28 Facts About Dynamo Kyiv

Football Club Dynamo Kyiv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv.

Since 1936, Dynamo Kyiv has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football.

Since becoming the first Soviet football club to participate in UEFA competition in 1965, Dynamo Kyiv has played in European competitions almost every season.

Over its history, Dynamo Kyiv have won 16 Ukrainian top-flight league titles, 13 Soviet top-flight league titles, 11 Ukrainian national cup competitions, 9 Soviet national cup competitions, and three continental titles.

The all-Union Dynamo Kyiv sports society was a sports department of the Soviet state security KGB, originally Cheka-OGPU.

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On 13 May 1927, the statute of the Kyivan Proletarian Sport Society Dynamo was officially registered by the special commission in affairs of public organizations and unions of the Kyiv district.

Under the banner of Kyivan Dynamo gathered the representatives of the GPU, the best footballers of which defended the honors of the Trade Union club "Sovtorgsluzhashchie".

The leadership of Dynamo 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 Vecherniy Kiev.

Dynamo Kyiv tried several counter attacks and even earned a free kick which was not able to convert.

In 1936, the first Soviet Championship was played, and Dynamo Kyiv was one of the pioneers of the newly formed league.

The founders besides the football team and the Dynamo Kyiv councils became the commercial consulting centre Slavutych and the British firm Newport Management.

However, Dynamo Kyiv 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 Kyiv fans.

In Khatskevich's first two seasons at the helm, Dynamo Kyiv failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage, having to settle for the UEFA Europa League group stage instead.

Domestically, Dynamo Kyiv remained firmly in second place behind Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League.

In 2003 after Dynamo Kyiv won their 10th domestic trophy, a golden star was added at the top of the logo to celebrate the club's success.

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.

Dynamo Kyiv tied the national record for winning three consecutive Soviet Premier League titles in 1966,1967, and 1968.

Dynamo Kyiv won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 and 1986 as well as the European Super Cup in 1975, after two games against Bayern Munich.

Dynamo Kyiv is was one of the base clubs of the Soviet Union national football team and many players of the club represented the Soviet Union at international level.

Four former Dynamo Kyiv's players were appointed as a head coach of the Soviet Union national team, among which Valeriy Lobanovsky, Oleh Bazylevych, Vladimir Salkov and Anatoliy Byshovets.

Club's home ground, Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Kyiv Stadium, is situated in a park located in the centre of the city, close to the Dnieper River bank.

Many notable Dynamo Kyiv players progressed through the club's youth system, among them is Andriy Shevchenko, one of the graduates of the school.

Besides its normal junior squads, FC Dynamo Kyiv has fielded its second team Dynamo-2 which competed among regular "teams of masters" as well as republican competitions during the Soviet period.

Dynamo Kyiv ultras are usually associated with right-wing politics and many adhere to nationalist ideas.

The ultras Dynamo Kyiv took part in the Independence Day of Ukraine and Heroes Day celebrations.

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Dynamo Kyiv maintains friendly relations with: Karpaty Lviv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Hutnik Krakow and with Zalgiris Vilnius, GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo Tbilisi, Stade Rennais FC fans.

Dynamo Kyiv holds the record for Ukrainian Premier League appearances with 426, while Oleh Blokhin remains unreachable for Soviet Top League appearances with 432.

Dynamo Kyiv has not missed a single season of European competition since 1990 and, since 1973, has only missed out twice.