FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

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FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Full name

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
(Ukrainian: ФК Днiпро Днiпропетровськ)

Founded

1925

Ground

Meteor

Capacity

24,381

Chairman

Igor Kolomoyskiy

Head Coach

Oleg Protasov

League

Ukrainian Premier League

2005-06

6th





Home colours





Away colours

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: ФК Днiпро Днiпропетровськ) is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk.

1 History
2 Stadium
3 Honors
4 Squad
5 Famous players
6 Coaches
7 UEFA Ranking
8 External links

[edit] History

The club was established in 1925 as a team of the Petrovsky factory. It was renamed "Petrovets" the next year. The team entered the first Soviet competition under the name of Stal (Russian for steel) in 1936 in one of the lower divisions. In 1947, Stal merged with another club from Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk. From 1949 until 1961, the team was called Metalurg (from English metal worker). In 1954, Metalurg Dnipropetrovsk reached the semi-finals of the USSR Cup, where it lost to Spartak Yerevan.

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. The new sponsor changed the team's name to Dnepr, but 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 out of 16 teams in 1972.

In 1973 and 1976 Dnepr reached the semi-finals of the USSR Cup competition once again. In 1978 the team was relegated to the lower league for two years. Their next entrance was not as inviting as their first one and the team enjoyed the company of other weak teams in the league. Therefore the governing body of the team hired new promising coaches - Vladimir Yemets and Gennadiy 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 Evgeny Kucherevsky in 1988. During those years, the team featured many notable players such as Oleg Protasov, Gennadiy Litovchenko, Cherednik, and Tarans.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dnepr took on the Ukrainian translation, Dnipro, and stayed as one of the contenders for the gold in the newly formed Ukrainian Premier League. The team received silver medals in 1993 as well as 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.

[edit] Stadium

Main articles: Stadium Meteor

Currently Dnipro plays home fixtures at Stadium Meteor in Dnipropetrovsk. It was opened in 1966 and has undergone several renovations since, the last one being in 2001.

Capacity: 24381 all-seater
Pitch size: 105x68 m
Lighting: 1400 lux

Main articles: Dnipro Stadium

Due to a recent successful performance in domestic league and regular appearances in major European competitions the club became in need of larger, more modern venue. In April 2005 the FC Dnipro began a construction of their new arena, Dnipro Stadium. It is being built by Germany's largest construction company Hochtief and is planned to be finished in August 2007. It's planned capacity is 31,003 people. The estimated cost of construction is €40,000,000.

[edit] Honors

USSR Championship: 2

1983, 1988

USSR Cup: 1

1989

USSR Super Cup: 1

1988

USSR Federation Cup: 2

1986, 1989

Runner-Up

USSR Championship: 2

1987, 1989

USSR Super Cup: 1

1983

USSR Federation Cup: 1

1990

Ukrainian Championship: 1

1993

Ukrainian Cup: 3

1995, 1997, 2004

UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1

2006

Other

UEFA Champions League Quarterfinalist in 1985, 1990
USSR Championship 3rd place in 1984, 1985
Ukrainian Championship 3rd place in 1992, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004.
Best Ukrainian club in USSR Championship in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989

[edit] Squad

Squad is given according to the club's official website www.fcdnipro.dp.ua, as of March 25, 2007.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Maksim Startsev
2	FW	Serhiy Motuz
3	DF	Olexandr Hrytsay
5	DF	Volodymyr Yezerskiy
6	MF	Oleh Shelayev
7	FW	Olexandr Melaschenko
8	FW	Sergei Kornilenko
9	FW	Kostantyn Balabanov
10	FW	Sergei Samodin
12	DF	Vyacheslav Serdyuk
13	MF	Mladen Bartulovic
14	DF	Oleksandr Romanchuk (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
15	DF	Serhiy Matiukhin
16	DF	Andriy Rusol

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Ruslan Bidnenko
18	DF	Oleksandr Yatsenko (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv)
19	DF	Vitaliy Denisov
20	MF	Jaba Kankava
22	MF	Denis Andriyenko
23	GK	Vyacheslav Kernozenko
24	MF	Konstantyn Kravchenko
25	DF	Bohdan Shershun
27	MF	Morais Davidson
28	MF	Serhiy Nazarenko
32	GK	Anton Kanibolotsky
33	FW	Olexiy Chichikov
45	FW	Revazi Barabadze
77	GK	Artem Kusliy