The Ukrainian Premier League continues to recognize the heroes of the 2024/25 season and has named the symbolic team of the 7th round of the Ukrainian championship, as well as the best player and the best coach of the 7th round. Traditionally, this was done together with the hosts, experts, commentators of UPL TV and representatives of the leading sports media of Ukraine.
Vitaliy Ponomarev (photo: fcruhlviv.com)Vitalii Volochai, Maksym Gilenko, Volodymyr Zverov, Ruslan Kostyshyn, Oleksandr Kostiuk, Myroslav Nebesnyk, Vitalii Pohvala, Serhii Rybalka, Maksym Feshchuk, Eduard Tsykhmeystruk, Vladyslav Shalota, Oleh Shelayev and Dmytro Shpirko took part in the survey on behalf of UPL TV.
Dmytro Vatras and Oleksandr Sazhko (in tandem from Tribuna), Ivan Verbytskyi (Ukrainskyi Tyzhden), Serhii Dryha (Sportarena), Yurii Ostroumov (Sport.ua), Andrii Pavlechko (NV), Vitalii Pasichnyi (Football.ua), Oleksandr Popov (Dynamo.kiev.ua), Ihor Semyon (Ua-football), Serhiy Sytnyk (Futbum), Mykhailo Smolovyi (Ta To Tacke), Andriy Tverdokhlib (Champion), Mykhailo Yukhymenko (Football 24), Yevhen Yasenov (Terrikon). In addition, representatives of the Pressing and Football Club publications expressed their collective opinion.
Vitaliy Ponomaryov, who won a remarkable away draw with Rukh against Dynamo, was recognized by 29 experts as the best coach of Matchday 7, and Heorhiy Sudakov (Shakhtar) was named the best player of Matchday 7.
The top 5 players also include Artem Bondarenko (Shakhtar), Oleksiy Hutsulyak (Polissya), Maksym Tretyakov (Kolos) and Mykyta Kravchenko (Oleksandriya). The top three coaches are Marino Pushic (Shakhtar) and Oleksandr Pozdeyev (Kolos).
In total, the experts mentioned 30 players and 10 coaches as heroes of the 7th round, as well as 58 candidates for the symbolic team. Therefore, in addition to the 11 players of the conditional starting lineup, we have also added a conditional reserve for the symbolic team of the round: Substitutes: Bushchan (Dynamo), Ledviy (Rukh), Sych (Rukh), Tobias (Shakhtar), Didyk (Rukh), Matvienko (Shakhtar), Williwald (Ingulets), Brazhko (Dynamo), Klots (Veres), Fedir (Rukh), Traore (Shakhtar), Krasnopir (Rukh).
