FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club from the capital of Ukraine, formed in the Soviet era as part of the Dynamo sports society, associated with the security services. It became one of the leading clubs of the Soviet Union, winning the Soviet league many times, and also won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 and 1986, the latter under the coach Valeriy Lobanovskyi, whose scientific approach to the game was influential. Famous players included Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov. After Ukraine became independent, the club dominated the domestic league and reached the Champions League semi-finals in 1999, with Andriy Shevchenko. Its rivalry with Shakhtar Donetsk is the biggest in Ukrainian football.
Before and after
- 19 November 1926Origins of Caodaism
- 5 December 1926Death of Claude Monet
- from 25 December 1926 to 7 January 1989Shōwa era
- 1927Founding of Federal University of Minas Gerais
- 1927Founding of FC Dynamo Kyiv
- 1927Hubble–Lemaître law
- 1927Origins of Super League Greece
- 1927Uncertainty principle
- 1927Davisson–Germer experiment
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