Yuriy Semin has become the 32rd head coach in the club’s history and the tenth manager from Russia to take charge of the Kyiv team. His Russian predecessors include Mikhail Butusov, Lev Kocherbokov, Boris Apukhtin, Mikhail Sushkov, Mikhail Okun, Vyacheslav Solovyev, Viktor Maslov, Aleksandr Sevidov and Yuriy Morozov
1936-1937 - Mykhaylo Tovarovskyy (2nd place, 1936)
1938 - Volodymyr Fomin (4th place)
1939-1940 - Mykhaylo Pechechnyy (8th place in 1939, 1940)
1941, 1947 - Mikhail Butusov (4th place in 1947)
1944-1945 - Mykola Makhynya (11th place in 1945)
1945-1946 - Lev Korchebakov (12th palce in 1946)
1946 - Anton Idzkovskkyy (12 place 1946)
1946 - Borys Apukhtin
1947 - Kostyantyn Shchehodskyy (4th place)
1948 - Mikhail Suhkov (10th place)
1949 - Mikhail Okun (7th place)
1950 - Yevhen Fokin (13th place)
1951-1956, 1959 - Oleh Oshenkov (USSR Cup, 2nd place in 1952)
1957-1958 - Viktor Shylovskyy (6th place in 1957, 1958)
1959-1962 - Vyacheslav Solovyev (1st place in 1961)
1963, 1970 - Viktor Terentyev (7th place в 1970)
1963 - Anatoliy Zubrytskyy (9th place)
1964-1970 - Viktor Maslov (1st place in 1966, 1967, 1968, USSR Cup 1964, 1966)
1971-1973 - Aleksandr Sevidov (1st place in 1971)
1973-1982 - Valeriy Lobanovskyy (1 place in 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, USSR Cup 1974, 1978, 1982, Cup Winners' Cup 1975, UEFA Super Cup 1975)
1974-1976 - Oleh Bazylevycn (1st place 1974, 1975, USSR Cup 1974, Cup Winners' Cup 1975, UEFA Super Cup 1975)
1983 - Yuriy Morozov (7th place in 1983)
1984-1990 - Lobanovskyy Valeriy (1st place in 1985, 1986, 1990, USSR Cup 1985, 1987, 1990, Cup Winners' Cup1986)
1991-1992 - Anatoliy Puzach (1st place in 1992/93)
1993 - Mykhaylo Fomenko (1st place in 1994, Ukrainian Cup in 1994)
1992, 1994, 1995-1996, 2004-2005, 2007 - József Szabó (1st place in 1996, Ukrainian Cup 1996, 2005)
1995 - Mykola Pavlov (1st place in 1995)
1996 - Volodymyr Onishchenko
1997 - 2002 - Valeriy Lobanovskyy (1st place 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, Ukrainian Cup 1998, 1999, 2000)
2002 – 2004 - Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (1st place in 2003, 2004, Ukrainian Cup 2003, Ukrainian Super Cup 2004)
2005 - Leonid Buryak
2005-2007 – Anatoliy Demyanenko (1st place in 2007, Ukrainian Cup 2006, 2007, Ukrainian Super Cup 2006, 2007)
2007 - Oleh Luzhnyy
since 2008 - Yuriy Semin