Throughout its history, FC Dynamo Kyiv has traditionally played in blue-white uniforms, with a short exception during the final years of Soviet period, when the club performed in the national colours of Ukraine. All emblems historically used by Dynamo are based on the logo of the eponymous sports society.
Crest
Being a member of the All-Union Sports Society Dynamo, the Dynamo football team of Kyiv adopted the same emblem of the Dynamo's sports society as its first logo, which featured on their shirts since 1927 and was a cursive blue Cyrillic letter "Д" (D)History of the letter "Д" (История буквы "Д"). FC Dynamo Kyiv. in a vertical rhombus. Similar emblem existed in other Soviet football teams throughout the Soviet Union such as FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dinamo Minsk, and others. The idea of symbol is attributed to a native of Ukraine Leonid Nedolya-Honcharenko who at that time served as a chief of political department of the OGPU troops in Moscow District.
The symbol the club obtained on franchise rights from the Ukrainian Fitness and Sports Society "Dynamo" (see Dynamo–Ukraine). Over the years, the club's logo has undergone many changes and replacements, but the cursive "D" has remained ever since.
In 2003 after Dynamo won their 10th domestic trophy, a golden star was added at the top of the logo to celebrate the club's success. The second star was added to the logo in 2007 during celebrations of Dynamo's 80-year anniversary. Although Dynamo has won only 15 Ukrainian league titles, their 13 titles as USSR Champions were taken into account.
Colours
Dynamo's traditional colours are white and dark blue, with white being the predominant colour. Throughout their history the club has usually played in a white shirt and blue shorts. This was changed in 1961 when a blue sash was added to the kit; it was removed soon afterwards. In 2004, the club's management decided to restore the famous sash as a talisman. It was added to the away kit and remained there until the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it was replaced by a white kit with a shirt having thin blue vertical stripes, the first time in over 50 years that a club had worn such a pattern.
During the last two seasons before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Dynamo's kit was similar to Metalist, yellow shirts and blue shorts. This color scheme carried a symbolic meaning, representing the national colours of the yet-not-adopted Ukraine national flag. In the 1990 Soviet Cup Final, the yellow-blue Dynamo team thrashed the all-Red Lokomotiv 6–1 at Luzhniki Stadium. In the early years of Ukrainian independence, the club swapped their yellow colour for white. However blue remained one of Dynamo's colours and is still a main colour of the club's away kit.
The club's current sponsors, New Balance and ABank24, feature on the team shirt. New Balance is also the manufacturer of the kit. Among former sponsors there were Ostchem Holding, Nadra Bank, PrivatBank, Prominvestbank, Ukrtelecom, and others.
Historical kits PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsorFirst kitSecond kitThird kitGoalkeeper1927–1935—— 1936–1947 1947–1950 1951–1959 1960–1961 1962 1963 1966 1967 1968–1969 1970 1971–1972 1973–1974 1975Adidas 1976–1977 1978–1979 1980 1981 1982 1983–1984 1985 1986 1987Commodore 1987–1988OCRIM 1988–1989 — 1989DuarigFISAC Como 1989–1990Admiral 1990–1991Lufthansa 1992–1994Umbro 1994–1996 — 1996–1997AdidasProminvestbank 1997–1998 1998–1999 1999–20002000-20012001-2002 2002-20032003-2004 2004–2005EnergoHolding2005–20062006–2007Ukrtelekom2007–2008PrivatBank2008-20092009–20102010–20112011–20122012-20132013–2014Nadra Bank2014–20152015–2016 —2016–20172017–20182018–2019New Balance2019–20202020–20212021–2022A-Bank2022–20232023–20242024–20252025–2026GGBET
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