FC Dynamo Moscow (Russian: Дина́мо Москва́) is a Russian football club based in Khimki, Moscow Oblast, currently playing in the Russian Football National League.
Dynamo is the oldest Russian football club and it was the only one that had always played in the top tier of Soviet football (along with Dynamo Kyiv) and of Russian football from the end of the Soviet era until they were relegated in 2016. Despite this, it has never won the modern Russian Premier League title.
During the Soviet era, it was affiliated with the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs – The Soviet Militia) and with the KGB and was a part of Dynamo sports society. Chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, was a patron of the club until his downfall.
From 10 April 2009 the VTB Bank has been the owner of Dynamo after acquiring a 74% share in the club. Boris Rotenberg Sr. was chairman until he resigned on 17 July 2015. On 29 December 2016, Dynamo Sports Society agreed to buy VTB Bank shares back for 1 ruble.
Dynamo's traditional colours are blue and white. Their crest consists of a blue letter "D," written in a traditional cursive style on a white background, with "Moscow" written below it, partially covering a football underneath. The club's motto is "Power in Motion," initially proposed by Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian author, who was once an active member of the Dynamo sports society.In the 2016/17 season, Dynamo went down for the first time in history and the team started the season in the Football National League (the second most powerful division), took first place at the end of the season and returned to the Premier League. VTB bought the club back for 1 ruble. In 2020, a single new club emblem was approved (letter D)
At the end of the 2019/20 season, they took the sixth line and received the right to the Europa League, because the country's champion Zenit won the Russian Cup and the sixth team of the country got a ticket to the Europa League.
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- Lev Yashin
- Mathieu Valbuena
- Balázs Dzsudzsák
- Andrey Voronin
- Luke Wilkshire
- Vladimir Rykov
- Anton Shunin
