VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year

The VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year is an annual VTB United League award given since the 2013–14 VTB United League season to the league's best defender.

Winners

Key

Player (X)	Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
†	Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
§	Denotes the club were the league champions in the same season

Season	Player	Pos.	Nationality	Team	Ref(s)
2013–14	Sasha Kaun	C	Russia	CSKA Moscow§	[1]
2014–15	Andrey Vorontsevich	PF	Russia	CSKA Moscow§	[2]
2015–16	Kyle Hines	C	United States	CSKA Moscow§	[3]
2016–17	Nikita Kurbanov	SF	Russia	CSKA Moscow§	[4]
2017–18	Dmitry Kulagin	SG	Russia	Lokomotiv Kuban	[5]
2018–19	Maurice Ndour	PF	Senegal	UNICS	[6]
2019–20	Not awarded 1
2020–21	John Brown	F	United States	UNICS	[7]
2021–22	Jordan Mickey	C / PF	United States	Zenit Saint Petersburg§	[8]
2022–23	Evgeny Baburin	SG	Russia	Pari Nizhny Novgorod	[9]
2023–24	Vince Hunter	C	United States	Zenit Saint Petersburg	[10]
2024–25	Antonius Cleveland	SF	United States	Lokomotiv Kuban	[11]

Notes:

^1 There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.