Fixtures

Russia Premier League 03/29 16:30 22 Dinamo Moscow vs Rostov - View
Russia Cup 04/02 18:00 3 SKA Energia Khabarovsk vs Dinamo Moscow - View
Russia Premier League 04/07 16:30 23 Dinamo Moscow vs Spartak Moscow - View
Russia Premier League 04/13 21:00 24 Ural vs Dinamo Moscow - View
Russia Premier League 04/20 21:00 25 FC Nizhny Novgorod vs Dinamo Moscow - View
Russia Premier League 04/25 21:00 21 FC Orenburg vs Dinamo Moscow - View

Results

Russia Cup 03/13 17:15 3 Zenit St Petersburg v Dinamo Moscow L 2-0
Russia Premier League 03/09 16:00 20 Dinamo Moscow v FC Akhmat Grozny W 2-0
Russia Premier League 03/03 13:30 19 Dinamo Moscow v Lokomotiv Moscow W 2-1
Europe Friendlies 02/24 14:00 - CSKA Moscow v Dinamo Moscow W 1-2
Europe Friendlies 02/23 14:00 - Baltika Kaliningrad v Dinamo Moscow L 3-0
Europe Friendlies 02/19 14:00 - Dinamo Moscow v Krylia Sovetov W 5-1
Europe Friendlies 02/19 08:00 - Dinamo Moscow v Krylia Sovetov D 1-1
Europe Friendlies 02/11 14:00 - Dinamo Moscow v FC Elimai Semey W 2-1
Europe Friendlies 02/08 14:00 - FC Orenburg v Dinamo Moscow W 1-4
Europe Friendlies 02/03 10:00 - Botev Plovdiv v Dinamo Moscow W 2-3
Russia Premier League 12/10 11:00 18 Fakel Voronezh v Dinamo Moscow D 1-1
Russia Premier League 12/04 16:30 17 Dinamo Moscow v Rubin Kazan W 1-0

Stats

 TotalHomeAway
Matches played 49 25 24
Wins 25 16 9
Draws 13 4 9
Losses 11 5 6
Goals for 85 44 41
Goals against 70 30 40
Clean sheets 12 8 4
Failed to score 10 5 5

Wikipedia - FC Dynamo Moscow

FC Dynamo Moscow (FC Dynamo Moskva, Russian: Дина́мо Москва́ [dʲɪˈnamə mɐˈskva]) is a Russian professional 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.

Dynamo was the only 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 and was a part of Dynamo sports society. Chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus NKVD Lavrentiy Beria was a patron of the club until his downfall. For this reason, the team and fans was nicknamed "the cops" (менты).

From 10 April 2009 the VTB Bank has been the owner of Dynamo after acquiring a 74% share in the club. Boris Rotenberg Sr. was chairman until he resigned on 17 July 2015. On 29 December 2016, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to buy VTB Bank shares back for 1 ruble. On 14 February 2019, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to sell the club back to VTB for 1 ruble. On 24 February 2022, the shares were transferred by VTB back to the Dynamo sports society.

Dynamo's traditional colours are blue 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 famous Russian author, who was once an active member of the Dynamo sports society.

History

Foundation and Soviet era

Commemorative coin of Lev Yashin, the legendary goalkeeper of the team.

Dynamo Moscow has its roots in the football Club Sokolniki Moscow.[]

After the Russian Revolution, the club eventually found itself under the authority of the Interior Ministry and its head Felix Dzerzhinsky, chief of the Cheka, the Soviet Union's secret police. The club was renamed Dynamo Moscow in 1923 but was also referred to disparagingly as "garbage", a Russian criminal slang term for "police", by some of the supporters of other clubs.

Dynamo won the first two Soviet Championships in 1936 and 1937, a Soviet Cup in 1937, and another pair of national titles in 1940 and 1945. In 1945, They were also the first Soviet club to tour the West when they played a series of friendlies in the United Kingdom. Complete unknowns to the British, the Soviet players first 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 match played in thick fog at White Hart Lane. They then drew 2–2 against Scottish side Rangers, meaning they completed the tour undefeated.

They continued to be a strong side at home after World War II, and enjoyed their greatest success through the 1950s. Dynamo captured another five championships between 1949 and 1959, as well as their second Soviet Cup in 1953. Honours were harder to come by after that time. The club continued to enjoy some success in the Soviet Cup, but has not won a national championship since 1976. Even so, Dynamo's 11 national titles make them the country's third-most decorated side behind Dynamo Kyiv (13 titles) and Spartak Moscow (12 titles).[]

Dynamo's greatest achievement 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 time a Russian side had reached a final in a European competition, a feat not repeated until CSKA Moscow won the UEFA Cup in 2005.[]

VTB Bank era (2009–2016)

Yuri Zhirkov.
Mathieu Valbuena.

At the end of the 2008 season, Dynamo finished third, qualifying for the 2009–10 Champions League preliminary round. On 29 July 2009, Dynamo recorded a 0–1 away win against Celtic at Celtic Park, which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress, sending Dynamo into the Europa League play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia after a 0–0 away draw in Sofia and a 1–2 home defeat in Moscow.[]

In 2012, after a poor start to the season in which they lost their first five league games, Dynamo replaced interim manager Dmitri Khokhlov with the Romanian Dan Petrescu, who managed to pull the club out of the relegation zone into a position in the upper-half of the league table. The team was close to qualifying for a place in European competition, but a failure to win in the last matchday left them in seventh, two points below the last Europa League qualifier position. Despite his efforts, Petrescu's contract was terminated on 8 April 2014 by mutual agreement after a heavy loss to league outsiders Anzhi Makhachkala 0–4. As Dynamo Director of Sports Guram Adzhoyev stated, "Last year Dan drew the team from the complicated situation, lifted it to the certain level, but recently we have seen no progress." Petrescu was replaced by Stanislav Cherchesov as manager. Under his management, Dynamo qualified for the group stage 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 competition for violating Financial Fair Play break-even requirements. As a result, VTB Bank proposed to transfer 74 percent of the shares of the club to the Dynamo sports society. Under the proposed plan, the society would own 100 percent of shares of Dynamo as it did in 2009, while the shares of the VTB Arena would still be held by the Bank. The move would allow the club 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 foreign 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 competition in the 2014–15 season, 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 compliance rather than the share transfer was the top priority for the club; and that he expected the club to achieve compliance by April 2016.

After the winter break of the 2015–16 season, Dynamo won only one game out of 12 played in 2016 and Kobelev was fired with 3 games left in the season. On the final day of the season, Dynamo lost 0–3 to FC Zenit Saint Petersburg at home, dropped to 15th place in the table and was relegated from the Premier League.[]

In October 2016, with Dynamo leading the second-tier Russian Football National League at the time, the newly appointed club president Yevgeni Muravyov claimed that club's debts stand at 13 billion rubles (approximately 188 million euros) and unless a new owner is found shortly or VTB re-commits to covering the club's debts, the club might declare bankruptcy. That would have most likely meant the loss of professional license and relegation to the fourth-level Russian Amateur Football League.

Dynamo Society era (2016 to 2019)

On 29 December 2016, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to buy VTB Bank shares back for 1 ruble. On 13 January 2017, VTB Bank announced they will sponsor Dynamo Sports Society to the amount of 10.64 billion rubles for the period from 2017 to 2019 (approximately 167 million euros as of that date). HC Dynamo Moscow and other teams of the society were also to be financed under that deal. On 1 February 2017, former 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". On 12 April 2017, with 7 games left to play in the 2016–17 season, 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.

On 14 March 2018, Yevgeni Muravyov was dismissed as the club president due to unauthorized payment made as a "bonus" to a third company during the transfer of Konstantin Rausch from 1. FC Köln.

Return to VTB (2019 to 2022)

The new stadium for the club, VTB Arena was completed in late 2018. Following that, the stadium majority owner and football club's major sponsor VTB Bank expressed interest in reacquiring the control over the club. On 14 February 2019, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to sell back the club shares to "Dynamo Management Company" (the company that owns the stadium and has VTB bank as the majority owner). The price was the same symbolic 1 ruble. On 26 April 2019, it was reported that the deal is close to be finalized formally, but the price for the stock increased to 10 billion rubles (approximately €138 million). This reported larger number includes accumulated debts and the cost of the club's training centre. (At the beginning of 2021, the club's chairman Yuri Solovyov said in an interview that Dynamo's debts were about 5.4 billion rubles. The then state of the club Soloviev called "shocking".) On 30 April 2019, VTB confirmed that the deal has been closed and formal price is 1 ruble, the debts outstanding from the football club to Dynamo society has been restructured to an 8-year term, and Yuri Belkin was appointed club's general director.

The 2019–20 season, their first back at the home stadium, started poorly and head coach Dmitri Khokhlov resigned after 12 games played with Dynamo in second-to-last position in the table. Under his replacement, Kirill Novikov, results improved and at the end of the season Dynamo finished 6th. That allowed Dynamo to qualify for European competition (UEFA Europa League) for the first time in 6 seasons.[]

However, at the end 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 14 October.

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 club's sporting director, Željko Buvač, has already described the start of the season as "great." 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.[]

Return to Dynamo Society (from 2022)

On 24 February 2022, as a consequence of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, VTB Bank was sanctioned by the United Kingdom. On the same day, VTB Bank transferred the shares of FC Dynamo back to the Dynamo Sports Society.

After the invasion was launched, former Liverpool F.C. and Ukraine striker Andriy Voronin, who had been the team's assistant coach, left the club, writing that he could not work in a country that was bombing his homeland.

The club remained in second place in the 2021–22 Russian Premier League and at competitive points distance from first-place defending champions FC Zenit Saint Petersburg for most of the season before some late Dynamo losses allowed Zenit to secure the title with three games left to play in the season. The club also qualified for the 2021–22 Russian Cup final, their first Russian Cup final appearance since 2012. On the last matchday of the league season on 21 May 2022, Dynamo lost 1–5 at home to PFC Sochi and dropped to 3rd place, letting Sochi overtake them. Still, that was the first Top-3 finish for Dynamo since 2008. On 29 May 2022, Dynamo lost the Russian Cup final to Spartak 1–2, with Daniil Fomin missing a penalty kick deep in added time. Manager Sandro Schwarz resigned from the club after the Cup final.

Slaviša Jokanović was hired as a new manager on 17 June 2022. Several key starting line-up foreign players from the 2021–22 season left the club on loan or suspended their contracts before the season due to the continuing Russian war in Ukraine, including Sebastian Szymański, Nikola Moro, Fabián Balbuena, Ivan Ordets and Guillermo Varela. Dynamo took positions in the upper half of the league table, but below the top 3 during the summer/fall part of the 2022–23 season, not going on any long unbeaten or winless streaks. New Cameroonian signing Moumi Ngamaleu was the only Dynamo player selected for the 2022 FIFA World Cup squads (not counting Szymański and Varela who were loaned out before the season). Dynamo went into the winter break of the season in 4th place. The results continued to be inconsistent after the winter break, and Jokanović was dismissed on 14 May 2023 following a 0–3 home loss to FC Akhmat Grozny, with Dynamo in 7th place. Dynamo lost 5 of the last 7 league games and finished in 9th place.

On 22 June 2023, Marcel Lička was appointed new manager. After losing the opening game of the 2023–24 season, Dynamo went on an unbeaten streak and climbed to 2nd place in the standings by early September. They went into the winter break in 3rd place.

League position

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Top Scorer Head Coach
1992 1st 3 26 14 6 6 55 29 34 UC 3rd round (Last 16) Gasimov – 16 Gazzaev
1993 1st 3 34 16 10 8 65 38 42 Semi-finals UC 3rd round (Last 16) Simutenkov – 16 Gazzaev
Golodets
1994 1st 2 30 13 13 4 55 35 39 Semi-finals UC 1st round Simutenkov – 21 Beskov
1995 1st 4 30 16 8 6 45 29 56 Winner UC 2nd round (Last 32) Terekhin – 11 Beskov
Golodets
1996 1st 4 34 20 7 7 60 35 67 Semi-finals CWC Quarter-finals Cheryshev – 17 Golodets
1997 1st 3 34 19 11 4 50 20 68 Runner-Up UC 1st round Terekhin – 17 Golodets
1998 1st 9 30 8 15 7 31 30 39 Quarter-finals Terekhin – 12 Golodets
Yartsev
1999 1st 5 30 12 8 10 44 41 44 Runner-Up UC 2nd round (Last 32) Terekhin – 14 Yartsev
Petrushin
2000 1st 5 30 14 8 8 45 35 50 Quarter-finals Gusev – 12 Gazzaev
2001 1st 9 30 10 8 12 43 51 38 Round of 16 UC 1st round Khazov – 10 Gazzaev
A. Novikov
2002 1st 8 30 12 6 12 38 33 42 Quarter-finals UC 2nd round Koroman – 6 A. Novikov
Prokopenko
2003 1st 6 30 12 10 8 42 29 46 Round of 32 Bulykin – 9 Prokopenko
Hřebík
2004 1st 13 30 6 11 13 27 38 29 Round of 16 Korchagin – 4 Hřebík
Bondarenko
Romantsev
2005 1st 8 30 12 2 16 36 46 38 Round of 16 Derlei – 13 Romantsev
Wortmann
Kobelev
2006 1st 14 30 8 10 12 31 40 34 Quarter-finals Derlei – 7 Semin
Kobelev
2007 1st 6 30 11 8 11 37 35 41 Quarter-finals Kolodin – 9 Kobelev
2008 1st 3 30 15 9 6 41 29 54 Round of 16 Kerzhakov – 7 Kobelev
2009 1st 8 30 12 6 12 31 37 42 Semi-finals CL
EL
3rd qualifying round
Play-off round
Kerzhakov – 12 Kobelev
2010 1st 7 30 9 13 8 39 31 40 Round of 8 Kurányi – 9 Kobelev
Božović
2011–12 1st 4 44 20 12 12 66 50 72 Runner-Up Kurányi – 13 Božović
Silkin
2012–13 1st 7 30 14 6 10 41 34 48 Quarter-finals EL PO Kurányi – 10
Kokorin – 10
Silkin
Khokhlov
Petrescu
2013–14 1st 4 30 15 7 8 54 37 52 Round of 32 Kokorin – 10 Petrescu
Cherchesov
2014–15 1st 4 30 14 8 8 53 36 50 Round of 16 EL Round of 16 Kurányi – 10 Cherchesov
2015–16 1st 15 30 5 10 15 25 47 25 Quarter-finals EL Disqualified Kokorin – 4
Ionov – 4
Kozlov – 4
Kobelev
2016–17 2nd 1 38 26 9 3 64 25 87 Round of 16 Panchenko – 25 Kalitvintsev
2017–18 1st 8 30 10 10 10 29 30 40 Round of 32 Tashayev – 7 Kalitvintsev
Khokhlov
2018–19 1st 12 30 6 15 9 28 28 33 Round of 16 Panchenko – 5 Khokhlov
2019–20 1st 6 30 11 8 11 27 30 41 Round of 32 Philipp – 8 Khokhlov
K. Novikov
2020–21 1st 7 30 15 5 10 44 33 50 Quarterfinal EL Second Qualifying Round Fomin – 6 K. Novikov
A.Kulchy
S.Schwarz
2021–22 1st 3 30 16 5 9 53 41 53 Runner-Up Fomin – 10 S.Schwarz

European campaigns

As of match played 20 March 2014
Competition Pld W D L GF GA
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 35 18 8 9 51 31
UEFA Cup 48 17 11 20 58 74
UEFA Intertoto Cup 6 3 2 1 10 9
UEFA Champions League 2 1 0 1 1 2
UEFA Europa League 21 10 7 4 30 20
Total 112 49 28 35 150 136
Season Round Competition Country Opposing Team Score Venue
1972 RU Cup Winners' Cup Rangers 2–3 Camp Nou, Barcelona
1978 SF Cup Winners' Cup Austria Wien 3–3 on aggregate, 4–5(p) Two-legged
1985 SF Cup Winners' Cup Rapid Wien 2–4 on aggregate Two-legged

UEFA ranking

As of 9 July 2021
Rank Country Team Points
147 Heracles Almelo 7.840
148 Dynamo Moscow 7.676
149 Arsenal Tula 7.676
Dinamo Moscow is a professional soccer team based in Moscow, Russia. The team was founded in 1923 and has a rich history of success in both domestic and international competitions. Dinamo Moscow has won the Russian Premier League twice, in 1992 and 1995, and has also won the Russian Cup six times. The team has a strong fan base and plays its home matches at the VTB Arena, which has a capacity of 27,000 spectators. Dinamo Moscow is known for its attacking style of play and has produced many talented players over the years, including Igor Netto, Valentin Ivanov, and Aleksandr Kerzhakov. The team's colors are blue and white, and its logo features a stylized letter "D" with a lightning bolt. Dinamo Moscow is a respected and competitive team in Russian soccer and is always a force to be reckoned with on the field.