Kyiv, Kievan Rus', is a significant source of football talent — 472 association football players on Wikidata list the city as their place of birth. The most notable are Oleh Blokhin, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi and Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Among them are 466 male and 6 female players. Documented players span more than 106 years, from 1900 to 2006.
