FC Dynamo Kyiv

The origin of the club name came from the USSR sports society Dynamo. The team played for the society for precisely sixty years all the way up until 1989 when the club with the same name was founded. While discussing the name for the future leading club, an employee of the Moscow Dynamo factory L. Nedolya-Honcharenko suggested the name should include energy, power and spirit (Dynamo means “power” in Greek). His idea was backed, with writer Maksim Gorkiy describing it later on as “Dynamo is power in motion”. The phrase was used as a catchword for quite a spell.

Key Achievements
* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1975, 1986
* UEFA Super Cup: 1975
* Ukrainian Championship, 12 times (record): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007
* Ukrainian Cup, 9 times (record): 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
* Ukrainian Super Cup, 4 times (record): 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009
* USSR Championship, 13 times (record): 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990
* USSR Cup 9 times (record): 1954, 1964, 1966, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990
* CIS Cup 4 times: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002
Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov winners of the Golden Ball

FC Dynamo Kyiv 1st Team Squad 2011/12

FC Dynamo Kyiv has participated in all Ukrainian and USSR championships to date, and has won both competitions more times than any other team. The club's most successful period was during the 1970s and 1980s. This was a time when most of the players of the USSR national team comprised of players from Dynamo Kyiv.
Dynamo Kyiv striker Oleh Blokhin is the Russian Premier League's all-time top scorer with 211 goals, and has also made more appearances than any other player in the championship's history with 432.