About club

Dynamo Moscow, as part of the club’s development strategy, decided to open a new direction within its football system – women’s football.

That is why on December 2, 2021, the creation of the Dynamo Moscow women's football club was announced.

Inside the Dynamo Academy, a multi-level vertical for the professional training of female football players will be built - from several teams of different ages and a youth team to the main women's team, which will become an integral part of the Dynamo Moscow football club.

FIFA and UEFA are taking active steps to develop women's football. The commercial potential of the main European tournaments – the World and European Women’s Championships and the Women’s Champions League – is growing. The RFU is also working purposefully in this direction. In the near future, every club playing in the Russian Premier League (RPL) will have to have a women's team in its structure.

For Dynamo, creating a structure for women’s football is not just following a global trend, but, first of all, a full-fledged sports direction, which, we hope, will give our fans new star names of students and new bright results. In the future, it is planned to involve all 6 branches of the Dynamo Academy and more than 20 football schools opened over the past year throughout Russia. The nearest plans include the opening of women's departments in the branches of the Dynamo Academy.

Since the opening of the women's football club in December 2021, the coaching, medical and administrative headquarters of the main team, youth U-21 and junior teams U-17, U-15 and U-13 have been fully formed, selection camps for all squads have been held, the main team has been strengthened in a targeted manner high-quality and promising players of national teams, youth and junior teams of Russia of different ages.

The head coach of the youth team is Sergei Lavrentyev, a graduate of the Dynamo football academy, a top-category coach who has worked in some of the best clubs in Russian women's football (WFC Chertanovo, WFC CSKA), and also led the Russian national women's team for three years. participant of Euro 2013.

The first player of the youth team of the Dynamo women's football club was 15-year-old Arina Taranchenko, who plays as a goalkeeper and defends the colors of Russian national teams of different ages, including the national women's team!

The Dynamo Sports Club also includes Russian national team players - from juniors to the main team of the country: Yulia Bessolova, Maria Galay, Irina Dricheva, Kristina Komissarova, Jose-Diana Pamen Tchato, Diana Ponomareva, Elina Samoilova, Arina Taranchenko, Alina Chistyakova, Elena Shesterneva, Valeria Azeeva, Daniella Petrova, Ekaterina Sergeeva.

Before the 2023 season, the team was joined by the first foreign players in the history of the club - Helena Bozic (Montenegro), Tijana Matic (Serbia), Fauzia Najemba (Uganda), Kaylan Williams (USA).

The first match in the history of the Dynamo Football Club, which took place at the first training camp in Turkey, ended in a crushing victory for our team over the Turkish club Konyaalti Belediyespor with a score of 17:0, and the first goal was scored by blue and white midfielder Anna Peshekhonova.

In its debut season of 2022, the Dynamo Football Club took part in the Youth League (Russian Football Championship among juniors under 21), and the next year - in the year of the 100th anniversary of our famous club - it began its journey in the top league of Russian women's football . This was officially announced on December 10, 2022. The main team was headed by Sergei Lavrentyev on December 23 of the same year.

Our club played its first official match in history on April 24, 2022 - away against WFC Krasnodar. The historic meeting ended in a draw (1:1), and the first Dynamo goal was scored by central defender Alina Chistyakova in the 67th minute. A little later, he was recognized by Dynamo fans as the best goal of the month! The first assist was scored by forward Varvara Rubtsova, who came on as a substitute and made an accurate pass from the corner to Alina Chistyakova.

The first official goal in the Super League of the Dynamo Football Club was scored on March 19, 2023 - in the victorious away match against the Yenisei Football Club (1:0), American striker Kaylan Williams scored, and Fauzia Najemba gave the first assist.

The first official match in the Russian Cup was played by the Dynamo Football Club on June 17, 2023 - in the 1/16 finals, the blue and white defeated the Strogino Football Club with a score of 11:1! Dynamo's first goal in this tournament was scored by defender Milena Nikitina. She scored the first historic double in the national cup, and Ugandan striker Fauzia Najemba scored the first hat-trick in the history of the club in the Russian Cup!

At the moment, this is the biggest victory of Dynamo WFC in official matches.

In its debut Russian Cup, Dynamo reached the 1/8 finals, where it lost to WFC CSKA (1:4).

In the 2024 season, Dynamo finished its performance in the Russian Cup in the quarterfinals, where it lost to Lokomotiv Moscow (1:2).

The first victory in official matches was won in the 2nd round of the Youth League 2022: on the home field in Novogorsk, the blue and whites defeated Ryazan-VDV (2:1), Dynamo captain Kristina Komissarova scored a double. We didn’t have to wait long for our first away victory: it was achieved already in the 4th round – in Kazan, thanks to a goal from Liana Kotelnikova, Rubin was beaten (1:0).

In the very first season, the Dynamo Sports Club won silver medals at the Youth Championship, winning 17 victories and scoring 51 goals in 24 championship games! The team's top scorer was captain Kristina Komissarova - she scored 16 goals in 22 matches. She also became the best assistant - with 8 assists, and also the best in the “goal + pass” system (16 goals + 8 assists). At the end of the 2022 season, Komissarova was recognized by fans as the best player of Dynamo, as well as the best player of the Youth Championship according to the RFU and the Women's Football League. Arina Taranchenko, recognized as the best goalkeeper of the tournament, was also included in the ranking of the best!

WFC Dynamo achieved its first victory in the Super League on March 19, 2023 - in Krasnoyarsk, thanks to the only goal of Kaylan Williams, the blue and white beat Yenisei. It also became the team's first victory in the Super League away from home.

The first home victory of the Dynamo Football Club in the Super League was won on March 25, 2023 - at the training base in Novogorsk, the blue and whites defeated Ryazan-VDV (5:0). The hero of the meeting was striker Elena Shesterneva: she scored Dynamo’s first hat-trick (and double) in the Super League, and also scored the club’s first goal from the penalty spot in this tournament.

Dynamo finished its debut season in the Super League in 5th place, and in the 2024 season repeated the same result.