FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipro
Full name Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Nickname(s) Warriors of light
Founded 1918 (1918)
Ground Dnipro-Arena, Dnipropetrovsk
Ground Capacity 33,993
Owner Ihor Kolomoyskyi
President Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Head coach Myron Markevych
League Ukrainian Premier League
2014–15 3rd
Website Club home page

Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́» Дніпропетро́вськ IPA: [dnʲiˈprɔ dnʲiprɔpɛˈtrɔβ̞sʲk]) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Dnipropetrovsk.

Dnipro, which is the Ukrainian name of the Dnieper river in Ukraine, is a popular sports name in Dnipropetrovsk. Beside the association football club there also is a bandy team under the same name,[1] basketball team and others. However, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk is not a multi-sport club. The club is owned by the Privat Group that also owns BC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Budivelnyk Kyiv.

During the Soviet Union the club was a member of the Soviet Volunteer Sports Society "Metallurg" (therefore it carried names Metallurg/Metalurh and Stal) and until 1961 was under sponsorship of the Petrovsky Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Plant. After that the club was sponsored by the Southern Machine-building Plant Yuzhmash and carried both names Russian Dnepr and Ukrainian Dnipro, while Dnepr was also used for international competitions. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the club was the second most successful club of Ukraine that participated in the Soviet Top League, winning in 1983 and 1988. Sometime after the fall of the Soviet Union, the club was privatized.

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 (coincidentally, 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, FC 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. It was part of the Zenit volunteer sports society. 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.

Markevych era

On 14 May 2015, following a historical 1–0 victory over Napoli after a 1–1 draw in Italy in the semi-finals, Dnipro qualified for their first ever European final, the 2015 UEFA Europa League Final where they played defending champions Sevilla on 27 May at the Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland.[2] Despite going up 1–0 on the 6th minute, Dnipro lost 3–2.[3] This was one of the club's greatest successes, not just in terms of records and trophies; they were also able to inspire the residents who were suffering in war torn territories. The situation was such that during the entire course of the campaign, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk had to play all of their home matches some 400 kilometres away in Kyiv due to the war.[4] On 31 March 2016, the club was excluded by UEFA from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which it would otherwise qualify in the next three seasons (i.e. the 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons) for violating the Financial Fair Play regulations.[5]

Stadium

Main articles: Stadium Meteor and Dnipro Arena
Old Stadium Meteor
Current Dnipro Arena

Since 1966 Dnipro's home was Stadium Meteor in Dnipropetrovsk. Prior to that the club played at the Matalurh Stadium (formerly Stal Stadium). Meteor Stadium was built by the Soviet rocket company Yuzhmash 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.

Since the beginning of conflict in Eastern Ukraine, Dnipro have played their European matches at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv at the behest of UEFA, although there has been comparatively less conflict in Dnipropetrovsk than other areas.[6]

Supporters & Rivalries


The formation of the fan movement in Dnipropetrovsk began in the early 1980s, which saw the appearance of the first representatives of Dnipro ultras at the stadium. Later was established one of the largest fans unions – the Braty po Zbroyi (English: Brothers in Arms) – involving Dnipro, Dynamo Kyiv and Karpaty Lviv.

Most of the fans hold right-wing ideological views (Ukrainian nationalism). Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk is considered the third most popular club in Ukraine, and home and away matches are attended by large crowds. The largest Dnipro ultras groups are the Voice of the North Stand (Ukrainian: Рупор Північної Трибуни) and Ultras'83 (Ukrainian: Ультрас'83).

The most famous derby in eastern Ukraine is the Skhidne Derby (English: Eastern Derby) between FC Dnipro and FC Metalist Kharkiv. The game at the stadium is very hard and almost every game ends in a fight between football fans from Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv. There is also a city derby in Dnipropetrovsk between FC Dnipro and FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.

Dnipro maintains friendly relations with Karpaty Lviv, Dynamo Kyiv (the fan union Braty po Zbroyi) and Veres Rivne. Dnipro has strained relations to Shakhtar Donetsk, Metalurg Zaporizhya, Chornomorets Odesa, Metalist Kharkiv, Kryvbas Kryvyy Rih and Arsenal Kyiv. However, all fans have currently declared a truce because of the war in Eastern Ukraine.

Sponsors

Football kits and sponsors

Years[7] Football kit Shirt sponsor
1998–2001 Adidas TM Biola
2001–2005 TM Biola
2005–2008 Umbro
2008– Nike

Home colours

1983
1988
1991
1992
1992
1993
2000
2000
2011
2013
2014

Honours

Domestic

European

Invitational

Other

Players

Current squad

As of 25 February 2016[8][9]

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

No. Position Player
2 Romania DF Alexandru Vlad
3 Ukraine DF Volodymyr Adamyuk
5 Ukraine DF Vitaliy Mandzyuk
7 Costa Rica MF John Jairo Ruiz
8 Ukraine MF Edmar Halovskyi
9 Ukraine MF Serhiy Nazarenko
10 Ukraine MF Roman Bezus
12 Brazil DF Léo Matos
14 Ukraine DF Yevhen Cheberyachko
15 Ukraine DF Dmytro Chygrynskiy
16 Czech Republic GK Jan Laštůvka
18 Ukraine FW Roman Zozulya
19 Georgia (country) MF Aleksandre Kobakhidze
20 Portugal MF Bruno Gama
No. Position Player
22 Croatia DF Ivan Tomečak
23 Brazil DF Douglas
24 Ukraine DF Valeriy Luchkevych
28 Ukraine MF Yevhen Shakhov
29 Ukraine MF Ruslan Rotan (captain)
30 Senegal DF Papa Gueye
36 Brazil DF Anderson Pico (on loan from Flamengo)
39 Ukraine DF Oleksandr Svatok
44 Ukraine DF Artem Fedetskyi
77 Ukraine GK Denys Shelikhov
89 Ukraine MF Serhiy Politylo
91 Ukraine GK Ihor Vartsaba
97 Ukraine MF Andriy Bliznichenko
99 Brazil FW Matheus

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
Ukraine DF Volodymyr Polyovyi (at Volyn Lutsk)
Ukraine MF Serhiy Kravchenko (at Volyn Lutsk)
No. Position Player
Ukraine MF Maksym Tretyakov (at Metalist Kharkiv)
Ukraine FW Yevhen Bokhashvili (at Naftovyk-Ukrnafta)

Current coaching staff

As of 4 November 2015.[10]

Position Name
Head Coach Myron Markevych
Assistant Coach Oleksandr Ivanov
Assistant Coach Vyacheslav Khruslov
Goalkeeping Coach Valeriy Horodov
Fitness Coach Pavlo Sirenko
Coach Volodymyr Yezerskyi
Coach Serhiy Nahornyak
U21 Team Head Coach Dmytro Mykhaylenko
U21 Team Assistant Coach Volodymyr Bahmut
U21 Team Goalkeeping Coach Mykola Medin
U21 Team Coach Artem Kuslyi
U19 Team Head Coach Oleksandr Poklonskyi

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
Stal – Petrovsky Factory
1936 No participation 1/32
Stal
1937 4th
(Group G)		 9 11 3 4 4 20 27 21 1/64
club was idle in 1938
1939 2nd
(Group B)		 15 22 6 7 9 27 37 19 1/16
No competitions 1940-45, World War II
1946 2nd
(Second Group)		 12 24 4 2 18 29 76 10
1947 4 24 11 8 5 54 35 30 1/16
1948 2 14 9 2 3 34 24 20
2 4 2 1 1 6 4 5
Metallurg / Metalurh
1949 2nd
(Second Group)		 8 14 2 2 10 14 35 6 1/16
1950 4th
(Fitness teams)		 10 9 3 0 6 11 22 6 withdrew
club was idle in 1951 - 1952
1953 2nd
(Class B)		 8 14 2 2 10 14 35 6 1/16
22 2 2 0 0 5 0 4
1954 4 22 8 9 5 30 27 25 1/2
1955 10 30 14 2 14 53 47 30 1/16
1956 14 34 10 9 15 40 58 29 –
1957 4 34 17 8 9 65 43 42 1/32
1958 9 30 14 5 11 52 45 33 1/32
1959 4 28 14 6 8 47 37 34 1/128
1960 8 36 14 9 13 53 44 37
1961 14 36 11 10 15 35 40 32 1/128
Dnepr / Dnipro
1962 2nd
(Class B)		 6 24 7 12 5 35 29 26 1/256
11 10 4 3 3 10 11 10
1963 2nd
(Class A)		 8 34 13 10 11 36 34 36 1/32
1964 10 26 8 8 10 25 28 24 1/32 (2 subgroup)
22 12 4 3 5 10 13 11 (relegation group)
1965 5 30 13 10 7 31 23 36 1/32 (2 subgroup)
8 16 6 5 5 15 15 17 (promotion group)
1966 8 34 11 12 11 33 27 34 1/64 (2 subgroup)
1967 4 38 18 10 10 49 36 46 1/128 (2 subgroup)
1968 3 40 19 16 5 50 27 54 (2 subgroup)
1969 1 42 24 9 9 73 59 57 1/64 (3 subgroup)
2 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 (finals)
1970 3 42 26 9 7 58 25 61 1/64
1971 2nd
(First League)		 1 42 27 9 6 83 30 63 1/16 Promoted
1972 1st
(Top League)		 6 30 12 10 8 37 37 34 1/8
1973 8 30 9 9 12 36 40 26 1/2
1974 10 30 9 11 10 31 39 29 1/4
1975 7 30 10 11 9 33 30 31 1/16
1976 11 15 6 2 7 18 18 14 1/2 spring half
13 15 6 2 7 12 17 14 fall half
1977 12 30 9 9 12 24 31 27 1/8
1978 16 30 9 3 18 25 39 21 1/16 Relegated
1979 2nd
(First League)		 17 46 16 14 16 57 60 44 Group stage
1980 2 46 27 8 11 60 47 62 Group stage Promoted
1981 1st
(Top League)		 8 34 12 8 14 42 53 32 Group stage
1982 9 34 11 12 11 34 38 32 1/2
1983 1 34 22 5 7 63 36 49 1/4
1984 3 34 17 8 9 54 40 42 1/8 ECL 1/4
1985 3 34 16 11 7 71 41 42 1/4 UC 1/8
1986 11 30 8 12 10 41 41 28 1/16 UC 1st round
1987 2 30 15 9 6 42 22 39 1/16
1988 1 30 18 10 2 49 23 46 1/2 UC 1st round
1989 2 30 18 6 6 47 27 42 Winner ECL 1/4
1990 6 24 11 6 7 39 26 28 1/16 finals UC 1st round
1991 9 30 9 10 11 31 36 28 1/8 finals
1992 No championship 1/8 finals

Ukraine

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup Europe Notes
Dnipro
1992 1st
(Top League)		 3 18 10 3 5 26 15 23 1/4 finals Won playoff game for the third place over Shakhtar
1992–93 2 30 18 8 4 51 20 44 1/8 finals
1993–94 4 34 16 9 9 53 35 41 1/4 finals UC 2nd round
1994–95 3 34 19 8 7 60 33 65 Runner-up
1995–96 3 34 19 6 9 65 34 63 1/4 finals
1996–97 4 30 14 13 3 48 19 55 Runner-up
1997–98 4 30 17 4 9 47 27 55 1/4 finals UC 2nd qual round
1998–99 12 30 9 5 16 28 46 32 1/8 finals
1999–00 11 30 8 9 13 26 52 33 1/8 finals
2000–01 3 26 17 4 5 37 18 55 1/2 finals
2001–02 6 26 11 7 8 30 20 40 1/2 finals UC 1st round
2002–03 4 30 18 5 7 48 27 59 1/2 finals
2003–04 3 30 16 9 5 44 23 57 Runner-up UC 3rd round
2004–05 4 30 13 9 8 38 34 48 1/2 finals UC Round of 32
2005–06 6 30 11 10 9 33 23 43 1/8 finals UC Group stage
2006–07 4 30 11 14 5 32 24 47 1/4 finals
2007–08 4 30 18 5 7 40 27 59 1/16 finals UC 1st round
2008–09 1st
(Premier League)		 6 30 13 9 8 34 25 48 1/8 finals UC 2nd qual round
2009–10 4 30 15 9 6 48 25 54 1/4 finals
2010–11 4 30 16 9 5 46 20 57 1/2 finals EL Play-off Round
2011–12 4 30 15 7 8 52 35 52 1/8 finals EL Play-off Round
2012–13 4 30 16 8 6 54 27 56 1/2 finals EL Round of 32
2013–14 2 28 18 5 5 56 28 59 1/8 finals EL Round of 32
2014–15 3 26 16 6 4 47 17 54 1/2 finals EL Final
2015–16 1/4 finals EL Group stage
2016–17 N/A Excluded from the continental football competitions

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 Stage Notes
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
1984–85 Quarter-Finalist eliminated by France Bordeaux 1–1 in Bordeaux, 1–1 in Dnipropetrovsk
1989–90 Quarter-Finalist eliminated by Portugal Benfica 0–1 in Lisbon, 0–3 in Dnipropetrovsk
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
2014–15 Finalist defeated by Spain Sevilla 2–3 in Warsaw

Managers

References

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  1. ↑ "Ukrainian bandy championship". Ukrainian Federation of Bandy and Rink-Bandy. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dnipro’s Yevhen Seleznyov sinks Napoli to seal Europa League final place". Guardian. 14 May 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dnipro 2 Sevilla 3". BBC Sport. 28 May 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk – Angels amidst War : "During the entire course of the campaign, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk had to play all of their home matches some 400 kilometres away in Kyiv due to the war. "". http://www.goaldentimes.org. Retrieved 26 May 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  5. ↑ "CFCB adjudicatory chamber orders". UEFA. 31 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Dnipro qualifier moved to Kiev". ESPN. Press Association. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  7. ↑ Jerseys of Ukrainian clubs
  8. ↑ First team squad – FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk website
  9. ↑ Team squad – Ukrainian Premier League website
  10. ↑ http://www.fcdnipro.ua/en/team/trainers/
  11. ↑ (Ukrainian) Official: Ramos left the Dnipro, because they do not want to stay in Ukraine, Ukrayinska Pravda Champion (22 May 2014)

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