Footballer of the Year in Russia is an annual award given by Sport-Express daily to the Russian Premier League player of the season. The title is awarded according to the results of a poll conducted by the newspaper. 11 players of each Premier League club are polled.
Brazilian Daniel Carvalho became the first foreign player to win the award in 2005.
List of winners YearWinnerClub1991 Igor KorneevCSKA Moscow1992 Igor LedyakhovSpartak Moscow1993 Viktor OnopkoSpartak Moscow1994 Igor SimutenkovDynamo Moscow1995 Ilya TsymbalarSpartak Moscow1996 Andrey TikhonovSpartak Moscow1997 Dmitri AlenichevSpartak Moscow1998 Yegor TitovSpartak Moscow1999 Alexei SmertinLokomotiv Moscow2000 Yegor TitovSpartak Moscow2001 Ruslan NigmatullinLokomotiv Moscow2002 Dmitri LoskovLokomotiv Moscow2003 Dmitri LoskovLokomotiv Moscow2004 Dmitri SychevLokomotiv Moscow2005 Daniel CarvalhoCSKA Moscow2006 Andrei ArshavinZenit Saint Petersburg2007 Konstantin ZyryanovZenit Saint Petersburg2008 Vágner LoveCSKA Moscow2009 Alejandro DomínguezRubin Kazan2010 DannyZenit Saint Petersburg2011 Seydou DoumbiaCSKA Moscow2012–13 Igor AkinfeevCSKA Moscow2013–14No voting2014–15 HulkZenit Saint Petersburg2015–16 Fyodor SmolovKrasnodar2016–17 Fyodor SmolovKrasnodar2017–18 Fyodor SmolovKrasnodar2018–19 Artem DzyubaZenit Saint Petersburg2019–20 Artem DzyubaZenit Saint Petersburg2020–21 Sardar AzmounZenit Saint Petersburg2021–22 ClaudinhoZenit Saint Petersburg2022–23 MalcomZenit Saint Petersburg2023–24 Konstantin TyukavinDynamo Moscow2024–25 Jhon CórdobaKrasnodar2025–26 Jhon CórdobaKrasnodar
See also Footballer of the Year in Russia (Futbol), Futbol weekly magazine version Soviet Footballer of the Year
References
External links Sport-Express: 1991–2011 winners 2011 winners Sport-Express: 2012–13 winners