For the sports club ‘s departments, see Dynamo Moscow
football club
FC Dynamo Moscow [ 1 ] ( russian : Дина́мо Москва́ [ dʲɪˈnamə mɐˈskva ] ) is a russian football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Football National League. [ 2 ]

Dynamo was the lone club that had always played in the top tier of soviet football ( along with Dynamo Kyiv ) and of russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, they have never won the modern Russian Premier League title and have won russian Cup only once, in the season of 1994–95. During the Soviet era, they were affiliated with the MVD ( Ministry of Internal Affairs – The Soviet Militia ) and with the KGB [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and was a depart of Dynamo sports society. headman of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, was a patron of the cabaret until his fall. From 10 April 2009 the VTB Bank has been the owner of Dynamo after acquiring a 74 % share in the club. [ 5 ] Boris Rotenberg Sr. was president until he resigned on 17 July 2015. [ 6 ] On 29 December 2016, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to buy VTB Bank shares bet on for 1 ruble. [ 7 ] On 14 February 2019, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to sell the clubhouse spinal column to VTB for 1 ruble. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Dynamo ‘s traditional colours are blasphemous and white. Their crest consists of a blue letter “ D, ” written in a traditional cursive style on a white background, with “ Moscow ” written below it, partially covering a football underneath. The club ‘s motto is “ Power in Motion, ” initially proposed by Maxim Gorky, the celebrated russian writer, who was once an active extremity of the Dynamo sports club .

history [edit ]

foundation and soviet era [edit ]

commemorative coin of Lev Yashin, the fabled goalkeeper of the team. Dynamo Moscow has its roots in the football Club Sokolniki Moscow. After the russian Revolution, the golf club finally found itself under the agency of the Interior Ministry and its fountainhead Felix Dzerzhinsky, foreman of the Cheka, the Soviet Union ‘s secret patrol. The baseball club was renamed Dynamo Moscow in 1923 but was besides referred to disparagingly as “ garbage ”, a russian criminal slang terminus for “ patrol ”, by some of the supporters of early clubs. [ 10 ] Dynamo won the first two soviet Championships in 1936 and 1937, a soviet Cup in 1937, and another couple of national titles in 1940 and 1945. They were besides the first soviet club to tour the West when they played a series of friendlies in the United Kingdom in 1945. dispatch unknowns to the british, the Soviet players foremost drew 3–3 against Chelsea and then defeated Cardiff City 10-1. They defeated an arsenal side reinforced with Stanley Matthews, Stan Mortensen and Joe Bacuzzi by a score of 4-3 in a couple played in thick daze at White Hart Lane. They then drew 2–2 against scottish side Rangers, meaning they completed the go undefeated. [ 11 ] They continued to be a impregnable side at home after World War II, and enjoyed their greatest achiever through the 1950s. Dynamo captured another five championships between 1949 and 1959, adenine well as their second soviet Cup in 1953. Honours were harder to come by after that time. The club continued to enjoy some achiever in the soviet Cup, but has not won a national backing since 1976. evening so, Dynamo ‘s 11 national titles make them the country ‘s third-most decorate side behind Dynamo Kyiv ( 13 titles ) and Spartak Moscow ( 12 titles ). Dynamo ‘s greatest accomplishment in Europe was in the 1971–72 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup, where they reached the Final at Camp Nou in Barcelona, losing 3–2 to Rangers. This was the first fourth dimension a russian side had reached a final in a european rival, a feat not repeated until CSKA Moscow won the UEFA Cup in 2005 .

VTB Bank era ( 2009–2016 ) [edit ]

At the end of the 2008 temper, Dynamo finished third gear, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary turn. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, [ 12 ] which gave them a impregnable advantage going into the irregular branch. however, Celtic well defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, [ 13 ] sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the baseball club was eliminated by bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home kill in Moscow. In 2012, after a poor begin to the season in which they lost their first five league games, Dynamo replaced interim director Dmitri Khokhlov with the romanian Dan Petrescu, who managed to pull the cabaret out of the relegation zone into a side in the upper-half of the league postpone. The team was close to qualifying for a place in european contest, but a failure to win in the final matchday left them in one-seventh, two points below the last Europa League qualifier stead. Despite his efforts, Petrescu ‘s contract was terminated on 8 April 2014 by reciprocal agreement after a heavy loss to league outsiders Anzhi Makhachkala 0–4. [ 14 ] As Dynamo Director of Sports Guram Adzhoyev stated, “ concluding class Dan drew the team from the complicated situation, lifted it to the certain degree, but recently we have seen no progress. ” [ 15 ] Petrescu was replaced by Stanislav Cherchesov as director. Under his management, Dynamo qualified for the group stagecoach of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League in which they won every game before falling to Napoli in the Round of 16. dynamo was only able to finish in fourth place in the 2014–15 season after a string of poor results in the latter stages. In June 2015, Dynamo was excluded from 2015–16 Europa League contest for violating Financial Fair Play break-even requirements. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] As a result, VTB Bank proposed to transfer 74 percentage of the shares of the club to the Dynamo sports society. Under the proposed plan, the club would own 100 percentage of shares of Dynamo as it did in 2009, while the shares of the VTB Arena would calm be held by the Bank. The move would allow the cabaret 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. Manager Stanislav Cherchesov was replaced by the returning Andrey Kobelev, and many extraneous 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 rival in the 2014–15 temper, were introduced to the first-team squad. 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 complaisance rather than the plowshare transmit was the top priority for the golf club ; and that he expected the club to achieve complaisance by April 2016. [ 18 ] After the winter dampen of the 2015–16 season, Dynamo won merely one game out of 12 played in 2016 and Kobelev was fired with 3 games left in the season. On the final examination day of the season, Dynamo lost 0-3 to FC Zenit St. Petersburg at home, dropped to 15th space in the table and was relegated from the Premier League for the first time in the cabaret ‘s history. In October 2016, with Dynamo leading the second-tier Russian Football National League at the fourth dimension, the newly appointed club president Yevgeni Muravyov claimed that club ‘s debts stand at 13 billion rubles ( approximately 188 million euro ) and unless a modern owner is found shortly or VTB re-commits to covering the clubhouse ‘s debts, the clubhouse might declare bankruptcy. That would have most probably meant the passing of master license and relegation to the fourth-level russian Amateur Football League. [ 19 ]

Dynamo Society era ( 2016 to 2019 ) [edit ]

On 29 December 2016, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to buy VTB Bank shares back for 1 ruble. [ 7 ] On 13 January 2017, VTB Bank announced they will sponsor Dynamo Sports Society to the sum of 10.64 billion rubles for the period from 2017 to 2019 ( approximately 167 million euro as of that date ). HC Dynamo Moscow and other teams of the society were besides to be financed under that deal. [ 20 ] On 1 February 2017, former golf club president Boris Rotenberg said that the 75 million euro debt the football club owes to Rotenberg ‘s companies has been restructured and “ is not harming anybody ”. [ 21 ] On 12 April 2017, with 7 games left to play in the 2016–17 temper, Dynamo secured the return to the top level russian Premier League for 2017–18. That is the FNL record for the earliest a team secured promotion. [ 2 ] On 14 March 2018, Yevgeni Muravyov was dismissed as the club president of the united states due to unauthorized payment made as a “ bonus ” to a one-third company during the transfer of Konstantin Rausch from 1. FC Köln. [ 22 ]

return key to VTB ( from 2019 ) [edit ]

The new stadium for the club, VTB Arena was completed in late 2018. Following that, the stadium majority owner and football club ‘s major patronize VTB Bank expressed interest in reacquiring the control over the club. On 14 February 2019, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to sell back the golf club shares to “ Dynamo Management Company ” ( the caller that owns the stadium and has VTB bank as the majority owner ). [ 8 ] The price was the lapp emblematic 1 ruble. [ 9 ] On 26 April 2019, it was reported that the distribute is near to be finalized formally, but the price for the malcolm stock increased to 10 billion rubles ( approximately €138 million ). This reported larger number includes accumulate debts and the cost of the baseball club ‘s trail center. [ 23 ] ( At the beginning of 2021, the golf club ‘s president Yuri Solovyov said in an consultation that Dynamo ‘s debts were about 5.4 billion rubles. The then submit of the clubhouse Soloviev called “ shock ”. [ 24 ] ) On 30 April 2019, VTB confirmed that the deal has been closed and formal price is 1 ruble, the debts great from the football club to Dynamo company has been restructured to an 8-year terminus, and Yuri Belkin was appointed club ‘s general conductor. [ 25 ] The 2019–20 temper, their first spinal column at the home stadium, started ill and head bus Dmitri Khokhlov resigned after 12 games played with Dynamo in second-to-last side in the table. Under his surrogate, Kirill Novikov, results improved and at the end of the temper Dynamo finished 6th. That allowed Dynamo to qualify for european rival ( UEFA Europa League ) for the first time in 6 seasons. however, at the goal of September 2020, Novikov was dismissed after losing to Locomotive Tbilisi ( UEFA qualification ) and Khimki ( RPL ). Sandro Schwarz was appointed as the new coach on October 14. [ 26 ] In the spring of 2021, the sports press started talking about the “ revival ” of the Moscow Dynamo. Since the appointment of Sandro Schwarz as coach, the team have won seven victories and four defeats in the russian Premier League matches. The cabaret ‘s sporting director, Željko Buvač, has already described the start of the temper as “ great. ” [ 27 ] The team finished the season in 7th place, despite gaining 50 points, which was the most points for Dynamo in the Premier League since the 2014–15 season .

FC Dynamo Moscow Women ‘s team [edit ]

In December 2021, according to the scheme of the club, FC Dynamo Football launched Women`s team, adenine well as Women`s Youth team [ 28 ] and Girl`s part in Lev Yashin Academy. [ 29 ] Sergey Lavrentiev, graduate of the cabaret UEFA “ A ” license holder and early “ world at the wheel ” of russian National Women`s team, Chertanovo and CSKA Moscow women`s teams, was appointed head coach of the new-born first police squad. Goalkeepers coach Vitaly Shadrin ( aboard same duties at russian National Women`s team ) and stength & conditioning coach Yulia Gordeeva have besides joined the staff. [ 30 ]

Lev Yashin Academy [edit ]

In 2021 the Academy won both winter and summer championships in Moscow youth league, Club`s League, being the only cabaret to score more than 200 goals ( 2,85 per match ) and conceding arsenic well the fewest act of 47 goals. [ 31 ] Soon after, Alexander Kuznetsov, Academy`s film director since 2013 and since 2006 in the club, has overviewed the evolution of football education in the Academy, precising that “ we`ve stopped acquiring “ running horses ” in favor of footballers – creative, technically skilled and able to make correctly decisions on the pitch ”. Mr Kuznetsov has besides mentioned the function in modern approach in the Academy of Juan Martinez Garcia, spanish specialist, who had been working in the club for several years a ten ago. [ 32 ]

Franchise

The clubhouse has a football Academy named after Lev Yashin ( official locate ), created on the footing of the Dynamo youth team. In late years, the owners of the club have badly taken up its development. VTB Group has created an endowment fund with a capital of 5 billion rubles to finance the discipline of young footballers. The board of trustees of the fund is headed by the former prime minister of Russia, member of the board of directors of Dynamo, Sergei Stepashin. [ 33 ] In 2020, 13 graduates of the Academy played for the main team of Dynamo. [ 34 ] In 2020, the Academy began to develop a network of branches. The first branch was created in Makhachkala ( Dagestan ) and then in more than 15 russian cities and towns. In August and September 2021, the latest franchise football schools of the Academy were opened in Barnaul, [ 35 ] in Belgorod, [ 36 ] in Vladivostok, [ 37 ] in Voronezh [ 38 ] and in stanitsa Novotitarovskaya in Krasnodar Krai. [ 39 ] The following arm, based on local “ Junior ” school of sports, would be coming soon in Nizhnevartovsk. [ 40 ] In August 2021, the club started providing on-line workshops as a manual to launch Lev Yashin Academy franchises in any russian city. [ 41 ]

Endowment fund

In September 2021, Alexander Ovechkin, worldwide ice hockey ace and former HC Dynamo Moscow fore, was named official ambassador for the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy. [ 42 ] Since September 2021, FC Dynamo Moscow has been launched market activities to promote the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy. Within the first promo offer, 30 % of the monetary value of official raw kit out is transferred to support young Dynamo players sustainability, and each kit`s buyer could get a total and a name on it for unblock. [ 43 ] Since September of 2021, each buy in roubles, miles or bonus points by circuit board of VTB Bank could be immediately converted into a single contribution for the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy. [ 44 ]

B2C market [edit ]

Fashion and Merchandise

In August 2021, FC Dynamo Moscow opened the official fanstore with sports and casualwear at VTB Arena as an integral separate of club`s renewed brand platform. [ 45 ] The foremost ever vintage Dynamo`s collection was produced in 2008 and then in the late 2010-ies. A fresh vintage fashion line was launched in August 2021 featuring heritage trade name “ Olovo ”. [ 46 ] In September 2021, iconic british designer Nigel Cabourn started cooperating with the baseball club with a fashion trace, which will be his beginning cooperation with a football baseball club, in a view of FC Dynamo Moscow`s centennial in 2022, because vintage has always been a reference of inspiration for the interior designer. [ 47 ]

In October 2021, capsule collection, dedicated to Lev Yashin`s anniversary, was shown in his favorite film, Pioner, in Moscow. [ 48 ] In November 2021, the club organized auction to sell all new solicitation retro shirts, presented by Dynamo`s footballers before the kick-off of the home plate game with FC Khimki, held on October, 22th, the day of the anniversary of Lev Yashin, for the benefit of endowment store of FC Dynamo Moscow. [ 49 ] In December 2021, the clubhouse launched its first full-range New Year`s collection. [ 50 ]

“Dynamo Runners” club

In August 2021, “ Dynamo Runners ” club was launched to promote Dynamo`s spirit on a larger scale. Running, seaworthiness and healthy lifehacks in Moscow are scheduled for every modern aim of the club. Olympic champion Yuri Borzakovskiy has become one of the ambassadors of “ Dynamo Runners ” cabaret together with top bloggers and early celebrities. [ 51 ]

Dynamo & VTB Bank day

In October 2021, Dynamo & VTB Bank day was dedicated to 92th anniversary of Lev Yashin together with school students, invited to Dynamo`s game against FC Khimki, won 4 to 1, and to the official club fanshop at VTB Arena. [ 52 ] communication with school students has been carried on in December 2021 within tours at VTB Arena for school students from Khimki. [ 53 ]

Cyber and high-Tech Marketing

The stopping point home matchday vs FC Zenit Saint Petersburg at VTB Arena was powered by the first Augmented world ( AR ) show within a football game in Russia. [ 54 ]

Dynamo Bookshelf

In November 2021, the football club and Bookmate began to fill Dynamo`s online bookshelf with favorite literary works of midfielder Daniil Fomin, according to FC Dynamo Moscow official page on Facebook .

Rivalries [edit ]

Spartak volt Dinamo in Luzhnikí on 14 March 2010. Since its constitution in 1923, Dynamo ‘s diachronic rival has been Spartak Moscow. Clashes between the clubs were seen by their fans and more broadly as the most crucial games in the Soviet Union for more than three decades, attracting thousands of spectators. ( Ironically, however, on New Year ‘s Day in 1936, it was a compound Dynamo-Spartak team that traveled to Paris to face Racing Club de France, then one of Europe ‘s top teams. ) Dynamo clinched the first-ever Soviet League by beating Spartak 1–0 at Dynamo Stadium in presence of 70,000 spectators. Spartak responded by winning the championship the take after year. But after Dynamo ‘s descent in the recently 1970s, the competition has faded. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, first gear CSKA Moscow and then Zenit Saint Petersburg have emerged as the top club in russian football, with the rivalries between Dynamo and its Moscow neighbours such as Spartak Moscow and Lokomotiv assuming less significance .

stadium [edit ]

view of the historic Dynamo Stadium, home of Dynamo from 1928 to 2008. In 2011, it was demolished in preparation for a new stadium, which has now been built, and is nowadays known as the VTB Arena. Dynamo ‘s ground used to be the historic Dynamo Stadium in Petrovsky Park, which seated 36,540. In 2008, it was closed for demolition. From 2010 to 2016, Dynamo Moscow played their matches at the Arena Khimki, which they shared with their Moscow rivals, CSKA Moscow. They continued to play at Arena Khimki until the 26th of May, 2019, when FC Dynamo Moscow officially “ returned home, ” as they played their first gear couple at the newly opened VTB Arena .

average attendance [edit ]

Year Average
1970 30,331
1971 28,833
1972 21,787
1973 19,967
1974 24,333
1975 23,327
1976 15,529
1977 17,667
1978 8,987
1979 10,147
1980 10,088
1981 10,804
1982 8,853
1983 8,576
1984 9,359
1985 9,129
1986 13,527
Year Average
1987 16,507
1988 11,600
1989 13,813
1990 9,233
1991 7,627
1992 4,323
1993 4,465
1994 2,882
1995 3,713
1996 3,476
1997 6,000
1998 5,127
1999 8,367
2000 8,867
2001 6,933
2002 6,800
Year Average
2003 6,600
2004 5,300
2005 8,500
2006 8,067
2007 9,733
2008 13,067
2009 7,752
2010 7,116
2011–12 10,193
2012–13 7,516
2013–14 7,860
2014–15 8,176
2015–16 5,956
2016–17 4,089
2017–18 6,795
2018–19 8,446
2019–20 11,191

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

Soviet Top League / Russian Premier League [ 55 ]
Soviet Cup / Russian Cup [ 56 ] [ 57 ]
Soviet Super Cup / Russian Super Cup

  • Winners: 1977
  • Runners-up: 1984

Russian Football National League

european [edit ]

UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup

  • Winners: 1976
  • Winners: 2015
Lev Yashin Cup
  • Winners: 2010

League and cup history [edit ]

european campaigns [edit ]

Season Round Competition Country Opposing Team Score Venue
1972 RU Cup Winners’ Cup Scotland Rangers 2–3 Camp Nou, Barcelona
1978 SF Cup Winners’ Cup Austria Austria Wien 3–3 on aggregate, 4–5(p) Two-legged
1985 SF Cup Winners’ Cup Austria Rapid Wien 2–4 on aggregate Two-legged

UEFA ranking [edit ]

As of 9 July 2021[58]

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 7 September 2021, according to the RPL official website note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend [edit ]

note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

FC Dynamo-2 Moscow [edit ]

Following Dynamo ‘s relegation from the russian Premier League ( which holds its own contest for the Under-21 teams of the Premier League clubs ) at the end of the 2015–16 season, the reserve squad FC Dynamo-2 Moscow received professional license and was registered to play in the third-tier russian Professional Football League, beginning with the 2016–17 season. Following the main team ‘s promotion back to the RPL, they stopped playing professionally in the 2017–18 season, with players returning to the RPL U-21 tournament .

noteworthy by players [edit ]

For far list, see List of FC Dynamo Moscow players .

Most appearances [edit ]

Most goals [edit ]

One-club men [edit ]

coach and medical staff [edit ]

former head coaches [edit ]

veranda [edit ]

Personnel [edit ]

Club management [edit ]

Role Name
Chairman of the Board of directors Yuri Soloviev
General Director Pavel Pivovarov
Sporting Director Željko Buvač
Security Director Pavel Konovalov

Presidents [edit ]

In the Dynamo organization, the position of “ president ” has not constantly been present ; respective times the principal of the baseball club was titled as “ head executive policeman ( CEO ), ” or general director .
Nikolai Tolstykh, president of Russian Football Union in 2012–2015. Tolstykh played his entire professional career for Dynamo from 1974 to his retirement in 1983 after a serious injury. After retiring, he served as the team’s president and general director on numerous occasions.

References [edit ]

  • FCDM.RU – official site
  • fcdin – official fan site