In the 2024/2025 season of the Ukrainian Championship, three players took three or more penalties.
Andriy Yarmolenko (photo: fcdynamo.com)Andriy Yarmolenko (“Dynamo”) converted 4 penalties out of 4, Bruninho (“Karpaty”) — 3 out of 4, and Georgiy Sudakov — 2 out of 3.
By the way, Yarmolenko, who scored 18 goals from the penalty spot in UPL during his career, climbed to sixth place in the list of the best penalty scorers in Ukrainian championships. And Andriy’s remarkable streak of 18 consecutive successful penalties is second only to the UPL record held by Vasyl Higiadze.
Best penalty scorers in Ukrainian championships
Player | Clubs* | Goals | Shots | % | |
1. | Vasyl HIGIADZE | “Tavria”, “Kryvbas”, “Neftianyk” | 27 | 30 | 90.0 |
2. | Victor TSYGANKOV | “Dynamo” | 24 | 28 | 85.7 |
3. | Serhiy REBROV | “Shakhtar”, “Dynamo” | 24 | 29 | 82.8 |
4. | Serhiy ZAKARLYUKA | “CSKA/Arsenal”, “Metalurg” D, | 23 | 25 | 92.0 |
“Illichivets”, “Vorskla” | |||||
5. | Oleg MATVEEV | “Shakhtar”, “Kremen”, “Metalurg” D | 20 | 24 | 83.3 |
6. | Andriy YARMOLENKO | “Dynamo” | 18 | 19 | 94.7 |
7. | Serhiy MIZIN | “Dynamo”, “CSKA/Arsenal”, “Dnipro”, | 18 | 20 | 90.0 |
“Metalist”, “Karpaty” | |||||
8. | Serhiy NAZARENKO | “Dnipro”, “Tavria” | 17 | 19 | 89.5 |
9. | Marko DEVICH | “Metalist”, “Shakhtar” | 17 | 20 | 85.0 |
10. | Serhiy BEZHENAR | “Dnipro”, “Dynamo”, CSKA | 17 | 21 | 81.0 |
Longest successful penalty streaks in Ukrainian championships
Player | Clubs | Streak | Period | |
1. | Vasyl HIGIADZE | “Tavria”, “Kryvbas” | 19 | 21.04.2001 — 26.03.2006 |
2. | Andriy YARMOLENKO | “Dynamo” | 18× | 06.04.2014 — 18.05.2025 |
3. | Oleg MATVEEV | “Shakhtar”, “Kremen” | 13 | 17.07.1994 — 14.05.1999 |
Serhiy REBROV | “Dynamo” | 13 | 30.08.1998 — 04.03.2007 | |
5. | Marko DEVICH | “Metalist” | 12 | 23.09.2007 — 07.08.2010 |
Serhiy ZAKARLYUKA | “Metalurg” D, “Illichivets” | 12 | 17.07.2002 — 31.10.2010 | |
“Arsenal” | ||||
7. | Serhiy ZAKARLYUKA | CSKA | 11 | 17.04.1999 — 23.09.2001 |
Serhiy MIZIN | “CSKA/Arsenal”, “Dnipro”, | 11× | 19.03.1997 — 05.08.2006 | |
“Metalist”, “Karpaty” | ||||
Konstantin YAROSHENKO | “Illichivets”, “Sevastopol” | 11× | 15.11.2008 — 23.05.2014 | |
Victor TSYGANKOV | “Dynamo” | 11 | 18.03.2018 — 06.10.2019 | |
Victor TSYGANKOV | “Dynamo” | 11 | 03.11.2019 — 27.11.2021 | |
Maxim TRETYAKOV | “Chornomorets”, “Oleksandriya” | 11× | 31.03.2018 — 05.11.2022 |
* streak not finished.
