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 V.V. Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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

General rules

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

Club competitions
SeasonChampionRunner-UpThird placeFourth placeTop Goalscorer(s)
2003 Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk CSKA Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Diogo Rincón (Dynamo Kyiv) 2 goals
2004 Dynamo Kyiv Sheriff Tiraspol Skonto Riga Dinamo Tbilisi Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo Kyiv) 2 goals

National teams
SeasonChampionRunner-UpThird placeFourth placeTop Goalscorer(s)
2005 Poland Israel Ukraine Serbia and Montenegro Grzegorz Rasiak – 3 goals
2006 Israel U-21 Belarus U-21 Ukraine U-21 Moldova U-21 Kiril Pavlyuchek – 3 goals
2007 Israel U-21 Serbia U-21 Ukraine U-21 Moldova U-21 Itay Shechter – 2 goals
2008 Poland U-21 Bulgaria U-21 Ukraine U-21 Northern Ireland U-21 Marcin Wodecki and Serhiy Kravchenko – 2 goals
2009 Ukraine U-21 Turkey U-21 Germany U-21 Iran U-21 9 players – 1 goal
2010 Russia U-20 Iran U-20 Ukraine U-20 Turkey U-20 Andriy Bohdanov – 2 goals
2011 Uzbekistan U-23 Ukraine U-21 Serbia U-21 Israel U-21 5 players – 1 goal
2012[4] Slovakia U-21 Montenegro U-20 Ukraine U-20 Belarus U-20 7 players – 1 goal
2013[5] Austria U-21 Ukraine U-21 Czech Republic U-21 Slovenia U-21 Toni Vastić – 2 goals
2014 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 U-21.
2015 Slovenia U-21 Ukraine U-21 Greece U-21 Moldova U-21 Luka Zahović and Nikolaos Ioannidis – 2 goals
2016 Israel U-21 Serbia U-21 Ukraine U-21 Austria U-21 14 players – 1 goal
2017 Finland U-21 Ukraine U-21 Montenegro U-21 Slovenia U-21 Nikola Krstović – 2 goals
2018 Slovenia U-21 Israel U-21 Greece U-21 Ukraine U-19 Jan Mlakar – 3 goals
2019[6] Ukraine U-21 Israel U-21 Bulgaria U-21 Cyprus U-21 6 players – 1 goal

Performance among national teams
Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
Team20052006200720082009201020112012201320152016201720182019Total
 Austria1st4th2
 Belarus2nd4th2
 Bulgaria2nd3rd2
 Cyprus4th1
 Czech Republic3rd1
 Finland1st1
 Germany3rd1
 Greece3rd3rd2
 Iran4th2nd2
 Israel2nd1st1st4th1st2nd2nd7
 Moldova4th4th4th3
 Montenegro2nd3rd2
 Northern Ireland4th1
 Poland1st1st2
 Russia1st1
 Serbia4th2nd3rd2nd4
 Slovakia1st1
 Slovenia4th1st4th1st4
 Turkey2nd4th2
 Ukraine3rd3rd3rd3rd1st3rd2nd3rd2nd2nd3rd2nd4th1st14
 Uzbekistan1st1

Stadiums

References
  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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