FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Full name	Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Founded	1918 (1918)
Ground	Dnipro-Arena (capacity: 31,003)
President	Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Head coach	Juande Ramos
League	Ukrainian Premier League
2011–12	4th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Футбольний Клуб Дніпро Дніпропетровськ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Dnipropetrovsk.

History

BRIT

The club's franchise traces its history all the way back when the first team that was formed in 1918 by the Petrovsky factory and was called as BRIT (Brianskyi Robitnychyi Industrialnyi Tekhnikum). The team participated in the regional competition (Katerynoslav championship). With the four other teams BRIT played its games on small stadium "Sokil" which was located at the corner of Pushkin street and Yuriy Savchenko street.

Petrovets – Stal – Metalurh

Due to World War I, BRIT was disbanded, but on 9 May 1925 a new team was formed in Dnipropetrovsk (coincidently, later the day became to be known as the Victory Day). The team participated under a generic name as football team of Petrovsky factory. The official name it received in 1926 when it became to be known as "Petrovets". The team entered the first Soviet competition under the name of Stal (steel, En) in 1936 in one of the lower divisions. The team participated in the three championship before World War II. After the war, in 1947, the team reentered the Soviet competition and was merged with another club from Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk. From 1949 until 1961, the team was called Metalurh (from English metal worker). During this time the team participated for three seasons, 1950–1952, among the amateurs due to poor results. In 1954, Metalurh Dnipropetrovsk reached the semi-finals of the USSR Cup, where it lost to Spartak Yerevan.

Dnepr

In 1961, the team was handed over to its new sponsor, the Yugmash (the Southern machine-producing factory), which at that time was one of the most powerful factories in the entire Soviet Union and was funded by the Ministry of Defense. The new sponsor changed the team's name to the Russian name of Dnepr, Dnieper, as the Russian was the accepted language of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government. The team's performance did not change much until after 1968, when Dnepr obtained Andriy Biba and the new coach – Valery Lobanovsky. After that it took the team three years to get promoted to the Soviet Top League and eventually took sixth place in 1972.

Golden generation

In 1973 and 1976 Dnepr reached the semi-finals of the USSR Cup competition. In 1978 the team was relegated to the lower league for two years. Their next return to the top flight was not as inviting as their first one and the team languished at the bottom of the table for several years. In the following years, the governing body of the team hired new promising coaches – Volodymyr Yemets and Hennadiy Zhizdik. After those changes, Dnepr became a strong contender for the Soviet championship winning it twice: once with Yemets and Zhizdik in 1983, and another one with Yevhen Kucherevsky in 1988. Also, in 1989 Dnepr became the first professional football club in the Soviet Union. During those years, the team featured many notable players such as Oleg Protasov, Hennadiy Litovchenko, Oleksiy Cherednyk, and Oleh Taran.

Dnipro

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the club took on the Ukrainian version name of Dnipro, the name of the biggest river and one of the major symbols of Ukraine. The club joined the football federation of the native country and remained one of the top contenders in the newly formed Ukrainian Premier League. The team received silver medals in 1993 as well as the bronze in 1992, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004. The team also reached the Ukrainian Cup finals in 1995, 1997 and 2004, but lost all three to Shakhtar Donetsk.

FC Dnipro is currently controlled by the Privat Group.

There exist a friendship between supporters of Dnipro and Dynamo Kyiv.

The biggest rival is Metalist Kharkiv.

Stadia

Main articles: Stadium Meteor and Dnipro Arena

Old Stadium Meteor

Current Dnipro Arena

Since the club's foundation in 1918, Dnipro's home was Stadium Meteor in Dnipropetrovsk. The stadium was rebuilt in 1966 on the original site and has undergone several renovations since, the last one being in 2001. However in 2002 after several spells in European competitions, it became clear that the club needed a new modern venue. Thus, in 2005 Pryvat Group started construction of Dnipro Arena in the centre of Dnipropetrovsk. The club played its last game at Meteor on 2 September 2008, against Metalist Kharkiv.

In April 2005 the club's new arena broke ground. It was constructed by Germany's largest construction company Hochtief. The construction itself took 3 years and 4 months, but a nine-month delay occurred due to a land dispute over a site where the stadium's car park was planned. The stadium's final capacity is 31,003 people and the initial estimated cost of the construction was set at €40,000,000.

The stadium was opened on 15 September 2008. The opening ceremony featured a speech by Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko, a concert performance by a number of famous Ukrainian musicians and two football matches: Veterans of Dynamo Kyiv vs Spartak Moscow veterans, and Dnipro against Dynamo Kyiv. As a present to the club from the city the street that the stadium is situated on was renamed into Kucherevskyi Boulevard, in honour of Dnipro's late coach Yevhen Kucherevskyi. Dnipro played their first official game on 29 September 2008 against their local rivals FC Metalurh Zaporizhya, but Dnipro lost 1–2. They set a new attendance record for the Ukrainian Premier League 2008–09 season, at 31,000 spectators.

Sponsors

The main sponsors are TM Biola, and NikeFootball.

European Cups History

UEFA Cup/Europa League:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1985-86	1		Wismut Aue	2-1	3-1	5-2
	2		PSV	1-0	2-2	3-2
	3		Hajduk Split	0-1	0-2	0-3
1986-87	1		Legia Warsaw	0-0	0-1	0-1
1988-89	1		Bordeaux	1-1	1-2	2-3
1990-91	1		Hearts FC	1-1	1-3	2-4
1993–94	1		Admira Wacker	1-0	3-2	4-2
	2		Eintracht Frankfurt	1-0	0-2	1-2
1997-98	Q1		FK Yerevan	6-1	2-0	8-2
	Q2		FC Alania Vladikavkaz	1-2	1-4	2-6
2001–02	1		Fiorentina	0-0	1-2	1-2
2003–04	Q1		FC Vaduz	1-0	1-0	2-0
	1		Hamburger SV	3-0	1-2	4-2
	2		Dinamo Zagreb	1-1	2-0	3-1
	3		Olympique Marseille	0-0	0-1	0-1
2004–05	Q2		MFK Petržalka	3-0	1-1	4-1
	1		Maccabi Haifa F.C.	2-0	0-1	2-1
	Group		Club Brugge	3-2
			FC Utrecht		2-1
			Austria Wien	1-0
			Real Zaragoza		1-2
	1/16		Partizan Belgrade FC	0-1	2-2	2-3
2005–06	Q2		Banants	4-0	4-2	8-2
	1		Hibernian F.C.	5-1	0-0	5-1
	Group		AZ Alkmaar	1-2
			Middlesbrough F.C.		0-3
			Litex	0-2
			Grasshoppers		3-2
2007–08	Q2		GKS Bełchatów	1-1	4-2	5-3
	1		Aberdeen F.C.	1-1	0-0	1-1
2008–09	Q2		AC Bellinzona	3-2	1-2	4-4
2010–11	Q3		Spartak Zlatibor Voda	2-0	1-2	3-2
	Play-off		Lech Poznań	0-1	0-0	0-1
2011–12	Play-off		Fulham F.C.	1-0	0-3	1-3
2012–13	Play-off		FC Slovan Liberec	4-2	2-2	6-4
	Group		PSV	2-0	1-2	4-1
			Napoli	3-1	2-4	5-5
			AIK	4-0	3-2	7-2
	1/16		FC Basel	1-1	0-2	1-3

European Cup:

Season	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1984-85	1		Trabzonspor	3-0	0-1	3-1
	2		Levski Sofia	2-0	1-3	3-3
	Q		Bordeaux	1-1	1-1	3-5 (PKs)
1989-90	1		Linfield F.C.	2-1	1-0	3-1
	2		Tirol Innbruck	2-0	2-2	4-2
	Q		Benfica	0-1	0-3	0-4

Honours

Domestic

• Soviet Top League / Ukrainian Championship
  • Winners: 1983, 1988
  • Runners-up: 1987, 1989, 1993
• USSR Cup / Ukrainian Cup
  • Winners: 1989
  • Runners-up: 1995, 1997, 2004
• USSR Super Cup:
  • Winners: 1988
  • Runners-up: 1983
• USSR Federation Cup:
  • Winners: 1986, 1989
  • Runners-up: 1990

Continental

• UEFA Intertoto Cup:
  • Runners-up: 2006

Invitational

• Marbella Cup
  • 2011
• Costa del Sol Trophy
  • 2013

Other

• UEFA Champions Cup Quarterfinalist in 1985 (lost on penalties) and 1990
• USSR Championship 3rd place in 1984, 1985
• Ukrainian Championship 3rd place in 1992, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004
• Best Ukrainian club in the USSR Championship in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989

Players

Current squad

As of 1 April 2013

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 3 DF Ondřej Mazuch 4 MF Serhiy Kravchenko 5 DF Vitaliy Mandzyuk 6 MF Jaba Kankava 7 MF Denys Kulakov 8 MF Giuliano 9 FW Nikola Kalinić 10 MF Yevhen Konoplyanka 11 MF Denys Oliynyk 14 DF Yevhen Cheberyachko 16 GK Jan Laštůvka 17 DF Ivan Strinić 18 FW Roman Zozulya

No. Position Player 19 MF Alexander Kobakhidze 20 MF Derek Boateng 21 FW Yevhen Seleznyov 23 DF Douglas 24 DF Éric Matoukou 28 MF Yevhen Shakhov 29 MF Ruslan Rotan (captain) 36 MF Ruslan Babenko 44 DF Artem Fedetskiy 77 GK Denys Shelikhov 91 GK Ihor Vartsaba 99 FW Matheus

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player — GK Stanislav Chyhryn (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) — DF Samuel Inkoom (at Bastia) — DF Ucha Lobjanidze (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) — MF Mladen Bartulović (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) — MF Valeriy Fedorchuk (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih)

No. Position Player — MF Artem Filimonov (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) — MF Oleksiy Razuvayev (at Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka) — FW Oleksiy Antonov (at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) — FW Oleksandr Hladkyi (at Karpaty Lviv)

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1977	1st	12	30	9	9	12	24	31	27	1/8
1978	1st	16	30	9	3	18	25	39	21	1/16			Relegated
1979	2nd	17	46	16	14	16	57	60	44	Group stage
1980	2nd	2	46	27	8	11	60	47	62	Group stage			Promoted
1981	1st	8	34	12	8	14	42	53	32	Group stage
1982	1st	9	34	11	12	11	34	38	32	1/2
1983	1st	1	34	22	5	7	63	36	49	1/4
1984	1st	3	34	17	8	9	54	40	42	1/8	ECL	1/4
1985	1st	3	34	16	11	7	71	41	42	1/4	UC	1/8
1986	1st	11	30	8	12	10	41	41	28	1/16	UC	1st round
1987	1st	2	30	15	9	6	42	22	39	1/16
1988	1st	1	30	18	10	2	49	23	46	1/2	UC	1st round
1989	1st	2	30	18	6	6	47	27	42	Winner	ECL	1/4
1990	1st	6	24	11	6	7	39	26	28	1/16 finals	UC	1st round
1991	1st	9	30	9	10	11	31	36	28	1/8 finals

Ukraine

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Europe		Notes
1992	1st	3	18	10	3	5	26	15	23	1/4 finals			yielded to FC Metalist Kharkiv 1/8 final of Soviet Cup
1992–93	1st	2	30	18	8	4	51	20	44	1/8 finals
1993–94	1st	4	34	16	9	9	53	35	41	1/4 finals	UC	2nd round
1994–95	1st	3	34	19	8	7	60	33	65	Runner-up
1995–96	1st	3	34	19	6	9	65	34	63	1/4 finals
1996–97	1st	4	30	14	13	3	48	19	55	Runner-up
1997–98	1st	4	30	17	4	9	47	27	55	1/4 finals	UC	2nd qual round
1998–99	1st	12	30	9	5	16	28	46	32	1/8 finals
1999-00	1st	11	30	8	9	13	26	52	33	1/8 finals
2000–01	1st	3	26	17	4	5	37	18	55	1/2 finals
2001–02	1st	6	26	11	7	8	30	20	40	1/2 finals	UC	1st round
2002–03	1st	4	30	18	5	7	48	27	59	1/2 finals
2003–04	1st	3	30	16	9	5	44	23	57	Runner-up	UC	3rd round
2004–05	1st	4	30	13	9	8	38	34	48	1/2 finals	UC	Round of 32
2005–06	1st	6	30	11	10	9	33	23	43	1/8 finals	UC	Group stage
2006–07	1st	4	30	11	14	5	32	24	47	1/4 finals
2007–08	1st	4	30	18	5	7	40	27	59	1/16 finals	UC	1st round
2008–09	1st	6	30	13	9	8	34	25	48	1/8 finals	UC	2nd qual round
2009–10	1st	4	30	15	9	6	48	25	54	1/4 finals
2010–11	1st	4	30	16	9	5	46	20	57	1/2 finals	EL	Play-off Round
2011-12	1st	4	30	15	7	8	52	35	52	1/8 finals	EL	Play-off Round
2012-13	1st	2	18	11	5	2	33	13	38	1/2 finals	EL	Round of 32

European history

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk participates in European competitions since 1984 after playing its first against Trabzonspor. Since 2001, however, the club participates almost on annual basis with variable successes.

Season	Achievement	Notes
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
1984–85	Quarter-Finalist	eliminated by Bordeaux 1–1 in Bordeaux, 1–1 in Dnipropetrovsk
1989-90	Quarter-Finalist	eliminated by Benfica 0–1 in Lisbon, 0–3 in Dnipropetrovsk

External links

• Official website