up without taking into account the matches "Kryvbas" - "Kharkiv" and "Veres" - "Kudrivka", which could not take place on time due to the danger of air attacks and were postponed to a later date.
