Klasychne derby
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.
 A Ukrainian classico clash in 2009 | |
| Other names | Ukrainian derby |
|---|---|
| Locale | Ukraine |
| Teams | Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Latest meeting | Dynamo 2-3 Shakhtar Ukrainian Premier League (4 July 2020) |
| Next meeting | Dynamo v Shakhtar Ukrainian Super Cup (25 August 2020) |
| Stadiums | Olympiyskiy NSC (Dynamo) OSC Metalist[lower-alpha 1] (Shakhtar) |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 189 |
| Most wins | Domestic league: Dynamo (65) Domestic cup: Shakhtar (10) Other domestic tourneys: Dynamo (14) International cup: Shakhtar (1) Total wins: Dynamo (86) |
| Regular season series | 147 |
| Largest victory | Shakhtar 6–0 Dynamo Soviet Top League (26 July 1950) |
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.
From 1981 to 1996, a rivalry between Dynamo Kyiv and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk was dominant. At that time Dnipro, that returned to the Soviet Top League in 1981, won two Soviet titles in the 1980s and almost became a Ukrainian champion in the 1992-93 season.
During the times of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian rivalry was overshadowed by the rivalry between Dynamo Kiev and Spartak Moscow (see Spartak Moscow–Dynamo Kyiv derby) that has developed sometime in the 1960s.
Formation of the derby
Soviet Union
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 Donetsk team, however, was considered to be the main representative of the Ukrainian SSR other than Dynamo, representing the most industrialized and heavily urbanized Donbass region in the eastern part 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 1990s: Dynamo's dominance
The trend of Dynamo's total dominance continued well after the establishment of the Ukrainian Vyshcha Liha (which eventually became 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. Dynamo won every single league title in the 1990s except one, when SC Tavriya Simferopol managed to pull off an upset, winning the inaugural Ukrainian league season, with Dynamo taking the silver medals, and Shakhtar finishing fourth.
In 1996, Rinat Akhmetov became Shakhtar's president and started investing heavily into the club. Shakhtar became relevant again, placing 2nd in 1996-97, and not finishing below 2nd place in the league ever since. In an interview to Vatsko Live (Russian: Вацко Live), former Shakhtar player Andriy Vorobey said that at least since 1997 it was cultivated at Shakhtar that Dynamo is not just an opponent, but rather the enemy.[1]
The 2000s: rise of Shakhtar
It was not until the early 2000s when this fixture obtained the status of a true "derby". In the first years of the decade, Dynamo were still riding the wave of their late 1990s success, when they reached the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals and semifinals in consecutive seasons. After the death of their legendary manager Valeriy Lobanovskiy in 2002, Dynamo's success in the European and Ukrainian competitions began to decline. This coincided with the continued rise of Shakhtar, who won their first Ukrainian league title in 2001-02, which took the rivalry between the two clubs to a whole new level. 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.
The 2010s
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
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 paramilitary forces in form of people's republics.
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| NSC Olympiyskiy | Metalist | Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo |
Donbass Arena | Shakhtar | RSC Olimpiyskiy |
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| Kyiv | Kharkiv | Kyiv | Donetsk | Donetsk | Donetsk |
| 70,050 | 40,003 | 16,873 | 52,187 | 31,718 | 25,678 |
| Main arenas (at least 5 home matches) | |||||
Statistics
Record of wins
Number of wins for both clubs.[4]
As of 5 July 2020
| Competition | Dynamo Kyiv | Draws | Shakhtar Donetsk | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | ||||
| Ukrainian Premier League | 24 | 17 | 24 | |
| Ukrainian Cup | 6 | 0 | 10 | |
| Ukrainian Super Cup | 7 | 0 | 5 | |
| Aggregate | 37 | 17 | 39 | |
| Soviet Union | ||||
| Soviet Top League | 41 | 26 | 15 | |
| Soviet Cup | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| (Soviet Super Cup) | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| USSR Federation Cup | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Aggregate | 46 | 27 | 19 | |
| European and Worldwide | ||||
| UEFA Europa League / UEFA Cup | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Aggregate | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total aggregate | 83 | 45 | 59 | |
- Note: The Soviet Super Cup was not an official competition. It was organized by an editorial department of the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Titles
Number of titles for both clubs
| Dynamo Kyiv | Competition | Shakhtar Donetsk | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | |||
| 15 | Ukrainian Premier League | 13 | |
| 12 | Ukrainian Cup | 13 | |
| 8 | Ukrainian Super Cup | 8 | |
| 35 | Aggregate | 34 | |
| Soviet Union | |||
| 13 | Soviet Top League | — | |
| 9 | Soviet Cup | 4 | |
| 3 | (Soviet Super Cup) | 1 | |
| 7 | Cup of the UkrSSR | — | |
| 32 | Aggregate | 5 | |
| European and Worldwide | |||
| 2 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | — | |
| — | UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup | 1 | |
| 1 | UEFA Super Cup | — | |
| 3 | Aggregate | 1 | |
| 70 | Total Aggregate | 40 | |
- Note: The Soviet Super Cup was not an official competition. It was organized by an editorial department of the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Year-by-year league's standings
The table lists the place each team took in each of the seasons.
| 38 | 39 | 40 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76s | 76f | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | |
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| Teams | 26 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 16 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 11 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 12 |
| 1992 | 92/93 | 93/94 | 94/95 | 95/96 | 96/97 | 97/98 | 98/99 | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | 03/04 | 04/05 | 05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 | 10/11 | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 | 14/15 | 15/16 | 16/17 | 17/18 | 18/19 | |
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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 | 12 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 |
All continental competition games
| Dynamo Kyiv win | Draw | Shakhtar Donetsk win |
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
| Season | Date | Stage | Location | Host | Guest | Score | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Guest | |||||||
| 2008–09 | 30 April 2009 | Semifinals | Stadion Dynamo im.V.Lobanovskoho, Kyiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Shakhtar Donetsk | 1 – 1 | Chyhrynskyi (22 own) | Fernandinho (68) |
| 7 May 2009 | Regional Sports Complex Olimpiyskiy, Donetsk | Shakhtar Donetsk | Dynamo Kyiv | 2 – 1 | Jádson (17), Ilsinho (89) | Bangoura (47) | ||
All domestic league games
Soviet League
Notes:
- In Soviet league competitions both teams met 82 times, all in the Soviet Top League.
- 41 wins of Dinamo, 15 wins of Shakhter, 26 draws
- 128 goals of Dinamo, 79 goals of Shakhter
Ukrainian League
Notes:
- In Ukrainian league competitions both teams met 65 times, all in the Ukrainian Premier League.
- 24 wins of Dinamo, 24 wins of Shakhter, 17 draws
All national cup competition games
Soviet cup
| Season | Date | Stage | Location | Host | Guest | Score | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Guest | |||||||
| 1967–68 | 23 July 1968 | Round of 16 | Stadion Shakhter, Donetsk | Shakhter Donetsk | Dinamo Kiev | 1 – 0 | Yaremchenko (4) | |
| 1978 | 12 August 1978 | Final | Stadion Torpedo, Moscow | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) | Blokhin (55, 92) | Starukhin (15) |
| 1984–85 | 23 June 1985 | Final | Tsentralny Stadion im.V.Lenina, Moscow | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 2 – 1 | Demyanenko (56), Blokhin (58) | Morozov (68) |
Ukrainian cup
All super cup competition games
Soviet Season's Cup
| Season | Date | Location | Host | Guest | Score | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Guest | ||||||
| 1981 | 3 March 1981 | Stadion Lokomotiv, Simferopol | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 1 – 1 (pen. 5:4) |
Boiko (41) | Kravchenko (52) |
| 1986 | 11 April 1986 | Respublikanskiy Stadion, Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 2 – 2 (pen. 3:1) |
Shcherbakov (73), Yevtushenko (118) | Sokolovsky (54), Kravchenko (117) |
Ukrainian Super Cup
Note:
All other cup competition games
Championship of the Dynamo All-Ukrainian Proletarian Sports Society
| Season | Date | Stage | Location | Host | Guest | Score | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Guest | |||||||
| 1931 | 10 June 1931 | Semifinals | Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Dynamo Stalino | 4 – 0 | ? | |
| 1932 | 22 June 1932 | Final group | Kharkiv | Dynamo Stalino | Dinamo Kiev | 0 – 2 | ? | |
| 1935 | 24 September 1935 | Final group | Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Dynamo Stalino | 4 – 1 | ? | ? |
Football cup of the Ukrainian SSR
| Season | Date | Stage | Location | Host | Guest | Score | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Guest | |||||||
| 1938 | 9 August 1938 | Quarterfinals | Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 3 – 2 | ? | ? |
| 1944 | 14 October 1944 | Final group | Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 1 – 0 | ? | |
| 1946 | 8 November 1946 | Semifinals | Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 2 – 2 | ? | ? |
| 9 November 1946 | Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 2 – 1 | ? | ? | ||
| 1948 | 21 October 1948 | Semifinals | Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 1 – 0 | ? | |
USSR Football Federation Cup
| Season | Date | Stage | Location | Host | Guest | Score | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Guest | |||||||
| 1986 | 26 September 1986 | Group stage | Respublikanskiy Stadion, Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 1 – 2 | Karatayev (64) | Herasimets (59), Hrachov (67) |
| 1987 | 2 June 1987 | Group stage | Stadion Shakhter, Donetsk | Shakhter Donetsk | Dinamo Kiev | 1 – 0 | Yurchenko (64) | |
| 25 September 1987 | Stadion Dinamo, Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 3 – 2 | Zavarov (42), Blokhin (72), Yevtushenko (81) | Ralyuchenko (49), Yashchenko (68) | ||
| 1989 | 21 March 1989 | Group stage | Stadion Dinamo, Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Shakhter Donetsk | 1 – 1 | Stelmakh (90) | Hulyayev (25) |
| 29 May 1989 | Stadion Shakhter, Donetsk | Shakhter Donetsk | Dinamo Kiev | 1 – 0 | Kobozyev (28) | |||
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]
| Player | Club | Domestic League | Domestic Cup | Super Cup | Other | Europe | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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Soviet Union
In bold are players who transferred directly from one club to the other.
- Shakhtar then Dynamo
- 1934:
- 1953:
- 1965:
- 1975:
- 1976:
- 1982:
- Dynamo then Shakhtar
- 1967:
- 1977:
- 1990:
Ukraine
Since Ukrainian independence, there had been only three direct transfer moves in each direction (Dynamo to Shakhtar, Shakhtar to Dynamo).[6] Most of the direct transfers, however, took place in the 1990s, when the rivalry between the clubs was virtually non-existent.
In bold are players who transferred directly from one club to the other.
- Shakhtar then Dynamo
- 1992:
- 1992:
- 2008:
- 2016:
- 2019:
- Dynamo then Shakhtar
- 1992:
- 1998:
- 2007:
- 2011:
- 2014:
- 2018:
- 2018:
Notes
- Shakhtar is forced to play away from home due to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
References
- Vorobey: Dynamo is rather the enemy than the main opponent (Воробей: Динамо – скорее враг, чем принципиальный соперник). UA-Football. 7 May 2018
- http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/high/1445016829-shahter-ustanavlivaet-rekord-klassicheskogo-i-obhodit-dinamo.html
- 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] (in Ukrainian). ua-football.com. 1 May 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- "Динамо" - "Шахтар". Статистика всеукраїнського дербі (in Ukrainian)
- Before the 173rd Klasychne. Statistical details of the great rivalry (Напередодні 173-го Класичного. Статистичні деталі великого протистояння). Football 24. 20 April 2017
- Not only Moraes. 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