Dynamo Kyiv in detail

Athletic Club will face reigning Ukrainiain champions FC Dynamo Kyiv in preparation for the upcoming 2021-22 campaign. The match will take place in Winterthur on Tuesday, July 20.

To get to know Mircea Lucescu’s side better, we have compiled some facts and figures about the Eastern European club:

• Founded in 1927, Dynamo Kyiv is Ukraine’s most successful club (16 league titles, 12 Cups, five Super Cups). They also have two European Cup Winners’ Cups (1974-75, 1985-86) and one European Super Cup (1975). After winning the Premier League and Ukrainian Cup last season, the Kyiv-based team will be back in the Champions League for the 2021-22 campaign. Last season, they were member of Group G alongside Juventus, Barcelona and Ferencváros. After finishing third in the group, they dropped into the Europa League, where they were eliminated by Villarreal CF in the last 16.
• Just like Athletic Club, the Ukrainain club have never been relegated from the top division, the only side to have achieved the feat in Ukrainian football.
• Eleven of their players are currently representing Ukraine at Euro 2020. It is one of the teams with the most representees at the tournament, with only Chelsea, Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Juventus having more players at the tournament.
• Dynamo Kyiv play their home matches at the 70,050-capacity Olympic Stadium in Kyiv. It hosted the Euro 2012 final and the Champions League final in 2018.
• The friendly match between Athletic Club and Dynamo will take place in Sankt Gallen on Tuesday, July 20 and will be the third time that the two teams have met in an unofficial fixture. The other two friendlies were played at San Mames in the 1977-78 and 1991-92 editions of the Villa de Bilbao summer tournament, with the Lions winning the first (1-0) and the visitors winning the second (0-1).
• Throughout their history, Dynamo Kyiv have had iconic players in among their ranks, including Oleg Blokhin, the club’s all-time top scorer and winner of the 1975 Ballon D’or, and Andriy Shevchenko, a former Milan and Chelsea player, who is the current Ukraine national team coach as well as the country’s all-time top scorer.