FC Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo

Full name	Football Club Dynamo Moscow
Nickname(s)	White-Blues, Menty (Cops)
Founded	1923
Ground	Dynamo Stadium, Moscow (Capacity: 36,540)
Chairman	Dmitry Ivanov
Manager	Andrey Kobelev
League	Russian Premier League
2008	RPL, 3rd
Home colours Away colours

Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, Dinamo Moskva, Russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian football club based in Moscow, which currently plays in the Russian Premier League. The team's home ground is Dynamo Stadium. Dynamo's traditional kit colours are blue and white. Their crest is of a blue letter "D", written in a traditional cyrillic style, on a white background with the name of their home town "Moscow" written in front of a football underneath. Club's motto "Power in Motion" had been proposed by Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian/Soviet author who once was an active member of the Dynamo sports society.

Dynamo Moscow is the oldest Russian football club and the only one which has always played in the top tiers of the Soviet and the Russian football competitions never relegating to the lower devisions.

During the Soviet era it was affiliated with the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs - The Soviet Militia & the K.G.B.) and was a part of Dynamo sports society.

History

Dynamo Moscow has its roots in the club Morozovtsi Orekhovo Suevo Moskva founded as a factory team in 1887. The team was re-named OKS Moskva in 1906 and won a series of Moscow league championships from 1910 to 1914.

After the Russian revolution of 1917 the club eventually found itself under the authority of the Interior Ministry and its head Felix Dzerzhinsky, chief of the Soviet Union's first secret police force, the notorious Cheka. The club was re-named Dinamo Moskva in 1923 and developed some infamy for its intimidating association with the Interior Ministry, often being referred to as Garbage, a Russian criminal slang term for police, by the supporters of other clubs.

FC Dynamo Moscow. 13 November 1945. Stamford Bridge. Chelsea F.C - FC Dynamo Moscow

Dinamo 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. They were also the first Soviet club to tour the West and put on an impressive display during a goodwill visit to the United Kingdom in 1945. Complete unknowns, the Soviet players delivered a surprising performance: they drew 3:3 at Chelsea, rode roughshod 10:1 over Cardiff City, beat an Arsenal side reinforced by the presence of Stanley Matthews, Stan Mortensen and Joe Bacuzzi by a score of 4:3 in a match played in thick fog, and finally, drew 2:2 with Rangers.

They continued to be a strong side at home after the war and enjoyed their greatest success through the 50's. Dinamo 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 (now the Russian Cup), but has not won a national championship since 1976. Even so, Dinamo's 11 national titles make it the country's third most decorated side behind Dynamo Kiev (13 titles) and Spartak Moscow (12 titles).

Dinamo's greatest achievement in Europe to this day was in the 1972 UEFA Cup Winners Cup. They got to the final at the Nou Camp in Barcelona where they lost to Scottish side Rangers 3-2. This was a Russian side's greatest achievement in Europe until CSKA Moscow won the 2005 UEFA Cup.

Stadium

Their ground is the historic Dinamo Stadium in Petrovsky Park, which seats 36,540. Despite not having won a league title in over thirty years the club still has a quite extensive, though aging, fan base.

Achievements

• Soviet championship: 1936, 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976
• Soviet Cup champions: 1937, 1953, 1967, 1970, 1977, 1984
• Russian Cup champions: 1995
• USSR Super Cup champions: 1977
• Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy Champions: 1976
• Cup Winners Cup finalist: 1972

League positions

Current squad

As of 29 August 2008, according to the Russian Premier League official website.

No. Position Player 1 GK Anton Shunin 2 MF Andrei Karpovich 3 DF Aleksandr Tochilin 4 DF Marcin Kowalczyk 5 FW Aleksandr Kerzhakov 6 DF Leandro Fernández 7 MF Kirill Kombarov 8 MF Dmitry Khokhlov 9 MF Dmitri Kombarov 11 FW Ruslan Pimenov 13 DF Vladimir Granat 14 MF Denys Skepsky 15 DF Aleksandr Dimidko

No. Position Player 16 FW Tsvetan Genkov 17 DF Aleksandr Lobkov 19 FW Cícero 20 MF Igor Semshov 21 GK Žydrūnas Karčemarskas 22 MF Luke Wilkshire 23 DF Jovan Tanasijević 24 DF Arunas Klimavičius 25 DF Denis Kolodin 30 GK Vladimir Gabulov 40 FW Fyodor Smolov 44 DF Nikita Chicherin 77 FW Aleksandr Kokorin

The following players are listed by club's website as reserve players. They are eligible to play for the first team.

No. Position Player 27 MF Custódio 31 DF Denis Burnashkin 32 DF Andrei Bychkov 33 MF Nail Zamaliyev 35 MF Aleksei Batanov 36 MF Aleksandr Kuzyutin 38 MF Andrei Altunin 39 FW Aleksandr Bebikh

No. Position Player 41 GK Fyodor Burdykin 48 MF Aleksandr Arsoyev 51 MF Vakhtang Morgoshiya 54 MF Viktor Svezhov 61 GK Aleksei Karasevich 69 MF Pavel Alpatov 89 FW Aleksandr Bebikh

Notable past players

Club Record Holders

Most league games for Dynamo

1. Aleksandr Novikov: 327
2. Lev Yashin: 326
3. Valeri Maslov: 319
4. Aleksandr Makhovikov: 287
5. Gennadi Yevryuzhikhin: 283
6. Viktor Anichkin: 282
7. Sergei Nikulin: 280
8. Viktor Tsaryov: 278
9. Andrei Kobelev: 263
10. Aleksei Petrushin: 244
11. Aleksandr Tochilin: 239
12. Vladimir Pilguy: 223

Most league goals for Dynamo

1. Sergei Solovyov: 127
2. Konstantin Beskov: 90
3. Vasili Kartsev: 71
4. Valeri Gazzayev: 70
5. Igor Chislenko: 68
6. Oleg Teryokhin: 67

Head coaches

• 1936 Konstantin Kvashnin
• 1937 Viktor Dubinin
• 1938 Mikhail Tovarovsky
• 1939 Viktor Dubinin
• 1939 Viktor Teterin
• 1939 Lev Korchebokov
• 1940-1944 Boris Arkadyev
• 1944 Lev Korchebokov
• 1944-1950 Mikhail Yakushin
• 1950-1951 Viktor Dubinin
• 1952-1953 Mikhail Semichastny
• 1953-1960 Mikhail Yakushin
• 1961 Vsevolod Blinkov
• 1962-1965 Aleksandr Ponomaryov
• 1965-1966 Vyacheslav Solovyov
• 1967-1972 Konstantin Beskov
• 1973-1974 Gavriil Kachalin
• 1975-1979 Aleksandr Sevidov
• 1979 Viktor Tsaryov
• 1980 Yevgeni Goryansky
• 1980-1983 Vyacheslav Solovyov
• 1983 Vadim Ivanov
• 1983-1985 Aleksandr Sevidov
• 1985-1987 Eduard Malofeyev
• 1987-1990 Anatoliy Byshovets
• 1990-1991 Semyon Altman
• 1991-1993 Valery Gazzaev
• 1993 Adamas Golodets
• 1994-1995 Konstantin Beskov
• 1995-1998 Adamas Golodets
• 1998-1999 Georgi Yartsev
• 1999 Aleksei Petrushin
• 2000-2001 Valery Gazzaev
• 2001-2002 Aleksandr Novikov
• 2002-2003 Viktor Prokopenko
• 2003-2004 Jaroslav Hřebík
• 2004 Viktor Bondarenko
• 2004-2005 Oleg Romantsev
• 2005 Ivo Wortmann
• 2005 Andrei Kobelev
• 2006 Yuri Semin
• 2006-present Andrei Kobelev

Team trivia

• British diplomat Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart – who played the 1912 championship season for OKS Moskva – was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in 1918 for his role in an alleged plot to kill Lenin. He was saved when the British exchanged him for Maxim Litvinov.

• Notable Portugal players, Maniche and Costinha, and Greece defender, Giourkas Seitaridis have played at this club. The three players were signed by the club from F.C. Porto.

• In 1963 Dynamo's goalkeeper Lev Yashin was voted Europe's Best Football Player by the French weekly France Football.

• In 2008 Dynamo's midfielder Danny Alves was bought by Zenit for the record €30 million, making this transfer the most expensive in the history of Russian football.

See also

• Dynamo (disambiguation)
• Dynamo Moscow (disambiguation)

References

External links

• Official Website (Russian)
• Official Website (English)
• Unofficial Web Portal (Russian)
• Football club fansite (Russian)
• official Fans Website
• Dynamo news (Russian)