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Dynamo Kyiv
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Full nameFC Dynamo Kyiv
Nickname(s)"Bilo-Syni" (White-Blues)
Founded1927
GroundLobanovsky Dynamo Stadium
Capacity16,900
ChairmanUkraine Ihor Surkis
CoachRussia Yuri Semin
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2007–082nd

FC Dynamo Kyiv (Ukrainian: ФК Динамо Київ, FK Dynamo Kyiv; Russian: Динамо Киев, Dinamo Kiev) is a professional football club from the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Vyscha Liha of Ukraine and have spent their entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football. Dynamo Kyiv has won twelve league titles, nine Ukrainian Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups. Additionally, they have also won 13 USSR Championships, 9 USSR Cups, and 3 USSR Super Cups, making Dynamo one of the most successful clubs in the history of the Soviet Top League.[1]

Dynamo's home is the 16,900 capacity[2] Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium in Kiev. The club also plays in the 83,450 capacity Olimpiysky National Sports Complex in Kiev for major games such as UEFA competitions.

History overview

Early history

Dynamo Kyiv squad in 1929

The club was founded in 1927 as an amateur team, part of Dinamo, a nation-wide Soviet sport society. This society later became officially funded and patronized by the NKVD (a KGB predecessor), and later by the interior ministry (MVD). In the 1950s–1980s, team players were even officially ranked as police or interior armed forces officers. However, thousands of ordinary Soviet citizens paid symbolic membership fees for the "sport society". The first recorded match Dynamo played on 17 July 1928 against another Dynamo from the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. Soon as the club gained more experience and played on a regular basis, it started to fill the stadium with spectators. The club and football popularity in general in Soviet Ukraine was on the rise.

Soviet era

During the Soviet era, the club was one of the main rivals, and often the only rival, to the football clubs from Moscow. Its ability to challenge the dominance of the Moscow clubs in Soviet football, and frequently defeat them to win the Soviet championship, was a matter of national pride for Ukraine. Leaders of the Ukrainian SSR unofficially regarded the club as their national team and provided it with generous support. Thus, Dinamo became a de-facto professional team of international importance.

In 1936 the first Soviet Championship was played, and Dynamo Kyiv was one of the pioneers of the newly formed league. The clubs' early successes were however limited to a 2nd place finish in 1936 and a bronze finish in 1937. In the 1941 season, the club only played 9 matches, as World War 2 interrupted league play.

The Death Match

Poster of the return match

The story is often told of how the Dynamo team, playing as "Start, City of Kyiv All-Stars", was executed by a firing squad in the summer of 1942 for defeating an All-Star team from the German armed forces by 5 goals to 1. The actual story, as recounted by Y. Kuznetsov, is considerably more complex. [3] This match has subsequently become known as "The Death Match".

After the Nazi occupation of Ukraine began, several members of the Dynamo team found employment in the city's Bakery No. 3, and had continued to play amateur football. During Kiev's invasion, the collective was spotted by Germans and were invited to play against an army team. The collective would play under the name of "Start" and had comprised of eight players from Dynamo (Mykola Trusevych, Mikhail Svyridovskiy, Mykola Korotkykh, Oleksiy Klimenko, Fedir Tyutchev, Mikhail Putistin, Ivan Kuzmenko, Makar Honcharenko) and three players from Lokomotiv Kiev (Vladimir Balakin, Vasil Sukharev and Mikhail Melnyk).

In July and August 1942 "Start" played a series of matches against German and allied sides. On July 12 a German army team was defeated. A stronger army team was selected for the next match on July 17, which "Start" defeated 6-0. On July 19 "Start" defeated the Hungarian team MSG Wal by 5-1. The Hungarians proposed a return match, held on July 26, but were defeated again 3-2.

"Start"'s streak was noticed and a match was announced for August 6 against a "most powerful" "undefeated" German Luftwaffe Flakelf team, but despite the game being talked up by the newspapers, they failed to report the 5-1 result. On August 9 "Start" played a "friendly" against Flakelf and again defeated them. The team defeated Rukh 8-0 on August 16, and afterwards, some of "Start"'s players were arrested by the Gestapo, tortured – Mykola Korotkykh dying under torture – and sent to the nearby labour camp at Siretz. It is also conjectured that the players were arrested due to the intrigues of Georgy Shvetsov, founder and trainer of the "Rukh" team, as the arrests were made in a couple of days after "Start" defeated "Rukh".[4]

In February 1943, following an attack by anti-German partisans or a conflict of the prisoners and administration, one-third of the prisoners at Siretz were killed in reprisal, including Ivan Kuzmenko, Oleksey Klymenko, and the goalkeeper Mykola Trusevich. Three of the other players, Makar Honcharenko, Fedir Tyutchev and Mikhail Sviridovskiy, who were in a work squad in the city that day, were arrested a few days later[4] or, according to other sources, escaped and hid in the city until it was liberated[citation needed].

The story inspired two films: the 1961 Hungarian film drama "Két félidő a pokolban" and the 1981 American film Escape to Victory.

Bribery scandal

In 1995, Dynamo qualified for the UEFA Champions League by defeating Danish-side AaB Aalborg in the qualification round.

A few weeks later, following Dynamo's first group stage match against Panathinaikos, which they won 1-0, Spanish referee Antonio López Nieto filed a complaint to UEFA that he and his linesmen had been approached by two officials from Dynamo who offered them two fur coats and an unspecified amount of money. As a result, the club was immediately expelled from the competition, with Aalborg taking its place.

Despite an appeal to the UEFA following the incident, Dynamo Kyiv was banned from UEFA competitions for the subsequent two years and club's officials Hryhoriy Surkis (general manager) and Vasyliy Babiychuk (general secretary) were banned from football for life. These decisions would later be reversed, with Dynamo resuming play in European competitions the following season and Hryhoriy Surkis continuing his work at the club.

FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Metalurh Zaporizhia in the Ukrainian Cup final in Kyiv, 2 May 2006.

Recent years

After the Soviet Union's collapse, the club, now using the Ukrainian name FC Dynamo Kyiv, became a member of the newly-formed Ukrainian football league. Dynamo's status as the country's principal club did not change with the break-up as they went on to dominate domestic competitions. This dominance has recently been challenged by FC Shakhtar Donetsk from the eastern region of Donbass, which has won the national championship four times since 2002, leaving Dynamo in second place in all of those years.

In 1996, the club modified their logo to the one that continues to be used today. In 2007, as a part of club's 80 year anniversary two gold stars were added to the top of the crest, representing ten Ukrainian championship titles and ten USSR champion titles. Due to club's poor performance in the UEFA Champions League during the last two seasons, Dynamo's management resolved to a somewhat unexpected decision; for the first time in club's history a foreign manager was invited. Previously in Dynamo, only former players or Dynamo football academy graduates became managers, but in January 2008 Russian coach Yuri Semin was invited to become the new manager of Dynamo Kyiv. Semin's first success came shortly after in a friendly competition Channel One Cup organised in Israel over winter-break. It went on to confidently defeat both Dynamo's former top rival Spartak Moscow 3:0, and Dynamo's current top rival Shakhtar Donetsk in the final, winning the competition for the first time in its history. However, the club yielded to Shakhtar in Ukrainian Cup and Ukrainian Premier League in 2008.

Achievements

Dynamo Kyiv has participated in all of the USSR and Ukrainian championships to date, and has won both competitions more times than any other team. The club's best performances were in the 1970s and 1980s, a time at which the USSR national football team was comprised mostly of players from the club. Dynamo Kyiv also tied the national record for winning three consecutive Soviet Premier League titles in 1966, 1967, and 1968. Dynamo Kyiv won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 and 1986 as well as the European Super Cup in 1975, after two games against Bayern Munich. In 1977, 1987, and 1999, the club reached the semifinals of UEFA Champions League. These victories are associated with the name of Valeri Lobanovsky, who played for the club in the 1960s and later became the club's long-term head coach.

Dynamo striker Oleh Blokhin is the Soviet Premier League's all-time top scorer with 211 goals, and has also made more appearances than any other player in the championship's history with 432.

Colours

Goalkeeper's kit

Dynamo's traditional colours are white and dark blue, with white being the predominant colour. Throughout their history the club has usually played in a white shirt and blue shorts, until 1975 when a blue sash was added to the kit. That season became the most successful in Dynamo's history when the club won the Domestic Championship, the UEFA Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. Although soon afterwards it was removed, in 2004 the club's management decided to return the famous sash as a talisman. It has remained on the kit ever since and was even added to the club's away kit.

Recently, in the early years of Ukrainian independence, the club changed their blue shorts for white. However blue remained one of Dynamo's colours and is still a main colour of the club's away kit.

The club is currently sponsored by Adidas and Ukrainian bank Privat Bank.

Honours

Winners[1]

1975, 1986
1975
1986
1996, 1997, 1998, 2002
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007
1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
2004, 2006, 2007
1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990
1954, 1964, 1966, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990
1980, 1985, 1986

Runners-Up

1987
1999
1992, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
2002, 2008
2005, 2008
1936 (spring), 1952, 1960, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1976 (fall), 1978, 1982, 1988
1973
1977

Other Notable Achievements

Preceded by UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Winner
1975
Runner up: Ferencváros
Succeeded by
Preceded by UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Winner
1986
Runner up: Atlético Madrid
Succeeded by

Structure

The club's home ground, Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, is situated in a picturesque park located in the centre of the city, close to the Dnieper River bank. The team also has a modern-equipped training base in the Kyiv suburb of Koncha-Zaspa. Highly-attended games are held on the 83,160-capacity stadium of the city-owned Olimpiysky National Sports Complex historically dubbed "The Republican Stadium".

The club maintains its own football school for children and youths, also situated in Kyiv. Junior Dynamo teams are colloquially known as Dynamo-2 and Dynamo-3. Its reserves team (called "double", дубль in both Ukrainian and Russian) participates in the national Reserves tournament, where "doubles" of all 16 Vyscha Liga teams compete. Many notable Dynamo Kyiv players progressed through the club's youth system, among them is Andriy Shevchenko, one of the graduates of the school.

Current squad

The players in bold have senior international caps.

Squad is given according to the club's official website.[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Shovkovsky (Captain)
2 DF Ukraine UKR Oleh Dopilka
3 DF Brazil BRA Betão
4 MF Romania ROU Tiberiu Ghioane
5 MF Croatia CRO Ognjen Vukojević
6 DF Croatia CRO Goran Sablić
7 MF Brazil BRA Corrêa
8 MF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Aliev
9 MF Ukraine UKR Mykola Morozyuk
10 FW Guinea GUI Ismaël Bangoura
11 MF Finland FIN Roman Eremenko
15 DF Senegal SEN Pape Diakhaté
16 FW Uzbekistan UZB Maksim Shatskikh
17 DF Ukraine UKR Taras Mikhalik
20 MF Ukraine UKR Oleh Husyev
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 GK Ukraine UKR Taras Lutsenko
22 FW Ukraine UKR Artem Kravets
23 DF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Romanchuk
25 FW Ukraine UKR Artem Milevsky
26 DF Ukraine UKR Andriy Nesmachniy
30 DF Morocco MAR Badr El Kaddouri
31 GK Ukraine UKR Stanyslav Bohush
32 DF Georgia (country) GEO Malkhaz Asatiani
33 FW Nigeria NGA Emmanuel Okoduwa[6]
36 MF Serbia SRB Miloš Ninković
37 MF Nigeria NGA Ayila Yussuf
49 FW Ukraine UKR Roman Zozulya
55 GK Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Rybka
70 FW Ukraine UKR Andriy Yarmolenko
FW Nigeria NGA Frank Temile

For recent transfers, see List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2008.

In on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Finland FIN Roman Eremenko (on 1 year loan from Udinese Calcio[7][8])
32 DF Georgia (country) GEO Malkhaz Asatiani (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
DF Ukraine UKR Anatoliy Kitsuta (on loan to Lviv)
FW Ukraine UKR Andriy Kruglyak (on loan to Arsenal Kyiv)
FW Brazil BRA Kléber (on loan to Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras)
MF Brazil BRA Diogo Rincón (on loan to Corinthians)
MF Romania ROU Florin Cernat (on loan to Hajduk Split)
DF Russia RUS Andrey Eschenko (on loan to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Brazil BRA Michael (on 6 month loan to Santos FC)
MF Morocco MAR Chakhir Belghazouani (on 1 year loan to RC Strasbourg)
29 DF Ukraine UKR Vitaly Mandzyuk (on loan to Arsenal Kyiv)
33 MF Ukraine UKR Denys Oleynyk (on loan to Arsenal Kyiv)
11 FW Ukraine UKR Volodymyr Lysenko (on loan to Arsenal Kyiv[9])
24 DF Ukraine UKR Vitaliy Fedoriv (on loan to Amkar Perm)[10]

Famous players

Soviet Union USSR
 
Ukraine Ukraine
 
Georgia (country) Georgia
Belarus Belarus
Russia Russia
 
Croatia Croatia
Serbia Serbia
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

Notable managers

  • in the Ukrainian championship

The following managers have all won at least one trophy when in charge of Dynamo Kyiv:

Name Period Trophies
Soviet Union Viktor Maslov 1964-1970 5 league titles, 2 domestic cups
Ukraine Anatoliy Puzach 1990-1992 -
Ukraine Mykhailo Fomenko 1992-1994 1 league title, 1 domestic cup
Ukraine Yozhef Sabo 1992, 1994-1995, 1995-1996, 2004-2005, 2007 2 league titles, 2 domestic cups
Ukraine Volodymyr Onyschenko 1995 -
Ukraine Mykola Pavlov 1995 1 league title
Ukraine Valery Lobanovsky 1973-1982, 1984-1990, 1997-2002 5 league titles, 3 domestic cups, 3 European cups
Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko 2002-2004 2 league titles, 1 domestic cup
Ukraine Anatoly Demyanenko 2005-2007 1 league title, 2 domestic cups
Ukraine Oleh Luzhny (acting) 2007 -
Russia Yuri Semin 2007-

League and Cup history

Soviet Union Soviet Union
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
1978 1st 2 30 15 9 6 42 20 38 Winner a point deducted due to limit on games drawn
1979 1st 3 34 21 5 8 51 26 47 1/4 finals ECC 1/8 finals
1980 1st 1 34 21 9 4 63 23 51 1/2 finals UC 1/8 finals
1981 1st 1 34 22 9 3 58 26 53 1/4 finals UC First round
1982 1st 2 34 18 10 6 58 25 46 Winner ECC 1/4 finals
1983 1st 7 34 14 10 10 50 34 38 1/4 finals ECC 1/4 finals
1984 1st 10 34 12 13 9 46 30 34 1/8 finals UC First round 3 pts deducted due to excess drawn games
1985 1st 1 34 20 8 6 64 26 48 Winner
1986 1st 1 30 14 11 5 53 33 39 1/8 finals CWC Winner
1987 1st 6 30 11 10 9 37 27 32 Winner ECC 1/2 finals
1988 1st 2 30 17 9 4 43 19 43 1/8 finals ECC First round
1989 1st 3 30 13 12 5 44 27 38 1/2 finals
1990 1st 1 24 14 6 4 44 20 34 Winner UC 1/8 finals
1991 1st 5 30 13 9 8 43 34 35 1/16 finals CWC 1/4 finals yielded to FC Tekstilschik Kamishin in Domestic Cup
Ukraine Ukraine
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
1992 1st 2 18 13 4 1 31 13 30 1/4 finals ECC Group stage quit Soviet Cup competition at 1/4 finals[11]
1992-93 1st 1 30 18 8 4 59 14 44 Winner UC 2nd round
1993-94 1st 1 34 23 10 1 61 21 56 1/8 finals ECL 1st round
1994-95 1st 1 34 25 8 1 87 24 83 1/4 finals ECL Group stage
1995-96 1st 1 34 24 7 3 65 17 79 Winner ECL Group stage Dq from ECL for bribing
1996-97 1st 1 30 23 4 3 69 20 73 1/8 finals ECL Qual round
1997-98 1st 1 30 23 3 4 70 15 72 Winner ECL 1/4 finals
1998-99 1st 1 30 23 5 2 75 17 74 Winner ECL 1/2 finals
1999-00 1st 1 30 27 3 0 85 18 84 Winner ECL 2nd group stage
2000-01 1st 1 26 20 4 2 58 17 64 1/16 finals ECL 1st group stage yielded to FC Spartak Sumy in Domestic Cup
2001-02 1st 2 26 20 5 1 62 9 65 Runner-up ECL 1st group stage
2002-03 1st 1 30 23 4 3 66 20 73 Winner UC 3rd round ECL - 1st group stage
2003-04 1st 1 30 23 4 3 68 20 73 1/2 finals ECL 1st group stage
2004-05 1st 2 30 23 4 3 58 14 73 Winner UC Round of 32 ECL - 1st group stage
2005-06 1st 2 30 23 6 1 68 20 75 Winner ECL 2nd qual round
2006-07 1st 1 30 22 8 0 67 23 74 Winner ECL Group stage
2007-08 1st 2 30 22 5 3 65 26 71 Runner-up ECL Group stage
2008-09 1st 1/8 finals ECL Group stage

See also

References

  • Dougan, Andy (2001). Dynamo: Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi-Occupied Kiev, Guilford, CN: Lyons Press. ISBN 1-58574-719-X.

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