Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament

Valeri Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament (Ukrainian: Турнір Пам'яті Валерія Лобановського) is an international football tournament established in honour and memory of Valeri Lobanovsky since his death on 13 May 2002, hence the name Memorial. The idea was initiated by the FC Dynamo Kyiv management and the tournament is played at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Valery Lobanovsky's image on the scoreboard during the 2007 Memorial Tournament

General rules

Since 2005, the tournament participants are a group of four selected national teams. From 2006 the tournament participants have been the Under-21 National Teams. The teams start-off in semifinals and the winners go on to play in the final; the other two teams play for the 3rd place.

In 2009 two games of the tournament were played at Boreks Stadium, Borodianka in Kyiv Oblast.[1]

In 2011 two games of the U-21 international tournament were played at Obolon Arena.[2]

In 2012 two games of the tournament were played at Bannikov Stadium.[3]

Champions and top goalscorers
Season Champion Runner-Up Third place Fourth place Top Goalscorer(s)
As clubs tournament
2003 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk Russia CSKA Moscow Russia Lokomotiv Moscow Brazil Diogo Rincón[a] 2 goals
2004 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol Latvia Skonto Riga Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi Uzbekistan Maksim Shatskikh[a] 2 goals
As senior national teams tournament
2005  Poland  Israel  Ukraine  Serbia and Montenegro Poland Grzegorz Rasiak 3 goals
As youth national teams tournament
2006  Israel U21  Belarus U21  Ukraine U21  Moldova U21 Belarus Kiril Pavlyuchek 3 goals
2007  Israel U21  Serbia U21  Ukraine U21  Moldova U21 Israel Itay Shechter 2 goals
2008  Poland U21  Bulgaria U21  Ukraine U21  Northern Ireland U21 Poland Marcin Wodecki 2 goals
Ukraine Serhiy Kravchenko
2009  Ukraine U21  Turkey U21  Germany U21  Iran U21 Nine players 1 goal
2010  Russia U20  Iran U20  Ukraine U20  Turkey U20 Ukraine Andriy Bohdanov 2 goals
2011  Uzbekistan U23  Ukraine U21  Serbia U21  Israel U21 Five players 1 goal
2012[4]  Slovakia U21  Montenegro U20  Ukraine U20  Belarus U20 Seven players 1 goal
2013[5]  Austria U21  Ukraine U21  Czech Republic U21  Slovenia U21 Austria Toni Vastić 2 goals
2014 Cancelled[b]
2015  Slovenia U21  Ukraine U21  Greece U21  Moldova U21 Slovenia Luka Zahović 2 goals
Greece Nikolaos Ioannidis
2016  Israel U21  Serbia U21  Ukraine U21  Austria U21 Fourteen players 1 goal
2017  Finland U21  Ukraine U21  Montenegro U21  Slovenia U21 Montenegro Nikola Krstović 2 goals
2018  Slovenia U21  Israel U21  Greece U21  Ukraine U19 Slovenia Jan Mlakar 3 goals
2019[6]  Ukraine U21  Israel U21  Bulgaria U21  Cyprus U21 Six players 1 goal
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.
2021  Uzbekistan U21  Azerbaijan U21  Ukraine U21 — Four players 1 goal

Performance among national teams
Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
Team200520062007200820092010201120122013201520162017201820192021 Total
 Austria1st4th 2
 Azerbaijan2nd 1
 Belarus2nd4th 2
 Bulgaria2nd3rd 2
 Cyprus4th 1
 Czech Republic3rd 1
 Finland1st 1
 Germany3rd 1
 Greece3rd3rd 2
 Iran4th2nd 2
 Israel2nd1st1st4th1st2nd2nd 7
 Moldova4th4th4th 3
 Montenegro2nd3rd 2
 Northern Ireland4th 1
 Poland1st1st 2
 Russia1st 1
 Serbia4th2nd3rd2nd 4
 Slovakia1st 1
 Slovenia4th1st4th1st 4
 Turkey2nd4th 2
 Ukraine3rd3rd3rd3rd1st3rd2nd3rd2nd2nd3rd2nd4th1st3rd 15
 Uzbekistan1st 1st 2

Stadiums

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ^
    The player of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv, who was also declared champion.
  2. ^
    Initially scheduled to take place in Donetsk, but due to War in Donbass it was suspended and transferred to Kyiv before cancelled completely after withdrawal of the Iran U21.

References
  1. ""Молодіжка" збирається на Меморіал Лобановського ("Under-21" gather for the Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament )". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  2. "Yakovenko's set-up for Lobanovskiy Memorial". Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2011-08-02. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
  3. Меморіал Лобановського: українці програють в лотерею [Lobanovskiy Memorial:Ukrainians lose in the lottery]. Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
  4. Меморіал Лобановського: українці програють в лотерею [(Updated result) Lobanovskiy Memorial:Ukrainians lose in the lottery]. Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  5. Oleksandr Ryzhenko (5 June 2013). "Меморіал Лобановського. Україна (U-21) - Австрія (U-21) 0:1. Недисципліновано" [(Updated result) Lobanovskiy Memorial:Ukraine - Austria 0-1]. ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  6. "Мемориал Лобановского возвращается на Олимпийский". www.ua-football.com (in Russian). 21 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
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