Soccer ball autographed by FC Dynamo, wood

Signed by the main staff of FC Dynamo in the 2025/2026 season.

Dynamo is a Russian football club from Moscow. One of the two clubs that participated in all the USSR championships.

The initiator of the creation of the Dynamo sports society is the "Iron People's Commissar" Felix Dzerzhinsky. The formation of the Dynamo Moscow football team was entrusted to Fyodor Chulkov, a well-known football player in the city, who served in the GPU in those years. He managed to assemble a strong team, and such famous veterans of Moscow football as Vasily Zhitarev, Nikolai Troitsky and Mikhail Denisov were involved in the team. By the way, Vasily Zhitarev was also a member of the Russian national team in 1912, took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm.

Officially, the Dynamo sports society was registered on April 18, 1923, and Dynamo played its first football match on June 17, 1923, in the spring draw of the Moscow championship.

The real legend of Dynamo Moscow is Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin, who played more than 300 matches for the team in the Soviet Union championships alone. Lev Yashin spent his entire career at this club. Even in the matches of the USSR national team, he often took to the field in a sweater with the letter "D" on his chest. The International Federation of Football History and Statistics has recognized Yashin as the best goalkeeper of the twentieth century.

Dynamo gained European fame after their triumphant tour of Great Britain in the fall of 1945. In four matches against British clubs, Dynamo scored two wins and drew twice with a total goal difference of 19:9. The owners of many professional clubs openly stated that they would like to see Soviet football players in their teams.

Today, the Dynamo Moscow football school is considered one of the best, because it was there that such famous players as Sergei Ovchinnikov, Vasily Trofimov, Andrei Kobelev and Viktor Tsarev were brought up.