1962-1975
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After the “golden” 1961, the team seemed to enjoy moderate success: 5th placed in 1962 and 7th placed in 1963. However, this was the time when several interesting players including Bannykov, Sosnykhin and Medvid came to shore up the squad.
In January 1964, the team received a new head coach. It is Viktor Maslov who we owe the top-notch international team. His first 1964 season brought a clear-cut victory to the Kyiv squad in the USSR Cup.
Maslov’s team was the first to take part in the 1965-1966 UEFA Cup Winners Cup, defeating Northern Irish and Norwegian opponents in the first and second rounds. Yet, in the quarter final, they were shown a shining example of tactics from a more experienced Scottish Celtic, losing 4:1 on aggregate.
The year 1966 was abundant in crushing victories: USSR championship, USSR Cup, bronzeware for five Dynamo players in the World Championship in England. Andriy Biba picked up Best USSR Footballer of the Year Award.
USSR Championship victories in the two following years of 1967 and 1968 meant the CDKA (Moscow) record for three consecutive wins was now equaled.
In its debut performance in the 1969 Champions’ Cup, the Ukrainian squad defeated the legendary Celtic from Scotland, conceding, however, to the Poland’s champion Górnik in the round of 16.
In 1971, new welcome additions to the club were 22-year-old halfback Viktor Kolotov and defender Stepan Reshko as well as honorary USSR coach Oleksandr Sevydov. Another handsome USSR Championship win… Keeper Yevhen Rudakov was voted the best USSR goalkeeper and soccer player.
Careful player selection (of both seasoned and highly promising novice footballers) did its work. For instance, Olekh Blokhin became the top goal scorer in two consecutive seasons: 1972 (14 goals) and 1973 (18 goals).
The major upheaval for the squad was the arrival of a new coach. Popular Dynamo player in the recent past, the 33-year-old Valeriy Lobanovskyy was introduced in November 1973. He managed to pull together most talented and like-minded associates (Oleh Bazylevych to be mentioned first) and personally selected the exercises that were deployed by Europe’s leading teams. In the same year, Oleh Blokhin was acclaimed the best country’s player.
This was only the start of the “Lobanovskyy era”, which later on brought about remarkable achievements, within the international arena in the first place.
Lobanovskyy steered his team to the triumphs in the Cup Winners’ Cup. On their way to the final, the “white-blues” celebrated victories over CSKA (Bulgary), Eintracht (Germany), Bursaspor (Turkey), PSV (Holland) and finally Ferencváros (Hungary).
Then followed another major triumph in the fall of 1975, when the Kyiv team defeated Bayern in the two-legged UEFA Super Cup final. Three goals from Oleh Blokhin (one goal in the first leg and two more added in the second leg played in Kyiv) made the Dynamo player a 1975 Golden Ball winner.
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