The Ukrainian Premier League continues to honor the heroes of the 2025/2026 season and has compiled a symbolic team of the 10th round of the Ukrainian Championship, as well as named the best player and best coach of the 10th round. Traditionally, this was done together with the hosts, experts, commentators of UPL TV, and representatives of leading sports media in Ukraine.
Oleksandr Shovkovskyi. Photo: fcdynamo.comOleksandr Shovkovskyi was recognized as the best coach of the 10th round by the collective decision of a group of 38 experts. With Dynamo, he crushed the leader of the UPL Championship after nine rounds — Kryvbas (4:0), following a series of five consecutive draws. 26 experts placed the Kyiv coach in the first place.
The top-3 also included Vitaliy Ponomaryov (LNZA managed to snatch a victory in a match against Metalist 1925 — 1:0) and Serhiy Nahorniak (Epicenter achieved their second consecutive away victory, this time over Oleksandriya with a score of 1:0).
The ranking of the best players of the 10th round was led by Vladyslav Veletin — the hero of Polissya’s winning match against Obolon (4:0). His tally includes a goal and two assists. Veletin received 14 first-place votes from our experts, and in total, he appeared in 32 questionnaires.
The same number of mentions was given to Kauan Elias, who scored two goals against Kudrivka, but he only received 7 first-place votes in the questionnaires. The top-5 also included Valentyn Horokh (Veres), Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo), Prosper Obah (LNZA), and Joaquin Sifuentes (Epicenter), who shared the 5th-6th places.
Team of the 10th round: Horokh (Veres) — Karavayev («Dynamo»), Popov («Dynamo»), Chobotenko (Polissya), Kuzyk (LNZA) — Sifuentes (Epicenter), Andriyevskyi (Polissya), Ocheretko (Shakhtar) — Pedrinho (Shakhtar), Veletin (Polissya) — Elias (Shakhtar).
