Dinamo Minsk, founded in 1927, remains the only Belarusian club ever to win the Soviet championship — in 1982, under coach Eduard Malofeev, known for his attacking, "sincere" style of football, Minsk finished a single point ahead of the mighty Dynamo Kyiv, managed by Valeriy Lobanovskyi. The following season the team reached the European Cup quarter-finals, losing to Dinamo Bucharest, who were themselves knocked out in the semi-final by eventual champions Liverpool — still the club's best-ever European run.
After the Soviet Union's collapse, Dinamo Minsk won the independent Belarusian title seven times, including five in a row between 1992 and 1995, and lifted the domestic cup three times, cementing its status as one of the country's most decorated clubs.
Home matches are played at the historic Dinamo Stadium in central Minsk, opened in 1934 and thoroughly modernised ahead of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, part of whose football tournament was staged at this very ground.