Editing FC Dynamo Moscow (section)

=== VTB Bank era (2009–2016) ===
[[File:Dinamo-Spartak (12).jpg|thumb|left|120px|[[Yuri Zhirkov]].]]
[[File:Dinamo-cska (4).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Mathieu Valbuena]].]]

At the end of the [[2008 Russian Premier League|2008 season]], Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the [[2009–10 UEFA Champions League|2009–10 Champions League preliminary round]]. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] at [[Celtic Park]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Celtic 0–1 Dynamo Moscow |first=David |last=McDaid |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8173689.stm |publisher=BBC Sport |date=29 July 2009 |access-date=26 May 2012 }}</ref> which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress,<ref>{{cite news |title=D'mo Moscow 0–2 Celtic (agg 1–2) |first=David |last=McDaid |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8178985.stm |publisher=BBC Sport |date=5 August 2009 |access-date=26 May 2012 }}</ref> sending Dynamo into the [[UEFA Europa League|Europa League]] play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side [[PFC CSKA Sofia|CSKA Sofia]] after a 0–0 away draw in [[Sofia]] and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

In 2012, after a poor start to the season in which they lost their first five league games, Dynamo replaced interim manager [[Dmitri Khokhlov]] with the [[Romania]]n [[Dan Petrescu]], who managed to pull the club out of the relegation zone into a position in the upper-half of the league table. The team was close to qualifying for a place in European competition, but a failure to win in the last matchday left them in seventh, two points below the last Europa League qualifier position. Despite his efforts, Petrescu's contract was terminated on 8 April 2014 by mutual agreement after a heavy loss to league outsiders [[FC Anzhi Makhachkala|Anzhi Makhachkala]] 0–4.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rus.rfpl.org/index.php/match/index/9189|title=Match protocol|publisher=[[Russian Football Premier League]]|date=6 April 2014|language=ru|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408225235/http://rus.rfpl.org/index.php/match/index/9189|archive-date=8 April 2014}}</ref> As Dynamo Director of Sports [[Guram Adzhoyev (footballer, born 1961)|Guram Adzhoyev]] stated, "Last year Dan drew the team from the complicated situation, lifted it to the certain level, but recently we have seen no progress."<ref>{{cite web|publisher=FC Dynamo Moscow|url=http://fcdynamo.ru/news/events/?id_4=5546|script-title=ru:"Динамо" расторгло контракт с Даном Петреску|date=8 April 2014|language=ru}}</ref> Petrescu was replaced by [[Stanislav Cherchesov]] as manager. Under his management, Dynamo qualified for the group stage of the [[2014–15 UEFA Europa League]] in which they won every game before falling to [[S.S.C. Napoli|Napoli]] in the Round of 16. Dynamo was only able to finish in fourth place in the [[2014–15 Russian Premier League|2014–15 season]] after a string of poor results in the latter stages.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

In June 2015, Dynamo was excluded from [[2015–16 UEFA Europa League|2015–16 Europa League]] competition for violating [[UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations|Financial Fair Play]] break-even requirements.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[UEFA]]|url=http://www.uefa.org/mediaservices/newsid=2239253.html|title=FC Dinamo Moskva referred to Adjudicatory Chamber for break-even requirement breach|date=24 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Rossiya Segodnya]]|url=http://rsport.ru/football/20150619/840603225.html|script-title=ru:УЕФА отстранил "Динамо" от участия в ЛЕ-2015/16 за нарушение финансового fair play|date=19 June 2015|language=ru}}</ref> As a result, [[VTB Bank]] proposed to transfer 74 percent of the shares of the club to the [[Dynamo sports society]]. Under the proposed plan, the society would own 100 percent of shares of Dynamo as it did in 2009, while the shares of the [[VTB Arena]] would still be held by the Bank. The move would allow the club to comply with the requirements of Financial Fair Play, and VTB Bank would continue to provide support to Dynamo to the extent consistent with Financial Fair Play regulations.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

Manager Stanislav Cherchesov was replaced by the returning [[Andrey Kobelev]], and many foreign players, such as [[Mathieu Valbuena]], [[Balázs Dzsudzsák]] and [[Kevin Kurányi]], subsequently left Dynamo. Several young Dynamo prospects, such as [[Grigori Morozov]], [[Aleksandr Tashayev]] and [[Anatoli Katrich]], who won the Under-21 competition in the 2014–15 season, were introduced to the first-team squad.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

On 22 December 2015, Chairman of Dynamo's board of directors Vasili Titov announced that the shares had not been transferred to the Dynamo society; that FFP compliance rather than the share transfer was the top priority for the club; and that he expected the club to achieve compliance by April 2016.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Russian News Agency TASS]]|url=http://tass.ru/sport/2549461|script-title=ru:Василий Титов: ФК "Динамо" будет соответствовать правилам финансового fair-play к апрелю|date=22 December 2015|language=ru}}</ref>

After the winter break of the 2015–16 season, Dynamo won only one game out of 12 played in 2016 and Kobelev was fired with 3 games left in the season. On the final day of the season, Dynamo lost 0–3 to [[FC Zenit Saint Petersburg]] at home, dropped to 15th place in the table and was relegated from the Premier League.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

In October 2016, with Dynamo leading the second-tier [[Russian Football National League]] at the time, the newly appointed club president Yevgeni Muravyov claimed that club's debts stand at 13 billion rubles (approximately 188 million euros) and unless a new owner is found shortly or VTB re-commits to covering the club's debts, the club might declare bankruptcy. That would have most likely meant the loss of professional license and relegation to the fourth-level [[Russian Amateur Football League]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Sovetsky Sport]]|url=http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/933020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017023830/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/933020|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 October 2016|script-title=ru:Евгений Муравьев: Не знал, насколько в «Динамо» все сложно|date=14 October 2016|language=ru}}</ref>