 A Ukrainian classico clash in 2009 | |
| Other names | Ukrainian derby |
|---|---|
| Location | Ukraine |
| Teams | Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Latest meeting | Shakhtar 1–0 Dynamo 2023–24 Ukrainian Premier League (11 May 2024) |
| Next meeting | to be announced |
| Stadiums | Olympiyskiy NSC[a] |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 199 (total official matches) |
| Most wins | Domestic league: Dynamo (66) Domestic cup: Shakhtar (11) Other domestic tourneys: Dynamo (20) International cup: Shakhtar (1) Total wins: Dynamo (87) |
| Regular season series | 154 (domestic league matches) |
| Largest victory | Shakhtar 6–0 Dynamo Soviet Top League (26 July 1950) |
Klasychne derby (Ukrainian: Класичне, as Classico), or the Ukrainian football rivalry is the football match between the two top Ukrainian clubs Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. The game between those two clubs is a focal point of each football season in Ukraine. Due to war, at least three of their scheduled fixtures were scratched in 1941 and 2014. Since 2014, Shakhtar sometimes plays in Kyiv due to the Russian aggression which technically turned the rivalry into a city derby.
Dynamo and Shakhtar were the top Ukrainian clubs since introduction of the Soviet professional football competitions in 1936. They played against each other as early as 1931 when Donetsk was represented by the Shakhtar's direct predecessor Dynamo Stalino. Participating in competition dominated with the Russian teams, matchups between both teams was not too important within the Soviet Union. Following independence, the rivalry between them two grew into a national-level rivalry sometime after 1996 since the teams were two main contenders for the national title.
In 1970 and 1980s, rivalries between Dynamo Kyiv against FC Zorya Luhansk and FC Dnipro were somewhat notable eclipsing for short while the Donetsk-Kyiv stand-off. 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 Kyiv and Spartak Moscow (see Spartak Moscow–Dynamo Kyiv rivalry) that has developed sometime in the 1960s.
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