Klasychne derby

Klasychne derby
An Ukrainian classico clash in 2009
Other names Ukrainian derby
Locale Ukraine
Teams Dynamo Kyiv
Shakhtar Donetsk
Latest meeting Dynamo 1–0 Shakhtar
Ukrainian Premier League
(3 August 2018)
Next meeting Dynamo v Shakhtar
Ukrainian Premier League
(3 November 2018)
Stadiums Olympiyskiy NSC (Dynamo)
OSC Metalist[lower-alpha 1] (Shakhtar)
Statistics
Meetings total 180
Most wins Domestic league: Dynamo (65)
Domestic cup: Shakhtar (10)
Other domestic tourneys: Dynamo (13)
International cup: Shakhtar (1)
Total wins: Dynamo (85)
Regular season series 140
Largest victory Shakhtar 6–0 Dynamo
Soviet Top League
(26 July 1950)

Klasychne derby (Ukrainian: Класичне, as Classico), or the Ukrainian football rivalry is the football match between the two top Ukrainian clubs FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The game between those two clubs is a focal point of each football season in Ukraine.

Dynamo and Shakhtar were the top Ukrainian clubs since introduction of the Soviet professional football competitions in 1936. They played against each other since 1938 and the rivalry between them two grew into the Ukrainian national rivalry only sometime after 1996 since the teams were two main contenders for the national title.

In 1981 to 1996 a rivalry among Dynamo Kyiv and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk was dominant. Then Dnipro, that returned to the Soviet Top League in 1981, won couple of Soviet titles in 1980s and almost becoming a champion of the 1992-93 season.

During the times of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian rivalry was overshadowed by the rivalry among Dynamo Kiev and Spartak Moscow (see Spartak Moscow–Dynamo Kyiv derby) that has developed sometime in 1960s.

Formation of the derby

Locations of the two teams

Soviet Union

Cover of the Soviet Union. Opening day of the 1960 Soviet Top League season.

The two clubs first met back in 1938 in Kyiv in the Soviet Top League with Dynamo winning it 2-0. At the time, Dynamo Kyiv was the main representative of Ukraine in the Soviet League, while Shakhtar initially had some difficulties to secure their place there. The Donbass team, however, was considered to be the main representative of the Ukrainian SSR other than Dynamo, representing the most industrialized and heavily urbanized eastern region of Ukraine. In a few occasions Shakhtar even managed to place higher than the Dynamo's "Capitals" in League, but for the most of the time Dynamo had more success head-to-head. Their meetings were not as popular in the Soviet League outside of Ukraine as the Moscow - Kyiv face off particularly between Dynamo and Spartak.

Ukraine

The trend of Dynamo's total dominance continued well after the establishment of the Ukrainian Premier League. For several seasons Shakhtar was not even among the main contenders for the league title which was often contested by either Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk or Chornomorets Odessa. On one occasion SC Tavriya Simferopol even managed to pull a surprise, winning the championship in their maiden season, while Shakhtar contesting the bronze medals of that championship.

Rise of Shakhtar

It was not until the early 2000s (decade) when this fixture obtained the status of a true "derby". Since then, as president of Shakhtar was Rinat Akhmetov, his club has not been below the 2nd place and now has its own football academy, the recognition of the fans and a quite collection of trophies. This progression started in 1996. During this time the club has had several successful coaches, Mircea Lucescu being the most successful. In interview to Vatsko Live (Russian: Вацко Live), the former Shakhtar player Andriy Vorobey said that at least since 1997 it was cultivated in Shakhtar that Dynamo is not just an opponent, but rather the enemy.[1]

The 21st century

Dynamo during this time were still one of the big names in Ukrainian football. Despite the successes of the club in the Soviet era, at the present time Dynamo, it was not the last club in the UEFA Champions League; it faced Real Madrid in 1998–99 quarter-finals. After the death of Valeriy Lobanovskiy, Dynamo's manager in two spells, 1974–90 and 1997-2002, success in the Europe competition declined. In the 2008-09 season, the Ukrainian derby was contested in European competition for the first time. Shakhtar defeated Dynamo in a 2008-09 UEFA Cup semi-final and then became the first side in the sovereign Ukraine era to win a European competition.

During the 2015-16 Ukrainian Premier League, on 16 October, Shakhtar Donetsk beat FC Dynamo Kiev 0-3 in Kiev and set two new records. One record was that for the first time during a Ukrainian derby game in Kiev a team scored three goals. The other record was that for the first time Shakhtar had more Ukrainian derby victories, 26, than Dynamo.[2] On 1 May 2016, in the second Premier League match between them at Arena Lviv, Shakhtar won 3-0 again, making it the first time when Dynamo loses two derby matches one after another with a margin of 3 goals or more. Despite of that, Dynamo became the champions that season.[3]

Venues

Kiev
Kharkiv
current main arenas

As of recently current arenas for Dynamo is Olympiyskiy National Sports Complex in Kiev, while for Shakhtar is Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv. At Olympiskyi stadium as its home field, Dynamo plays since 1951. Shakhtar on the other hand for the longest (1938–2001) played at his older Central Stadium "Shakhtar" (Shakhtar Stadium). In 2008 Shakhtar built new modern stadium Donbass Arena of UEFA elite class, but was forced to leave the city in 2014 due to disorders in East Ukraine and eventual occupation of Donetsk by the Russian military and paramilitary forces in form of people's republics.

Statistics

Record of wins

Number of wins for both clubs

Fans of Dynamo Kyiv
Scenes from 2011 Derby game in Kyiv

As of 3 August 2018

Dynamo Kyiv Competition[4] Shakhtar Donetsk
Ukraine
24Ukrainian Premier League19
5Ukrainian Cup9
6Ukrainian Super Cup5
35Aggregate33
Soviet Union
41Soviet Top League15
2Soviet Cup1
2Soviet Super Cup—
1USSR Federation Cup3
4Cup of the UkrSSR—
50Aggregate19
European and Worldwide
—UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup1
—Aggregate1
85Total Aggregate53

Titles

Number of titles for both clubs

Dynamo Kyiv Competition Shakhtar Donetsk
Ukraine
15Ukrainian Premier League11
11Ukrainian Cup12
7Ukrainian Super Cup8
33Aggregate31
Soviet Union
13Soviet Top League—
9Soviet Cup4
3Soviet Super Cup1
7Cup of the UkrSSR—
32Aggregate5
European and Worldwide
2UEFA Cup Winners' Cup—
—UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup1
1UEFA Super Cup—
3Aggregate1
68Total Aggregate37

Year-by-year league's standings

The table lists the place each team took in each of the seasons.

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Teams 20 16 18 18 18 16 16 16 16 14 14 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 14 14 12
Dynamo Kyiv 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 4 1 1 2
Shakhtar Donetsk 4 4 2 4 10 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1

Top goalscorers

  • Players in bold are still active
  • In parenthesis are goals scored from penalty kicks
  • Included players who scored at least six goals in games between Dynamo–Shakhtar

As of 3 August 2018[5]

PlayerClubDomestic LeagueDomestic CupSuper CupOtherEuropeTotal
Oleh Blokhin Dynamo 11 (1) 3 — 1 — 15
Artem Milevskiy Dynamo 4 1 3 — — 8
Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi Shakhtar (2) / Dynamo (5) 7 — — — — 7
Alex Teixeira Shakhtar 5 2 — — — 7
Andriy Biba Dynamo 7 (1) — — — — 7
Diogo Rincón Dynamo 5 (1) 2 — — — 7
Anatoliy Byshovets Dynamo 6 — — — — 6
Ihor Belanov Dynamo 6 — — — — 6
Serhiy Rebrov Shakhtar (1) / Dynamo (5) 6 — — — — 6
Andriy Shevchenko Dynamo 6 — — — — 6
Andriy Vorobey Shakhtar 4 2 — — — 6
Luiz Adriano Shakhtar 4 2 — — — 6
Eduardo Shakhtar 3 3 — — — 6
Jádson Shakhtar 5 (1) — — — 1 6
Andriy Yarmolenko Dynamo 5 (1) 1 — — — 6
Oleh Husyev Dynamo 3 (2) 1 2 (1) — — 6
  • Own goals – Mykola Krasyuk (Shakhtar), Abram Lerman (Dynamo), Oleksandr Pollak (Shakhtar), Oleksiy Drozdenko (Shakhtar), Anatoliy Konkov (Dynamo), Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Shakhtar), Serhiy Fedorov (Dynamo), Goran Gavrančić (Dynamo), Adrian Pukanych (Shakhtar), Yevhen Khacheridi (Dynamo, 2), Davit Khocholava (Shakhtar), Oleksandr Kucher (Shakhtar)
  • Hat-tricks – Volodymyr Bohdanovych (Dynamo), Valeriy Yaremchenko (Shakhtar), Ihor Petrov (Shakhtar), Ihor Belanov (Dynamo)
  • Both teams – Viktor Fomin, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Oleh Bazylevych, Serhiy Rebrov

Crossing the divide

Junior Moraes (in 2018), the most recent transfer

Soviet Union

In bold are players who transferred directly from one club to the other.

Shakhtar then Dynamo
Dynamo then Shakhtar

Ukraine

Over the period of independence by 2018, there only were three direct transfer moves in each direction (Dynamo to Shakhtar, Shakhtar to Dynamo).[6] In bold are players who transferred directly from one club to the other.

Shakhtar then Dynamo
Dynamo then Shakhtar

Notes

  1. ↑ Shakhtar is forced to play away from home due to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

References

  1. ↑ Vorobey: Dynamo is rather the enemy than the main opponent (Воробей: Динамо – скорее враг, чем принципиальный соперник). UA-Football. 7 May 2018
  2. ↑ http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/1445016829-shahter-ustanavlivaet-rekord-klassicheskogo-i-obhodit-dinamo.html
  3. ↑ (in Ukrainian)"Динамо вперше в історії програє Шахтарю два матчі поспіль з великим рахунком" [For the first time in the history Dynamo loses to Shakhtar two matches one after another with a big score]. ua-football.com. 1 May 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Динамо" - "Шахтар". Статистика всеукраїнського дербі (in Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Before the 173rd Klasychne. Statistical details of the great rivalry (Напередодні 173-го Класичного. Статистичні деталі великого протистояння). Football 24. 20 April 2017
  6. ↑ Not only by Moraes united. All transfer cases from Dynamo to Shakhtar during the years of independence (Не Мораешем единым. Все случаи переходов из Динамо в Шахтер за годы Независимости). UA-Football. 18 June 2018
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