Today Dinamo Tbilisi will hold the fifth match on the camp in Turkey. Our team will compete with Dynamo Moscow, that is on the second place in Russian Premier League. The match will be held in Belek and will start at 12.00 Tbilisi time. Live coverage will be available on Setanta Sports TV channels, Facebook and Youtube platforms.
Dynamo Moscow was founded in 1923. The main colors of the club are blue and white. Home matches are played at the VTB Arena, which has a capacity of 26,000 spectators. Dynamo Moscow is one of the titled clubs in the post-Soviet countries and until 2017, along with us and Dynamo Kyiv, it was considered a team that never left the Premier League (the 2017/2018 season the team spent in the Lower League and returned to the Premier League again). The club is on the second place with 36 points after 18 matches in the current Russian championship.
Dynamo Moscow won USSR championship for 11 times and became the vice-champion for 11 times. They raised the Crystal Cup for 6 times and lost 5 finals. In the Russian championship, Dynamo won the cup once in 1994/1995 season, and lost three finals. On international arena our rival lost the decisive match of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with Rangers 2-3 in the 1971/1972 season.
The history of our teams' matches is 108 matches. 54 matches ended in favor of Moscow, 31 matches finished with draw and Tbilisi won 23 matches. After that, the teams met each other three more times - in the status of a friendly match. The draw was 1-1 in 2002, the opponent won 3-0 in 2008, and the match at Dinamo Arena in 2013 also ended with 1-1 draw.
Dinamo went through the first stage of the camp in Qatar. The second camp started on January 25 in Turkey. They also played friendly matches - losing 1-3 to CSKA Sofia on January 28, defeating Enisei 2-0 on January 31, and losing 1-2 to Slovakia's Ruzomberok on February 1. The next day, Dinamo defeated Partizan Belgrade 2-1. The third stage of the camp started in Antalya on February 7.
German football specialist Sandro Schwartz is working as the head coach of Dynamo Moscow for the second season already.