Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament () is an international football tournament established in honour and memory of Valeriy Lobanovskyi since his death on 13 May 2002, hence the name Memorial. The idea was initiated by the FC Dynamo Kyiv management and the tournament is played at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine.
General rules Since 2005, the tournament participants are a group of four selected national teams. From 2006 the tournament participants have been the Under-21 National Teams. The teams start-off in semifinals and the winners go on to play in the final; the other two teams play for the 3rd place.
In 2009 two games of the tournament were played at Boreks Stadium, Borodianka in Kyiv Oblast.
In 2011 two games of the U-21 international tournament were played at Obolon Arena.
In 2012 two games of the tournament were played at Bannikov Stadium.
Champions and top goalscorers SeasonChampionRunner-upThird placeFourth placeTop Goalscorer(s)As clubs tournament2003 Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk CSKA Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Diogo Rincón2 goals2004 Dynamo Kyiv Sheriff Tiraspol Skonto Riga Dinamo Tbilisi Maksim Shatskikh2 goalsAs senior national teams tournament2005 Grzegorz Rasiak3 goalsAs youth national teams tournament2006 Kiril Pavlyuchek3 goals2007 Itay Shechter2 goals2008 Marcin Wodecki2 goals Serhiy Kravchenko2009Nine players1 goal2010 Andriy Bohdanov2 goals2011Five players1 goal2012Seven players1 goal2013 Toni Vastić2 goals2014Cancelled2015 Luka Zahović2 goals Nikolaos Ioannidis2016Fourteen players1 goal2017 Nikola Krstović2 goals2018 Jan Mlakar3 goals2019Six players1 goal2020Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.2021Four players1 goal
Performance among national teams Legend 1st – Champions 2nd – Runners-up 3rd – Third place 4th – Fourth place
Team 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 Total 1st 4th 2 2nd 1 2nd 4th 2 2nd 3rd 2 4th 1 3rd 1 1st 1 3rd 1 3rd 3rd 2 4th 2nd 2 2nd 1st 1st 4th 1st 2nd 2nd 7 4th 4th 4th 3 2nd 3rd 2 4th 1 1st 1st 2 1st 1 4th 2nd 3rd 2nd 4 1st 1 4th 1st 4th 1st 4 2nd 4th 2 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd 4th 1st 3rd 15 1st 1st 2
Stadiums Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium – 12 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) Bannikov Stadium – 10 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021) Obolon Arena – 4 (2011, 2013, 2016, 2021) Systema Stadium (Borodyanka) – 2 (2009, 2010) Kolos Stadium (Boryspil) – 2 (2017, 2018) Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex – 1 (2019)
Notes and references Notes
References
External links Lobanovsky International Tournament at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.