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2008–09 FC Dynamo Kyiv season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ20092846 ↗
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Following are the results of the 2008–09 FC Dynamo Kyiv season. FC Dynamo Kyiv (Ukrainian: ФК "Динамо" Київ) is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football. Dynamo Kyiv has won thirteen league titles, nine Ukrainian Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, and played three times in the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League.

Season events

On 23 June, Dynamo announced the signing of Betão from Santos to a five-year contract.

On 27 June, Dynamo announced the signing of Frank Temile from Valletta to a five-year contract.

On 3 July, Dynamo announced the signing of Emmanuel Okoduwa from Germinal Beerschot to a five-year contract.

On 26 August, Dynamo announced the year-long loan signing of Roman Eremenko from Udinese.

On 2 October, Dynamo announced the signing of Kostyantyn Dudchenko from Olkom Melitopol to a five-year contract, with the transfer becoming official on 1 January 2009.

On 1 December, Dynamo announced that Vitaliy Fedoriv had joined Amkar Perm permanently, having initially joined the club on loan in August.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2008–09 FC Dynamo Kyiv season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dynamo, Kyiv and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 1927, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dynamo, Kyiv and season is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20092846. The first chronological checks are 2008, 1927 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “2008–09 FC Dynamo Kyiv season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.