Basketball Club Dnipro ( uk, баскетбольний клуб "Дніпро"), commonly known as simply Dnipro, is a

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professional

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club that is based in

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper R ...

. The home court of the club is Palace of Sports Shynnik. The women's team of the club won the Ukrainian Superleague in 2010.

History

The women's team of the club has made three appearances in the

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's website Dnipro would reach their first championship series against

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in 2015, only to be swept by them by three games. A year later, Dnipro would win their first ever Ukrainian SuperLeague Championship, sweeping

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in all three of their games against them. The 2019–20 Superleague season was ended prematurely due to the

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. Because Dnipro was first in the standings at the time, the team won its second championship.

Honours

* Ukrainian SuperLeague : Champions (2): 2015–16, 2019–20 : ''Runners-up (2):''

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: ''Third place (1)''

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: Champions (5): 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 : ''Runners-up (2):'' 2015, 2020

Season by season

Players

Current squad

Notable players

* Jared Terrell *

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* Steve Burtt *

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* Mario Austin *

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* Darnell Lazare * Donatas Zavackas * Tautvydas Lydeka

References

External links

Official website
{{VTB United League Basketball teams in Ukraine Basketball teams established in 2003 Sport in Dnipro 2003 establishments in Ukraine Privat Group