We are finishing summing up the results of 2024 with the traditional listing of the main events in the life of Dynamo over the past 12 months.
One step away from gold
In the 2023/24 season, Dynamo stopped a step away from the championship, although after the start of the spring part it was difficult to imagine. Seven rounds before the finish, the gap from the leader was 9 points, but six wins in a row with incredible goals in the endings and misfires of competitors allowed Marcel Licka's team to approach the 30th round in first place.
The first "golden match" in almost 40 years caused an incredible stir among the fans. Thousands of support groups went to Krasnodar, which accompanied the team everywhere – at the hotel, on the way to the stadium, after the match. In Moscow, at the hockey arena of the VTB Arena complex, a joint viewing of the meeting on a huge screen was organized for fans, as well as a special studio with commentators. It seemed that the whole of Moscow was worried about the blue and white.
Unfortunately, one goal was not enough to reach the gold. Krasnodar scored at the beginning of the second half and was able to defend the victory, despite two hits in the goal post of Matvey Safonov. As a result, Dynamo was satisfied with the "bronze" – the second in the last three seasons.
Tyukavin collected all the awards
Konstantin Tyukavin continued to collect individual awards. If in 2023 he was recognized as the best young player of the Russian championship, then at the end of the 2023/24 season he was already the best RPL player. Thanks to his effective actions (15 goals and 9 assists), Dynamo earned 30 points.
In 2024, the blue and white forward was repeatedly recognized as the best player of the RPL match (eight times), the best Dynamo player (in April, May, September and November-December), as well as the author of the best goal. In May Tyukavin received the prizes "The best striker of the RPL" and "Goal of the season" (heel in the gate of Sochi). In December, Kostya received the annual Gentleman of the Year award, becoming the eighth Dynamo player with this title.
During the calendar year Tyukavin scored 16 goals and made 8 assists, entering the top 25 of the best Dynamo scorers in history. Also, during the last season, the 70th number of the blue and white set a record for goals scored for Dynamo strikers in the XXI century. But the main event in the life of our striker was certainly the birth of his daughter Theona, for whom he came up with a new goal celebration.
Licka is the best coach of the season in the RPL
Dynamo coach Marcel Licka was recognized as the best coach of last season in the RPL. Having headed the club in June 2023, the Czech specialist managed to raise the team from the ninth line of the standings to the third in just one year.
In addition to recognition from the league, experts and fans, Licka has made an important contribution to the club's history – the Czech has played the most matches at the head of Dynamo among foreign coaches, ahead of Sandro Schwartz in this indicator. At the moment, Licka has already played 67 matches as the head coach of the blue and white. According to the percentage of points scored, he is on the eighth line in the history of the club.
International Fraternal Cup and match with Amkal
In the second year of its existence, the BetBoom Fraternal Cup became international. If in 2023 only two teams took part in it (Dynamo and CSKA), then in 2024 they were joined by clubs from fraternal Serbia – Partizan and OFK Belgrade.
All matches were accompanied by a large-scale entertainment program, and a fraternal city-format festival with colorful music and gastronomy, sports competitions and cultural events was organized in Dynamo Physical education and sports Park next to VTB Arena.
Thousands of people attended the tournament, including many representatives of the football community, such as Marco Materazzi and David Trezeguet. As a result of the confrontation between Russia and Serbia, the Russians won, leaving the trophy in Moscow.
Another landmark event was a show match with one of the most popular media teams Amkalom, which was watched by 19 thousand people from the stands of VTB Arena in November. The match was preceded by a large-scale show, which smoothly moved to the field, where Dynamo T-shirts were tried on by club ambassadors Pavel Derevyanko and Evgenia Medvedeva. In a stubborn struggle, the blue and white, who performed without almost all the leaders, lost 2:3.
Rejuvenation of the composition
In the offseason, three of the oldest players left the team. Anton Shunin, who has 17 seasons in the main team, 30 years in the club and many records, completed his performance for Dynamo after the contract expired. Fedor Smolov returned to Krasnodar, and Sergey Parshivlyuk joined the coaching staff of the blue and white.
Dynamo has signed contracts with one of the best goalkeepers of Russia Andrei Lunev, Olympic bronze medalist in the Moroccan national team El-Mehdi Mauhub and ex-winger of the Brazilian Cruzeiro Arthur Gomez. Lunev immediately became one of the leaders of the blue and white and was named the best player by the fans in July and August. He fit in well with the Mauhub team, who scored the first club hat-trick in seven years against the Wings of the Soviets. Arthur, who has already scored three goals and three assists, also opened his scoring account.
It is impossible not to note the progress of young players. In 2024, six Academy students made their debut for Dynamo at once: Viktor Okishor (7 matches), Egor Nazarenko (4 matches), Dmitry Alexandrov (3 matches), Egor Smelov (2 matches), Leon Zaydenzal (2 matches) and Denis Bokov (2 matches). Okishor, who scored two goals against Krylia Sovetov in a cup match, became the author of the youngest double in the history of Dynamo.
Leshchuk went down in history
The goalkeeper of the blue and white Igor Leshchuk entered not only the history of Dynamo, but also of all Russian football, scoring a goal in the match of the 17th round of the RPL against Akhmat. In the 95th minute, Igor ran into the opponent's penalty area and, after a precise overhang by Bitello from the corner, closed the Brazilian's transfer. Dynamo managed to take away one point from Grozny (1:1).
Leshchuk's ball became the first goal of the goalkeeper from the game in the history of the RPL and only the second goal of the goalkeeper in the history of the Russian championships. Before Igor, only Andrei Novosadov from Torpedo-ZIL scored, however, it was a penalty kick against Fakel back in 2001. Analysts considered that after Leshchuk's strike, the ball soared 11.59 meters from the lawn before dropping into the net. On this occasion, the club website even transferred the 31st number of the team to the "Strikers" section, albeit temporarily.
Dynamo-2 – champion
2024 turned out to be a very successful year for the Dynamo "two". Pavel Alpatov's team confidently won Group 2 of Division B of the Second League, and did it a few rounds before the end of the championship, beating the second teams of Spartak and Zenit. Bokov became the top scorer (12 goals), and Okishor (4+8), Nazarenko (2+9), Alexandrov (5+5) and Alexander Khubulov (7+3) also overcame 10 points in goal+pass.
The blue and white have earned promotion in the class and in 2025 they will play in the "Division A" in the "Silver" group. The Deuce shared its success with the fans – during the break of the Dynamo – Lokomotiv cup match, the entire VTB Arena congratulated the champions on their well-deserved victory.
New uniform for Dynamo
In July, the club announced cooperation with the Russian brand Bosco, which for the seasons 2024/25 and 2025/26 became a technical partner of Dynamo. Bosco has released a collection of travel equipment in which the players and coaching staff of the blue and white team now travel to matches. Cooperation extends to all professional Dynamo teams: in addition to the basics, these are Dynamo-2 and Housing and Communal Services.
And at the end of the year, our team acquired a new form from Bosco, the presentation of which took place in GUM. On December 8, Dynamo entered the field of their home stadium for the first time in new clothes and defeated Khimki in the last match of the year (4:1). The author of the first goal in the new form was Konstantin Tyukavin, who distinguished himself already in the 14th minute.
In addition, in 2024 Dynamo continued to actively develop in the commercial direction, signing agreements with a number of new sponsors and partners: the manufacturer of household appliances Dreame, the Italian clothing brand Tombolini, the brand of pet food Brit, the online insurance company Luchi, the M.Video-Eldorado group, the online cinema Okko and the company for the production of battery garden equipment Greenworks, whose equipment is already used on the field of VTB Arena.
Dynamo Academy is the best football academy in Moscow
Lev Yashin Dynamo Academy has regained the title of the best football academy in Moscow. For the third time in the last four years, it was Dynamo's "forge of talents" that was recognized as the most effective in the Russian capital.
In 2024, following the results of the Summer Championship of the Club League, our Academy collected an impressive number of awards. Dynamo-2011 coach Alexey Dubinin became the best coach in Moscow, Savely Arbuzov was recognized as the best scorer of this age and the winner of the IFF Golden Ball trophy, and Andrei Shchadilov was recognized as the best goalkeeper of the Club League.
The logical conclusion of a successful calendar year was the traditional gala evening of the Academy, at which the results were summed up and individual prizes were distributed: Matvey Abdulkhalikov (born in 2011) was recognized as the best player of the Academy this time.