Editing FC Dynamo Kyiv (section)

=== 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.