FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv was the second

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team of the Ukrainian

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Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, 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 ...

based in

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. 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

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. During the first couple of decades of the Ukrainian second tier (Persha Liha), the team dominated the league competition and won three titles. Later its performance declined, and the club concentrated its effort on its junior squads competing in parallel competitions for the youth.

History

The team existed as early as 1938 when it first played at the top tier of the Ukrainian Football Championship placing 8th among 12 teams. Before the

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the Ukrainian Football Championship was a tier-structured republican level competition two levels below the 2 tiers All-Union Football League. Following the

, Dynamo Kyiv continued to field its second squad in the

, but under name Dynamo Kyiv for at least four seasons yet, to differentiate it from the team of masters, it was referred to as Dynamo-klubnaya. In 1965, there was created the second team of

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and replaced FC Temp Kyiv (that represented the Kyiv Aircraft Factory). It only competed for one season in the Ukrainian Class B football competitions of the

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. In 1992, Dynamo-2 Kyiv was revived based on its double (reserve team, Dynamo-d Kyiv) which played in competition for reserves teams of the

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. The new team was admitted to the 1992 Ukrainian First League. In 2004, when there was created a separate competition for reserve teams of the

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, the team was preserved and continued to compete at a professional level in regular league competitions until 2016. The team participated regularly in the

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, since it cannot be promoted to the

, being a reserve team from the

franchise. Like most tributary teams, the best players are sent up to the senior team, meanwhile developing other players for further call-ups.

Honors

: **Champions (3): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01 **Runners Up (2): 1996–97, 1997–98

League and cup history

Soviet Union

Ukraine

Coaches

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(2006 – 21 Dec 2010) * Andriy Husin (21 Dec 2010 – 2 Jul 2013) * Alyaksandr Khatskevich (2 Jul 2013 – 4 Dec 2014) *

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(15 Dec 2014 – Jun 2016)

Notes and references

External links

«Динамо-2», яке хотіло бути першим
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