Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament

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

Valeri Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament (Ukrainian: Турнір Пам'яті Валерія Лобановського) (before 2005); and since 2005 it is called the International Valeri Lobanovsky Memorial Tournament (Ukrainian: Міжнародний Турнір Пам'яті Валерія Лобановського). This tournament was created 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 Kiev, Ukraine.

The tournament recently gained FIFA recognition and support.

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 Kiev 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

Season	Champion	Runner-Up	Third	Fourth	Top Goalscorer
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
2005	Poland	Israel	Ukraine	Serbia and Montenegro	Grzegorz Rasiak (Poland) 3 goals
2006	Israel U-21	Belarus U-21	Ukraine U-21	Moldova U-21	Kiril Pavlyuchek (Belarus) 3 goals
2007	Israel U-21	Serbia U-21	Ukraine U-21	Moldova U-21
2008	Poland U-21	Bulgaria U-21	Ukraine U-21	Northern Ireland U-21	Marcin Wodecki (Poland U-21) Serhiy Kravchenko (Ukraine U-21) 2 goals
2009	Ukraine U-21	Turkey U-21	Germany U-21	Iran U-21
2010	Russia U-20	Iran U-20	Ukraine U-20	Turkey U-20
2011	Uzbekistan U-23	Ukraine U-21	Serbia U-21	Israel U-21
2012[4]	Slovakia U-21	Montenegro U-20	Ukraine U-20	Belarus U-20
2013[5]	Austria U-21	Ukraine U-21	Czech Republic U-21	Slovenia U-21
2014	Initially scheduled to take place in Donetsk, but due to War in Donbass it was suspended and transferred to Kiev before cancelled completely after withdrawal of the Iran U-21.
2015	Slovenia U-21	Ukraine U-21	Greece U-21	Moldova U-21

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.

External links

• Lobanovsky International Tournament at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.