«CFR 1907 Cluj» (Румунія) — «Динамо» (Київ)

Match for peace #StopWarInUkraine: CFR 1907 Cluj - Dynamo charity football match to take place in Romania on 20 April

The charity Match for peace #StopWarInUkraine between CFR 1907 Cluj and Ukrainian Dynamo will take place on 20 April at 9.30 pm (CET, Kyiv time) at the Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The event will be broadcasted by the Romanian TV channel PRIMA TV and the platform Primaplay.ro, and the Ukrainian broadcasters - 2+2, 1+1 International, Dynamo Kyiv TV, M1, as well as online TV platforms such as 1+1 Video, Kyivstar TV, Vodafone TV, and the YouTube channels of FootballHub, Dynamo, TSN and UNIAN.

This will be the third match in a series of charity events aimed at raising funds to support Ukraine. Thus, all proceeds from ticket sales, as well as donations that will be made during the TV broadcasting, will be used to solve crucial humanitarian issues that have arisen due to the large-scale war of russia in Ukraine. In particular, the finances will be collected to the official accounts of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine in the National Bank of Ukraine. The funds will be used to meet food and accommodation needs of refugees and citizens, who left their homes due to the hostilities, providing them with clothing and footwear, medicines and medical equipment; as well as providing the population with basic necessities, one-time financial aid, and meeting other priority needs of human life, etc.

Tickets’ price starts at 10 Romanian lei, and you can buy them on the website at this link. Ukrainians, who are staying in Cluj-Napoca now, can get free tickets to the match. To do this, please contact the ticket office of the football club at 11 October Street and provide any document indicarting your Ukrainian citizenship.

In addition to the game of the football teams in Cluj-Napoca, there will be such participants and known around the world Ukrainian artists as Ruslana, Julia Sanina (The Hardkiss), Kateryna Pavlenko (Go_A) and DOROFEEVA, as it was at the opening of a series of charity matches in Warsaw. A 10-minute mash-up of cult songs compositions, that have become symbolic in times of the Ukrainian confrontation, will be performed by the artists in front of the audience.

Participants of the artistic performance will include guests of the stadium, among whom are Ukrainian women, grandmothers and children, forced to temporarily leave their homes due to the war, and who are currently sheltered by Romania.

Ruslana is a legendary Ukrainian singer, producer, songwriter, the public voice of Maidan and the Ambassador of Clean Energy in the world. In 2004, she brought the first Eurovision Song Contest victory to Ukraine perfoming the Wild Dances song, won the World Music Awards for the Wild Dances album, in the framework of which the World Best Selling Ukrainian Artist nomination has been launched. Ruslana will perform with the iconic among Ukrainians Wild Dances song, mentioned above, at the stadium in Cluj-Napoca.

Julia Sanina is the frontwoman of The Hardkiss, a songwriter, a blogger and a real rock diva. She is included in the list of the 100 Most Successful Women of Ukraine and the 35 Brightest Representatives of National Culture who have achieved success under the age of 35 according to the NV magazine. As a member of The Hardkiss, she has repeatedly won and been nominated in the Ukrainian National Golden Firebird Music Awards, YUNA, M1 Music Awards. Julia will perform with the Lovers song, one of the most popular hits of the band.

Kateryna Pavlenko is a soloist of the GO_A electro-folk band, and she has also represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. The performance of the band took 5th place in the final and the 1st place – in the Spotify Top Viral world chart. During the performance at the stadium, the soloist of the GO_A will address the audience and football fans with the legendary SHUM track (English - noise), which is in the TOP most popular charts in the world.

DOROFEEVA is a Ukrainian singer, a coach of the Voice of the Country, a blogger and a songwriter. She gained popularity as a member of the Vremya i Steklo band, at times of which she has repeatedly been a laureate and nominee for the Ukrainian National Golden Firebird Music Awards, YUNA, M1 Music Awards. During the first year of her solo career, she has become a real digital sensation in Ukraine, her songs topped the charts and gained record auditions on digital platforms. According to the results of 2021, she was included in the 100 Most Influential Women of Ukraine according to the Focus magazine. DOROFEEVA will sing the legendary, at times of shooting, Oh, In the Meadow Red Viburnum (Ukrainian – Oi u Luzi Chervona Kalyna ) song, which has now been a symbol of Ukrainian resistance and heroism in the war with russia.

The performances are organized by the 1+1 Big Entertainment Shows team, and the event is directed by TRI Directions – Natalia Lysenkova, Natalia Rovenska and Maria Grygorashchenko, who are known for their productions for world-famous artists.

Igor Tsyganyk and Roman Bebekh will be reporting the match for Ukrainian viewers.

The schedule of the next charity matches of Dynamo and the detailed information about the planned events can be found on a specially developed website.

The initiators of the project named Match for peace #StopWarInUkraine are the Dynamo football club and 1+1 media, one of the largest media holdings in Eastern Europe. The project is implemented with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, and the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine.

The main messages of the project are as follows: #StandWithUkraine, #StopWarInUkraine, #UnitedWithUkraine.