Nickname
Bilo-Syni (White-Blues)
Formed
1927
Manager
Sergey Rebrov
Stadium
NSC Olimpiyskiy (70,000 capacity)
League position in 2014/15
1st in Ukrainian Premier League
Season so far
Having played 16 games, Dynamo sit second in their domestic table - level on points with Shakhtar Donetsk, but eight goals worse off.
Both have 43 points from 48, winning 14, drawing one and losing one.
The league is currently on a winter break.
Champions League performance
Dynamo finished second in Group G to Chelsea, claiming three wins, two draws and one defeat.
After drawing 2-2 at home with Porto, they won 2-0 away at Maccabi Tel Aviv and earned a goalless draw at home to Jose Mourinho’s men, who then beat them at Stamford Bridge.
The Ukrainians responded with a 2-0 victory in Portugal and a 1-0 win on home soil against Tel Aviv to progress.
Champions League top scorer for 2015/16
Andriy Yarmolenko (2)
Champions League pedigree
Dynamo have reached the semi-finals of the competition three times.
In total, they have played 218 games in the competition, emerging victorious in 95, drawing 46 and losing 77.
European honours
UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup: 1975, 1986
UEFA Super Cup: 1975
UEFA Super Cup runners-up: 1986
Domestic honours
League titles: 27
National cups: 20
Previous meetings
Two in the 2010/11 Europa League season.
Dynamo Kiev dumped City out of the Europa League in March 2011 thanks to a 2-1 aggregate win.
City won the home leg 1-0 thanks to Aleksandar Kolarov’s goal but that wasn’t enough to overturn the 2-0 first-leg deficit.
City links
Andrei Kanchelskis represented both clubs in the 1990s.
