Column by Alexander Lipenko. Were Dynamo players and became coaches

Behind 31 championships of Ukraine. 16 times Dynamo Kyiv players won gold medals. 12 times they were vice-champions and once a bronze medalist.

Kiev citizens have become Cup of Ukraine winners 13 times. Five times they lost to their rivals in the finals. For 9 times Dynamo players got the Super Cup of Ukraine.

In different years there have been former Dynamo players on the coaching bench: Valerii Lobanovskii, Anatolii Puzach, Jozsef Sabo, Mykhailo Fomenko, Oleksii Mykhailychenko, Volodymyr Onishchenko, Oleh Blokhin, Leonid Buryak, Serhii Rebrov and Oleksandr Khatskevych.

The greatest success with his charges Valeriy Lobanovskiy - his team became the champion five times and three times won the Ukrainian Cup.

They were the first

"Dynamo" was the first club of the former USSR made its debut in two popular European tournaments.

September 2, 1956 our team in the 1/16 finals on a visit met with the Northern Irish club Coleraine. The victory was 6-1. Andriy Biba scored the first goal of Dynamo in this European tournament.

Anatoliy Puzach scored the club's first goal in the European Cup. He scored it on October 20, 1967 in the match Celtic vs Dynamo (1:2).

The year 1975. The first year of big success of the team from the banks of the Dnipro in the European arena. On May 14 in Basel Dynamo won its first Cup Winners' Cup by beating Hungarian Ferencvaros (3:0).

In the fall, beating Bayern Munich twice - 1-0 in Munich, and 2-0 in Kiev team of Valeriy Lobanovskiy became the owner of the UEFA Super Cup.

31 goals scored in two games.

On May 1, 1955 in a friendly match Dynamo defeated the national team of Lebanon with a score of 18:0. Kyivians have set a record for performance in international matches. Our team has surpassed the record of the English. In 1951 the soccer ancestors defeated the Australian national team - 17:0.

On September 6 in Kyiv Dynamo defeated the Indian club West Bengal Club - 13:1.

There are 12 national team players on the pitch, all of them are Kyiv Dynamo players

24 Dynamo players constantly played in the national team of the former Soviet Union. June 8, 1975 in "Luzhniki" our team took the Italian national team. There were 11 Dynamo players: Rudakov, Konkov, Matvienko, Fomenko, Buryak, Troshkin, Muntyan, Onishchenko, Kolotov, Veremeev (who was substituted by Resko in the second half), Blokhin. The winning goal in the match was scored by Anatoliy Konkov in the 63rd minute.

At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, where our team won the bronze, it featured 11 players from Dynamo Kiev.

At the World Cup - 1986 in Mexico, our team had 12 players from Kiev.

The USSR national team was led by Valeriy Lobanovskiy in Canada, Mexico and Moscow.

Oleksandr LIPENKO for Dynamo.kiev.ua