Klasychne derby


Klasychne derby, 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.
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 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. 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, 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.

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. 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.

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 played at his older Central Stadium "Shakhtar". 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.

Statistics

Record of wins

Number of wins for both clubs.
Number of titles for both clubs
The table lists the place each team took in each of the seasons.
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Teams26141318191514121212121222222017171919202017161616161616161618181818181818161616161316
Dynamo Kyiv488713826466725962111271211821231127101162315
Shakhtar Donetsk11121218113137788121781151210614101016612251053267149131267814812

199292/9393/9494/9595/9696/9797/9898/9999/0000/0101/0202/0303/0404/0505/0606/0707/0808/0909/1010/1111/1212/1313/1414/1515/1616/1717/1818/19
Teams20161818181616161614141616161616161616161616161414121212
Dynamo Kyiv2111111111211221212223411222
Shakhtar Donetsk44241022222122112121111122111

All continental competition games

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League

All domestic league games

Soviet League

Notes:
Notes:

Soviet cup

Ukrainian cup

All super cup competition games

Soviet Season's Cup

Ukrainian Super Cup

Note:

All other cup competition games

Championship of the Dynamo All-Ukrainian Proletarian Sports Society

Football cup of the Ukrainian SSR

USSR Football Federation Cup

Top goalscorers

PlayerClubDomestic LeagueDomestic CupSuper CupOtherEuropeTotal
Oleh BlokhinDynamo11 3—1—15
Artem MilevskiyDynamo413——8
Vitaliy KhmelnytskyiShakhtar / Dynamo 7————7
Alex TeixeiraShakhtar52———7
Andriy BibaDynamo7 ————7
Diogo RincónDynamo5 2———7
Anatoliy ByshovetsDynamo6————6
Ihor BelanovDynamo6————6
Serhiy RebrovShakhtar / Dynamo 6————6
Andriy ShevchenkoDynamo6————6
Andriy VorobeyShakhtar42———6
Luiz AdrianoShakhtar42———6
EduardoShakhtar33———6
JádsonShakhtar5 ———16
Andriy YarmolenkoDynamo5 1———6
Oleh HusyevDynamo3 12 ——6

Soviet Union

In bold are players who transferred directly from one club to the other.
;Shakhtar then Dynamo
;Dynamo then Shakhtar
Since Ukrainian independence, there had been only three direct transfer moves in each direction. 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
;Dynamo then Shakhtar