Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament

Valeri Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament (Ukrainian: Турнір Пам'яті Валерія Лобановського) is an international football tournament established in honour and memory of Valeri Lobanovsky since his death on 13 May 2002, hence the name Memorial. The idea was initiated by the FC Dynamo Kyiv management and the tournament is played at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Valery Lobanovsky's image on the scoreboard during the 2007 Memorial Tournament

General rules

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Since 2005, the tournament participants are a group of four selected national teams. From 2006 the tournament participants have been the Under-21 National Teams. The teams start-off in semifinals and the winners go on to play in the final; the other two teams play for the 3rd place.

In 2009 two games of the tournament were played at Boreks Stadium, Borodianka in Kyiv Oblast.[1]

In 2011 two games of the U-21 international tournament were played at Obolon Arena.[2]

In 2012 two games of the tournament were played at Bannikov Stadium.[3]

Champions and top goalscorers

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Season Champion Runner-Up Third place Fourth place Top Goalscorer(s)
As clubs tournament
2003   Dynamo Kyiv   Shakhtar Donetsk   CSKA Moscow   Lokomotiv Moscow   Diogo Rincón[a] 2 goals
2004   Dynamo Kyiv   Sheriff Tiraspol   Skonto Riga   Dinamo Tbilisi   Maksim Shatskikh[a] 2 goals
As senior national teams tournament
2005   Poland   Israel   Ukraine   Serbia and Montenegro   Grzegorz Rasiak 3 goals
As youth national teams tournament
2006   Israel U21   Belarus U21   Ukraine U21   Moldova U21   Kiril Pavlyuchek 3 goals
2007   Israel U21   Serbia U21   Ukraine U21   Moldova U21   Itay Shechter 2 goals
2008   Poland U21   Bulgaria U21   Ukraine U21   Northern Ireland U21   Marcin Wodecki 2 goals
  Serhiy Kravchenko
2009   Ukraine U21   Turkey U21   Germany U21   Iran U21 Nine players 1 goal
2010   Russia U20   Iran U20   Ukraine U20   Turkey U20   Andriy Bohdanov 2 goals
2011   Uzbekistan U23   Ukraine U21   Serbia U21   Israel U21 Five players 1 goal
2012[4]   Slovakia U21   Montenegro U20   Ukraine U20   Belarus U20 Seven players 1 goal
2013[5]   Austria U21   Ukraine U21   Czech Republic U21   Slovenia U21   Toni Vastić 2 goals
2014 Cancelled[b]
2015   Slovenia U21   Ukraine U21   Greece U21   Moldova U21   Luka Zahović 2 goals
  Nikolaos Ioannidis
2016   Israel U21   Serbia U21   Ukraine U21   Austria U21 Fourteen players 1 goal
2017   Finland U21   Ukraine U21   Montenegro U21   Slovenia U21   Nikola Krstović 2 goals
2018   Slovenia U21   Israel U21   Greece U21   Ukraine U19   Jan Mlakar 3 goals
2019[6]   Ukraine U21   Israel U21   Bulgaria U21   Cyprus U21 Six players 1 goal
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.
2021   Uzbekistan U21   Azerbaijan U21   Ukraine U21 Four players 1 goal

Performance among national teams

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Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
Team 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 Total
  Austria 1st 4th 2
  Azerbaijan 2nd 1
  Belarus 2nd 4th 2
  Bulgaria 2nd 3rd 2
  Cyprus 4th 1
  Czech Republic 3rd 1
  Finland 1st 1
  Germany 3rd 1
  Greece 3rd 3rd 2
  Iran 4th 2nd 2
  Israel 2nd 1st 1st 4th 1st 2nd 2nd 7
  Moldova 4th 4th 4th 3
  Montenegro 2nd 3rd 2
  Northern Ireland 4th 1
  Poland 1st 1st 2
  Russia 1st 1
  Serbia 4th 2nd 3rd 2nd 4
  Slovakia 1st 1
  Slovenia 4th 1st 4th 1st 4
  Turkey 2nd 4th 2
  Ukraine 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd 4th 1st 3rd 15
  Uzbekistan 1st 1st 2

Stadiums

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Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^
    The player of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv, who was also declared champion.
  2. ^
    Initially scheduled to take place in Donetsk, but due to War in Donbass it was suspended and transferred to Kyiv before cancelled completely after withdrawal of the Iran U21.

References

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  1. ^ ""Молодіжка" збирається на Меморіал Лобановського ("Under-21" gather for the Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament )". ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  2. ^ "Yakovenko's set-up for Lobanovskiy Memorial". Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2011-08-02. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
  3. ^ Меморіал Лобановського: українці програють в лотерею [Lobanovskiy Memorial:Ukrainians lose in the lottery]. Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
  4. ^ Меморіал Лобановського: українці програють в лотерею [(Updated result) Lobanovskiy Memorial:Ukrainians lose in the lottery]. Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  5. ^ Oleksandr Ryzhenko (5 June 2013). "Меморіал Лобановського. Україна (U-21) - Австрія (U-21) 0:1. Недисципліновано" [(Updated result) Lobanovskiy Memorial:Ukraine - Austria 0-1]. ua-football.com (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  6. ^ "Мемориал Лобановского возвращается на Олимпийский". www.ua-football.com (in Russian). 21 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
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