Dynamo Kyiv

Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (in Ukrainian: ФК Динамо Київ, and officially: Futbolny Klub Dynamo Kyiv) is a football club from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, founded in 1927, part of the Dynamo sports society. The club plays its home matches at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv and currently plays in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Since its foundation, Dynamo has taken part in every edition of the Soviet Top League and, after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Premier League. It has won thirteen Soviet league championships, seventeen Ukrainian leagues, nine Soviet Cups, fourteen Ukrainian Cups, three Soviet Super Cups and nine Ukrainian Super Cups. Internationally, the club holds two European Cup Winners' Cups and one UEFA Super Cup, which makes Dynamo the most decorated team of the former Soviet Union and the only one, together with Dynamo Moscow, never to have been relegated.

The team was part of the Dynamo sports society of the Soviet Union and, as such, its crest has always been the traditional Cyrillic "D". The team's colours are white, for the first kit, and blue, as the away kit. The club has substantial sports infrastructure, in addition to its own stadium, the Lobanovsky Dynamo, named after the club legend Valeri Lobanovsky. In addition to Lobanovsky, Dynamo has contributed several great players to the Soviet and Ukrainian national teams, such as Oleg Blokhin, Igor Belanov, Oleg Protassov, Aleksandr Zavarov, Andriy Shevchenko and Serhiy Rebrov.

Dynamo is the most followed and popular team in Ukraine. Its main rival is Shakhtar Donetsk, the most important club in eastern Ukraine and a symbol of the country's Russian-speaking area, so the matches between the two, known as the Ukrainian Derby, have historical and political connotations. During the Soviet era its traditional rival was Spartak Moscow, the most popular team in Moscow and Russia, against whom it contested the Soviet Derby.