The 14 Greatest Ukrainian Footballers of All Time

Ballon d'Or winners share this list with Premier League regulars and the Soviet-era stars who won European trophies from Kyiv.

1. 1
   Andriy Voronin

   Bundesliga forward with Mainz, Cologne and Leverkusen who also played for Liverpool.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Leonid Buryak

   Midfielder of Dynamo's 1975 Cup Winners' Cup and Super Cup team.
   945pts
3. 3
   Oleksandr Shovkovskyi

   Dynamo Kyiv goalkeeper who kept a clean sheet in Ukraine's 2006 World Cup shootout win.
   882pts
4. 4
   Anatoliy Demyanenko

   Dynamo Kyiv captain and left-back of the 1986 Cup Winners' Cup side.
   881pts
5. 5
   Andriy Yarmolenko

   Dynamo Kyiv winger and Ukraine's second-highest international scorer.
   787pts
6. 6
   Mykhailo Mudryk

   Shakhtar winger whose 2023 move to Chelsea made him Ukraine's most expensive player.
   713pts
7. 7
   Oleksandr Zinchenko

   Versatile left-back and midfielder who won the Premier League with Manchester City.
   533pts
8. 8
   Serhiy Rebrov

   Shevchenko's strike partner at Dynamo Kyiv and later Ukraine's head coach.
   533pts
9. 9
   Yevhen Konoplyanka

   Dribbling winger who won the Europa League with Sevilla in 2016.
   533pts
10. 10
    Andriy Shevchenko

    Ballon d'Or winner in 2004 and Ukraine's record scorer with 48 international goals.
    533pts
11. 11
    Oleh Blokhin

    Dynamo Kyiv winger who won the 1975 Ballon d'Or and the Cup Winners' Cup twice.
    286pts
12. 12
    Oleh Protasov

    Prolific Dnipro and Dynamo striker who starred for the USSR at Euro 1988.
    286pts
13. 13
    Oleksandr Zavarov

    Playmaker of Lobanovskyi's Dynamo who moved to Juventus in 1988.
    0pts
14. 14
    Anatoliy Tymoshchuk

    Defensive midfielder who won the Champions League with Bayern and holds Ukraine's caps record.
    0pts

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