--- title: "Karpaty's Monopoly: UPL Announces August's Best Player and Coach — the Lviv Club Swept Both Awards" description: "The UPL announced its best performers for August: Karpaty striker Yan Kostenko was named Player of the Month, while his coach Fran Fernandez was named Coach of the Month. The Lviv club monopolized both individual awards." date: 2026-09-07T11:28:00.000Z lang: en url: https://xab.info/en/posts/upl-august-best-player-and-coach-karpaty-kostenko-fernandes tags: [ukrainian-premier-league, karpaty-lviv, yan-kostenko, fran-fernandez, football-awards] publisher: "XAB.info" --- # Karpaty's Monopoly: UPL Announces August's Best Player and Coach — the Lviv Club Swept Both Awards ![Coach of Lviv Karpaty at the UPL award ceremony for the best coach of August](https://xab.info/media/2026/09/07/upl-luchshie-avgu-sta-kostenko-i-fernandes-karpaty/upl-luchshie-avgu-sta-kostenko-i-fernandes-karpaty-1.webp) ## 🎯 Key Points - Karpaty striker Yan Kostenko was named the UPL's best player in August (53.3% of the points). - Karpaty coach Fran Fernandez was named Coach of the Month (102% combined across the two votes). - In August, Karpaty collected 10 of 12 points: wins of 4:1, 3:0, 3:0 and a 1:1 draw. - In the experts' voting, Kostenko was second, but the fans pushed him to first place. The Ukrainian Premier League officially wrapped up the first month of the 2026/27 season. Based on the combined voting of experts and fans, all the key individual awards for August went to representatives of a single club — Lviv's Karpaty. This is reported by Sport RBC.UA, citing the official UPL website. This outcome has become a clear signal that it is the Lviv team that is setting the tone in the opening stretch of the new championship. ### August's Best Player — Yan Kostenko In the "Player of the Month" category, the winner was 23-year-old Karpaty striker Yan Kostenko. In August, the forward took part in three of his team's winning matches, scored two goals, and consistently made it into the symbolic team of the rounds. It was precisely his goal-scoring record and consistency that proved decisive in the final vote count. ### Voting: where the experts and fans diverged Notably, in the UPL TV and media experts' voting, Kostenko finished only second, trailing his teammate Felipe Vieira. However, the fans gave the majority of their votes to the Ukrainian striker — 31%. In the overall total, Yan Kostenko scored 53.3% of the points and topped the ratings, ahead of Felipe (38.2%) and Zhytomyr's Polissya midfielder Vladyslav Veletnya (25.1%). ### Month's Best Coach — Fran Fernandez In the "Coach of the Month" category, an outright victory was secured by Karpaty head coach Francisco (Fran) Fernandez. Under his guidance, the Lviv team collected 10 points out of 12 available: they beat Kryvbas (4:1), LNZ (3:0), and Bukovyna (3:0), and drew with Levyi Bereh (1:1). The Spanish specialist took first place both in the experts' version (46.8%) and in the fans' voting (55.2%), scoring a combined 102%. Second place went to Polissya's coach Ruslan Rotan (54%), and third — to Epitsentr's coach Serhiy Nahorniak (38.4%). ### Context: Ukrainian referees in the Champions League Against the backdrop of the UPL's domestic awards, the international context is also worth noting: it was previously announced that Ukrainian referees would be officiating a Champions League match involving PSG. Thus, the first month of the new season has cemented Ukrainian football's significant role both at the domestic and the European level. ## 🔍 Fact-Check Verification - [One club's triumph: UPL announces the best player and coach for August](https://sport.rbc.ua/ukr/football/triumf-odnogo-klubu-upl-ogolosila-naykrashchih-1788780330.html) - Первичный источник: полные цифры голосований (Костенко 53,3%, Фернандес 102%), результаты матчей «Карпат» в августе. - [Kostenko — UPL's best player in August, Fernandez — the coach](https://ua.tribuna.com/football/1000000374284-kostenko-naykrashchyy-hravets-upl-u-serpni-fernandes-tre/) - Подтверждает имена лауреатов в обеих номинациях. - [Karpaty representatives. The best player and coach of August in the UPL are named](https://sport.ua/news/905057-predstaviteli-karpat-nazvany-luchshie-igrok-i-trener-avgusta-v-upl) - Подтверждает, что обе награды достались представителям «Карпат». - [The best coach and player of August in the UPL have been revealed](https://dynamo.kiev.ua/news/736611-stali-izvestnyi-luchshij-trener-i-futbolist-avgusta-v-upl) - Независимое подтверждение итогов голосования за август. ## ❓ FAQ ### Q: Who was named the UPL's best player in August? **A:** The 23-year-old striker of Lviv's Karpaty, Yan Kostenko, was named August's best player in the UPL, scoring 53.3% of the points in the final voting. ### Q: Who was named the UPL's Coach of the Month? **A:** Karpaty head coach Francisco (Fran) Fernandez was named Coach of the Month, scoring a combined 102% (46.8% from the experts and 55.2% from the fans). ### Q: What were Karpaty's results in August? **A:** In August, Karpaty collected 10 points out of 12 available: wins over Kryvbas (4:1), LNZ (3:0), and Bukovyna (3:0), and a draw with Levyi Bereh (1:1). ### Q: Why did Kostenko win if the experts gave him second place? **A:** In the experts' voting, Kostenko was second, trailing Felipe Vieira, but the fans gave the majority of their votes to him (31%), which in the total pushed him to first place with 53.3%.