FC Dynamo Kyiv

Dynamo Kyiv in 1928

Today's club was established based on the first squad of Kyiv's branch of the all-Union Dynamo sports society and its republican branch in the Ukrainian SSR, originally based out of Kharkiv. The Soviet government relocated capital to Kyiv in 1934. The all-Union Dynamo sports society was a sports department of the Soviet state security KGB, originally Cheka-OGPU. During the Soviet period Dynamo's players same as players of all Dynamos in the Soviet Union were officially Soviet uniform servicemembers earning rank, salary, and pension when playing on the team of masters.

On 13 May 1927, the statute of the Kyivan Proletarian Sport Society (PST) Dynamo was officially registered by the special commission in affairs of public organizations and unions of the Kyiv district.[2] The All-Union sport society of Dynamo in Moscow was formed earlier in 1923 on the initiative of the Felix Dzerzhinsky. Under the banner of Kyivan Dynamo gathered the representatives of the GPU (the State Political Directorate, that is, the Soviet secret police), the best footballers of which defended the honors of the Trade Union club "Sovtorgsluzhashchie"[3] (portmanteau for Soviet retail servicemen). The leadership of Dynamo, however, did not dare to reorganize the well-established club and the main title contender in the middle of a playing season and therefore the first mentioning about the football club Dynamo could only be found on 5 April 1928 in the Russian-language newspaper (at that time) Vecherniy Kiev ("Evening Kyiv").

The Kyivan Sport Society Dynamo currently is organizing its own football team. "Dynamo" petitioned to Okrsofik for inclusion of its team in the playing season.

It was then when by the initiative of Semyon Zapadny, chief of the Kyiv GPU, the football team was created. His deputy, Serhiy Barminsky, started to form the team not only out of regular chekists (members of the Soviet secret police), but also footballers of other clubs in the city among which is mentioned a team "Sovtorgsluzhaschie".[4] All the footballers were either part of the consolidated city team or the city champions. The newly created team played its first official match on 1 July 1928 against a local consolidated city team while visiting Bila Tserkva.[2] Already on the fifth minute the Dynamo-men opened the score in the game, however, at the end the club lost it 1–2.[5] On 15 July, the Bila Tserkva newspaper Radyanska Nyva ("Soviet Fields") put it in such words:

In the second halftime Bila Tserkva easily strikes the ball in the net, thus, equalizing the score. Kyiv tried several counter attacks and even earned a free kick which was not able to convert. Near the end Bila Tserkva under the applause of thousands of spectators strikes in the second ball. The final whistle of the referee has fixated the victory of Bila Tserkva with the score 2:1.

The next match played by Dynamo was on 17 July 1928 hosting another Dynamo from the port city of Odessa.[2] As the club gained more experience and played on a regular basis, it started to fill the stadium with spectators with both the club and football in general gaining popularity in Soviet Ukraine.

Its club stadium Dynamo opened on 12 June 1933,[2] a year before the Soviet government turned the city into capital of the Soviet Ukraine.

During the Soviet era, the club was one of the main rivals, and often the only rival, to 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, making Dynamo a 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 club's early successes were however limited to a second-place finish in 1936 and third place in 1937. In the 1941 season, the club only played nine matches as World War II interrupted league play.

Poster of the return match

The propaganda 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 5–1. The actual story, as recounted by Y. Kuznetsov, is considerably more complex. Still, this match has subsequently become known in the Soviet media as "The Death Match".

After the Nazi occupation of Ukraine began, former professional football players (Dynamo and Lokomotyv) found employment in the city's Bakery No. 3, and continued to play amateur football. The team participated in exhibition games that took place in the city among various other teams including teams composed of the Wehrmacht soldiers. The Kyiv's team played under the name of "Start", comprising eight players from Dynamo Kyiv (Nikolai Trusevych, Mikhail Svyridovskiy, Nikolai Korotkykh, Oleksiy Klymenko, Fedir Tyutchev, Mikhail Putistin, Ivan Kuzmenko, Makar Honcharenko) and three players from Lokomotyv Kyiv (Vladimir Balakin, Vasyl Sukharev and Mikhail Melnyk).

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

"Start"'s streak was noticed and a match was announced for 6 August against a "most powerful" "undefeated" German Luftwaffe Flakelf (anti-aircraft artillery) team, but despite the game being talked up by the newspapers, they failed to report the 5–1 result. On 9 August, "Start" played a "friendly" against Flakelf and again defeated them. The team defeated Rukh 8–0 on 16 August, and afterwards, some of "Start"'s players were arrested by the Gestapo, tortured – Nikolai Korotkykh died during the torture – and sent to the nearby labour camp at Syrets. There is speculation 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".

In February 1943, following an attack by partisans or a conflict of the prisoners and administration, one-third of the prisoners at Syrets were killed in reprisal, including Ivan Kuzmenko, Oleksey Klymenko and goalkeeper Nikolai 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 or, according to other sources, escaped and hid in the city until it was liberated.

The story inspired three films: the 1961 Hungarian film drama Two Half Times in Hell, the 1981 American film Escape to Victory and the 2012 Russian film Match.

For the 1968–69 season of European football, on 10 July 1968 in Geneve took place a draw for the European Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cups. The draw itself was revolutionary at that time. The Soviet weekly "Football — Hockey" wrote the following on the subject:

Last year, under pressure from strong clubs, the Union of European Football Associations abandoned the blind draw in the Cup Winners' Cup and the Champions Cup. Then the strongest, in the opinion of the tournament organizers, clubs were dispersed. However, the principles for determining these strongest did not receive the approval of the sports community. For example, the Scottish Celtic, who was the winner of the Champions Cup a year ago, after dispersal in the first round, met with the champion of the USSR - Dynamo Kyiv.
That is why, before the start of the draw last Wednesday, UEFA President G. Wiederkehr made a statement, the meaning of which was that "last year's miscalculations" will not be repeated. True, he stressed that even now the draw will not be blind, as it used to be, but a specific and, in his opinion, logical criterion has been chosen to disperse the teams. In both tournaments, the four semi-finalists of the last draws were dispersed.

— "Football — Hockey" weekly[6]

UEFA also heeded the request of the federations of the Nordic countries - Sweden, Denmark and Norway - not to bring their clubs together in the first round. A similar request from Cyprus, Greece and Turkey was also granted. Finally, the desire of the British to exclude an early meeting between Manchester United and Manchester City, the winner of the Champions Cup and the winner of the English championship, found understanding. In addition, the dates for the 1/16 and 1/8 final games were strictly fixed for the first time. An innovation was the replacement of two players during the game. Previously, only the goalkeeper was allowed to be substituted.

The rival of Kyiv in the Champion's tournament was the Swiss Zürich, the matches with which were scheduled for September 18 and October 2. Materials devoted to this club appeared in the Ukrainian press, its matches in its national championship were now regularly monitored.

However, about a month later on August 21, Soviet tanks and allied forces of the Warsaw Pact occupied the capital of Czechoslovakia, marking the beginning of the end of democratic reforms - the so-called Prague Spring. A few days later, UEFA reacted to the events that stirred the whole world. At the meeting of the Extraordinary Committee, a new partial draw was held, which brought the representatives of the socialist countries together.

Why? Where did it come from? What kind of unprecedented, shameless discrimination against the teams of the socialist countries? - was asked in the editorial of the next issue of "Football — Hockey".

Some members of the committee, headed by the UEFA president, a large manipulator Wiederkehr, did not like that the governments of the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and the East Germany came to the aid to the people of Czechoslovakia in their fight against counter-revolution, and all the statutes and rules were immediately forgotten and only one desire remained in some way hurt the players of these countries. Petty politicking dictated this new drawing of lots, which is best called rigging.

Sports organizations, including football, are founded on the principle of rejecting any form of discrimination, whether religious, racial or political. Those who reject this principle do not just put a spoke in the wheel, but in fact nullify the noble meaning of the sports movement, designed to unite and bring nations together.

According to the new layouts, Dynamo Kyiv would be already playing in the first round of the European Champions Cup with the Polish Ruch Chorzów. Along with the results of the second draw, Soviet newspapers unanimously denounced UEFA, which was led by politicians. The local newspaper "Vechirniy Kyiv" reported that the initiator of the "démarche" was "Celtic", which suffered from the team of Viktor Maslov a year ago. Having already reached the 1/16 finals at the Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC, where the holder of the 1967 Ballon d'Or Florian Albert shone, the Scots, of course, were not happy. And then the occasion arrived.

The Scots were clearly scared by the prospect of playing against a team led by the best football player of our continent, Florian Albert, so they resorted to a provocative prank.
The head of the Soviet Union Football Federation, V. Granatkin, assessed such unprecedented actions by UEFA as an illegal and provocative action that put the footballers of socialist countries in a worse position compared to other tournament participants. After all, it is not a secret for anyone that the champions of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other countries of the socialist commonwealth are stronger than the clubs with which they had to meet according to the official, first draw. The Ruch team from the Polish city of Chorzów is much higher than the Swiss Zürich in the European classification, and the Hungarians from Ferencváros play better than the French Saint-Étienne, with whom the new "draw" has brought together the Scottish Celtic.

On September 4, 1968, the Soviet Union Football Federation sent a note of protest to the UEFA headquarters.

In connection with the decision of the Emergency Committee of the Union of European Football Associations, which changed the draw for the competitions for the European Champions Cup and Cup Winners' Cup, is a gross and unprecedented violation of the UEFA and FIFA statutes in the history of football, the Soviet Union Football Federation declares a strong protest against such actions and considers the manifestation of discrimination against equal members of UEFA. Such decisions by UEFA leaders are fraught with dangerous consequences for relations between countries in this popular sport.
The Football Federation of the Soviet Union demands the immediate annulment of the decision of the Emergency Committee and the holding of the above-mentioned competitions in accordance with the previous draw. Otherwise, the Football Federation of the Soviet Union will be forced to apply to the International Federation of Association Football with a request to review this illegal decision.

However, this fiery opinion journalism had no effect on UEFA. The results of the second draw remained in force by seven votes of the Board members to two, with one abstention. To which the Football Federation of the Soviet Union reacted quite predictably withdrawing Kyivan and Muscovite Dynamos from European competitions and having substantiated his position in the corresponding statement, circulated through TASS channels.

In connection with the repeated gross violation of the Article 2 of the UEFA and FIFA statutes and the unseemly decision of UEFA to change the draw of European football competitions, which is nothing more than an attempt to push reactionary, political tendencies into international sports, the USSR Football Federation and the sports community of the Soviet Union express their strongly protest and declare that the Soviet football clubs "Dynamo" (Moscow) and "Dynamo" (Kyiv) refuse to participate in the competition for the Cup Winners' Cup and the European Cup. The Football Federation of the Soviet Union lays full responsibility for the consequences of the shameful decision of UEFA on those politicians and businessmen from sports who replace the principles of sports cooperation with dark machinations.

The mentioned “Ruch” and “Ferencváros” (the latter of which was determined by the repeated lot to be rivals of the Bulgarian “Levski”), as well as “Karl Zeiss” from the East Germany, also did not come to the start. The East German champion yielded a pass to the next round to Crvena Zvezda. The Yugoslavs, who did not support the démarche, were eliminated in the next round, missing the restless Celtic in the quarterfinals. Also, who accepted the terms of UEFA were Romania with Czechoslovakia. Steaua lost in the first round to Spartak Trnava, which eventually reached the semi-finals of that tournament!..

In 1989, the club transitioned into an independent company being disassociated from the Ukrainian republican society of Dynamo.[7] During the last seasons of the Soviet Top League, it competed in the national colors of Ukraine as part of the national movement that grew very popular.

Valeriy Lobanovskyi, the most successful coach in club history

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the club became a member of the newly formed Ukrainian Premier League. By the summer of 1993, however, the club was in crisis as the economic policy of Dynamo president Viktor Bezverkhy set Dynamo on the path to bankruptcy. On 19 July 1993, an extraordinary assembly of coaches and players fired Bezverkhy and established a stock society called "Football Club "Dynamo (Kyiv)". Hryhoriy Surkis was elected president of the new company. The republican and city councils of the Dynamo society agreed to hand over two training centers and Dynamo Stadium to Dynamo Kiev. The founders besides the football team and the Dynamo councils became also the commercial consulting centre Slavutych and the British firm Newport Management. A review board was created, consisting of directors of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine, and the Security Service, Border Troops, and General Prosecutor of Ukraine.

Dynamo's status as the country's principal club did not change, however, as they went on to dominate domestic competitions, winning or being runner-up in every year of the Premier League's existence and becoming a fixture in the UEFA Champions League. Its main rival in Ukraine is Shakhtar Donetsk, a club from the Donbas region, that came second to Dynamo several times before winning its first Premier League in 2002. The matches between these two sides are called the Ukrainian derby.

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 took a somewhat unexpected decision by appointing the first foreign manager in the club's history. Previously, only former players or Dynamo football academy graduates became managers, but in December 2007 Russian coach Yuri Semin was invited to become the new manager of Dynamo Kyiv. However, the club yielded to Shakhtar Donetsk in both the Ukrainian Cup and Premier League in 2008. In 2009. in the club's most successful European campaign since 1999, it reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup (eliminating such teams as Valencia and Paris Saint-Germain) but was defeated at that stage by Shakhtar Donetsk. However, 2009 also brought success, as the club celebrated its 13th Premier League title.

In a season which contained their record win, a 9–0 victory over Illichivets Mariupol, the club only managed to finish runners-up in the league in 2010–11, after Shakhtar Donetsk. In what would be icon Andriy Shevchenko's final season at the club, Dynamo also finished as runners-up in 2011–12. In the 2011–12 season Dynamo also managed to reach the group stage of the Europa League after being eliminated in the Champions League third qualifying round by Rubin Kazan by 0–2 in Kyiv and 2–1 in Kazan. In the Europa League playoffs, the club managed to defeat Litex Lovech with a 3–1 aggregate score. In the group stage, Dynamo finished third after a disappointing campaign in a group containing Beşiktaş, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Stoke City.

In April 2013, it was announced the club would play two European ties behind closed doors due to racism from fans during previous European ties. In the 2012–13 season, the club managed to qualify for the Champions League group stage after eliminating Feyenoord 3–1 and Borussia Mönchengladbach 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the Champions League group stage. Dynamo was placed in a group with Paris Saint-Germain, Porto and Dinamo Zagreb and finished in third place with only five points and was eliminated in the Europa League round of 32 by Bordeaux 2–1 on aggregate. In the Premier League, Dynamo finished third, whereas in the Cup, it was eliminated in the round of 32. Overall, the 2012–13 season was a disappointment for Dynamo. The 2013–14 season was an equally disappointing season as Dynamo finished in fourth place in the league, the worst since the establishment of the Premier League and only managed to reach the round of 32 in the Europa League where it was eliminated by Valencia 2–0 on aggregate. Oleh Blokhin was sacked and was replaced by former player Serhii Rebrov. As a result, Dynamo managed to win the 2013–14 Ukrainian Cup for the first time in five years.[8]

Serhii Rebrov, former player and manager of the team from 2014 to 2017.

In the beginning of the 2014–15 season, Dynamo signed many promising players such as Aleksandar Dragović, Jeremain Lens (departed after end of the season), Łukasz Teodorczyk and Vitorino Antunes. Under Rebrov, Dynamo won the 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League – undefeated – and the 2014–15 Ukrainian Cup to earn a domestic double for the first time in eight years. In the 2014–15 Europa League, Dynamo comfortably qualified from a group containing Aalborg BK, Steaua București and Rio Ave, finishing in first place with 15 points. In the round of 32, the club eliminated Guingamp 4–3 on aggregate, and in the round of 16, eliminated Everton 6–4 on aggregate after a spectacular 5–2 performance in Kyiv. Rebrov prioritized the passing game but focused on solid defensive foundations. However, in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, Dynamo was eliminated by Fiorentina 3–1 on aggregate.

In the beginning of the 2015–16 season, Dynamo signed the highly talented Derlis González and was drawn in Group G of the 2015–16 Champions League alongside Chelsea F.C., FC Porto and Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Dynamo finished in second place with 11 points after a spectacular performance and a memorable 0–2 in Porto. However, Dynamo was punished by UEFA for a racist incident in the home game against Chelsea where four black men were attacked in the stands by Dynamo fans. Despite this, Dynamo reached the round of 16 in the Champions League for the first time since 2000, where it was drawn with Manchester City. Dynamo was eliminated 1–3 on aggregate but managed to hold an impressive 0–0 draw in Manchester. Dynamo's domestic performance was equally memorable as the club celebrated the 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League only losing to archrival Shakhtar Donetsk 0–3 twice and was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup. At the end of the season, several star performers (such as Miguel Veloso, Aleksandar Dragović, Younès Belhanda and Łukasz Teodorczyk) departed the club and were not replaced.

Mircea Lucescu, current manager of the team.

The 2016–17 season was a relative disappointment for Dynamo, as the club finished in second place in the 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League, behind Shakhtar Donetsk, with a difference of 13 points after a string of disappointing results. In the 2016–17 Champions League, the club was drawn in Group B alongside Napoli, Benfica and Beşiktaş J.K. Dynamo finished in fourth place after a dismal campaign, but managed to record a memorable 6–0 win over Beşiktaş in Kyiv. In the winter transfer window, Dynamo signed promising defenders Aleksandar Pantić and Tamás Kádár and focused on youth academy talents such as Viktor Tsyhankov, Artem Besyedin and Volodymyr Shepelyev, managing to improve its performances. Dynamo lost the 2016–17 Ukrainian Cup to Shakhtar Donetsk 0–1 in the final.

For the 2017–18 season, after Serhii Rebrov departed, the club appointed former player Alyaksandr Khatskevich as Rebrov's replacement. In Khatskevich's first two seasons at the helm, Dynamo failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage, having to settle for the UEFA Europa League group stage instead. Both times they were eventually eliminated in the Round of 16, first by S.S. Lazio (2–4 on aggregate) in 2017–18, and then by Chelsea F.C. (0–8 on aggregate) in 2018–19. Domestically, Dynamo remained firmly in second place behind Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League. Despite the apparent lack of progress in the results, Khatskevich was rewarded with a two-year contract extension.[9]

However, only six matches into his new extension, Khatskevich was fired on 14 August 2019,[10] after once again failing to advance to the UEFA Champions League group stage. Dynamo's Sports Director, Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, was appointed as manager. Despite the change, the results on the field hardly improved, as Dynamo was eliminated from continental competitions by placing 3rd in Group B of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage.

On 23 July 2020, Mircea Lucescu became the head coach of Dynamo. Lucescu signed a two-year contract.[11]

German journalists from Der Spiegel[12] Rafael Buschmann and Michael Wulzinger published a book titled Football Leaks – 2.

A separate part titled "Ukrainische Bruderschaft" (Ukrainian Brotherhood) describes brothers' Ihor and Hryhorii Surkis activities in football sphere and their relation to the "Newport" offshore. All FC "Dynamo’s" activities are financed by this company. The authors refer to Football Leaks' documents.[13]

The book tells that starting from 1993 all the financial activities of Kyiv-based FC "Dynamo" have been performed via the company 'Newport", controlled by the current club's boss Ihor Surkis. Having cited the FIFA data, the authors noted that in 2011–2017 the "Newport" has spent US$324 million to buy 82 players for FC "Dynamo". The taxes from this sum haven't been paid in Ukraine.

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. This was changed in 1961 when a blue sash was added to the kit; it was removed soon afterwards. In 2004, the club's management decided to restore the famous sash as a talisman. It was added to the away kit and remained there until the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it was replaced by a white kit with a shirt having thin blue vertical stripes, the first time in over 50 years that a club had worn such a pattern.

During the last two seasons before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Dynamo's kit was similar to Metalist, yellow shirts and blue shorts. This color scheme carried a symbolic meaning, representing the national colours of the yet-not-adopted Ukraine national flag. In the 1990 Soviet Cup Final, the yellow-blue Dynamo team thrashed the all-Red Lokomotiv 6–1 at Luzhniki Stadium. In the early years of Ukrainian independence, the club swapped their yellow colour for white. However blue remained one of Dynamo's colours and is still a main colour of the club's away kit.

The club's current sponsors, New Balance and ABank24, feature on the team shirt. New Balance is also the manufacturer of the kit. Among former sponsors there were Ostchem Holding, Nadra Bank, PrivatBank, Prominvestbank, Ukrtelecom, and others.

Each gold star on the Dynamo's emblem represents 10 championships

Dynamo's emblems displayed at the stadium

Being a member of the All-Union Sports Society Dynamo, the Dynamo football team of Kyiv adopted the same emblem of the Dynamo's sports society as its first logo, which featured on their shirts since 1927 and was a cursive blue Cyrillic letter "Д" (D)[14] in a vertical rhombus. Similar emblem existed in other Soviet football teams throughout the Soviet Union such as FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dinamo Minsk, and others. The idea of symbol is attributed to a native of Ukraine Leonid Nedolya-Honcharenko who at that time served as a chief of political department of the OGPU troops in Moscow District.[15]

The symbol the club obtained on franchise rights from the Ukrainian Fitness and Sports Society "Dynamo" (see Dynamo–Ukraine). Over the years, the club's logo has undergone many changes and replacements, but the cursive "D" has remained ever since.

In 2003 after Dynamo won their 10th domestic trophy, a golden star was added at the top of the logo to celebrate the club's success. The second star was added to the logo in 2007 during celebrations of Dynamo's 80-year anniversary. Although Dynamo has won only 15 Ukrainian league titles, their 13 titles as USSR Champions were taken into account.

Ukrainians, winners of the Ballon d'Or played for Dynamo Kyiv Andriy Shevchenko, Oleh Blokhin and Ihor Belanov

Several players have won individual awards during or for their time with Dynamo Kyiv

European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or)

• Oleg Blokhin (1975)
• Ihor Belanov (1986)

UEFA Golden Player Award

• Oleg Blokhin

FIFA 100

• Andriy Shevchenko

European Championship winners

Two players have won the European Championship whilst at Dynamo Kyiv.

• Yuriy Voynov (France 1960)
• Yury Kovalyov (France 1960)

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium

Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex

The club's home ground, Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, is situated in a park located in the centre of the city, close to the Dnieper River bank. The stadium holds 16,873 spectators, and has been the club's home since 1934. When it was built the stadium's capacity was 23,000.[16] After being destroyed in 1941 during World War II, it was rebuilt in 1954. By the end of the 20th century, the stadium was reconstructed as a football-only venue with individual seats. These changes reduced the facility's capacity to its present one. In 2002 after the sudden death of Dynamo's longtime player and coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi, the stadium was renamed in his honour. After NSK Olympiyskiy was closed for reconstruction in 2008, Dynamo also began to play its European games at the Lobanovsky Stadium.

Due to a high demand for European fixtures of the club throughout its European history Dynamo played a majority of their home fixtures at Kyiv's and Ukraine's largest stadium, the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, historically dubbed The Republican Stadium, which held 83,450 spectators. The stadium has been the home of the Ukrainian Cup final since its inaugural game in 1992 and up until 2007. The stadium was closed for a major reconstruction in 2008, after Ukraine and Poland were chosen to host the UEFA Euro 2012. The Olympiysky became Kyiv's main venue as well as the stadium that hosted the final; it also become an UEFA Elite rated stadium.

The team also has a modern-equipped training base in the Kyiv suburb of Koncha-Zaspa. 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.

Entrance sign of the football academy at Nyvky

Dynamo Kyiv has several reserve teams. Dynamo reserve teams competed in national competitions since 1946. The club was fielding its reserve team in the Soviet Top League competitions for reserve teams (so called doubles) that existed in 1946–1991. Dynamo doubles team holds a record for number of champion titles of the Soviet Top League for doubles winning it 15 times with a closest pursuing Spartak doubles team trailing with 9 titles. In 2004 the club revived its reserve team which later became youth (U-21) team competing at Ukrainian Premier League competitions for U-21 and U-19 teams. Dynamo football school (academy) fields few teams in Ukrainian Youth Football League as well as Kyiv city football league. Among possibly most exotic football academy graduates is a former Moroccan international Tarik El Jarmouni.

Besides its normal junior squads, FC Dynamo Kyiv also has fielded its second team Dynamo-2 which competed among regular "teams of masters" (Soviet analog of professional teams) as well as republican competitions (amateur level) during the Soviet period. The first time the team participated in football competitions at professional level was in 1964 when it took part in the Soviet Second League (in so called the Ukrainian Soviet football competitions). With dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Dynamo-2 was revived based on the Dynamo's reserve team that participated in the Soviet Top League for doubles. The team continued to play in Ukrainian First League for over 20 years. Along with the second team, Dynamo created also its third team Dynamo-3 which at first played at amateur level and later advanced to Ukrainian Second League. Since 2016, Dynamo has discontinued its numbered team.

• Soviet Top League (reserves): 15 (record)
  • 1949, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990
• Ukrainian Premier League (reserves / under-21): 6 (record)
  • 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2015–16, 2016–17

• 1927–1989: part of Dynamo, the republican section of Soviet sports society Dynamo
• 1989–1993: Viktor Bezverkhy
• 1993–2002: Hryhoriy Surkis
• 2002–present: Ihor Surkis

• 2005–2010: Mykhailo Oshenkov (son of Oleg Oshenkov)
• 2005–2010: Vadym Kostiuchenko
• 2018–2020: Yevhen Krasnikov
• 1993–2011: Vitaliy Sivkov

• 2007–present: Rezo Chohonelidze

• 2011–2019: Oleksiy Mykhailychenko
• 2018–2019: Eduardo Docampo
• 2020–2021: Oleksiy Mykhailychenko

• 1992: Mykhailo Oshenkov (son of Oleg Oshenkov)

As of 22 September 2022[31][32]

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  UKR Heorhiy Bushchan 2 DF  UKR Kostyantyn Vivcharenko 3 DF  UKR Anton Bol 4 DF  UKR Denys Popov 5 MF  UKR Serhiy Sydorchuk (captain) 6 DF  UKR Mykyta Burda 7 MF  UKR Vladyslav Kabayev 8 MF  UKR Volodymyr Shepelyev 9 MF  JAM Kaheem Parris 10 MF  UKR Mykola Shaparenko 11 FW  UKR Vladyslav Vanat 14 MF  UKR Oleksandr Yatsyk 15 MF  UKR Viktor Tsyhankov (vice-captain) 17 FW  UKR Vladyslav Supryaha 18 MF  UKR Oleksandr Andriyevskyi 19 MF  UKR Denys Harmash 20 DF  UKR Oleksandr Karavayev

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  UKR Mykyta Kravchenko 22 MF  NED Justin Lonwijk 24 DF  UKR Oleksandr Tymchyk 25 DF  UKR Illya Zabarnyi 28 FW  UKR Vladyslav Kulach 29 MF  UKR Vitaliy Buyalskyi (vice-captain) 30 MF  SEN Samba Diallo 34 DF  UKR Oleksandr Syrota 35 GK  UKR Ruslan Neshcheret 37 MF  UKR Anton Tsarenko 41 FW  UKR Artem Besedin 44 DF  UKR Vladyslav Dubinchak 71 GK  UKR Denys Boyko 75 GK  UKR Yuriy Avramenko 77 MF  NGA Benito 94 DF  POL Tomasz Kędziora

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  UKR Volodymyr Kostevych — MF  GHA Mohammed Kadiri — FW  UKR Oleh Vlasov

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  UKR Akhmed Alibekov (at Zorya Luhansk until 30 June 2023) — DF  UKR Kristian Bilovar (at AEL Limassol until 30 June 2023) — DF  UKR Maksym Dyachuk (at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2023) — DF  UKR Denys Kuzyk (at Kolos Kovalivka until 31 December 2022) — DF  UKR Vasyl Tanchak (at Lviv until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Bohdan Biloshevskyi (at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Viktor Bliznichenko (at Inhulets Petrove until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Volodymyr Brazhko (at Zorya Luhansk until 30 June 2024) — MF  UKR Serhiy Buletsa (at Zorya Luhansk until 30 June 2023) — MF  DEN Mikkel Duelund (at NEC Nijmegen until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Bohdan Lyednyev (at Fehérvár until 31 December 2022) — MF  UKR Vadym Mashchenko (at Jonava until 31 December 2022) — MF  UKR Mykola Mykhaylenko (at Zorya Luhansk until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  UKR Roman Mykhayliv (at Lviv until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Illya Skrypnyk (at Bukovyna Chernivtsi until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Yevheniy Smyrnyi (at Kolos Kovalivka until 30 June 2023) — MF  GEO Heorhiy Tsitaishvili (at Lech Poznań until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Nazar Voloshyn (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih until 30 June 2023) — MF  UKR Vikentiy Voloshyn (at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2023) — FW  UKR Yevhen Isayenko (at Kolos Kovalivka until 31 December 2022) — FW  BEL Ibrahim Kargbo Jr. (at Doxa Katokopias until 30 June 2023) — FW  UKR Kiril Popov (at Kolos Kovalivka until 30 June 2023) — FW  VEN Eric Ramírez (at Slovan Bratislava until 30 June 2023) — FW  LUX Gerson Rodrigues (at Al Wehda until 30 June 2023) — FW  ESP Fran Sol (at Málaga until 30 June 2023) — FW  BRA Vitinho (at Athletico Paranaense until 30 June 2023)

12 – Club Supporters (the 12th Man)

As of 5 May 2021
Source: [36]

Rank	Team	Points
30	Beşiktaş	49.000
31	Dynamo Kyiv	47.000
32	Sporting CP	45.500

Source: [36]

Season	Ranking	Movement	Points	Change
2020–21	31	-5	47.000	-8.000
2019–20	26	-2	55.000	-10.000
2018–19	23	=0	65.000	+3.000
2017–18	23	+2	62.000	new points system
2016–17	25	+1	67.526	+1.550
2015–16	26	+1	65.976	+0.943
2014–15	27	+7	65.033	+8.840
2013–14	34	-9	56.193	-12.958
2012–13	25	+6	68.951	+6.925
2011–12	31	-1	62.026	+1.250
2010–11	30	+14	60.776	+17.866
2009–10	44	-3	42.910	-3.460
2008–09	41	+33	46.370	+11.438
2007–08	74	-13	34.932	-3.791

As of 12 October 2022[39]

#	Name	Years	League	Cup	Europe	Other	Total
1	Oleh Blokhin	1969–1987	211	29	26	0	266
2	Serhii Rebrov	1992–2000 2005–2007	113	19	31	0	163
3	Maksim Shatskikh	1999–2008	97	22	23	0	142
4	Andriy Yarmolenko	2007–2017	99	19	19	0	137
5	Andriy Shevchenko	1994–1999 2009–2012	83	16	25	0	124
6	Oleh Husiev	2003–2016 2017–2018	57	15	22	2	96
7	Victor Tsyhankov	2016-Present	72	4	13	0	89
8	Artem Milevskiy	2002–2013	57	11	16	3	87
9	Viktor Kanevskyi	1973–1984	56	12	14	0	82
10	Leonid Buryak	1971–1981	62	11	8	0	81

• Other – National Super Cup

As of 19 May 2018[40]

#	Name	Years	League	Cup	Europe	Other	Total
1	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	1993–2016	426	58	144	9	637
2	Oleh Blokhin	1969–1987	432	67	79	3	581
3	Oleh Husiev	2003–2016 2017–2018	295	43	98	6	442
4	Anatoliy Demyanenko	1979–1990 1992–1993	347	47	43	2	439
5	Leonid Buryak	1973–1984	304	52	51	2	409
6	Volodymyr Veremeyev	1968–1982	310	45	44	2	401
7	Volodymyr Muntyan	1965–1977	302	34	35	0	371
8	Volodymyr Bezsonov	1976–1990	278	48	39	3	368
9	Serhii Rebrov	1992–2000 2005–2007	242	44	72	2	360
10	Vladyslav Vashchuk	1993–2002 2005–2008	253	41	62	0	356

• Other – National Super Cup