FC Dynamo Kyiv (Ukrainian: \u0424\u041a \u0414\u0438\u043d\u0430\u043c\u043e \u041a\u0438\u0457\u0432) is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and have spent their entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football. Dynamo Kyiv has won twelve league titles, nine Ukrainian Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups. Additionally, they have also won 13 USSR Championships, 9 USSR Cups, and 3 USSR Super Cups, making Dynamo the most successful club in the history of the Soviet Top League.<\/P>
Dynamo's home is the 16,900 capacity Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium in Kiev, with a few bigger games played at Olimpiysky National Sports Complex.<\/P>","C9F4AF280A41934A":"","2CED97379BA5D88CD789B11BA8E9CA81":"","25BD2818C5CA7DE1FC8BACB88B4BE7BC":"It is often said that goalkeepers reach their peak after the age of 30, and Alexandr Shovkovski certainly lends weight to this theory. The most thrilling chapter of the Ukrainian keeper’s career has unfolded after the three-decade mark: Qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™.
And what a qualification it was. Ukraine booked their ticket for football’s supreme event back in September 2005, when they became the first country to join hosts Germany in the draw for the finals. Admittedly, the clinical finishing of Andriy Shevchenko played a crucial role in Ukraine claiming their place in Germany, but a series of solid displays in the last line of defence by Shovkovski was also a major factor.
During the course of 12 matches against sides of the calibre of Turkey, Greece and Denmark, Shovkovski was nothing short of a revelation, conceding just seven goals in all and keeping six successive clean sheets between October 2004 and September 2005; a run which coincided with six consecutive victories for his country.
While Ukraine’s strikers were causing opponents’ nets to bulge with great regularity, Shovkovski was doing his level best to ensure that his remained unruffled, particularly against Ukraine’s direct rivals for qualification. And so successful was the Kiev keeper that Oleg Blokhin’s charges took the lead at the top of Group Two in November 2004 and stayed there.
Kiev keeper<\/B>
As well as working wonders with his country, Shovkovski is also a big-game veteran on the domestic scene. Since the 1993\/94 season, he has kept goal for Dynamo Kiev, the most successful and popular club in Ukraine. As early as his first professional season, he was voted the second-best Ukrainian player of 1994 behind his team-mate Viktor Leonenko.
His performances initially earned him a place in the country’s U-21 side, for whom he played 12 matches before making the step up into the senior team. Both in his national championship and on the domestic front, Shovkovski’s commanding form made him the first-choice goalkeeper for successive national coaches. But for the big number one, his personal statistics are only of secondary importance. “I don’t pay any attention to the figures. My job is to go onto the pitch and help my team win,” he declares modestly. “I prefer to concede a goal or two but win, rather than keep a clean sheet and only draw.”
Between 1994 and 2005, Shovkovski represented his country 63 times and was beaten on just 43 occasions. Unfortunately, 2006 began on a bad note for the Dynamo shot-stopper, when, during a friendly before the start of the Ukrainian championship, the international broke his collarbone. After initially fearing his FIFA World Cup dream had also been shattered, Shovkovski was relieved to return to action after just two months on the sidelines.
Now aged 31, Shovkovski is convinced that he is not yet at the peak of his powers. He said: “I still believe that, despite being over 30, I can still get better and achieve more in the game. The important thing is to keep looking forward and reach the objectives that you set for yourself.”
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Soviet Union
Soviet Top League
Winners: (13 record) 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990
Runners-Up: 1936 (spring), 1952, 1960, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1976 (fall), 1978, 1982, 1988
Soviet Cup
Winners: (9) 1954, 1964 1966, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990
Runners-Up: 1973
USSR Super Cup:
Winners: (3 record) 1980, 1985, 1986
Runners-Up: 1977 <\/P>
Ukraine
Ukrainian Premier League
Winners: (13 record) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009
Runners-Up: 1992, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010
Ukrainian Cup:
Winners: (9 record) 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
Runners-Up: 2002, 2008
Ukrainian Super Cup
Winners: (4 record) 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009
Runners-Up: 2005, 2008 <\/P>
Europe
UEFA Cup Winners Cup
Winners: 1975, 1986
Quarterfinalist: 1966, 1991
UEFA Super Cup
Winners: 1975
Runners-Up: 1986
Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu
Winners: 1986
UEFA Champions League
Semifinalist: 1977, 1987, 1999;
Quarterfinalist: 1973,1976,1982,1983, 1992, 1998
UEFA Cup
Semifinalist: 2009 <\/P>
[edit] Non-official
Channel One Cup
Winners: 2008
Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
Winners: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002
Runners-Up: 1999 <\/P>","D21B7B52C3154356":"1","26AEE84946AA3EE044E35B1F1E9E832B":"CSKA Kyiv","480882DFDB04CD6B51949E56E163439C":"133000000.00","DF1F83E13127F6C1":"Oleksandr Shovkovsky","662FA57BD7FA44AA":"Kiev","8AADACF35D89D013D4BD2861BB0924F0":"222","C0FE8DFCAA690E72":"http:\/\/www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua\/en\/","2AC3E7C85928CE18A3090AFF171DB8C9":"2023-11-4","e_index":4};