The current winning streak of Sandro Schwarz's team is currently the longest in European football and has already entered the top 5 longest in the club's history. We recall all the most significant such series, starting from the first USSR championship and up to the XXI century, and enjoy the moment!
Most of these series were recorded in the late 30s - early 50s, when the main confrontation in the country was considered to be the Dynamo and army derby, the victory in which last Sunday allowed the team of Sandro Schwartz to single–handedly lead the standings.
1936 – 8 wins, goal difference: 31:10 – head coach Konstantin Kvashnin
The first 6 games of the blue and white in the USSR championship ended with confident victories and the first trophy for winning the spring championship (two more victories were obtained at the start of the autumn championship). CDKA (as the army team was called then) got 6 goals in its gates, and Dynamo Kiev got 11 goals in two matches. It is noteworthy that six of the eight matches our team played on the home field – the main arena of the country at that time.
1937 – 7 wins, goal difference: 29:9 – head coach Viktor Dubinin
The next year also began with a long series and a trophy, but now it has become the USSR Cup. The team started in May with the 1/64 finals and defeated seven opponents in less than two months, including three other Dynamo teams from Minsk, Kazan and Tbilisi. At the same time, only one match did not end with the defeat of the opponent – in the 1/8 finals, Leningrad GOLIFK lost in extra time (2:3). The winning goal then turned out to be on the account of Vasily Smirnov, who, together with Sergei Ilyin, became the team's top scorer with 8 goals.
1940 – 7 wins, goal difference: 26:3 – head coach Boris Arkadiev
By October 15, on which the derby with Lokomotiv was scheduled, the blue and white came only in sixth place, however, having a couple of matches in reserve. Having defeated the railwaymen with a score of 5:0, Dynamo beat them in the table, and then went through the rest of the opponents with a skating rink. It is noteworthy that in the penultimate round, Lokomotiv was defeated once again and again with a difference of five goals – 6:1. Nine days later, Dynamo won the championship, defeating the capital's Krylia Sovetov 2:0 in… Kiev, where the match was postponed due to snowfall and frost in Moscow.
1945 – 17 wins, goal difference: 63:7 – head coach Mikhail Yakushin
Perhaps the most outstanding season in the history of Dynamo Moscow. In the wake of the post-war euphoria, the blue and white lost only once – in the last 22nd round of the CDKA, having won 19 victories, 17 of which in a row! This is how the coaching genius of 34-year-old Mikhail Yakushin, who recently completed his career as a player and headed his hometown club, started. After finishing the championship with the fourth title and a stunning goal difference (+60), the team won back the Cup and went on a legendary British tour, forever glorifying the power of domestic football.
1946 – 8 wins, goal difference: 32:2 – head coach Mikhail Yakushin
The team's impressive May-July series, which included defeats of the Samara and Moscow Wings of the Soviets with a total score of 11:0, was framed by two defeats from CDKA of Boris Arkadiev. It was these four points that made up the difference between the army and Dynamo at the finish of the tournament. Although no one could compete with Yakushin's team on goal difference (+51) again.
1948 – two series of 7 wins, goal difference: 31:6 and 33:5 – head coach Mikhail Yakushin
Two years later, the balance of power remained the same – Dynamo and CDKA were head and shoulders stronger than their competitors. This time, the blue and white team twice gave out a series of seven victories, one of which brought them close to the decisive face-to-face match with the army team in the last round. The match at the Dynamo stadium gathered a huge number of spectators and met expectations – Dynamo was satisfied with a draw, but in the 87th minute Vsevolod Bobrov scored the winning goal (3:2) and brought his team gold medals.
1949 – 8 wins, goal difference: 39:9 – head coach Mikhail Yakushin
The reckoning came next season. Dynamo started with a five-match successful series, including a 3-1 victory over CDKA, and then did not miss the lead for a single round. They also finished the championship with five consecutive victories, one of which was won over Spartak in the legendary derby. On October 1, at the stadium in Petrovsky Park, the audience saw 9 goals, and the advantage in the score changed hands four times during the match – as a result, the goals in the end by Konstantin Beskov and Vladimir Savdunin brought our team victory 5:4. After the end of the championship, the winning streak continued in the USSR Cup (for example, it included the defeat of Metallurg Moscow with a score of 10:0) and was interrupted at the semifinal meeting with the same Spartak (2:2), which we defeated already in the replay.
1950 – 7 wins, goal difference: 29:7 – head coach Viktor Dubinin
After an unsuccessful spring stretch, Mikhail Yakushin was replaced as head coach by Viktor Dubinin, the only Dynamo coach with a golden double. And in the second round, under his leadership, the team reached the silver medals, making a breakthrough that included seven consecutive victories. The very first of them left a vivid mark in the memories of the fans – by the 65th minute of the home match against Dynamo Tbilisi, the Muscovites were confidently leading 4:1, after which they allowed the guests to even the score and snatched victory only in the 85th minute. Four goals were then missed by the young Lev Yashin, who played his next match for Dynamo after almost three years.
1957 – 9 wins in the championship, goal difference: 31:5 – head coach Mikhail Yakushin
Seven years have passed. Yashin is already a superstar, Olympic champion and the first number of the USSR national team, and Yakushin again leads the main team in his life. In the middle of the season, Dynamo gives out an amazing series of 9 victories in the championship, after which the question of the winner of the championship is removed (although in parallel there was a flight to the 1/8 Cup finals from Tbilisi teammates). At the same time, Yashin played only two matches in it, after which he was hospitalized due to an exacerbation of the ulcer. He was successfully replaced by Vladimir Belyaev, who made a great contribution to winning the next championship.
1958 – 10 wins, goal difference: 22:7 – head coach Mikhail Yakushin
A year later, Belyaev also replaced Yashin in the second half of the season, and again the team was unstoppable – 8 victories at the finish of the championship brought it to first place in the table. However, we had to wait more than a month for the denouement of the golden race until November 8, when the replay of the Spartak –Dynamo Kyiv match took place, in which the red-whites snatched victory in the 83rd minute and eventually beat our team by one point. During the waiting time, the blue and white won two more matches of the USSR Cup and lost in the semifinals to the same Spartak.
1979 – 9 wins, goal difference: 18:0 – head coach Ivan Moser
Ivan Moser worked at Dynamo for about 15 years in various positions, but he stayed as head coach only in 1979, and at the start of the season the team produced a unique series of 10 matches without conceding goals, nine of which were victorious. At the same time, Nikolai Gontar gave the second longest dry series in the club's history – 835 minutes (only 13 minutes was not enough to reach Lev Yashin's record). It should also be noted that Vladimir Pilgui defended the goal in two matches of the series.
1995 – two series of 8 and 10 wins, goal difference: 15:4 and 22:5 – head coaches Konstantin Beskov and Adamas Golodets
This year was remembered not only for the first trophy in Russian history, but also for two miracle segments at the beginning and end of the year. In the spring, Konstantin Beskov, with the help of 8 victories, brought the team to first place in the league and to the National Cup final, heroically won against Rotor a month later. Shortly after the triumph, the legendary coach ended his career, and Adamas Golodets, who took over the reins, issued an even more impressive series of six victories in the championship, one in the Russian Cup and three in the Cup Winners' Cup. Surprisingly, even such a breakthrough did not allow the team to win medals – only fourth place in the table.
2026 – 9 wins, goal difference: 19:4 – head coach Sandro Schwarz
We will not write much about this series, we just wish it to last as long as possible, and we will give a few statistical details. Clean sheets – 5. Goalkeepers: Andrey Lunev (4 games – 3 clean sheets), Kurban Rasulov (3 – 1), Igor Leshchuk (2 – 1). Derbies won – 4. Top scorers: Konstantin Tyukavin – 6, Viktor Okishor – 4, Yaroslav Gladyshev – 3. Best assistants: Bitello – 3, Gladyshev – 3, Daniil Fomin – 2.