Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States

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Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States (also known as the "Star award"^[1]) 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.^{[citation needed]}

Winners[edit]

Year	Place	Player	Club	1st place	2nd place	3rd place	4th place	5th place	Total
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	141
	2	Andrey Arshavin	Arsenal	13	8	4	4	8	125
	3	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Tottenham Hotspur F.C.	10	7	8	9	3	123
	4	Oleksandr Aliyev	Lokomotiv Moscow	4	7	4	3	2	68
	5	Igor Akinfeev	CSKA Moscow	2	8	3	3	2	59
2011	1	Andriy Voronin	Dynamo Moscow	23	6	10	2	2	175
	2	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	9	11	5	7	1	119
	3	Vyacheslav Malafeev	Zenit Saint Petersburg	3	8	3	29	3	63
	4	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	Bayern Munich	-	6	7	6	4	61
	5	Alan Dzagoev	CSKA Moscow	-	2	3	4	8	33
2012	1	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Shakhtar Donetsk	22	8	8	3	-	296
	2	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	3	8	7	5	6	263
	3	Igor Akinfeev	CSKA Moscow	5	4	8	1	7	130
	4	Igor Denisov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1	4	5	5	5	111
	5	Aleksandr Kokorin	Dynamo Moscow	4	2	3	4	3	103
2013	1	Henrikh Mkhitaryan[2]	Borussia Dortmund	–

Wins by player[edit]

Name	0Wins0	0Winning years0
0 Andrey Arshavin	3	02007, 2008, 20090
0 Henrikh Mkhitaryan0	2	02012, 20130
0 Andriy Shevchenko0	2	02004, 20050
0 Igor Akinfeev0	1	020060
0 Aleksandr Kerzhakov0	1	020100
0 Andriy Voronin0	1	020110

See also[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Official page (in Russian)
• Sport-Express (in Russian)