The Ukrainian Premier League announced the best player and coach in the Ukrainian championship for the current season based on the results of December, determined through a traditional survey.
The procedure, as usual, consisted of two stages. In the first, commentators and experts from UPL TV, as well as media representatives, helped determine the groups of top contenders in each nomination through their voting. A total of 30 questionnaires were considered. They named the surnames of 8 coaches and 27 football players. In the second stage, fans voted for the best among four candidates in each nomination.
As a result, the best player of December in UPL was recognized as midfielder of Kryvbas FC, Egor Tverdokhleb, who received 40.8% of the votes, outperforming Vladislav Vanat ('Dynamo') — 31.5%, Sidnei ('Left Bank') — 23.2% and Petar Michin ('Zarya') — 4.5%.
And the best coach of December was recognized as Yuriy Vernidub ('Kryvbas'), who garnered 36.2% of the votes. He was followed by: Oleksandr Shovkovskyi ('Dynamo') — 28.9%, Vitaliy Pervak ('Left Bank') — 21.9% and Serhiy Shyschenko ('Obolon') — 13%.