Today, August 3, the first match of the third qualifying round of the 2022/23 Champions League will take place Dynamo vs Sturm (Graz, Austria). The fight is nominally home for the Ukrainian team, but due to the war it will take place on a neutral field - in the Polish city of Lodz at the municipal stadium LKS named after Vladislav Krul, where the "white-blue" temporarily host their rivals in international matches. The meeting starts at 21:00 Kyiv time.
Dynamo — Sturm: where to watch, online broadcastA live TV broadcast of Dynamo-Storm will be held on the Setanta Sports TV channel. In addition, you can follow the progress of this meeting online for free on setantasports.com. Also, the Dynamo-Sturm match will be shown on the Ukrainian TV channel 2+2, but with a 15-minute delay (the broadcast starts at 21:15 Kyiv time, respectively).
Dynamo.kiev.ua will traditionally host a text online broadcast of the Dynamo-Sturm match, which will also contain online statistics of the game. Expect the starting lineups of the teams for the upcoming match on the pages of our website and its social networks about an hour and a half before the start of the game. At the final whistle, as usual, we will provide the fans with an operational report on the match.
As for Dynamo's rival in today's match, in the last Austrian championship, Sturm finished in second place, losing to the champion represented by Salzburg by as many as 15 points. However, the team from Graz confidently took the second place - Austria, which finished third, scored 8 points less.
Sturm is a 3-time Austrian champion (seasons 1997/98, 1998/99, 2010/11), 5-time Austrian Cup winner and 3-time national Super Cup winner. Among the achievements of Dynamo's rival, there is one international one: in 2008, Sturm became the owner of the Intertoto Cup.
Unlike Dynamo, the 2022/23 season has already started for Sturm. In the first round of the Austrian championship, the team from Graz played a draw with Wolfsberg (1:1), but in the second round, last Saturday, they beat the current champion Salzburg (2:1). In addition, between these two matches, Sturm defeated Saudi Al Wahda 4-0 in a friendly match. Finally, within the framework of the starting season, Dynamo's opponent held the match of the 1st round of the Austrian Cup, in which they declassed Retis (6:0), representing the Austrian third division.
At the official level, Dynamo and Graz will play each other for the first time - previously the teams met only in test matches. The last of them took place in January 2018 and ended with the defeat of the Kyivans with a score of 0:2.
Recall that the first match of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League "Dynamo" - "Storm" will be held on Wednesday, August 3, in Lodz, Poland at the municipal stadium LKS named after Vladislav Krul (beginning - at 21:00 Kyiv time). Where to watch: TV channels "Setanta Sports", "2 + 2". Online text broadcast, report - on Dynamo.kiev.ua.
