Full name FC Dynamo Kharkiv Founded 1925 | League Soviet First League Ground Dynamo Stadium | |
FC Dynamo Kharkiv (Ukrainian: Динамо Харків) is the former non-amateur Soviet football club based in Kharkiv (now Ukraine).
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Shturm Kharkiv
The club was originally found in 1911 by 20 year old Kostiantyn Voronin as FC Tsap-Tsarap Kharkov. During that time in Kharkiv took place the first regional and city championship that was won by FC Feniks Kharkov. The club Tsap-Tsarap however has officially registered only in 1912 as FC Shturm Kharkov and its first chairman became Ya.Zhuga. On 19 March 1912 there took place a constituent assembly of the Kharkov City League which was initially headed by M.Mayevsky (a player of FC Mayak Kharkov). The same year the league joined the Russian Football Union, while its collective team participated in the first championship of Russia. After the Russian Civil War the captain's armband Voronin passed on to a younger player Mykola Krotov.
Dynamo Kharkiv
Dynamo was created in 1928 based on the best Kharkiv clubs FC Shturm Kharkiv and Society of Sports Amateurs (OLS).
In 1936 it initially was allowed to play in the Soviet Second League known as Class B. The team had forfeited all its games for the spring part and was demoted to the third division Class V (by Russian alphabet) for the autumn of 1936 and 1937 editions. The team was not included in the Soviet Super League of 1938, but returned into the reestablished Class B the next couple of seasons before the German-Soviet War. It was merged with FC Silmash Kharkiv and renamed as Spartak for the 1941 season. Following World War II, the club has never resumed its operations as the city was able only to afford one team, FC Lokomotyv Kharkiv.