The lot was determined by opponents Dynamo Kiev in the group round of the League of Europe Young Boys from Switzerland, who this summer placed a cross on the ligochempions ambitions of the vice-champion of Ukraine, and a year earlier knocked out of the Champions League Miner.
The team from Bern was founded on March 14, 1898 by four students of the local university Max and Oscar Schwab, Hermann Bauer and Franz Curley. As evidenced by the official history of the club, the first match "yellow-black" played on June 17 of the same year against Victoria and won. In 1900, Young Boys joined the Swiss Football Association.
The team conducts their home games in the arena of the Stade de Suis Vankdorf, which seats 32 thousand spectators. Lawn on Vankdorf artificial.
Young Boys 11 times became champions of Switzerland and 6 times won the national Cup, however, the last trophy team from Bern was able to take in the season-1986/87.
The debut in European competition for Young Boys took place in the first round of the Champions Cup-1957/58 - defeat from the Hungarian Vashasha with a total score of 2: 3.
The biggest success in the Champions League for Young Boys was the outing in the playoff round in the 2010/11 season, which ended in a defeat by Tottenham with a total score of 3: 6, and last season when he defeated Shakhtar in the third qualifying round in the penalty shoot-out (4 : 2) after a 2-0 win and 0: 2 defeat, the Swiss were destroyed by Borussia from Monchengladbach with a total score of 2: 9.
In the Europa League, Young Boys played four times in the group stage, and twice, in the season of 2010/2011 and the season-2014/2015 was able to reach the 1/32 finals, where he lost to Zenit (3: 4) and Everton (2: 7).
July 26 Dynamo and Young Boys met at the NSC Olympic in the third qualifying round of the Champions League. The hosts fairly easily won, not only on the score, but also on the game. And then it never entered anyone's head that the ball missed on 90 + 1-st minute will become fatal for the team of Alexander Khatskevich.
August 2, at the Stade de Suis, the people of Kiev did not know. You can, of course, take into account an unusual for the visitors artificial lawn, but certainly not he became the main reason for the complete failure of Dynamo. Khatskevich's wards were inferior to the opponent in almost all components, but most importantly - in the thirst for struggle. A point in the agony Dynamo put goalkeeper Maksima Kovalya mistake not to keep the ball in hand on 89 minutes, and dropped it into the goal. 2: 0 - and on the sum of two matches the Kievites were overboard the Champions League.
However, and the "yellow-black" in the main club tournament of the Old World did not linger, losing in two matches CSKA. And now, by chance, the lots again found themselves on the way to Dynamo.
They say that revenge is a dish that should be taken cold, but this time Dinmo was given a chance to get even with his abusers hot on the trail. And there will be no forgiveness for the Kiev team, if it does not take advantage of this chance in full.
Composition Goalkeepers - Marco Wolffy, David von Ballmoos, Dario Marcino.
Defenders - Marco Burki, Steve von Bergen, Gregori Vyutrih, Loris Benito Jordan Lotombo Sven Joss, Kevin Mbabi Thomas Fekete.
Midfielders - Leonardo Bertone, Miralem Suleymani (Serbia), Jibril Sov, Torsten Schick (Austria), Michel Ebisher, Qasim Nuhu (Ghana), Sekou Sanogo (Cote d'Ivoire).
Forwards: Alexander Gerndt (Sweden), Jorik Rave (France), Roger Assale (Cote d'Ivoire), Christian Fassnacht, Taulant Seferi (Albania), Guillaume Oro (France).
Trainer - Adolf Hutter (Austria).