FC Dynamo Moscow

For the sports club's departments, see Dynamo Moscow.

Dynamo Moscow

File:FC Dynamo Moscow crest.png
Full name	Футбольный клуб Динамо Москва (Football Club Dynamo Moscow)
Nickname(s)	Belo-golubye (White-blues) Dinamiki (Louders) Musora (Cops) Great and Mighty
Founded	18 April 1923 (1923-04-18)
Ground	Arena Khimki
Capacity	18,636
Owner	Dynamo Sports Society
Chairman	Sergei Sysoyev
Manager	Andrei Kobelev
League	Russian Premier League
2014–15	4th
Website	http://fcdynamo.ru/
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Moskva, Template:Lang-ru [dʲɪˈnamə mɐˈskva]) is a Russian football club based in Khimki, Moscow Oblast, currently playing in the Russian Premier League. Dynamo's traditional colours are blue and white. Their crest consists of a blue letter "D," written in a traditional cursive style on a white background, with "Moscow" written below it, partially covering a football underneath. The club's motto is "Power in Motion," initially proposed by Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian author, who was once an active member of the Dynamo sports society.

Dynamo is the oldest Russian football club and the only one that has always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football since the end of the Soviet era. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title.

During the Soviet era, it was affiliated with the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs – The Soviet Militia) and with the KGB and was a part of Dynamo sports society. Chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, was a patron of the club until his downfall.

From 10 April 2009 the VTB Bank has been the owner of Dynamo after acquiring a 74% share in the club. Boris Rotenberg Sr. was chairman until he resigned on 17 July 2015.

History

Commemorative coin of Lev Yashin, the legendary goalkeeper of the team.

Dynamo Moscow has its roots in the club Morozovtsi Orekhovo-Zuevo Moskva founded as a factory team in 1887. The team was renamed OKS Moskva in 1906 and won a series of Moscow league championships from 1910 to 1914.

After the Russian Revolution, the club eventually found itself under the authority of the Interior Ministry and its head Felix Dzerzhinsky, chief of the Cheka, the Soviet Union's secret police. The club was renamed Dynamo Moscow in 1923 but was also referred to disparagingly as "garbage", a Russian criminal slang term for "police", by some of the supporters of other clubs.

Dynamo won the first two Soviet Championships in 1936 and 1937, a Soviet Cup in 1937, and another pair of national titles in 1940 and 1945. They were also the first Soviet club to tour the West when it played a series of friendlies in the United Kingdom in 1945. Complete unknowns to the British, the Soviet players first drew 3–3 against Chelsea and then defeated Cardiff City 1–10. They defeated an Arsenal side reinforced with Stanley Matthews, Stan Mortensen and Joe Bacuzzi by a score of 3–4 in a match played in thick fog at White Hart Lane. They drew 2–2 against Scottish side Rangers.

They continued to be a strong side at home after World War II, and enjoyed their greatest success through the 1950s. Dynamo captured another five championships between 1949 and 1959, as well as their second Soviet Cup in 1953. Honours were harder to come by after that time. The club continued to enjoy some success in the Soviet Cup, but has not won a national championship since 1976. Even so, Dynamo's 11 national titles make it the country's third-most decorated side behind Dynamo Kyiv (13 titles) and Spartak Moscow (12 titles).

Dynamo's greatest achievement in Europe was in the 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup, where they reached the Final at Camp Nou in Barcelona, losing 3–2 to Rangers. This was the first time a Russian side had reached a final in a European competition, a feat not repeated until CSKA Moscow won the UEFA Cup in 2005.

VTB Bank era 2009–

Yuri Zhirkov.

Mathieu Valbuena.

At the end of the 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow.

In 2012, after a poor start to the season in which it lost its first five league games, Dynamo replaced interim manager Dmitri Khokhlov with the Romanian Dan Petrescu, who managed to pull the club out of the relegation zone into a position in the upper-half of the league table. The team was close to qualifying for a place in European competition, but a failure to win in the last matchday left them in seventh, two points below the last Europa League qualifier position. Despite his efforts, Petrescu's contract was terminated on 8 April 2014 by mutual agreement after a heavy loss to league outsiders Anzhi Makhachkala 0–4. As Dynamo Director of Sports Guram Adzhoyev stated, "Last year Dan drew the team from the complicated situation, lifted it to the certain level, but recently we have seen no progress." Petrescu was replaced by Stanislav Cherchesov as manager. Under his management, Dynamo qualified for the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League in which they won every game before falling to Napoli in the Round of 16. Dynamo was only able to finish in fourth place in the 2014–15 season after a string of poor results in the latter stages.

In June 2015, Dynamo was excluded from 2015–16 Europa League competition for violating Financial Fair Play break-even requirements. As a result, VTB Bank proposed to transfer 74 percent of the shares of the club to the Dynamo sports society. Under the proposed plan, the society would own 100 percent of shares of Dynamo as it did in 2009, while the shares of the VTB Arena would still be held by the Bank. The move would allow the club to comply with the requirements of Financial Fair Play, and VTB Bank would continue to provide support to Dynamo to the extent consistent with Financial Fair Play regulations.

Manager Stanislav Cherchesov was replaced by the returning Andrey Kobelev, and many foreign players, such as Mathieu Valbuena, Balázs Dzsudzsák and Kevin Kurányi, subsequently left Dynamo. Several young Dynamo prospects, such as Grigori Morozov, Aleksandr Tashayev and Anatoli Katrich, who won the Under-21 competition in the 2014–15 season, were introduced to the first-team squad.

On 22 December 2015, Chairman of Dynamo's board of directors Vasili Titov announced that the shares had not been transferred to the Dynamo society; that FFP compliance rather than the share transfer was the top priority for the club; and that he expected the club to achieve compliance by April 2016.

Rivalries

Main article: Oldest Russian derby

Spartak vs Dinamo in Luzhnikí on 14 March 2010.

Since its establishment in 1923, Dynamo's historical rival has been Spartak Moscow. Clashes between the clubs were seen by their fans and more generally as the most important games in the Soviet Union for more than three decades, attracting thousands of spectators. (Ironically, however, on New Year's Day in 1936, it was a combined Dynamo-Spartak team that traveled to Paris to face Racing Club de France, then one of Europe's top teams.) Dynamo clinched the first-ever Soviet League by beating Spartak 1–0 at Dynamo Stadium in front of 70,000 spectators. Spartak responded by winning the championship the following year. But after Dynamo's decline in the late 1970s, the rivalry has faded. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, first CSKA Moscow and then Zenit Saint Petersburg have emerged as the top clubs in Russian football, with the rivalries between Dynamo and its Moscow neighbours such as Spartak Moscow and Lokomotiv assuming less significance.

Stadium

See also: Dynamo Stadium (Moscow), Arena Khimki, and VTB Arena

View of the historical Dynamo Stadium, home of Dynamo from 1928 to 2008. In 2011, it was demolished in preparation for a new stadium to be built, which will be known as the VTB Arena.

Dynamo's ground used to be the historic Dynamo Stadium in Petrovsky Park, which seats 36,540. In 2008, it was closed for demolition. It is to be replaced by VTB Arena in 2016, which will have a capacity of 27,000 (adjustable up to 45,000). Until its completion, Dynamo has been sharing Arena Khimki with rivals CSKA Moscow since 2010, as the latter are too awaiting the completion of their own new ground, CSKA Moscow Stadium.

Average attendance

Year Average 1970 30,331 1971 28,833 1972 21,787 1973 19,967 1974 24,333 1975 23,327 1976 15,529 1977 17,667 1978 8,987 1979 10,147 1980 10,088 1981 10,804 1982 8,853 1983 8,576 1984 9,359

Year Average 1985 9,129 1986 13,527 1987 16,507 1988 11,600 1989 13,813 1990 9,233 1991 7,627 1992 4,323 1993 4,465 1994 2,882 1995 3,713 1996 3,476 1997 6,000 1998 5,127 1999 8,367

Year Average 2000 8,867 2001 6,933 2002 6,800 2003 6,600 2004 5,300 2005 8,500 2006 8,067 2007 9,733 2008 13,067 2009 7,752 2010 7,116 2011-12 10,193 2012-13 7,516 2013-14 7,860 2014-15 8,176

Honours

Soviet Top League / Russian Premier League

• Champions (11): 1936 (spring), 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957 1959, 1963, 1976
• Runners-up (11): 1936 (autumn), 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1986, 1994

Soviet Cup / Russian Cup

• Champions (7): 1937, 1953, 1967, 1970, 1977, 1984, 1994-95
• Runners-up (8): 1945, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1979, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2011-12

Soviet Super Cup / Russian Super Cup

• Champions: 1977
• Runners-up: 1984

Progress Cup

• Champions: 1973, 1981, 1986

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

• Runners-up: 1971-72

Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy

• Champions: 1976

Seasons from 1992 to present

Domestic and international results since 1992
Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Top Scorer	Head Coach
1992	1st	3	26	14	6	6	55	29	34		UC	3rd round (Last 16)	Gasimov – 16	Gazzaev
1993	1st	3	34	16	10	8	65	38	42	Semi-finals	UC	3rd round (Last 16)	Simutenkov – 16	Gazzaev Golodets
1994	1st	2	30	13	13	4	55	35	39	Semi-finals	UC	1st round	Simutenkov – 21	Beskov
1995	1st	4	30	16	8	6	45	29	56	Winner	UC	2nd round (Last 32)	Terekhin – 11	Beskov Golodets
1996	1st	4	34	20	7	7	60	35	67	Semi-finals	CWC	Quarter-finals	Cheryshev – 17	Golodets
1997	1st	3	34	19	11	4	50	20	68	Runner-Up	UC	1st round	Terekhin – 17	Golodets
1998	1st	9	30	8	15	7	31	30	39	Quarter-finals			Terekhin – 12	Golodets Yartsev
1999	1st	5	30	12	8	10	44	41	44	Runner-Up	UC	2nd round (Last 32)	Terekhin – 14	Yartsev Petrushin
2000	1st	5	30	14	8	8	45	35	50	Quarter-finals			Gusev – 12	Gazzaev
2001	1st	9	30	10	8	12	43	51	38	Round of 16	UC	1st round	Khazov – 10	Gazzaev Novikov
2002	1st	8	30	12	6	12	38	33	42	Quarter-finals	UC	2nd round	Koroman – 6	Novikov Prokopenko
2003	1st	6	30	12	10	8	42	29	46	Round of 32	—		Bulykin – 9	Prokopenko Hřebík
2004	1st	13	30	6	11	13	27	38	29	Round of 16	—		Korchagin – 4	Hřebík Bondarenko Romantsev
2005	1st	8	30	12	2	16	36	46	38	Round of 16	—		Derlei – 13	Romantsev Wortmann Kobelev
2006	1st	14	30	8	10	12	31	40	34	Quarter-finals	—		Derlei – 7	Semin Kobelev
2007	1st	6	30	11	8	11	37	35	41	Quarter-finals	—		Kolodin – 9	Kobelev
2008	1st	3	30	15	9	6	41	29	54	Round of 16	—		Kerzhakov – 7	Kobelev
2009	1st	8	30	12	6	12	31	37	42	Semi-finals	CL EL	3rd qualifying round Play-off round	Kerzhakov – 12	Kobelev
2010	1st	7	30	9	13	8	39	31	40	Round of 8	—		Kurányi – 9	Kobelev Božović
2011/12	1st	4	44	20	12	12	66	50	72	Runner-Up	—		Kurányi – 13	Božović Silkin
2012/13	1st	7	30	14	6	10	41	34	48	Quarter-finals	EL	PO	Kurányi – 10 Kokorin - 10	Silkin Khokhlov Petrescu
2013/14	1st	4	30	15	7	8	54	37	52	Round of 32	—		Kokorin – 10	Petrescu Cherchesov

European campaigns

Season	Round	Competition	Country	Opposing Team	Score	Venue
1972	RU	Cup Winners' Cup		Rangers	2–3	Camp Nou, Barcelona
1978	SF	Cup Winners' Cup		Austria Wien	3–3 on aggregate, 4–5(p)	Two-legged
1985	SF	Cup Winners' Cup		Austria Wien	2–4 on aggregate	Two-legged

UEFA ranking

As of 30 August 2015

Rank	Country	Team	Points
70		Braga	26.416
71		Dynamo Moscow	26.076
72		Ludogorets Razgrad	25.625

Players

Current squad

As of 26 February 2016, according to the club's official website 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	RUS	Anton Shunin
2	DF	RUS	Grigori Morozov
3	DF	SWE	Sebastian Holmén
4	DF	CGO	Christopher Samba
5	DF	RUS	Vitali Dyakov
7	MF	BLR	Stanislaw Drahun
8	FW	RUS	Pavel Pogrebnyak
11	MF	RUS	Aleksei Ionov
12	DF	RUS	Yegor Danilkin
13	MF	RUS	Maksim Kuzmin
15	DF	SVK	Tomáš Hubočan
17	DF	RUS	Dmitri Zhivoglyadov
21	FW	MNE	Fatos Bećiraj

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	FW	RUS	Pavel Solomatin
23	DF	RUS	Anton Sosnin
25	DF	RUS	Aleksei Kozlov
27	MF	RUS	Igor Denisov (captain)
30	GK	RUS	Vladimir Gabulov
38	DF	RUS	Andrey Yeshchenko
47	MF	RUS	Roman Zobnin
72	DF	RUS	Aleksandr Kalyashin
77	MF	RUS	Anatoli Katrich
80	MF	RUS	Vladislav Lyovin
88	MF	RUS	Aleksandr Tashayev
90	FW	RUS	Nikolay Obolsky
98	MF	RUS	Anton Terekhov

Youth squad

The following players are registered with the RFPL and are listed by club's website as youth players. They are eligible to play for the first team.

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
41	GK	RUS	Igor Leshchuk
43	GK	RUS	Stanislav Cherchesov Jr.
51	DF	RUS	Roman Yevgenyev
52	DF	RUS	Ilya Panin
54	MF	RUS	Ilya Gomanyuk
55	FW	RUS	Kirill Burykin
56	MF	RUS	Viktor Demyanov
57	MF	RUS	Denis Sedykh
58	FW	RUS	Semyon Belyakov
60	DF	RUS	Artyom Gorbulin
61	DF	RUS	Semyon Matviychuk
62	DF	RUS	Nikita Kalugin
63	MF	RUS	Pavel Lelyukhin
64	DF	RUS	Aleksandr Shchegolkov
66	MF	RUS	Anton Antonov
67	MF	RUS	Pavel Farafonov
68	DF	RUS	Denis Sidnev
69	MF	RUS	Nikita Kireev
70	DF	RUS	Maksim Nenakhov

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
71	DF	RUS	Roman Denisov
73	DF	RUS	Sergei Evtushenko
74	DF	RUS	Nikita Klimov
75	MF	RUS	Mikhail Mogulkin
76	MF	RUS	Osman Isayev
78	FW	RUS	Stanislav Latsevich
81	GK	RUS	Pyotr Kosarevskiy
82	GK	RUS	David Sangare
83	GK	RUS	Andrei Rebrikov
84	GK	RUS	Ivan Zirikov
85	MF	RUS	Nikita Kanavin
86	MF	RUS	Vyacheslav Grulyov
87	MF	RUS	Valeri Saramutin
89	DF	RUS	Nikolai Mayorskiy
91	DF	RUS	Aleksandr Stepanov
92	FW	RUS	Maksim Obolskiy
93	MF	RUS	Eduard Sholokh
96	DF	RUS	Aleksandr Zakharov
97	MF	RUS	Anton Altunin

Dynamo's reserve squad played professionally as FC Dynamo-d Moscow (Russian Second League in 1992–1993, Russian Third League in 1994–1997) and FC Dynamo-2 Moscow (Russian Second Division in 1998–2000). A separate team called FC Dynamo-2 Moscow played in the Soviet Second League in 1986–1989, Soviet Second League B in 1990–1991, Russian Second League in 1992–1993 and Russian Third League in 1994–1997.

Notable players

For details of Dynamo Moscow players with a Wikipedia article, see List of FC Dynamo Moscow players.

Most appearances

R	Player	Nat.	App.
1	Aleksandr Novikov		327
2	Lev Yashin		326
3	Valery Maslov		319
4	Aleksandr Makhovikov		287
5	Gennady Yevryuzhikhin		283
6	Viktor Anichkin		282
7	Sergei Nikulin		280
8	Viktor Tsaryov		279
9	Andrei Kobelev		253
10	Aleksei Petrushin		244

Most goals

R	Player	Nat.	Goals
1	Sergei Solovyov		127
2	Konstantin Beskov		91
3	Vasili Kartsev		72
4	Valery Gazzaev		70
5	Igor Chislenko		68
6	Oleg Teryokhin		67
7	Vasili Trofimov		67
8	Vladimir Ilyin		63
9	Vladimir Savdunin		62
10	Vladimir Kozlov		54

One-Club Men

Player	Nationality	Position	Debut	Last Match
Vasili Trofimov		FW	1931	1949
Lev Yashin		GK	1949	1971
Viktor Tsarev		MF	1955	1966
Eduard Mudrik		DF	1957	1968
Vladimir Kesarev		DF	1956	1965
Nikolai Tolstykh		DF	1977	1983

Coaching and medical staff

Role	Name
Head coach	Andrei Kobelev
Assistant manager	Nikolai Gontar
Assistant manager	Aleksandr Smirnov
GK coach	Roman Berezovsky
Team manager	Dmitry Balashov
Administrative Manager	Gennady Samodurov
Press Office	Konstantin Alekseev
Youth team head coach	Sergei Chikishev
Fitness coach	Vladimir Panikov
Physiotherapist	Sergio de San Martin

Former head coaches

FC Dynamo Moscow coaching history from 1936 to present
Konstantin Kvashnin (1936) Viktor Dubinin (1937) Mikhail Tovarovsky (1938) Viktor Dubinin (1939) Viktor Teterin (1939) Lev Korchebokov (1939) Boris Arkadyev (1940–44) Lev Korchebokov (1944) Mikhail Yakushin (1944–50) Viktor Dubinin (1950–51) Mikhail Semichastny (1952–53) Mikhail Yakushin (1953–60) Vsevolod Blinkov (1961) Aleksandr Ponomaryov (1962–65) Vyacheslav Solovyov (1965–66) Konstantin Beskov (1967–72) Gavriil Kachalin (1973–74)	Aleksandr Sevidov (1975–79) Viktor Tsaryov (1979) Yevgeny Goryansky (1980) Vyacheslav Solovyov (1980–83) Vadim Ivanov (1983) Aleksandr Sevidov (1983–85) Eduard Malofeyev (June 7, 1985–Nov 1, 1987) Anatoliy Byshovets (Nov 3, 1987–July 12, 1990) Semyon Altman (July 13, 1990 – April 1, 1991) Valery Gazzaev (April 3, 1991–Sept 15, 1993) Adamas Golodets (1993) Konstantin Beskov (Jan 1, 1994–Sept 1, 1995) Adamas Golodets (1995–98) Georgi Yartsev (June 16, 1998 – June 14, 1999) Aleksei Petrushin (June 18, 1999–Dec 31, 1999) Valery Gazzaev (Jan 1, 2000–April 15, 2001) Aleksandr Novikov (2001–02)	Viktor Prokopenko (April 6, 2002–Nov 2, 2003) Sergei Silkin (interim) (Nov 3, 2003–Dec 31, 2003) Jaroslav Hřebík (Jan 1, 2004–July 12, 2004) Viktor Bondarenko (2004) Oleg Romantsev (Nov 4, 2004–May 18, 2005) Andrei Kobelev (interim) (May 18, 2005 – July 8, 2005) Ivo Wortmann (July 8, 2005–Nov 11, 2005) Yuri Semin (Nov 11, 2005–Aug 6, 2006) Andrei Kobelev (Aug 8, 2006–April 27, 2010) Miodrag Božović (April 27, 2010 – April 21, 2011) Sergei Silkin (interim) (April 21, 2011 – June 21, 2011) Sergei Silkin (June 21, 2011–Aug 6, 2012) Dmitri Khokhlov (interim) (Aug 6, 2012–Aug 18, 2012) Dan Petrescu (Aug 18, 2012–April 8, 2014) Stanislav Cherchesov (April 10, 2014–July 13, 2015) Andrei Kobelev

Gallery

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  Mikhail Yakushin
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  Konstantin Beskov
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  Anatoliy Byshovets
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  Valery Gazzaev
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  Sergei Silkin

Personnel

Club management

Role	Name
Chairman of the Board of directors	Vasily Titov
President	Vacant
First Vice-President	Gennady Solovyev
Vice-President	Yuri Belkin
Vice-President	Yuri Lyubimov
Executive Director	Sergei Sysoev
Deputy Executive Director	Dmitry Ivanov
Deputy Executive Director	Alexei Smertin

Presidents

In the Dynamo organization, the position of "president" has not always been present; several times the head of the club was titled as "chief executive officer (CEO)."

Nikolai Tolstykh, president of Russian Football Union since 2012. Tolstykh played his entire professional career for Dynamo from 1974 to his retirement in 1983 after a serious injury. After retiring, he served as the team's president and general director on numerous occasions.

Date	Position/name
President
1989—1990	Vladimir Pilguy
President
1991—1992	Valery Sysoev
1993—1997	Nikolai Tolstykh
General director
1998	Nikolai Tolstykh
President
1999	Nikolai Tolstykh
General director
2000—2001	Nikolai Tolstykh
2002	Vladimir Ulyanov
2002—2006	Yuri Zavarzin
2006—2009	Dmitry Ivanov
President
2009—2012	Yuri Isaev
2012—2013	Gennady Solovyov
2013—2015	Boris Rotenberg Sr.

External links

• Official website
• Club page at the RFPL official site