Bugün öğrendim ki: İşgalci Alman kuvvetleri, Falkelf ve Ukraynalı yerlilerden oluşan bir ekip arasındaki 2. Dünya Savaşı'ndan kalma tarihi bir futbol maçı olan Ölüm Maçı hakkında. Alman spor üstünlüğü için bir vitrin olarak tasarlandı. Ancak rakip takımın eski Dinamo Kiev oyuncuları olduğunun farkında olmadan 5 - 3 kaybettiler.

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Football match The Death Match[](/wiki/File: Death_match_bill.jpg) The official poster about the match printed by the German administration --- Date| 9 August 1942 Venue| Zenit stadium[a], [Kyiv](/wiki/Kyiv "Kyiv"), [Reichskommissariat Ukraine](/wiki/Reichskommissariat_Ukraine "Reichskommissariat Ukraine") ← Start – Flakelf (6 Aug 1942) Start – Rukh (16 Aug 1942) → **The Death Match** ([Russian](/wiki/Russian_language "Russian language"): Матч смерти) ([Ukrainian](/wiki/Ukrainian_language "Ukrainian language"): Матч смерті) is a name given in postwar historiography to the football match played in [Kyiv](/wiki/Kyiv "Kyiv") in _[Reichskommissariat Ukraine](/wiki/Reichskommissariat_Ukraine "Reichskommissariat Ukraine")_ (abbreviated RKU) under occupation by Nazi Germany. The Kyiv city team _Start_ ([Cyrillic](/wiki/Cyrillic "Cyrillic"): Старт), which represented the city's Bread Factory No.1, played several [football](/wiki/Association_football "Association football") games in World War II. The team was composed mostly of former professional footballers of [Dynamo Kyiv](/wiki/Dynamo_Kyiv "Dynamo Kyiv") and [Lokomotyv Kyiv](/wiki/FC_Lokomotyv_Kyiv "FC Lokomotyv Kyiv"), all of whom were forced to work at the factory under the Nazi occupation authority and were made to produce bread for German soldiers. On August 6 1942, FC Start played the German team Flakelf. There were an estimated 2,000 spectators in attendance, with each spectator paying a total of five rubles to attend.[b]