[1] During the Soviet period, participation of the second squad was sporadic and mostly at republican level, the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.

During the first couple of decades of the Ukrainian second tier (Persha Liha), the team dominated the league competition and won three titles.

Later its performance declined, and the club concentrated its effort on its junior squads competing in parallel competitions for the youth.

Following the World War II, Dynamo Kyiv continued to field its second squad in the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR, but under name Dynamo Kyiv for at least four seasons yet, to differentiate it from the team of masters, it was referred to as Dynamo-klubnaya.

It only competed for one season in the Ukrainian Class B football competitions of the Soviet Union.