Falcon (hockey club, Kiev)

Dynamo Kiev

In the spring of 1963, on the initiative of the Deputy Chairman of the Sports Committee of Ukraine Adrian Mizyak in Kiev, they decided to create a team of masters called Dynamo. The head of the team from the capital of the Ukrainian SSR was entrusted to Dmitry Boginov, the Honored Coach of the RSFSR. With enthusiasm and in a short time he was able to gather in Kiev, good-quality hockey players from clubs in Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky and other cities.

The first official match of Dynamo held on October 27, 1963 in Kiev against SKA (Kuibyshev) in the second subgroup of class "A" and won it with a score of 4: 2. Victor Martynov became the author of the first Dynamo's first goal in the second minute of the meeting.

To compete in the elite echelon of the USSR championship, the team won the right after only two seasons. In the autumn of 1965, in the Kiev Palace of Sports, which was only inferior in capacity to the Moscow Luzhniki, Dynamo made their debut in the top All-Union league with a victory over Lokomotiv Moscow (3: 1). In that season, the Kiev team finished in ninth place. Four years later, following the results of the season-1969/70 (12th place), Dynamo again returned to the first league, and after three years it completely ceased to exist.

"Falcon" Kiev

The successor of Dynamo became Sokol, which received this name on July 1, 1973, when the Kiev team moved to the staff of the Ukrsovet DSO Zenit at the suggestion of its chairman, Vladimir Belousov. At that time, sponsorship (sponsorship) assistance to the players and coaches of Sokol was provided by the Kiev Aviation Plant (later renamed to Kiev Aviation Industrial Association, KiAPO).

In 1978, the club returns to the big leagues of the USSR championship. A gradual rise began, ending with bronze medals in the 1984/85 season. The Kiev club led Anatoly Bogdanov, who headed Sokol for 15 seasons, to the highest union achievement. During this period (from 1976 to 1991), under the leadership of Bogdanov, the Kievans not only won the bronze, but also entered the top five of the best USSR clubs six times, finishing twice in the fourth.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sokol took part in the Interethnic Hockey League (from 1992 to 1996), the East European Hockey League (from 1996 to 2004), the open championship of Belarus (from 2004 to 2007) and the national championship. During the existence of the MHL, the head coach of the team was Alexander Fadeev, and with the collapse of this league, the Falcon was headed by Alexander Seukand.

In the 2007/08 season, the Kyiv team made their debut in the big leagues (the Zapad zone) of the Russian championships, where they finished fifth in the honorable place in the regular championship and took part in the first round (1/8 finals) of the playoffs.

In 2009, for economic reasons, the team returned to the Belarusian extra-league .

Since 2011, playing in the championship of the Professional Hockey League of Ukraine.

• Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship (1985).
• Champion VECH (1998, 1999).
• VEHL silver medalist (1997, 2000).
• Bronze medalist Wech (2001, 2003).
• Winner of VEHL Cup (1998, 1999).
• Champion of Ukraine (1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010).
• Winner of the Cup of Ukraine (2007).
• CUP OF FEDERATION (2010).
• Silver medalist of the championship of Ukraine (2011, 2012).
• Bronze medalist of the championship of Ukraine (2002, 2013, 2014).
• The highest achievement in the highest league of the Russian Championship - 1/4 finals (2009).
• The highest achievement in the championships of Belarus - 4th place (2005).
• The highest achievement in European club tournaments:
  • reaching the semifinals of the group tournaments of the European Champions Cup (1993, 1995 and 1996).
  • participation in the third (semifinal) round of the Continental Cup (2002/03 season, 2004/05 and 2006/07).

• Yuri Gunko
• Yury Dyachenko
• Sergey Klimentyev
• Vitaly Litvinenko
• Peter Malkov
• Evgeny Alipov
• Vladimir Golubovich
• Edward Valiullin
• Valentin Oletsky
• Roman Salnikov
• Valery Sidorov
• Konstantin Simchuk
• Anatoly Stepanischev
• Ruslan Fedotenko
• Dmitry Khristich
• Vadim Shakhraychuk
• Valery Shiryaev
• Ramil Yuldashev
• Andrey Nikolishin
• Alexander Kharitonov
• Alexander Vyuhin
• Alexey Zhitnik
• Yuri Shundrov
• Evgeny Shastin
• Anatoly Dyomin

• Dmitry Nikolaevich Boginov (1963-1969)
• Igor Alekseevich Shichkov (1969–1974)
• Vladimir Kuzmich Egorov (1974-1975)
• Anatoly Alexandrovich Egorov (1975-1976)
• Anatoly V. Bogdanov (1976–1991)
• Alexander Mikhailovich Fadeev (1991—1994)
• Alexander Y. Seukand (1994—2011)
• Alexander O. Godynyuk (2011—2013)

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• Club statistics on Eliteprospects