Football Club Dnipro (, ) was a Ukrainian

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club based in

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. The club played its last season in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur League. The club was owned by Ukrainian businessman

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. In 2018, FC Dnipro was forced into bankruptcy by

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due to multiple legal claims for failing to pay the promised monetary compensation to players and managers.

SC Dnipro-1 SC Dnipro-1 () was a professional Ukrainian football club from Dnipro. While not officially a successor of FC Dnipro, SC Dnipro-1 took over all of the infrastructure of the former club including its academy. Founded in November 2015, SC Dnipr ...

formerly existed as an unofficial successor.Oles Khorunzhyi.
SC Dnipro-1 confirmed that FIFA dismissed the claim of Jaba Kankava and did not recognize the club a successor of Dnipro (Днепр-1 подтвердил, что ФИФА отклонила иск Канкавы и не признала клуб правопреемником Днепра)
'. Sport Arena. 23 February 2021. The club was founded in 1918. During the Soviet era, 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

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and carried both names Russian Dnepr and Ukrainian Dnipro, while Dnepr was also used for international competitions. During the Soviet era, the club was the second most successful club, based in Ukraine, that participated in the

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, winning in

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and

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. After the

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, the club was privatized.

History

BRIT

The club was formed in 1918 by the Petrovsky factory and was called BRIT (Brianskyi Robitnychyi Industrialnyi Tekhnikum). The team participated in the regional competition, the

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championship. BRIT played its games in the "Sokil" stadium, a small venue located at the corner of Pushkin and Yuriy Savchenko streets, which it shared with four other clubs.

Petrovets – Stal – Metalurh

With the outbreak of World War I, BRIT was disbanded until 9 May 1925, when a new team was formed in Dnipropetrovsk. The team participated during the first season under the name ''Petrovsky factory,'' which was changed in 1926 to "Petrovets." The team entered the first

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competition under the name of ''Stal'' (steel) in 1936, participating in three championships before World War II. In 1947, the team re-entered the Soviet competition after merging with another club from Dnipropetrovsk,

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. From 1949 until 1961, the team was called ''Metalurh'' ("metal worker"). From 1950 to 1952, it was relegated to amateur status due to poor results. In 1954, ''Metalurh Dnipropetrovsk'' reached the semi-finals of the

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, where it lost to Spartak Yerevan.

Dnepr / Dnipro

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

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. It was part of the Zenit volunteer sports society. The new sponsor changed the team's name to ''Dnepr/Dnipro'' after the

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River. For the All-Union competitions such as

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and the

as well as the international competitions there was used Russian version of the name as the Russian was the accepted language of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, while at republican level (within the

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) Ukrainian version of the name was used. The team's performance did not change much until after 1968, when ''Dnepr'' obtained

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and the new coach –

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. After that, it took the team three years to get promoted to the Soviet Top League and eventually finished in sixth place in 1972.

Golden generation

In 1973 and 1976, Dnepr reached the semi-finals of the USSR Cup. 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 Yevhen Mefodiyovych Kucherevskyi (, ; 6 August 1941 – 26 August 2006) was a Ukrainian football coach. He is most famous for his spells managing Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, which, under his helm, won the Soviet Championship in 1988, took 2nd place ...

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

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Oleksiy Cherednyk Oleksiy Valentynovich Cherednyk (or Aleksei Valentinovich Cherednik) (; born 15 September 1960) is a Soviet, Tajikistani and Ukrainian former professional footballer who works as a scout for Shakhtar Donetsk. International career Cherednyk mad ...

and

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Ukrainian independence

Just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1989 the club was transformed into a professional football club instead of the Soviet "team of masters", a process through which all Soviet teams of masters went through. The club joined the football federation of the native country and remained one of the top contenders in the newly formed

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. The team received a silver medal in 1993, as well as the bronze in 1992, 1995, 1996, 2001 and 2004. The team also reached the

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finals in 1995, 1997 and 2004, losing all three to

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. In the beginning of the 1990s the control of the club took over a native of

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Ihor Bakai with his "Respublika" corporation who earlier in the 1980s was governor of the SKA Karpaty Lviv training center, part of the

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."Вы попали в штангу"
football.ua (archived version). 9 September 2012 Bakai who invited

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to Dnipro became first who hired foreign manager to head the former Soviet club. At that time Bakai was a member of the

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(Ukrainian parliament) and a chairman of the Intergaz corporation which had exclusive rights of importing gas to Ukraine from

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and in Ukraine was unofficially referred to as the "Gaz King". The experience of the former manager of

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Bernd Stange in

was described in the biographic book that was published in Germany in 2004 "Trainer zwischen den Welten. Bernd Stange" (Coach between the Worlds. Bernd Stange). During the summer of 1996 Dnipro initiated "repositioning" of its best players along with Bernd Stange to CSKA-Borysfen which in the previous season placed 4th just behind Dnipro. Among those players were Oleksandr Yevtushok,

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, Serhiy Mizin,

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, Volodymyr Sharan, Oleksandr Palyanytsya. However, just few day before the start of the 1996–97 season in Ukrainian Vyshcha Liha (Higher League), on the joint session of the Professional Football League (PFL) and the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU), CSKA-Borysfen was taken away from its original owners and handed over to Mikhail Grinshpon ("Kiev-Donbass") connected with

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. With the transfer of Dnipro players falling completely through, players ended up in danger of missing a season.

Success and downfall

On 14 May 2015, Dnipro qualified for the

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by defeating

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1–0 in Ukraine after having drawn 1–1 in Italy, the first time in the club's history that it reached the final in a European competition. Despite going up 1–0 in the sixth minute against Spanish side Sevilla, Dnipro eventually lost 3–2. Despite the defeat, the match crowned one of the club's greatest seasons, during which Dnipro had to play all of their home matches some 400 kilometres away in

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due to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. On 31 March 2016, the club was excluded by

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from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which it would otherwise qualify in the next three seasons (2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19) for violating the Financial Fair Play regulations. In late June 2016, there were rumours that club owner

had stopped funding the club. Kolomoyskyi immediately denied this but did state, "The club will not exist in the same form as before;" and that it was "not normal to spend crazy amounts of money" to keep the current squad intact. The 2016–17 season was disastrous for Dnipro. Due to outstanding debts owed to coach

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and his staff, the FFU prevented Dnipro from signing new players other than free agents. On 26 October 2016, Dnipro was assessed a penalty of 6 points for the same reason. In April 2017, 3 additional points were deducted. At the conclusion of the 2016–2017 season, Dnipro were relegated directly to the

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(third level) for the first time in club history. In the 2017–18 season, the club with a new squad started well in the Group B of the Second League, for 13 matches in row going on high positions (second-fourth places). But the points have been deducted once more with their number reaching up to 18 until the end of the season, which resulted in club finishing on 8th place. On 7 June 2018, FIFA decided to once more relegate the club and for the 2018–19 season the club was to play in the Amateur League. In the 2019–20 Amateur League the club did not participate. In 2019, some players, coaching, and managing staff joined

, particularly the whole coaching staff of Dnipro in full composition was appointed to the Dnipro-1's under-21 team. On 22 February 2021, FIFA dismissed the claim of

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who appealed with a request to recognize SC Dnipro-1 a sports successor of FC Dnipro in order to recover his unpaid salary from FC Dnipro.

Infrastructure

Reserves and the Academy

Soon after being promoted to the Pervaya Liga (

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), in 1971 FC Dnipro built its own training grounds in a remote neighborhood of

, Prydniprovsk. Until 1971, the senior team's reserves were based at the Yuzhmash resort "Dubrava".

Stadiums

Since 1966, Dnipro's home was

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in Dnipropetrovsk. Prior to that, the club played at the Metalurh Stadium (formerly Stal Stadium). Meteor Stadium was built by the Soviet rocket company

on the original site and has undergone several renovations since, the last one being in 2001. In 2002, however, 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

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in the centre of the city. The club played its last game at Meteor on 2 September 2008, against

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. In April 2005, the club's new arena broke ground. It was constructed by Germany's largest construction company

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. The construction itself took three years and four 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 million. The stadium was opened on 15 September 2008. The opening ceremony featured a speech by

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, a concert performance by a number of famous Ukrainian musicians and two football matches: Veterans of

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vs.

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veterans, and Dnipro against Dynamo Kyiv. As a gift 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

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. Dnipro played their first official game on 29 September 2008 against their local rivals

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, 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 the

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, Dnipro have played their European matches at the

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at the behest of

, although there has been comparatively less conflict in Dnipropetrovsk than other areas.

Supporters and rivalries

The first fan club in Dnipropetrovsk (today

) was officially registered by the city executive committee (ispolkom) on 25 July 1968. Before registration, the initiative group brought its draft of the fan's club statute and program to the regional committee of the

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, department in control of development and propaganda of physical culture and sport in the region which imposed a resolution of approval with a signature, seal and date. Later the group met with the Dnipro head coach Leonid Rodos and his assistant. 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'' () – involving Dnipro,

and

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. Most of the fans hold right-wing ideological views (

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). Dnipro 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'' () and ''Ultras'83'' (83). The most famous derby in eastern Ukraine is the ''Skhidne Derby'' (English: Eastern Derby) between Dnipro and

. The game at the stadium is very hard and almost every game ends in a fight between football fans from Dnipropetrovsk and

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. There was also a city derby in Dnipropetrovsk between Dnipro and

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. In May 2016, Metalist Kharkiv was removed from Ukraine's professional football leagues. Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih is, after its 2013 bankruptcy, an amateur club.

Home colours

Honours

Domestic

** Winners (2):

** Runners-up (2):

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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

** ''Third place (2)''

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1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

** Runners-up (2): 1992–93, 2013–14 ** ''Third place (7)''

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, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2014–15, 2015–16 *

** Winners (1): 1988–89 *

** Runners-up (3): 1994–95, 1996–97, 2003–04 * Soviet League Cup ** Winners (2):

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

** Runners-up (1):

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

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** Winners (1): 1989 ** Runners-up (1): 1984 *

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** Runners-up (1): 1936

European

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** Runners-up: 2014–15

Friendly

* Marbella Cup **

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* Costa del Sol Trophy **2013 *Casino Marbella Cup **2014 *AdF Diamonds Cup **2014 * Sait Nagjee Trophy **

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Individual player awards

Several players have won individual awards during or for their time with Dnipro

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Hennadiy Litovchenko Hennadiy Volodymyrovych Lytovchenko (; , ''Gennadiy Vladimirovich Litovchenko''; born 11 September 1963) is a Ukrainian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He was a member of the Soviet squad that finished runners-up at ...

(1984) *

Oleh Protasov Oleh Valeriyovych Protasov (; born 4 February 1964) is a Ukrainian and Soviet former footballer who played as a striker. He was a key member of the Soviet Union national team throughout the 1980s; his 28 goals for the Soviet Union are second ...

(1987)

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(1983) *

(1984) * Oleh Venhlynskyi (2003) *

Yevhen Konoplyanka Yevhen Olehovych Konoplyanka (; born 29 September 1989) is a Ukrainian former professional association football, footballer who played as a winger (association football), winger. Konoplyanka began his professional career at FC Dnipro, Dnipro Dn ...

(2010, 2012) *

Ruslan Rotan Ruslan Petrovych Rotan (; born 29 October 1981) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer and current manager of Polissya Zhytomyr. He was a member of the Ukraine national team. Club career Rotan's career started off for Dnipro in the 19 ...

(2016) Ukrainian Premier League Footballer of the Year *

(1987) *

Mykola Kudrytsky Mykola Ivanovych Kudritsky (, ; 6 October 1962, in Nikopol – 16 March 1994, in Ra'anana, Israel) was a Ukrainian professional football player. Kudrytsky perished in a car crash on the road from Haifa to Tel-Aviv while heading back home earl ...

(1989) *

(2013)

Latest squad

Notable players

;National team players ;Croatia *

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* Nikola Kalinić ;Ukraine *

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;Brazil * Giuliano ;Mexico *

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Coaches and administration (2018)

Seasons scope

Soviet Union

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" from:01/07/1945 till:01/07/1949 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "Vtoraya Gruppa" from:01/07/1949 till:01/07/1950 color:rn shift:(0,13) text: "Ukraine" from:01/07/1950 till:01/07/1952 color:white shift:(0,13) text: "bankrupt" from:01/07/1952 till:01/07/1962 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "Class B" ImageSize = width:900 height:60 PlotArea = left:10 right:10 bottom:30 top:10 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/07/1962 till:01/07/1991 ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:1963 Colors = id:bl1 value:rgb(0.5,0.8,0.5) id:bl2 value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.3) id:rs value:rgb(0.8,0.6,0.6) id:rn value:rgb(0.9,0.1,0.1) PlotData= bar:Position width:15 color:white align:center from:01/07/1962 till:01/07/1963 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/07/1963 till:01/07/1964 shift:(0,-4) text:22 from:01/07/1964 till:01/07/1965 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/07/1965 till:01/07/1966 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/07/1966 till:01/07/1967 shift:(0,-4) text:4 from:01/07/1967 till:01/07/1968 shift:(0,-4) text:3 from:01/07/1968 till:01/07/1969 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/07/1969 till:01/07/1970 shift:(0,-4) text:3 from:01/07/1970 till:01/07/1971 shift:(0,-4) text:1 from:01/07/1971 till:01/07/1972 shift:(0,-4) text:6 from:01/07/1972 till:01/07/1973 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/07/1973 till:01/07/1974 shift:(0,-4) text:10 from:01/07/1974 till:01/07/1975 shift:(0,-4) text:7 from:01/07/1975 till:01/01/1976 shift:(0,-4) text:11 from:01/01/1976 till:01/07/1976 shift:(0,-4) text:13 from:01/07/1976 till:01/07/1977 shift:(0,-4) text:12 from:01/07/1977 till:01/07/1978 shift:(0,-4) text:16 from:01/07/1978 till:01/07/1979 shift:(0,-4) text:17 from:01/07/1979 till:01/07/1980 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/07/1980 till:01/07/1981 shift:(0,-4) text:8 from:01/07/1981 till:01/07/1982 shift:(0,-4) text:9 from:01/07/1982 till:01/07/1983 shift:(0,-4) text:1 from:01/07/1983 till:01/07/1984 shift:(0,-4) text:3 from:01/07/1984 till:01/07/1985 shift:(0,-4) text:3 from:01/07/1985 till:01/07/1986 shift:(0,-4) text:11 from:01/07/1986 till:01/07/1987 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/07/1987 till:01/07/1988 shift:(0,-4) text:1 from:01/07/1988 till:01/07/1989 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/07/1989 till:01/07/1990 shift:(0,-4) text:6 from:01/07/1990 till:01/07/1991 shift:(0,-4) text:9 from:01/07/1962 till:01/07/1971 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "Class A Vtoraya Gruppa / Pervaya Liga" from:01/07/1971 till:01/07/1978 color:bl1 shift:(0,13) text: "Vysshaya Liga" from:01/07/1978 till:01/07/1980 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "Pervaya Liga" from:01/07/1980 till:01/07/1991 color:bl1 shift:(0,13) text: "Vysshaya Liga"

Ukraine

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European history

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. Since 2001, however, the club participates almost on annual basis with variable successes. This was interrupted in 2016, when, despite finishing third place, Dnipro was forbidden to play in the European competitions by UEFA.

Presidents and owners

* 1992–1994 Debut-Fidav * 1994–1997 Ihor Bakay (Intergaz) * 1997–1998

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Managers

Jules Limbeck Jules Limbeck (; born in Hungary, died in 1955) was a Franco- Hungarian professional football forward and manager. Career He played in various European championships in frontline positions in mid-1920, appeared in the Hungarian Újpest FC, Fe ...

(1936) * Nikolai Morozov (1956) *

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi (, ; 6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was а Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager. He was Master of Sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the USSR, and a laureate of the UEFA Order of Merit in Rub ...

(1969–73) * Viktor Kanevskyi (1973–77) *

Yozhef Sabo Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo (; ; born 29 February 1940) is a Ukrainian former football player and manager. Club career Sabo began to play in 1954 for a team of Uzhhorod bread factory and his first coach was Zoltan Gyorfi (). Later until August ...

(1978–79) *

Volodymyr Yemets Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yemets (; 3 April 1937 – 9 November 1987) was a Ukrainian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association f ...

(1 July 1981 – 31 December 1986) *

(1 January 1987 – 22 March 1992) *

Mykola Pavlov Mykola Petrovych Pavlov () ( born 20 June 1954) is a Ukrainian former football defender and manager. He is Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1983) and Merited Coach of Ukraine. Education * Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Physical Culture * ...

(19 March 1992 – 31 December 1994) *

(20 April 1995 – 30 June 1996) *

Vyacheslav Hroznyi Vyacheslav Viktorovych Hrozny (; born 12 July 1956) is a Ukrainian football player and manager. Career He is a holder of the 1980 KFK Cup of the Ukrainian SSR as a player of FC Nyva Ternopil when it used to play in Pidhaitsi. Hrozny is a gr ...

(1 July 1996 – 31 December 1997) *

Vadym Tyshchenko Vadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko (; 24 March 1963 – 14 December 2015) was a Soviet and Ukrainian association football player and Ukrainian coach. Biography Tyshchenko was born on 24 March 1963 in a small city ...

(1 January 1998 – 5 October 1998) *

Mykola Fedorenko Mykola (or Nikolai) Ivanovych Fedorenko () (born 31 July 1955 in Ordzhonikidze, Ukraine) is a retired Soviet football player and a current Ukrainian football coach. Honours * Soviet Top League winner: 1983. * Soviet Cup winner: 1980. Internat ...

(13 July 1999 – 11 October 2001) *

(1 January 2002 – 18 October 2005) *

''(interim)'' (18 October 2005 – 19 December 2005) *

(19 December 2005 – 29 August 2008) *

Volodymyr Bezsonov Volodymyr Vasylyovych Bezsonov (, also spelled Vladimir Vasilijević Bessonov from , born 5 March 1958) is a Ukrainian football manager and former player who played for the former Soviet Union national football team. The most recent team he wa ...

(29 August 2008 – 18 September 2010) *

''(interim)'' (18 September 2010 – 1 October 2010) *

(3 October 2010 – 22 May 2014)Official: Ramos left the Dnipro, because they do not want to stay in Ukraine
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Champion (22 May 2014) *

Myron Markevych Myron Bohdanovych Markevych (; born 1 February 1951) is a Ukrainian association football, football manager and former player who manages FC Karpaty Lviv, Karpaty Lviv. He has worked as a manager in the Ukrainian Premier League and for the Ukrai ...

(26 May 2014 – 30 June 2016) *

Dmytro Mykhaylenko Dmytro Stanislavovych Mykhaylenko (; born 13 July 1973) is a Ukrainian football manager and former player. He played as a defensive midfielder. His son Ivan is also a player, a forward; his older brother Oleksandr played for FC Zirka Kirovohr ...

''(caretaker)'' (30 June 2016 – 30 June 2017) * Oleksandr Poklonskyi (30 June 2017 – End of season 2018/2019)

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dnipro Defunct football clubs in Ukraine Soviet Top League clubs Association football clubs established in 1918 1918 establishments in Ukraine Football clubs in Dnipro Privat Group Football clubs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Metallurg Voluntary Sports Society Zenit Voluntary Sports Society Association football clubs disestablished in 2019 2019 disestablishments in Ukraine