Football Club Dynamo Kyiv 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.
Dynamo Kyiv in 1928
Poster of the return match
Valeriy Lobanovskyi, the most successful coach in club history
Serhii Rebrov, former player and manager of the team from 2014 to 2017
Dynamo, also Dinamo, is a sports and fitness society created in 1923 in the Soviet Union. The society was an association of multi-sport clubs whose members were drawn from the NKVD and, after World War II, the MVD and the KGB. With the Soviet liberation of Eastern Europe after World War II, similar Dynamo societies were established throughout the Eastern Bloc, such as SV Dynamo.
Coin of the All-Russian Fitness-Sports Society "Dynamo"
1973 Soviet post stamp honoring 50th anniversary
Vadym Gutzeit