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FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', , ) is a Russian professional
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club based in
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. Dynamo returned to the
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for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier
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. Dynamo was the only club that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with
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 ...
) 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
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title and have won Russian Cup only once, in the season of 1994–95. During the
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era, they were affiliated with the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs – The Soviet Militia) and with the
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and was a part of Dynamo sports society. Chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus
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Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ka, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია} ''Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria'' ( – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph ...
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
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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. The club's motto is "Power in Motion," initially proposed by
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, the famous Russian author, who was once an active member of the Dynamo sports society.


History


Foundation and Soviet era

Dynamo Moscow has its roots in the football Club Sokolniki Moscow. After the
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, the club eventually found itself under the authority of the Interior Ministry and its head
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, chief of the
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, 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
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10–1. They defeated an
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side reinforced with
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,
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and Joe Bacuzzi by a score of 4–3 in a match played in thick fog at
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. 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
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(13 titles) and Spartak Moscow (12 titles). In the
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, Dynamo reached the
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at
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in
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, 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
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won the UEFA Cup in 2005.


VTB Bank era (2009–2016)

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
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at
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, 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
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play-off round where the club was eliminated by Bulgarian side
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after a 0–0 away draw in
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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
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with the
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n 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
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in which they won every game before falling to
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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).
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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
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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
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.


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
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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
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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 (
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) 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
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(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.


Return to Dynamo Society (from 2022)

On 24 February 2022, as a consequence of the
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, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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, 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 into the winter break in 3rd place. After a series of three losses in late March and early April, Dynamo dropped 9 points behind league leaders Zenit and 5 points behind second-placed
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with 7 games left. However, Dynamo won their next five games, including scoring winning goals late in added time against
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and Baltika, as Zenit and Krasnodar both went on winless streaks, and with 2 games left Dynamo took the top spot in the table with a 2 points lead. Dynamo extended the winning streak to 6 in the next game, a win or a draw in the last game of the season on 25 May 2024 away against
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would have secured the title for Dynamo. Dynamo lost 0–1 to Krasnodar, allowing Krasnodar to overtake them in the standings, as Zenit won their game and claimed their sixth consecutive title, with Dynamo finishing in 3rd place. At the season-end league awards, Konstantin Tyukavin was named player of the season and forward of the season and received the goal of the season award, as Lička was named coach of the season. Four Dynamo players have been selected for the 2024 Copa América squads ( Luis Chávez for Mexico, Nicolás Marichal for Uruguay, Jorge Carrascal for Colombia and Fabián Balbuena for Paraguay). In the 2024–25 Russian Premier League season, Dynamo gained 30 points after the first half of the games have been played, that was a 5-point improvement on the previous season's record at the same point. Dynamo also never gained more points after 15 games since RPL was created in 1992, and the last time they reached 30 was in 1997. However, they were in 4th place at that point, 7 points behind league-leading
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. On 2 December 2024, Dynamo goalkeeper Igor Leshchuk scored an added-time equalizer with a header against Akhmat Grozny, becoming the first goalkeeper in the history of the
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(and
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before it) to score a goal which was not a converted penalty kick. Dynamo went into the season's winter break in 4th place with 35 points, 4 points behind league leaders Krasnodar and Zenit. In the first game after the winter break, Konstantin Tyukavin suffered an
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and was ruled out for the rest of the season. The results remained inconsistent through the spring and, following Dynamo's elimination from the 2024–25 Russian Cup, Marcel Lička left the club on 1 May 2025, with the club in 5th place in the league, 11 points behind Krasnodar with 4 games left to play. Dynamo had 47 points at the time, which matched their total in the previous season at the same time, but several other clubs significantly increased their points total compared to the 2023–24 season. Dynamo finished the season in 5th place. On 13 June 2025,
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was hired as Dynamo manager on a three-year contract.


League position


European campaigns


UEFA ranking


FC Dynamo Moscow Women's team

In December 2021, according to the strategy of the club, FC Dynamo Football launched Women's team, as well as Women's Youth team and Girl's section in Lev Yashin Academy. Sergey Lavrentiev, graduate of the club UEFA "A" licence holder and former "man 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 squad. Goalkeepers coach Vitaly Shadrin (alongside same duties at Russian National Women's team) and strength & conditioning coach Yulia Gordeeva have also joined the staff.


Lev Yashin Academy

In 2021 the academy won both winter and summer championships in Moscow youth league, Club's League, being the only club to score more than 200 goals (2,85 per match) and conceding as well the fewest number of 47 goals. Soon after, Alexander Kuznetsov, academy's 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 favour of footballers – creative, technically skilled and able to make right decisions on the pitch". Mr Kuznetsov has also mentioned the role in modern approach in the Academy of Juan Martinez Garcia, Spanish specialist, who had been working in the club for several years a decade ago. In March 2022, the academy and
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became official partners in education and research. ; Franchise The club has a football Academy named after Lev Yashin
official site
), created on the basis of the Dynamo youth team. In recent years, the owners of the club have seriously taken up its development. VTB Group has created an endowment fund with a capital of 5 billion rubles to finance the training 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,
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. In 2020, 13 graduates of the academy played for the main team of Dynamo. In 2020, the academy began to develop a network of branches. The first branch was created in
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(
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) 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
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, in
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, in
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and in stanitsa Novotitarovskaya in
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. The next branch, based on local "Junior" school of sports, would be coming soon in Nizhnevartovsk. In August 2021, the club started providing online workshops as a manual to launch Lev Yashin Academy franchises in any Russian city. ; Endowment fund In September 2021,
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, worldwide hockey superstar and former
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forward, was named official ambassador for the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy. Since September 2021, FC Dynamo Moscow has been launched marketing activities to promote the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy. Within the first promo offer, 30% of the cost of official new kit is transferred to support young Dynamo players sustainability, and each kit's buyer could get a number and a name on it for free. Since September 2021, each purchase in roubles, miles or bonus points by card of
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could be directly converted into a single donation for the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy.


Ownerships, kit suppliers and shirt sponsors


B2C Marketing

; Fashion and Merchandise In August 2021, FC Dynamo Moscow opened the official fanstore with sports and casualwear at VTB Arena as an integral part of club's renewed brand platform. In December 2021, premiere screening of "Legends of the Future", dedicated to Dynamo's stars Mikhail Yakushin, Konstantin Beskov and Alexei Khomich, was held at club's official fanstore. The first ever vintage Dynamo's collection was produced in 2008 and then in the late 2010s. A new vintage fashion line was launched in August 2021 featuring heritage brand "Olovo". In September 2021, iconic British designer Nigel Cabourn started cooperating with the club with a fashion line, which will be his first cooperation with a football club, in a view of FC Dynamo Moscow's centenary in 2022, because vintage has always been a source of inspiration for the designer. In February 2022, Nigel Cabourn presented the whole FC Dynamo Moscow casual range at Pitti Uomo, famous international men's fashion show, at
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in
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. In October 2021, capsule collection, dedicated to Lev Yashin's anniversary, was shown in his favourite cinema, Pioner, in Moscow. In November 2021, the club organized auction to sell all new collection retro shirts, presented by Dynamo's footballers before the kick-off of the home game with
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, held on October 22, the day of the anniversary of Lev Yashin, for the benefit of endowment fund of FC Dynamo Moscow. In December 2021, the club launched its first full-range New Year's collection. In February 2022, in the way to promote the fanstore and the 2nd round of the championship, where FC Dynamo Moscow is running on the Champions League's 2nd place, the club offered a free ticket for each more than 5000 roubles purchase. ; "Dynamo Runners" club In August 2021, "Dynamo Runners" club was launched to promote Dynamo's spirit on a larger scale. Running, fitness and healthy lifehacks in
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are scheduled for every new training of the club. Olympic champion Yuri Borzakovskiy has become one of the ambassadors of "Dynamo Runners" club together with top bloggers and other celebrities. ; Dynamo & VTB Bank day In October 2021, Dynamo & VTB Bank day was dedicated to 92nd anniversary of Lev Yashin together with school students, invited to Dynamo's game against
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, won 4 to 1, and to the official club fanshop at VTB Arena. Communication with school students has been carried on in December 2021 within tours at VTB Arena for school students from
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. ; Cyber and high-Tech Marketing The last home matchday vs
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at VTB Arena was powered by the first Augmented reality (AR) show within a football game in Russia. ; Dynamo Bookshelf In February 2022, the club presented two books about Gavriil Kachalin and Igor Chislenko as a part of "Legends and Lives" serie. One year before, the club also published the book about Mikhail Yakushin. ; Social Media In January 2022, according to Deportes y Finanzas, the club became the most popular Russian football team on
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in the year 2021. ; Charity During the season 2021–22, the club upscaled its charity matchday activities with 100 roubles from each ticket and 20% of merchandise sales provided to numerous charity funds.


Rivalries

Since its establishment in 1923, Dynamo's historical rival has been Spartak Moscow. Clashes between the clubs were seen by their fans and more generally as the most important 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 combined Dynamo-Spartak team that traveled to
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to face
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, then one of Europe's top teams.) Dynamo clinched the first-ever Soviet League by beating Spartak 1–0 at Dynamo Stadium. Spartak responded by winning the championship the following year.


Stadium

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,
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. They continued to play at Arena Khimki until 26 May 2019, when FC Dynamo Moscow officially "returned home," as they played their first match at the newly opened VTB Arena.


Average attendance

In the 1st half of the 2021–22 season Dynamo recorded the best attendance at home among Moscow football clubs, according to official stats provided by
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.


Honours


Domestic

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/
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**Champions (11): 1936 (spring),
1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...
,
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, events related to World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *Janu ...
,
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...
,
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...
,
1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...
, 1955,
1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...
,
1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...
,
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
,
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
**Runners-up (12): 1936 (autumn),
1946 1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
,
1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country i ...
,
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...
,
1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...
,
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
,
1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
,
1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
,
1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...
,
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
,
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...
,
1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
**Third Place (11):
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...
,
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
,
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
,
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
,
1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
,
1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...
,
1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
,
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
,
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
, 2021–22, 2023–24 *
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/ Russian Cup **Winners (7):
1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...
,
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
, 1966–67,
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
,
1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...
,
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
, 1994–95 **Runners-up (9):
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...
,
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...
,
1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...
, 1955,
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2011–12, 2021–22 *
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/ Russian Super Cup **Winners:
1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...
**Runners-up: 1984 *
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**Winners: 2016–17


European

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**Runners-up: 1971–72


Non-official

* Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy **Winners: 1976 * Atlantic Cup **Winners: 2015 *Lev Yashin Cup **Winners: 2010


Players


Current squad

, according to th
RPL official website


Out on loan


FC Dynamo-2 Moscow

Following Dynamo's relegation from the
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(which holds its own competition for the Under-19 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
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, beginning with the 2016–17 season. Following the main squad's promotion back to the RPL, they stopped playing professionally in the 2017–18 season, with players returning to the RPL U19 tournament. Dynamo-2 returned to PFL for the 2020–21 season.


Notable players

;USSR/Russia * Viktor Anichkin * Anatoly Baidachny * Vladimir Belyayev * Konstantin Beskov * Aleksandr Bubnov * Igor Chislenko * Yevgeni Dolgov * Oleg Dolmatov * Valery Gazzaev * Gennadi Gusarov * Vladimir Kesarev * Valeri Kleimyonov * Valery Korolenkov * Igor Kolyvanov * Viktor Losev * Evgeny Lovchev * Alakbar Mammadov * Eduard Mudrik * Aleksandr Novikov *
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* Viktor Tsarev * Aleksandr Uvarov * Andrei Yakubik * Mikhail Yakushin * Lev Yashin * Gennady Yevriuzhikin *
Vladimir Beschastnykh Vladimir Yevgenyevich Beschastnykh ( rus, Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Бесча́стных, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʲɪˈɕːasnɨx; born 1 April 1974) is a Russian football manager and a former player who ...
* Aleksandr Borodyuk * Dmitri Bulykin * Pyotr Bystrov * Dmitri Cheryshev * Igor Denisov * Igor Dobrovolsky * Yuri Drozdov * Daniil Fomin * Vladimir Gabulov * Yaroslav Gladyshev *
Danil Glebov Danil Aleksandrovich Glebov (; born 3 November 1999) is a Russian association football, football player who plays as a central midfielder for FC Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow and the Russia national football team, Russia national team. Club car ...
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Vladimir Granat Vladimir Vasilyevich Granat ( rus, Владимир Васильевич Гранат, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪdʑ ɡrɐˈnat; born 22 May 1987) is a Russian professional association football, football coach and a former centre-ba ...
* Sergey Grishin * Rolan Gusev * Aleksei Ionov * Andrei Ivanov * Andrei Karyaka *
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* Dmitri Kharine * Yevgeni Kharlachyov *
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* Sergei Kiriakov * Valeri Kleimyonov * Andrey Kobelev * Aleksandr Kokorin * Denis Kolodin * Sergei Kolotovkin * Dmitri Kombarov * Nikolay Komlichenko * Yuri Kovtun * Aleksei Kozlov * Andrey Lunyov * Andrei Mokh * Roman Neustädter * Sergei Ovchinnikov * Kirill Panchenko * Aleksandr Panov * Sergei Parshivlyuk * Ruslan Pimenov *
Nikolai Pisarev Nikolai Nikolayevich Pisarev (; born 23 November 1968) is a Russian association football, football manager and a former player. He is an assistant coach with Russia national football team. International career Pisarev played his first game for ...
* Pavel Pogrebnyak * Vladislav Radimov * Konstantin Rausch * Aleksei Rebko * Aleksandr Samedov * Igor Semshov * Anton Shunin * Igor Simutenkov * Igor Sklyarov * Dmitri Skopintsev *
Alexey Smertin Aleksey Gennadyevich Smertin ( rus, Алексе́й Генна́дьевич Сме́ртин, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɡʲɪˈnadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈsʲmʲertʲɪn; born 1 May 1975) is a Russian association football, football official and a former play ...
*
Fyodor Smolov Fyodor Mikhaylovich Smolov ( rus, Фёдор Миха́йлович Смо́лов, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ˈsmoləf, links=yes; born 9 February 1990) is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Club career Smolo ...
* Sergei Terekhov * Oleg Teryokhin * Omari Tetradze * Aleksandr Tochilin * Akhrik Tsveiba * Konstantin Tyukavin * Andrey Yeshchenko * Roman Yevgenyev * Artur Yusupov * Arsen Zakharyan * Yuriy Zhirkov * Roman Zobnin ;Europe * Roman Berezovsky * Jakob Jantscher * Vali Gasimov * Dmitriy Kramarenko * Ramil Sheydayev * Stanislaw Drahun * Vasily Khomutovsky * Andrey Kudravets * Aliaksandr Kulchiy * Pavel Nyakhaychyk *
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* Igor Shitov * Aleh Shkabara * Sergei Shtanyuk * Gennady Tumilovich * Zvjezdan Misimović * Toni Šunjić * Tsvetan Genkov * Tomislav Dujmović * Nikola Moro * Gordon Schildenfeld * Erich Brabec * Martin Hašek * Stanislav Vlček * Boris Rotenberg * Moshtagh Yaghoubi * Mathieu Valbuena * Luka Gagnidze * Otar Khizaneishvili * Saba Sazonov * Kakhaber Tskhadadze * Kevin Kurányi * Giourkas Seitaridis *
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* Eli Dasa * Ruslan Baltiev * Andrei Karpovich * Andrejs Prohorenkovs * Fedor Černych * Deividas Česnauskis * Edgaras Česnauskis * Mindaugas Kalonas * Žydrūnas Karčemarskas * Arūnas Klimavičius * Robertas Poškus * Deividas Šemberas * Tomas Tamošauskas * Darius Žutautas * Valeriu Andronic * Alexandru Epureanu *
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Fatos Bećiraj Fatos Bećiraj (, ; born 5 May 1988) is a Montenegrin former professional footballer who played as a striker. Club career Early career and Budućnost Bećiraj began his career in his hometown of Peja with the local club Shqiponja at 17 year ...
* Jovan Tanasijević *
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* Mathias Normann * Marcin Kowalczyk * Sebastian Szymański * Costinha * Custódio Castro * Danny * Jorge Ribeiro *
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Most appearances


Most goals


One-club men


Coaching and medical staff


Former head coaches


Gallery

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Dmitri Khokhlov Dmitri Valeryevich Khokhlov (, born 22 December 1975) is a Russian football manager and former midfielder who is the manager of the Under-19 squad of Lokomotiv Moscow. Playing career Khokhlov played for PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow i ...


Personnel


Club management


Presidents

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(CEO)," or general director.


References


External links


FCDM.RU
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