Editing FC Dynamo Kyiv (section)

==History==
===Early history===
[[File:DK 1928.jpg|thumb|200px|Dynamo Kyiv in 1928]]
{{see also|Dynamo (Ukraine)|Dynamo Sports Club}}
Today's club was established based on the first squad of Kyiv's branch of the [[Dynamo Sports Club|all-Union Dynamo sports society]] and its [[Dynamo (Ukraine)|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.<ref name=kazakov>Evgeni Kazakov. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ovTADwAAQBAJ&dq=%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0+%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0+%D0%BF%D0%BE+%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83&pg=PA1863 The Soviet First League in football (Первая лига СССР по футболу)]''. History of the Soviet championships in football. Volume 1 (1936–1969). Litres, 2019</ref> The All-Union sport society of ''[[Dynamo Sports Club|Dynamo]]'' in Moscow was formed earlier in 1923 on the initiative of the [[Felix Dzerzhinsky]]. A year later the [[Dynamo (Ukraine)|first Ukrainian branch cell]] of the Dynamo sports society was formed in [[Kharkiv]]. Under the banner of Kyivan Dynamo gathered the representatives of the local GPU ([[State Political Directorate]]), the Soviet secret police, the best footballers of which defended the honors of the Trade Union club "Sovtorgsluzhashchie", a [[portmanteau]] for Soviet retail servicemen.<ref>[http://ukrsoccerhistory.com/index.aspx?page=ua_clubvis&nc=42 Sovtorgsluzhashchie] at ukrsoccerhistory.com</ref> It was a common practice of the early Soviet sports societies that were formed based on already existing "pre-revolutionary" (1917 [[Bolshevik Revolution]]) sports societies in 1920s.

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. Therefore, the first mention of the football club Dynamo could only be found on 5 April 1928 in the Russian-language newspaper (at that time) ''Vecherniy Kiev'' ("Evening Kyiv").

{{Cquote|''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, Sergei Barminsky, started to form the team not only out of regular [[Cheka|chekists]] (members of the Soviet secret police), but also footballers of other clubs in the city among which is mentioned a team "Sovtorgsluzhaschie".<ref>[http://www.kopanyi-myach.info/index.aspx?page=ua_clubvis&nc=42 Радторгслужбовці Київ]. www.kopanyi-myach.info</ref> 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]].<ref name=kazakov/> Already on the fifth minute the Dynamo-men opened the score in the game, however, at the end the club lost it 1–2.<ref>Banyas, V. ''[https://www.upl.ua/ua/news/view/2067 1 July 1928: the first game of Dynamo (1 липня 1928–го: перший матч «Динамо»)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701083151/https://www.upl.ua/ua/news/view/2067 |date=1 July 2018 }}''. [[Ukrainian Premier League]]. 1 July 2018</ref> On 15 July, the Bila Tserkva newspaper ''Radyanska Nyva'' ("Soviet Fields") put it in such words:

{{Cquote|''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 [[Odesa]].<ref name=kazakov/> The match ended in draw 2:2. At the end of July Dynamo toured Belarus playing against the republican team of Belarus (1:5) and the districtal team of Gomel District (3:2). On 1 September 1928 Dynamo Kyiv was hosting the Dynamo's primary team from Moscow and were thrashed 2:6. It was then Dynamo Kyiv was led by a playing coach Vasyl Boiko whose role is indicated as an instructor-organizer. Later in October 1928 Dynamo Kyiv took part in its first official tournament the 1928 Kyiv city championship and won it. On 18 November 1928 Dynamo Kyiv overpowered the Kyiv's main football team of that period, [[FC Lokomotyv Kyiv|Zheldor]], 1:0.

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 [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Ukraine]].

On 14 September 1929 Dynamo Kyiv played its first international match against visiting workers' team from [[Deutsch-Wagram]], [[Lower Austria]] and lost it 3:4.

Its club stadium Dynamo opened on 12 June 1933,<ref name=kazakov/> 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 Soviet Socialist Republic|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 Top League|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.

===Football in occupation and Start===
{{Main|The Death Match}}
[[File:Death match bill.jpg|thumb|right|Poster of the return match (in Ukrainian Cyrillic / German Latin)]]
With the start of the [[German-Soviet War]], as part of [[World War II]], most sports events in the Soviet Union were suspended or discontinued. Some sports organizations and individual athletes were evacuated to [[Soviet Central Asia]] or east of the Volga River. Many footballers joined the ranks of the Soviet Red Army either voluntarily or through mobilization. Kyiv ended up under German occupation within a few months of [[Operation Barbarossa]] due to the successful encirclement of Soviet troops by German forces, a wide-scale Kyiv's encirclement ([[Battle of Kiev (1941)|Battle of Kiev]]).

For mobilization purposes, the Soviet war 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]]". This story also became part of the post-Soviet myth of the Great Patriotic War for the Russian people.

After the Nazi occupation of Ukraine began, former professional football players (Dynamo and [[FC Lokomotyv Kyiv|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 team played under the name of "Start", comprising eight players from Dynamo Kyiv (Mykola Trusevych, Mykhailo Svyridovskiy, Mykola Korotkykh, Oleksiy Klymenko, Fedir Tyutchev, Mikhail Putistin, Ivan Kuzmenko, and Makar Honcharenko) and three players from Lokomotyv Kyiv (Vladimir Balakin, Vasyl Sukharev, and Mykhailo 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 – Mykola Korotkykh died during the torture – and sent to the nearby [[Syrets concentration camp|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 a couple of days after "Start" defeated "Rukh".

In February 1943, following an attack by [[Soviet partisans|partisans]] or a conflict between the prisoners and administration, one-third of the prisoners at Syrets were killed in reprisal, including Ivan Kuzmenko, Oleksiy Klymenko, and goalkeeper Mykola Trusevych. Three of the other players – Makar Honcharenko, Fedir Tyutchev, and Mykhailo 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''.

=== Road to the first championship title: 1944–1963 ===
Only on 2 May 1944, after the return of the Soviet regime, a friendly match between Dynamo Kyiv and [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]] took place at the [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium|Dynamo Stadium]]. From the pre-war ([[World War II]]) team there remained [[Anton Idzkovsky]], [[Mykola Makhynia]], [[Petro Laiko]], [[Pavlo Vinkovatov]], [[Mykola Balakin]], [[Kostyantyn Kalach]], including those who participated in the 1942 matches [[Makar Honcharenko]] and former [[FC Lokomotyv Kyiv|Lokomotyv Kyiv]] players [[Volodymyr Balakin]], [[Vasyl Sukharev]].

In the first post-war years, all those who remained in the team were already quite old to play on the first team. Although in those years Dynamo Kyiv was joined by a whole group of younger footballers from Transcarpathian clubs ([[Vasyl Hodnychak]], [[Ernest Yust]], [[Zoltan Dyerfi]], [[Zoltan Senhetovskyi]], [[Mykhailo Koman]], [[Dezyderiy Tovt]] and others), the team still could not really compete with other clubs, who endured the war better. In 1945, Dynamo took the penultimate place in the championship, and in 1946, the very last, and, according to the regulations, it was supposed to be relegated, but an exception was made for the team, remembering the wartime losses. In addition, these events were accompanied by coaching fever: from 1946 to 1951, the club changed ten coaches.

The 1948 season was the last that Dynamo took part in republican competitions, particularly the [[1948 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR|1948 Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR]]. To the Ukrainian football competitions, Dynamo returned only after [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1992.

The first post-war success was the victory in the doubles (reserves) tournament in the 1949 season. Since 1946, the Soviet first-tier league has been conducting a championship among younger players, which ran parallel to the championship among the first squads.

The turning point came during the 1951 season, before which [[Oleg Oshenkov]] took charge of the club. The new coach introduced to the main team younger players who had proven themselves well in doubles (reserves) competitions. He also drastically shortened the winter vacation of his players, offering them a serious physical training program that included sports games, various exercises, and even boxing. Already in the next championship, which took place in a round robin in Moscow, it brought the first results. Dynamo Kyiv turned from a mid-table team into one of the favorites, winning the silver medals, just behind [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]].

Oshenkov's players achieved their first big victory during the [[1954 Soviet Cup]]. On the way to the finals, the Kyiv team defeated [[FK Žalgiris|Spartak Vilnius]] (4:2), [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]] (3:1), [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CDKA]] (3:1, in extra time), [[FC Zenit Saint Petersburg|Zenit Leningrad]] (1:0, in extra time). In the cup's final at Moscow's "[[Central Dynamo Stadium|Dynamo Stadium]]", Kyiv's team faced off with a poorly known (at that time) [[FC Ararat Yerevan|Spartak Yerevan]]. The match took place in heavy rain and fog, but all the same, the Kyivans were able to defeat their opponents and win the Soviet Cup for the first time in their history.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2010-04-30/8_1/ |title=ЛЕТОПИСЬ Акселя ВАРТАНЯНА. 1954 год. Часть пятая |accessdate=2 October 2010 |archive-date=1 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701024446/http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2010-04-30/8_1/ }}</ref> In the final match took part following players [[Oleh Makarov|Oleg Makarov]] (goalkeeper), Arkadiy Larionov, [[Vitaliy Holubyev|Vitaliy Golubyev]], [[Tiberiy Popovich]], Oleksandr Koltsov, [[Mykhaylo Mykhalyna]], Volodymyr Bohdanovych, [[Viktor Terentiev]] (substitute with [[Pavlo Vinkovatov]]), [[Andrei Zazroyev]] (captain), [[Mykhaylo Koman]], [[Viktor Fomin]] and [[Oleg Oshenkov]] as a head coach. Goals in the final were scored by Terentiev and Koman.

On 29 July 1959, an international friendly match between the football teams "Dynamo" (Kyiv, Ukraine) and "[[FCM Bacău|Dynamo]]"{{efn|The Bacău team was created in 1950.}} (Bacău, Romania) took place in Kyiv, which ended with a score of 3:0.<ref>NANU Institute of History: [http://www.history.org.ua/?hrono This day in the history] (in Ukrainian). {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629080207/http://www.history.org.ua/?hrono |date=29 June 2016 }}</ref>

At the end of the 1950s, the Dynamo revamped its squad. The club left [[Yevhen Lemeshko]], Leonid Ostroushko, [[Ernest Yust]], Mykola Romanov, Yuriy Shevchenko, [[Vitaliy Sobolev]]. The club's ranks were refilled with Serhiy Bohachyk, [[Ishtvan Sekech]], [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi]], Yevhen Snitko, Andriy Havashi, [[Vasyl Turyanchyk]], [[Yozhef Sabo]], while a well-known former CDKA player (the "Team of Lieutenants"), [[Vyacheslav Solovyov (footballer)|Vyacheslav Solovyov]] became the head coach. The 1960 season brought the Kyivans the "silver".

In the [[1961 Soviet Top League|1961 season]], Dynamo won the [[Soviet Top League|Soviet Union championship]] for the first time. The team from the capital of the Ukrainian SSR finished ahead of [[FC Torpedo Moscow|Torpedo Moscow]] (title holders) by 4 points. Dynamo Kyiv played 30 matches in the national championship (16 participants). Only three of those matches Dynamo lost, and nine ended in a draw. The fact that they scored as many as 54 goals in 30 games testifies to the strength of the Dynamo's offensive line, where played such players like [[Oleh Bazylevych]], [[Viktor Kanevskyi]], [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi]], [[Viktor Serebryanikov]]. And about the strength of the defensive line - the fact that the experienced goalkeeper [[Oleh Makarov|Oleg Makarov]] never had to take the ball out of the net in 12 matches. It was the first time in the history of the [[Soviet Top League|Soviet Union championships]], when the national title of the country's champion was gained by a non-Moscow club.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.junik.lv/~dynkiev/history/1961.htm |title=Новые чемпионы |publisher=[[Sovetsky Sport]] newspaper of 19 October 1961 |accessdate=2 October 2010 |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212031539/http://www.junik.lv/~dynkiev/history/1961.htm }}</ref>

The first Dynamo gold medals received:<ref>[https://fcdynamo.com/news/segodnya_40_letniy_yubiley_pervogo_chempionstva_dinamo_v_sssr Сегодня 40-летний юбилей первого чемпионства «Динамо» в СССР]. fcdynamo.com. 17 October 2001</ref><br />
{{small|(''first number indicates games played, second - goals scored (or allowed)'')}}
* Goalkeepers: [[Oleh Makarov|Oleg Makarov]] (29, 26), [[Leonid Klyuev]] (4, 2).
* Defenders: [[Mykola Koltsov|Nikolay Koltsov]] (28), [[Anatoliy Suchkov]] (25), [[Volodymyr Shcheholkov]] (22), [[Vitaliy Shcherbakov]] (12), [[Vasyl Turyanchyk]] (9, 1), [[Vladimir Yerokhin]] (2).
* Midfielders: [[Yozhef Sabo]] (27, 3), [[Yuriy Voynov]] (21, 3), [[Volodymyr Anufriyenko]] (15), [[Vladimir Sorokin]] (3), [[Valeriy Verigin]] (3), [[Viktor Pestrykov]] (1).  
* Forwards: [[Viktor Serebryanikov]] (29, 4), [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi]] (28, 10), [[Viktor Kanevskyi]] (26, 18), [[Oleh Bazylevych]] (26, 10), [[Andriy Biba]] (17, 5), [[Valentyn Troyanovskyi]] (15, 2), [[Mykola Kashtanov]] (11, 1), [[Ihor Zaytsev (footballer)|Igor Zaytsev]] (8, 1).
* Senior coach: [[Vyacheslav Solovyov (footballer)|Vyacheslav Solovyov]]. Team's nachalnik: [[Viktor Terentiev]]. Coach: [[Mykhaylo Koman]].

After the triumphant season of 1961, in the following two seasons, Dynamo's position significantly worsened. In 1962, the team took 5th place, and the following year, 7th.

===The first "three-peat" and first European appearances===
In January 1964, [[Viktor Maslov (footballer, born 1910)|Viktor Maslov]] took over as head coach of Dynamo Kyiv. On September 27, 1964, Dynamo won the [[1964 Soviet Cup]] by defeating [[FC Krylia Sovetov Samara|Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev]] (Samara) in the final with a score of 1:0.

Maslov and his subordinates were entrusted with becoming the first Soviet club to participate in a European club tournament. This was the [[1965–66 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]].

The political motives of the USSR leadership explain everything. The communist ideology did not accept the possibility of Soviet athletes losing to capitalist rivals and played it safe for a long time. For example, the [[1964 Soviet Top League|1964 Soviet champion]], [[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]], was not trusted to participate in the [[1965–66 European Cup]]. This continued until 1965, when Dynamo Kyiv was declared to participate in the Cup Winners' Cup. “We are entering a competition whose conditions, behind-the-scenes struggles, and specific tactical techniques are known to us only by hearsay,” said Kyiv coach Viktor Maslov before the start.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dynamomania.com/news/119205-45-let-nazad-kievskoe-dinamo-prorubilo-okno-v-evropu |title=45 ЛЕТ НАЗАД КИЕВСКОЕ «ДИНАМО» ПРОРУБИЛО ОКНО В ЕВРОПУ |accessdate=17 October 2010 |archive-date=23 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023131332/http://www.dynamomania.com/news/119205-45-let-nazad-kievskoe-dinamo-prorubilo-okno-v-evropu }}</ref>

{{Cquote|I don’t know why this decision was made, but our team had the feeling that we were being used as “[[Guinea pig (disambiguation)|guinea pigs]].” (as in [[animal testing]]) It was very convenient for the Moscow clubs with titles to watch the tournament without risking their reputation. We had to play “blindly”: none of the opponents were known to us. There were no tapes of matches of future opponents anywhere near us. And for a representative of the coaching staff to go and watch the opponent’s game live was something out of the realm of fantasy (see [[Iron Curtain]]). Everything was new and unknown. In one word, pioneers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dynamo.kiev.ua/articles/39863.html |title=Андрей БИБА: «Нас использовали, как подопытных кроликов» |accessdate=27 May 2025 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511033842/https://dynamo.kiev.ua/articles/39863-andrej-biba-nas-ispolzovali-kak-podopyitnyih-krolikov }}</ref>|author=Dynamo midfielder [[Andriy Biba]], the author of the first Soviet goal in European club tournaments}}

However, the start of the tournament was successful as Dynamo defeated [[Coleraine F.C.|Coleraine]] from Northern Ireland with a score of 6:1 and 4:0. After that, Dynamo beat the Norwegian [[Rosenborg BK|Rosenborg]] twice more - 4:1 and 2:0. But in the quarterfinals they were eliminated by [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] (0:3 and 1:1), with whom they had to play in mid-January. Therefore, the playing form of the Kyiv team was far from optimal, and in addition, they played their home game not in Kyiv but in [[Tbilisi]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://football11.step.lv/index.php?a=tour&event=137&cmd=viewmatch&matchID=47 |title=Кубок Обладателей Кубков — 1965/1966 1/4 финала. 26.01.1966 |accessdate=17 October 2010 |archive-date=18 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518094235/http://football11.step.lv/index.php?a=tour&event=137&cmd=viewmatch&matchID=47 }}</ref>

The following year, 1966, was one of the best in the history of Dynamo Kyiv. The team won the [[1966 Soviet Top League|1966 Soviet Class A Group 1]] (top tier), ahead of Rostov SKA by 9 points, won the [[1965–66 Soviet Cup]] (beating Torpedo 2:0 in the final), five Dynamo players ([[Yozhef Sabo|Sabo]], [[Viktor Serebryanikov|Serebryanikov]], [[Leonid Ostrovski|Ostrovski]], [[Valeriy Porkujan|Porkujan]], and [[Viktor Bannikov|Bannikov]]) won bronze medals at the [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] in England, and [[Andriy Biba]] was recognized as the best football player of the year in the Soviet Union.

In [[1967 Soviet Top League|1967]] and [[1968 Soviet Top League|1968]], Dynamo again won the Soviet Class A Group 1, thereby repeating the record of Moscow's [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CDKA]], three championship titles in a row. In the same 1967, the Kyiv team made its debut in the [[1967–68 European Cup]]. Maslov's team sensationally eliminated the current holder of the trophy, Scottish [[Celtic F.C.]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dynamo.kiev.ua/blog/27093-myi-pomnim-kubok-chempionov-dinamo-seltik-11-1967god |title=Мы помним!!!! Кубок Чемпионов "Динамо"-Селтик 1:1 1967год |accessdate=27 May 2025 |archive-date=22 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922014347/https://dynamo.kiev.ua/blog/27093-myi-pomnim-kubok-chempionov-dinamo-seltik-11-1967god }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/62271--dynamo-kyiv-vs-celtic/ |title=Dynamo Kyiv – Celtic |accessdate=27 May 2025 |archive-date=1 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501165146/https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/62271--dynamo-kyiv-vs-celtic/ }}</ref> in the first stage, but lost to Polish champion [[Górnik Zabrze]] in the round of 16.

In [[1969 Soviet Top League|1969]], Dynamo Kyiv finished second in the league, behind Spartak Moscow. In the [[1969–70 European Cup]], the Kyiv team defeated [[FK Austria Wien]] 2-1 and 3-1, but lost to Italian [[ACF Fiorentina|AC Fiorentina]] 1-2 and 0-0.

The [[1970 Soviet Top League|following season]], Dynamo finished only 7th in the championship. [[Vasyl Turyanchyk|Turyanchyk]], [[Yozhef Sabo|Sabo]], [[Viktor Bannikov|Bannikov]], and [[Valeriy Porkujan|Porkujan]] left the team, and after the season ended, coach [[Viktor Maslov (footballer, born 1910)|Viktor Maslov]] also left Dynamo.

In 1971, the team was coached by [[Honored coach of the USSR]] [[Aleksandr Sevidov]], and 22-year-old [[Viktor Kolotov]] joined the club from Rubin. He later became one of the best midfielders in the history of Soviet football, being the captain of Dynamo for seven years, and in 1975–1976, the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet Union national team]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2004-05-25/10_3/ |title=КОРОЛИ ПРОШЛОГО Виктор КОЛОТОВ |accessdate=17 October 2010 |archive-date=13 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213112508/http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2004-05-25/10_3/ }}</ref> Dynamo immediately won the [[1971 Soviet Top League|Soviet championship]], and the team's goalkeeper, [[Yevhen Rudakov]], was recognized as the best goalkeeper and football player of the Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/rudakov.html |title=Евгений РУДАКОВ |accessdate=17 October 2010 |archive-date=14 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014191045/http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/rudakov.html }}</ref>

In [[1972 Soviet Top League|1972]] and [[1973 Soviet Top League|1973]], the team took second place, and [[Oleh Blokhin]] became the Dynamo's top scorer in both seasons with 14 and 18 goals, respectively.

===The Lobanovskyi team===
In October 1973, before a match against [[FC Karpaty Lviv|Karpaty]] in Lviv (20 October 1973), the Kyiv team's players were introduced to a new head coach, 34-year-old [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi]]. In January 1974, Lobanovskyi was joined by his former Dynamo partner [[Oleh Bazylevych]], who had coached [[FC Shakhtar Donetsk|Shakhtar Donetsk]] after his retirement. This tandem worked until the end of 1976. Both coaches had equal rights, although Bazylevych was primarily a prominent theorist, while Lobanovskyi organized the training process.<ref>[http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/ru/dynamo/news/24059.html ''Розмова з Володимиром Мунтяном'']. www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua. 6 October 2005 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003113934/http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/ru/dynamo/news/24059.html |date=3 October 2011 }}</ref> In 1974, [[Anatoliy Puzach]] also joined the staff. Oleh Bazylevych initiated an invitation to join the club of physical training scientists. The physical training program for the players was developed by scientist Anatoliy Zelentsov. After the 1974 season, the press characterized the Dynamo's style under the new coaches not very positively and criticized them for rationalism, unwillingness to play attacking football away from home (the so-called "away model" - playing from defense to obtain a draw), and for performing at mediocre speeds. But good results were achieved in 1974, the Kyiv team won the [[1974 Soviet Top League]] and the [[1974 Soviet Cup]].

A team was formed that could compete with the strongest teams in Europe. [[Yevhen Rudakov]] was in goal, [[Viktor Matvienko]], [[Stefan Reshko]], [[Mykhailo Fomenko]], and [[Volodymyr Troshkin]] played in defense. In the midfield played, in particular, [[Volodymyr Muntyan]], the young [[Leonid Buryak]], who was progressing rapidly, the team captain [[Viktor Kolotov]], and [[Volodymyr Veremeyev]]. Together with [[Oleh Blokhin]], at the point of attack played [[Volodymyr Onyshchenko]]. The traditional Soviet "list of the 33 best football players" in 1974 included 8 Dynamo players, 7 of them at the number 1 position.

The "Lobanovskyi era" began with Dynamo's double in 1974 and [[Oleh Blokhin]] being recognized as the best football player in the country. In 1975, Dynamo won the championship again, 5 points ahead of [[FC Shakhtar Donetsk|Shakhtar]].

In 1975, Dynamo Kyiv won for football in the Soviet Union its first ever European trophies, the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]] and the [[UEFA Super Cup]].

In the first three rounds of the [[1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup]], the Kyiv team defeated [[PFC CSKA Sofia|CSKA Sofia]], [[Eintracht Frankfurt]], where the famous [[Jurgen Grabowski]] played, and the Turkish [[Bursaspor]]. Dynamo's semifinal opponent was the Dutch champion [[PSV Eindhoven|PSV]]. The game in Kyiv ended in a 3:0 rout defeat of the guests, and Dynamo lost the second game by a narrow margin of 1:2.

In the final, which took place on May 14, 1975, in [[Basel]], Lobanovskyi's team defeated the Hungarian [[Ferencvárosi TC|Ferencvaros]] 3:0. [[Volodymyr Onyshchenko]] scored a [[Brace (sports)|brace]] (twice), and [[Oleh Blokhin]] scored one more goal.

[[File:Pitch-i2-p159-0-0-0-0-1496742356.jpg|thumb|1975 Dynamo Kyiv at the European competitions|right]]
The Dynamo's list of players that became holders of the 1975 European Cup Winners' Cup:<br />
{{small|(''first number indicates games played, second - goals scored (or allowed)'')}}
* Goalkeepers: [[Yevhen Rudakov]] (9, 5).
* Defenders: [[Mykhailo Fomenko]] (9), [[Viktor Matviyenko]] (9), [[Stefan Reshko]] (9), [[Volodymyr Troshkin]] (7), [[Viktor Maslov (footballer, born 1949)|Viktor Maslov]] (2), [[Valeriy Zuyev]] (2), [[Serhiy Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1950)|Serhiy Kuznetsov]] (1).
* Midfielders: [[Viktor Kolotov]] (9, 1), [[Volodymyr Muntyan]] (8, 2), [[Volodymyr Veremeyev]] (7), [[Leonid Buryak]] (6, 1), [[Anatoliy Konkov]] (5, 1).  
* Forwards: [[Oleh Blokhin]] (9, 5), [[Volodymyr Onyshchenko]] (9, 7), [[Anatoliy Shepel]] (2).
* Senior coach: [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi]]. 

According to the results of the tournament, Dynamo won 8 out of 9 matches, which is 88.88% of all matches, making it the [[UEFA club competition records and statistics#Top 15 club sides|best winning team]] at that time. That record was surpassed only in 2020 by [[FC Bayern Munich]] and later by some other teams.

In the autumn of the same 1975, a [[1975 European Super Cup|two-match confrontation]] with the [[1974–75 European Cup|European Cup]] winner, the German "[[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern]]", brought the Soviet footballers two "clean sheet" victories 1:0 in [[Munich]] and 2:0 in [[Kyiv]] and the title of the strongest team in Europe. Dynamo managed to beat the club, which was the base for the [[1974 FIFA World Cup|1974 World Cup]] champion, the [[West Germany national football team|West Germany national team]] and had in its composition the stars of European football [[Sepp Maier]], [[Franz Beckenbauer]], [[Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck]] and [[Gerd Müller]].

All 3 goals in these games were scored by [[Oleh Blokhin]], who at the end of the year was recognized by "[[France Football]]" as the best footballer in Europe and awarded the [[Ballon d'Or]] ("Golden Ball"). In addition to him, there was another Dynamo player in the classification, [[Leonid Buryak]], who shared 23-26 places.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy75.html |title=European Footballer of the Year («Ballon d'Or») 1975 |accessdate=17 October 2010 |archive-date=13 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513210301/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy75.html }}</ref> At the same time, Dynamo set a record for the Soviet "list of 33 best football players": as many as 12 Kyivans were on the list, and 8 of them were ranked at No. 1. Ten the European Cup Winners' Cup holders received the highest sports title, "Honored Master of Sports". According to the 1975 results, the British [[Sports Journalists' Association]] recognized Dynamo Kyiv as the strongest football team in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ukrgeroes.narod.ru/LobanovskyVV.html |title=Лобановський Валерій Васильович |accessdate=17 October 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214175928/http://ukrgeroes.narod.ru/LobanovskyVV.html |archivedate=14 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

After the triumph of 1975, a certain decline in Dynamo's game began, which lasted until 1985. The team continued to win Soviet trophies, but there was no breakthrough in the game. In addition, constant failures in European cups continued. In 1983, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, appointed head coach of the [[Soviet Union national football team]], left Dynamo and returned to the club in 1984. The new "Lobanovskyi team" confirms its international class: Dynamo won the [[1985–86 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]] for the second time, and almost the entire Dynamo team as the USSR national team played at the [[1986 FIFA World Cup]] and the [[1988 European Championship]], where it became the vice-champion of Europe. Ihor Belanov was the second Dynamo player to win the 1986 [[Ballon d'Or]] (Golden Ball).

The Dynamo's list of players that became holders of the 1986 European Cup Winners' Cup:<br />
{{small|(''first number indicates games played, second - goals scored (or allowed)'')}}
* Goalkeepers: [[Mykhaylo Mykhaylov]] (5, 5), [[Viktor Chanov]] (5, 3).
* Defenders: [[Anatoliy Demyanenko]] (9, 2), [[Oleh Kuznetsov]] (9), [[Serhiy Baltacha]] (8), [[Volodymyr Bezsonov]] (7).
* Midfielders: [[Vadym Yevtushenko]] (9, 3), [[Vasyl Rats]] (9, 2), [[Ivan Yaremchuk]] (9, 3), [[Andriy Bal]] (8), [[Oleksandr Zavarov]] (8, 5), [[Pavlo Yakovenko]] (8, 1), [[Oleksiy Mykhailychenko]] (1).  
* Forwards: [[Oleh Blokhin]] (9, 5), [[Ihor Belanov]] (9, 5), [[Vasyl Yevseyev]] (1).
* Senior coach: [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi]].

===Last Soviet years===
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In 1989, the club transitioned into an independent company, being disassociated from the Ukrainian republican society of Dynamo.<ref>Yuriy Korzachenko. [http://footclub.com.ua/news/Ukraina/Inshi/1401623826/Retro-Kak-na-kievskoe-Dinamo-velosiped-naehal Ретро. Как на киевское «Динамо» велосипед наехал]. footclub.com.ua. 23 February 2013</ref> The club transitioned from the Soviet "team of masters" to a regular professional football club of "western" style as it was interpreted then. It was also part of the [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]'s [[Perestroika]] reforms, known as [[Khozrasschyot]], when state enterprises had a difficult time keeping their associated organizations afloat and encouraged them to transform into self-sustained businesses.<ref>[https://www.kp.ru/daily/27439/4641033/ Вспоминая эпоху Горбачева: Время, когда деньги лежали под ногами]. www.kp.ru. 31 August 2022</ref><ref>[https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/oie/mys/ly/23.htm Глава 30. ВЗГЛЯДЫ НА ОТДЕЛЬНЫЕ СТОРОНЫ ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ СИСТЕМЫ]. Шестой том. "Всемирная история экономической мысли". www.booksite.ru.</ref>

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.

===Ukrainian Independence===
[[File:Valeri Lobanovsky.jpg|200px|thumb|[[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 (football enthusiast)|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 Kyiv. 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 [[FC Shakhtar Donetsk|Shakhtar Donetsk]], a club from the [[Donbas]] region, that came second to Dynamo several times before winning its first Premier League in [[2001–02 Ukrainian Premier League|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 Europa League|UEFA Cup]] (eliminating such teams as [[Valencia CF|Valencia]] and [[Paris Saint-Germain F.C.|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 [[FC Illichivets Mariupol|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 [[FC Rubin Kazan|Rubin Kazan]] by 0–2 in Kyiv and 2–1 in [[Kazan]]. In the Europa League playoffs, the club managed to defeat [[PFC Litex Lovech|Litex Lovech]] with a 3–1 aggregate score. In the group stage, Dynamo finished third after a disappointing campaign in a group containing [[Beşiktaş J.K.|Beşiktaş]], [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] and [[Stoke City F.C.|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, [[FC Porto|Porto]] and [[GNK Dinamo Zagreb|Dinamo Zagreb]] and finished in third place with only five points and was eliminated in the Europa League round of 32 by [[FC Girondins de Bordeaux|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.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/9984326/Dynamo-Kiev-ordered-to-play-next-two-European-ties-behind-closed-doors-due-to-racism-incidents-from-fans.html Dynamo Kyiv ordered to play next two European ties behind closed doors due to racism incidents from fans], [[The Daily Telegraph]] (10 April 2013) On 21 January 2014, in midst of the Ukrainian Revolution, the VK fan site called out to all fans to go into the streets and protect the city from the "titushki", or hired pro-government thugs.</ref>

===Dynamo's revival===
[[File:Serhiy Rebrov - Сергей Ребров (21729477184).jpg|thumb|200px|[[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 UEFA Europa League|2014–15 Europa League]], Dynamo comfortably qualified from a group containing [[AaB Fodbold|Aalborg BK]], [[FC Steaua București|Steaua București]] and [[Rio Ave F.C.|Rio Ave]], finishing in first place with 15 points. In the round of 32, the club eliminated [[En Avant de Guingamp|Guingamp]] 4–3 on aggregate, and in the round of 16, eliminated [[Everton F.C.|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 [[ACF Fiorentina|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 UEFA Champions League|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 F.C.|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.

===Stagnation period===
[[File:Mircea Lucescu 2009.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Mircea Lucescu]], manager of the team from 2020 to 2023]]
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 UEFA Champions League|2016–17 Champions League]], the club was drawn in Group B alongside [[S.S.C. Napoli|Napoli]], [[S.L. Benfica|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 (footballer born 1992)|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 UEFA Europa League|2017–18]], and then by [[Chelsea F.C.]] (0–8 on aggregate) in [[2018–19 UEFA Europa League|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://football.ua/ukraine/393089-khackevich-prodlil-kontrakt-s-dinamo.html|title=Хацкевич продлил контракт с Динамо|trans-title=Khatskevich extended contract with Dynamo|language=ru|website=football.ua|date=6 June 2019|access-date=16 March 2020}}</ref>

However, only six matches into his new extension, Khatskevich was fired on 14 August 2019,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://football.ua/ukraine/398959-dinamo-uvolilo-khackevicha.html|title=Динамо уволило Хацкевича|trans-title=Dynamo fired Khatskevich|language=ru|website=football.ua|date=14 August 2019|access-date=16 March 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Former Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu hired by Dynamo Kyiv|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/former-shakhtar-coach-mircea-lucescu-hired-by-dynamo-kyiv/2020/07/23/7baf18d2-ccef-11ea-99b0-8426e26d203b_story.html|access-date=2020-07-24|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en}}</ref>