Football Club Dynamo Kyiv, also known as FC Dynamo Kiev, Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kiev, or simply Dynamo, is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officially formed only in 1989 and currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League, and has never been relegated to a lower division. The club has secured brand rights from the Ukrainian Dynamo society and has no direct relations to the sports society since 1989. Their home is the 70,050 capacity Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex.
Oleh Petrovych Bazylevych was a Ukrainian footballer, football (soccer) coach, and sport administrator. He holds titles of the Master of Sports of the USSR, Merited Coach of the Soviet Union, and Merited Coach of Ukraine.
Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov also spelled Serebryannikov, was a Soviet association football player from Ukraine. Serebrianikov was a member of the Dynamo's squad that for the first time won the Soviet championship title in 1961 becoming the first non-Moscow team to achieve that feat, so called "the first height".
Yevgeniy Vasilievich Rudakov was a Ukrainian footballer of Russian origin who played as a goalkeeper. In 1971, he was recognized as the Best Ukrainian Player of the Year becoming the first foreigner to be awarded such honors.
Volodymyr Maksymovych Levchenko was a Soviet Ukrainian footballer.
Vitaliy Hryhorovych Khmelnytskyi was a Soviet football player and coach from Ukraine.
Viktor Maksymovych Bannikov was a Ukrainian football official and a Soviet player. He was considered one of the best goalkeepers in the Soviet Union earning the title of the best twice in 1964 and 1970. Bannikov had 138 clean sheets earning him a place in the symbolic Lev Yashin club. Distinguished Master of Sport of USSR (1991). He died on the 25 April 2001 and he has buried at the Baikove Cemetery in Baikova St, 6, Kyiv, Ukraine, where also Valeriy Lobanovskyi was buried.
Andriy Andriyovych Biba is a retired Ukrainian football player and coach.
The Spartak Moscow – Dynamo Kyiv derby is a major international football rivalry between former Soviet giants Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Kyiv that developed in the Soviet Top League.
Fedir Yozhefovich Medvid[a] also known as Ferents Medvid was a Ukrainian and Soviet football player.
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Puzach was a Ukrainian football player and coach.
The Championship of the Ukrainian SSR in football was a top competition of association football in the Ukrainian SSR in 1921-91. Number of Ukrainian clubs almost never competed in the championship such as Dynamo Kyiv.
Dynamo Stadium in Kharkiv, Ukraine was the home ground of several Kharkiv professional football clubs, such as FC Metalist Kharkiv, FC Helios Kharkiv and FC Kharkiv. The stadium is also used for home matches of the Ukraine national team for Rugby League matches.
Klasychne derby, or the Ukrainian football rivalry is the football match between the two top Ukrainian clubs Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. The game between those two clubs is a focal point of each football season in Ukraine. Due to war, at least three of their scheduled fixtures were scratched in 1941 and 2014. Since 2014, Shakhtar sometimes plays in Kyiv due to the Russian aggression which technically turned the rivalry into a city derby.
Gintaras Kvitkauskas is a retired Lithuanian international footballer who played as a midfielder.
Georgy Yakovlevich Prokopenko was a Soviet swimmer who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1964 he won a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke and finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. He won three European titles in these events in 1962 and 1966, and set two world records in the 100 m breaststroke in 1964. Between 1962 and 1964 he also set eight European records in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke disciplines.
FC Karpaty Mukacheve was a Ukrainian football team from Mukacheve, Zakarpattia Oblast. The club was formed in 1946 as FC Bilshovyk.
The Dynamo Kyiv junior squads and Academy includes several junior teams of FC Dynamo Kyiv youth system. Besides some reserve teams that competed in lower leagues, the club also has junior teams that participate in competitions under-21 and under-19 of the Ukrainian Premier League. In additions to that the club also has its own football academy (school) that exists since 1957.
FC Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk was a former association football team from former Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR.
The 2021 Ukrainian Cup Final decided the winner of the 2020–21 Ukrainian Cup, the 30th season of the annual Ukrainian football cup competition. It was played on 13 May 2021 at the Ternopil City Stadium between Dynamo Kyiv and Zorya Luhansk. It was the first time the cup final was held in Ternopil. On 4 March 2021, it was decided that the nominal host of the final would be Dynamo.
