FC Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo Moscow

Full name	Футбольный клуб Динамо Москва (Football Club Dynamo Moscow)
Nickname(s)	Belo-golubye (White-blues) Dinamiki Menty (Cops)
Founded	18 April 1923; 101 years ago (1923-04-18)
Ground	VTB Arena
Capacity	26,319
Owner	Dynamo sports society
General Director	Pavel Pivovarov
Head coach	Marcel Lička
League	Russian Premier League
2023–24	Russian Premier League, 3rd of 16
Website	https://en.fcdm.ru/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

FC Dynamo Moscow (FC Dynamo Moskva,^[1] Russian: Дина́мо Москва́, romanized: Dinamo Moskva, [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.^[2]

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^[3][4] 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.^[5] Boris Rotenberg Sr. was chairman until he resigned on 17 July 2015.^[6] On 29 December 2016, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to buy VTB Bank shares back for 1 ruble.^[7] On 14 February 2019, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to sell the club back to VTB for 1 ruble.^[8][9] On 24 February 2022, the shares were transferred by VTB back to the Dynamo sports society.^[10]

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 Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian author, who was once an active member of the Dynamo sports society.

Dynamo Moscow has its roots in the football Club Sokolniki Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[11]

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.^[12][13] 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.^[14]

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).^{[citation needed]}

In the 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup, Dynamo 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.^{[citation needed]}

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,^[15] which gave them a strong advantage going into the second leg. However, Celtic comfortably defeated Dynamo 0–2 in Moscow to progress,^[16] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[17] 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."^[18] 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.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2015, Dynamo was excluded from 2015–16 Europa League competition for violating Financial Fair Play break-even requirements.^[19][20] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[21]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[22]

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 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.^[23] 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".^[24] 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.^[2]

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.^[25]

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).^[8] The price was the same symbolic 1 ruble.^[9] 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.^[26] (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".^[27]) 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.^[28]

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.^[29]

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.^[30]

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."^[31] The team finished the season in 7th place.^{[citation needed]}

On 24 February 2022, as a consequence of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, VTB Bank was sanctioned by the United Kingdom.^[32] On the same day, VTB Bank transferred the shares of FC Dynamo back to the Dynamo Sports Society.^[10]

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.^[33]

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.^[34] The club also qualified for the 2021–22 Russian Cup final, their first Russian Cup final appearance since 2012.^[35] 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.^[36] 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.^[37] Manager Sandro Schwarz resigned from the club after the Cup final.^[38]

Slaviša Jokanović was hired as a new manager on 17 June 2022.^[39] 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).^[40] Dynamo went into the winter break of the season in 4th place.^[41] 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.^[42] Dynamo lost 5 of the last 7 league games and finished in 9th place.

On 22 June 2023, Marcel Lička was appointed new manager.^[43] 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 Krasnodar with 7 games left. However, Dynamo won their next five games, including scoring winning goals late in added time against Sochi 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.^[44][45] 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 Krasnodar would have secured the title for Dynamo.^[46] 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.^[47] 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.^[48]

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).^{[49][50][51][52]}

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 seasons' 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 Krasnodar. 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 Russian Premier League (and Soviet Top League before it) to score a goal which was not a converted penalty kick.^[53] Dynamo went into the season's winter break in 4th place with 35 points, 4 points behind league leaders Krasnodar and Zenit.^[54]

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

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

As of 9 July 2021^[55]

Rank	Country	Team	Points
147		Heracles Almelo	7.840
148		Dynamo Moscow	7.676
149		Arsenal Tula	7.676

In December 2021, according to the strategy of the club, FC Dynamo Football launched Women's team, as well as Women's Youth team^[56] and Girl's section in Lev Yashin Academy.^[57] 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.^[58]

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.^[59] 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.^[60] In March 2022, the academy and Higher School of Economics became official partners in education and research.^[61]

Franchise

The club has a football Academy named after Lev Yashin (official site Archived 17 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine), 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, Sergei Stepashin.^[62] In 2020, 13 graduates of the academy played for the main team of Dynamo.^[63]

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,^[64] in Belgorod,^[65] in Vladivostok,^[66] in Voronezh^[67] and in stanitsa Novotitarovskaya in Krasnodar Krai.^[68] The next branch, based on local "Junior" school of sports, would be coming soon in Nizhnevartovsk.^[69]

In August 2021, the club started providing online workshops as a manual to launch Lev Yashin Academy franchises in any Russian city.^[70]

Endowment fund

In September 2021, Alexander Ovechkin, worldwide hockey superstar and former HC Dynamo Moscow forward, was named official ambassador for the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy.^[71] 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.^[72]

Since September 2021, each purchase in roubles, miles or bonus points by card of VTB Bank could be directly converted into a single donation for the endowment fund of Lev Yashin Academy.^[73]

Period	Kit manufacturers	Shirt sponsor	Owner
?—1992	Adidas		Dynamo Sports Club
1992—1997	Umbro	Parmalat (1994—1996)
1997—2001	Adidas	Economy and Life (1998—1999) Fedcom (2000—2001)
2002	Nike
2003—2006	Diadora	YUKOS (2003) Fedcom (2004) Xerox (2005—2007)	Alexey Fedorychev
2006—2011	Umbro	Metalloinvest (2008) VTB (2009—2022) BetBoom (2023–)	VTB
2011—2014	Adidas
2014—2019	Nike
2019—2021	Kelme
2021—2022	Puma
2022—			Dynamo Sports Club

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.^[74] 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.^[75]

The first ever vintage Dynamo's collection was produced in 2008 and then in the late 2010-ies. A new vintage fashion line was launched in August 2021 featuring heritage brand "Olovo".^[76]

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.^[77] In February 2022, Nigel Cabourn presented the whole FC Dynamo Moscow casual range at Pitti Uomo, famous international men's fashion show, at Fortezza da Basso in Florence.^[78]

In October 2021, capsule collection, dedicated to Lev Yashin's anniversary, was shown in his favourite cinema, Pioner, in Moscow.^[79]

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 FC Khimki, held on October 22, the day of the anniversary of Lev Yashin, for the benefit of endowment fund of FC Dynamo Moscow.^[80]

In December 2021, the club launched its first full-range New Year's collection.^[81] 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.^[82]

"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 Moscow 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.^[83]

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 FC Khimki, won 4 to 1, and to the official club fanshop at VTB Arena.^[84] Communication with school students has been carried on in December 2021 within tours at VTB Arena for school students from Khimki.^[85]

Cyber and high-Tech Marketing

The last home matchday vs FC Zenit Saint Petersburg at VTB Arena was powered by the first Augmented reality (AR) show within a football game in Russia.^[86]

Dynamo Bookshelf

In February 2022, the club presented two books about Gavriil Kachalin and Igor Chislenko as a part of "Legends and Lives" serie.^[87] One year before, the club also published the book about Mikhail Yakushin.^[88]

Social Media

In January 2022, according to Deportes y Finanzas, the club became the most popular Russian football team on YouTube in the year 2021.^[89]

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.^[90]

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 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. Spartak responded by winning the championship the following year.^{[citation needed]}

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 26 May 2019, when FC Dynamo Moscow officially "returned home," as they played their first match at the newly opened VTB Arena.^{[citation needed]}

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 2020–21 7,562 2021–22 10,774 2022–23 13,774

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 Russian Premier League.^[91]

• Soviet Top League/Russian Premier League^[92]
  • Champions (11): 1936 (spring), 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976
  • Runners-up (12): 1936 (autumn), 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1986, 1994
  • Third Place (11): 1952, 1960, 1973, 1975, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2008, 2021–22, 2023–24
• Soviet Cup/Russian Cup^[93][94]
  • Winners (7): 1937, 1953, 1966–67, 1970, 1977, 1984, 1994–95
  • Runners-up (9): 1945, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1979, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2011–12, 2021–22
• Soviet Super Cup/Russian Super Cup
  • Winners: 1977
  • Runners-up: 1984
• Russian Football National League
  • Winners: 2016–17

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  • Runners-up: 1971–72

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

As of 7 September 2024, according to the RPL official website

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Andrey Lunyov 2 DF  ISR Eli Dasa 3 DF  PAR Fabián Balbuena 5 DF  SRB Milan Majstorović 6 DF  PAR Roberto Fernández 7 MF  RUS Dmitri Skopintsev 8 MF  COL Jorge Carrascal 10 MF  BRA Bitello 11 FW  BRA Arthur Gomes 13 FW  CMR Moumi Ngamaleu 14 FW  MAR El Mehdi Maouhoub 18 DF  URU Nicolás Marichal 20 FW  RUS Vyacheslav Grulyov 24 MF  MEX Luis Chávez 30 MF  RUS Dmitri Aleksandrov

No. Pos. Nation Player 31 GK  RUS Igor Leshchuk 34 MF  GEO Luka Gagnidze 41 MF  RUS Yegor Nazarenko 47 GK  BLR Andrey Kudravets 50 MF  RUS Aleksandr Kutitsky 52 MF  RUS Yegor Smelov 56 DF  RUS Leon Zaydenzal 69 FW  RUS Denis Bokov 70 FW  RUS Konstantin Tyukavin 74 MF  RUS Daniil Fomin 77 MF  RUS Denis Makarov 80 DF  RUS Stanislav Bessmertny 88 MF  RUS Viktor Okishor 91 FW  RUS Yaroslav Gladyshev 93 DF  URU Diego Laxalt

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  RUS Ilya Kuptsov (at KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny until 30 June 2025) — MF  RUS Daniil Lesovoy (at AEL Limassol until 30 June 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Ivan Zazvonkin (at Baltika Kaliningrad until 30 June 2025) — FW  RUS Ulvi Babayev (at Krylia Sovetov Samara until 30 June 2025)

Following Dynamo's relegation from the Russian Premier League (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 Russian Professional Football League, 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.

R	Player	Nat.	App.
1	Aleksandr Novikov		395
2	Aleksandr Makhovikov		363
3	Anton Shunin		359
4	Lev Yashin		358
5	Valery Maslov		351
6	Sergei Nikulin		336
7	Gennady Yevryuzhikhin		334
8	Viktor Anichkin		322
9	Andrei Kobelev		311
10	Aleksei Petrushin		305

R	Player	Nat.	Goals
1	Sergei Solovyov		127
2	Konstantin Beskov		91
3	Vasili Kartsev		72
4	Valery Gazzaev		70
5	Igor Chislenko		68
6	Oleg Teryokhin		67
7	Vasili Trofimov		67
8	Vladimir Ilyin		63
9	Vladimir Savdunin		62
10	Kevin Kurányi		56

Player	Nationality	Position	Debut	Last Match
Vasili Trofimov		FW	1931	1949
Lev Yashin		GK	1949	1971
Viktor Tsaryov		MF	1955	1966
Eduard Mudrik		DF	1957	1968
Vladimir Kesarev		DF	1956	1965
Nikolai Tolstykh		DF	1977	1983
Anton Shunin		GK	2004	-

Role	Name
Manager	Marcel Lička
Assistant managers	Mario Lička Rolan Gusev Adesoye Oyevole
Goalkeeping coach	Dmitry Izotov
Head of science sports department	Andreja Milutinović[95]
Fitness coach	Rafael Cristóbal
Conditioning coach	Ivan Karandashov Yevgeni Stukalov
Rehabilitation coach	Artur Saveljev
Chief analyst	Aleksey Radevich
Team manager	Yevgeny Kozlov[96]
Press office	Igor Yershov
Chief doctor	Alexander Rodionov
Physiotherapist	Matija Majzen
Dynamo-2 Moscow head coach	Pavel Alpatov

FC Dynamo Moscow coaching history from 1936 to present
Konstantin Kvashnin (1936) Viktor Dubinin (1937) Mikhail Tovarovsky (1938) Viktor Dubinin (1939) Viktor Teterin (1939) Lev Korchebokov (1939) Boris Arkadyev (1940–44) Lev Korchebokov (1944) Mikhail Yakushin (1944–50) Viktor Dubinin (1950–51) Mikhail Semichastny (1952–53) Mikhail Yakushin (1953–60) Vsevolod Blinkov (1961) Aleksandr Ponomaryov (1962–65) Vyacheslav Solovyov (1965–66) Konstantin Beskov (1967–72) Gavriil Kachalin (1973–74) Aleksandr Sevidov (1975–79) Viktor Tsaryov (1979) Yevgeny Goryansky (1980)	Vyacheslav Solovyov (1980–83) Vadim Ivanov (1983) Aleksandr Sevidov (1983–85) Eduard Malofeyev (7 Jun 1985 – 1 Nov 1987) Anatoliy Byshovets (3 Nov 1987 – 12 Jul 1990) Semyon Altman (13 Jul 1990 – 1 Apr 1991) Valery Gazzaev (3 Apr 1991 – 15 Sep 1993) Adamas Golodets (1993) Konstantin Beskov (1 Jan 1994 – 1 Sep 1995) Adamas Golodets (1995–98) Georgi Yartsev (16 Jun 1998 – 14 Jun 1999) Aleksei Petrushin (18 Jun 1999 – 31 Dec 1999) Valery Gazzaev (1 Jan 2000 – 15 April 2001) Aleksandr Novikov (2001–02) Viktor Prokopenko (6 April 2002 – 2 Nov 2003) Sergei Silkin (caretaker) (3 Nov 2003 – 31 Dec 2003) Jaroslav Hřebík (1 Jan 2004 – 12 Jul 2004) Viktor Bondarenko (2004) Oleg Romantsev (4 Nov 2004 – 18 May 2005) Andrei Kobelev (caretaker) (18 May 2005 – 8 Jul 2005)	Ivo Wortmann (8 Jul 2005 – 11 Nov 2005) Yuri Semin (11 Nov 2005 – 6 Aug 2006) Andrei Kobelev (8 Aug 2006 – 27 Apr 2010) Miodrag Božović (27 Apr 2010 – 21 Apr 2011) Sergei Silkin (caretaker) (21 Apr 2011 – 21 Jun 2011) Sergei Silkin (21 June 2011 – 6 Aug 2012) Dmitri Khokhlov (caretaker) (6 Aug 2012 – 18 Aug 2012) Dan Petrescu (18 Aug 2012 – 8 Apr 2014) Stanislav Cherchesov (10 Apr 2014 – 13 Jul 2015) Andrei Kobelev (13 Jul 2015 – 10 May 2016) Sergei Chikishev (caretaker) (10 May 2016 – 6 Jun 2016) Yuriy Kalitvintsev (6 Jun 2016 – 7 Oct 2017) Dmitri Khokhlov (7 Oct 2017 – 5 Oct 2019) Kirill Novikov (8 Oct 2019 – 29 Sep 2020) Alyaksandr Kulchy (caretaker) (29 Sep 2020 – 14 Oct 2020) Sandro Schwarz (14 Oct 2020 – 29 May 2022) Slaviša Jokanović (17 Jun 2022 – 14 May 2023) Pavel Alpatov (caretaker) (15 May 2023 – 21 Jun 2023) Marcel Lička (22 Jun 2023 – present)

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  Mikhail Yakushin
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  Konstantin Beskov
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  Anatoliy Byshovets
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  Dan Petrescu
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  Dmitri Khokhlov

Role	Name
Chairman of the Board of directors	Yuri Soloviev
General Director	Pavel Pivovarov
Director of sports projects development	Alexander Udaltsov
Sporting Director	Željko Buvač
Security Director	Pavel Konovalov

In the Dynamo organization, the position of "president" has not always been present; several times the head of the club was titled as "chief executive officer (CEO)," or general director.

Date	Position/name
President
1989–90	Vladimir Pilguy
President
1991–92	Valery Sysoyev
1993–97	Nikolai Tolstykh
General director
1998	Nikolai Tolstykh
President
1999	Nikolai Tolstykh
General director
2000–01	Nikolai Tolstykh
2002	Vladimir Ulyanov
2002–06	Yuri Zavarzin
2006–09	Dmitry Ivanov
President
2009–12	Yury Isayev
2012–13	Gennady Solovyov
2013–15	Boris Rotenberg
Club president
2015–16	Vasily Titov
2016	Vladimir Pronichev
General director
2016–18	Yevgeni Muravyov
2018–19	Sergei Fedorov
2019–21[97]	Yuri Belkin
2021-[98]	Pavel Pivovarov

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