Dynamo Kyiv 1985-86 Squad

The team

The 1985-86 Dynamo Kyiv squad stands among the most celebrated teams Ukraine has sent onto the continental stage. Representing Kyiv, this was one of the defining sides of 1980s European football, the sort of team whose matches became must-watch occasions. Dynamo Kyiv won the Cup Winners' Cup and the Soviet Top League that season, a campaign that still shapes how the club is remembered. The side was built on a clear spine: Viktor Chanov behind a defence organised by Anatoliy Demyanenko, with Oleksandr Zavarov setting the tempo through the middle.

Further forward, Ihor Belanov and Oleh Blokhin gave the team its cutting edge, turning long spells of control into goals on the biggest European nights. There was depth to match the star quality, with the likes of Vasyl Rats and Volodymyr Bezsonov adding options across the pitch. Reassembled here, the lineup is a reminder of why this vintage still sets a standard that later teams chase. Set out in a 4-3-3, the XI captures the balance and ambition that made this Dynamo Kyiv team a benchmark of 1980s football — the players, the shape and the identity that made the vintage so hard to forget.

All eleven sit in the draft pool, so any of them can come up in the football draft game— you just don't get to choose which.