Women's basketball team Dynamo Kyiv (Dynamo NPU Kyiv) is a successful Ukrainian women's basketball team. Established in the 1950s, this is the only team from Ukraine who became a champion of the USSR. Dynamo Kyiv is also the only team from Ukraine that has won a European tournament. After the collapse of the USSR, the team continued its participation in the Ukrainian Women's Basketball Championship.
Soviet Women's Basketball Championship (3):
Ukrainian Women's Basketball SuperLeague (8):
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Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk also known as FC Shakhter Donetsk, is a Ukrainian professional football club that was based in the city of Donetsk until 2014 when, due to the War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lviv, and played matches in Lviv (2014–2016) and in Kharkiv (2017–2020) whilst having its office headquarters and training facilities in Kyiv. In May 2020, Shakhtar started to play home matches at NSC Olimpiyskyi in Kyiv. For the 2023–24 season, Shakhtar will now play home matches once again at Arena Lviv.
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.
Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin, is a Ukrainian and Soviet former football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union.
Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional player. He is a Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR and a Distinguished Coach of Ukraine. During his playing days he was a versatile midfielder known for his stamina and passing capability. Also noted for his technique, Mykhaylychenko usually played as attacking midfielder.
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv was the second football team of the Ukrainian football club Dynamo Kyiv based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The team was first created in 1938, and the club ceased its recent operations again after the 2015–16 season. During the Soviet period, participation of the second squad was sporadic and mostly at republican level, the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League, served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and governed by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The full official name was the USSR Championship in football: Top League. An attempt to create an independent league as autonomously governed organization during "perestroika" period was denied by the Federation due to political culture in the Soviet Union.
Anatoliy Vasilyovych Demyanenko, sometimes referred to as Anatoli Demianenko, is a Ukrainian football coach and former player. As a player, he was deployed at left-back and notably represented Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national team.
Hennadiy Volodymyrovych Lytovchenko is a Ukrainian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He was a member of the Soviet squad that finished runners-up at UEFA Euro 1998.
Oleh Volodymyrovych Kuznetsov is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional player. He won domestic honours in the Soviet Union with Dynamo Kyiv, in Scotland with Rangers, in Israel with Maccabi Haifa and in Ukraine with CSKA-Borysfen Kyiv. Kuznetsov won 58 caps for the USSR national team between 1986 and 1991, being suspended for the final of UEFA Euro 1988 then was also selected for its successors, the CIS and Ukraine.
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.
Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan is a Soviet and Ukrainian midfielder of the 1960s and 1970s. Muntyan is considered to be one of the best and most talented players to ever represent Dynamo Kyiv and Soviet Union. He is also the only player apart from Oleg Blokhin who has won 7 Soviet championships. His brother Viktor Muntyan is also a former professional football player.
Andriy Mykhaylovych Bal was a Soviet and Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a midfielder and football manager.
Football is the most popular sport in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Association of Football is the national governing body and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in the country. It was organised in 1991 to replace the Soviet republican-level Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR, created earlier in the 1920s as part of the Soviet system of physical culture councils. The Ukrainian Association of Football is a non-governmental organization and is a member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
Andriy Andriyovych Biba is a retired Ukrainian football player and coach.
Valdemaras Martinkėnas was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional footballer and coach.
The Ukrainian Women's Professional Football League, WFPL, is part of the Ukrainian football clubs competitions among females that consists of two divisions, the Top League which has a professional status and the First League which was revived in 2013 after 20-year break and is a competition among amateur clubs. Participation of a club in league competitions has to be approved by regional football federations and the All-Ukrainian Association of Women's Football. The All-Ukrainian Association of Women's Football is Ukrainian public organization that governs and organizes all football competitions among females in Ukraine, including the league competitions.
The Soviet Women's Basketball Championship was the top women's basketball competition in the Soviet Union.
Makar Mykhaylovych Honcharenko, was a Ukrainian football player and coach. During his career, he played as a forward for a number of clubs, but most noticeably for Dynamo Kyiv.
FC Dynamo Kyiv women team is a Soviet and Ukrainian women's football team of FC Dynamo Kyiv. The team was liquidated in 1994 after Dynamo Kyiv was acquired by Hryhoriy Surkis. But again renewed in 2021 and entered to the Ukrainian Women's League to play in the First League.