Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States (also known as the "Star award") was an annual award given by Sport-Express daily to the Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States player of the season from 2004 to 2013. The title is awarded according to the results of a poll conducted by the newspaper.
Winners YearPlacePlayerClub1st place2nd place3rd place4th place5th placeTotal 2004 1 Andriy Shevchenko Milan 45 - - - - 225 2 Dmitri Sychev Lokomotiv Moscow - 8 13 6 3 86 3 Alexey Smertin Chelsea - 15 4 3 3 81 4 Māris Verpakovskis Dynamo Kyiv - 9 5 9 5 74 5 Andriy Voronin 1. FC Köln / Bayer Leverkusen - 5 2 3 2 34 2005 1 Andriy Shevchenko Milan 39 6 - - - 219 2 Andrey Arshavin Zenit Saint Petersburg 2 13 8 4 5 99 3 Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow 2 8 8 5 5 81 4 Shota Arveladze Rangers / AZ - 3 9 7 4 57 5 Alexander Hleb VfB Stuttgart / Arsenal - 4 6 10 2 56 2006 1 Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow 14 11 5 3 6 141 2 Alexander Hleb Arsenal 11 9 11 5 2 136 3 Andriy Shevchenko Milan / Chelsea 7 13 8 4 2 121 4 Andrey Arshavin Zenit Saint Petersburg 7 2 6 8 8 85 5 Shota Arveladze AZ 1 3 5 7 12 58 2007 1 Andrey Arshavin Zenit Saint Petersburg 14 10 6 6 4 144 2 Aleksandr Kerzhakov Sevilla 9 11 4 3 3 110 3 Alexander Hleb Arsenal 9 7 7 5 3 107 4 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Shakhtar Donetsk / Zenit Saint Petersburg 2 7 8 4 6 76 5 Roman Pavlyuchenko Spartak Moscow 4 4 6 7 1 69 2008 1 Andrey Arshavin Zenit Saint Petersburg 32 9 3 1 - 207 2 Yuri Zhirkov CSKA Moscow 6 10 12 5 1 117 3 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Zenit Saint Petersburg 3 16 3 4 6 102 4 Roman Pavlyuchenko Spartak Moscow / Tottenham Hotspur - 5 8 6 3 59 5 Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow 1 3 6 5 2 47 2009 1 Andrey Arshavin Arsenal 31 11 1 1 - 204 2 Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow 6 14 7 8 5 128 3 Andriy Pyatov Shakhtar Donetsk - 4 11 3 1 56 4 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi Shakhtar Donetsk / Barcelona 1 3 5 5 4 46 5 Sergey Ryzhikov Rubin Kazan 2 3 5 2 2 43 2010 1 Alexander Kerzhakov Zenit Saint Petersburg 13 11 6 6 2 1412 Andrey Arshavin Arsenal1384481253 Roman Pavlyuchenko Tottenham Hotspur F.C.1078931234 Oleksandr Aliyev Lokomotiv Moscow47432685 Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow2833259 2011 1 Andriy Voronin Dynamo Moscow 23 6 10 2 2 1752 Aleksandr Kerzhakov Zenit Saint Petersburg9115711193 Vyacheslav Malafeev Zenit Saint Petersburg383293634 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Bayern Munich -6764615 Alan Dzagoev CSKA Moscow -234833 2012 1 Henrikh Mkhitaryan Shakhtar Donetsk 22 8 8 3 - 296 2 Aleksandr Kerzhakov Zenit Saint Petersburg 3 8 7 5 6 2633 Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow548171304 Igor Denisov Zenit Saint Petersburg145551115 Aleksandr Kokorin Dynamo Moscow42343103 2013 1 Henrikh Mkhitaryan Borussia Dortmund –
Wins by player
Name Wins Winning years Andrey Arshavin 2007, 2008, 2009 Henrikh Mkhitaryan 2012, 2013 Andriy Shevchenko 2004, 2005 Igor Akinfeev 2006 Aleksandr Kerzhakov 2010 Andriy Voronin 2011
See also Soviet Footballer of the Year Footballer of the Year in Russia (Sport-Express) - "Sport Express" daily sports newspaper version. Footballer of the Year in Russia (Futbol) - "Futbol" weekly magazine version.
References Official page Sport-Express