FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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Football Club Dnipro is a Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 professional football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

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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
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

 championship). With the four other teams BRIT played its games on small stadium "Sokil" which was located on the corner of the Pushkin street and Yuriy Savchenko street.

Petrovets – Stal – Metalurh

Due to World War I, BRIT was disbanded, but on May 9, 1925 a new team was formed in Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

 (coincidently, later the day became to be known as the Victory Day
Victory Day
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). 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 -engl) 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
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

, 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
FC Ararat Yerevan
FC Ararat Yerevan , is an Armenian football club, based in Yerevan. Currently, the club plays in the Armenian Premier League, and is one of the most popular teams in Armenia.- History :...

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Dnepr

In 1961, the team was handed over to its new sponsor, the Yugmash
Yuzhmash
The A.M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, or PA Yuzhmash is a Ukrainian manufacturer of space rockets, agricultural equipment, buses, trolley buses and trams, wind turbines, and satellites...

(the Southern machine-producing factory), which at that time was one of the most powerful factories in the entire Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 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
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 and the Soviet government. The team's performance did not change much until after 1968, when Dnepr obtained Andriy Biba
Andriy Biba
Andriy Andriyovych Biba is a retired Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach.-Honours:* Soviet Top League winner: 1961, 1966, 1967....

 and the new coach – Valery Lobanovsky. After that it took the team three years to get promoted to the Soviet Top League
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons...

 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
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons...

 winning it twice: once with Yemets and Zhizdik in 1983, and another one with Yevhen Kucherevsky
Evgeny Kucherevsky
Yevhen Mefodiyovych Kucherevskyi 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 twice in 1987 and 1989, as well as the USSR Cup in 1989...

 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
Oleg Protasov
Oleh Valeriyovych Protasov is a former football striker. He was a key member of the Soviet Union national team throughout the 1980s; his 29 goals for the Soviet Union are second in the team's history, behind Oleh Blokhin's 42...

, Hennadiy Litovchenko, Oleksiy Cherednyk
Oleksiy Cherednyk
Oleksiy Valentynovich Cherednyk is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian football player and a current scout.-Honours:* Olympic champion: 1988....

, and Oleh Taran
Oleh Taran
Oleh Anatolyevich Taran is a former Ukrainian football player, now coach. He was a prolific forward with a quick dribling and a powerful shot...

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Dnipro

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

, the club took on the Ukrainian version name of Dnipro, the name of the biggest river and one of the major symbols of Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. The club joined the football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 federation of the native country and remained one of the top contenders in the newly formed Ukrainian Premier League
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...

. 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
Ukrainian Cup
The Ukrainian Cup is a national knockout cup competition in Ukrainian football, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. The winner of the competition is awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup , under special circumstances the finalist also may enter...

 finals in 1995, 1997 and 2004, but lost all three to Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

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FC Dnipro is currently controlled by the Privat Group
Privat Group
The Privat Group, or PrivatBank Group is a international business group, based in Ukraine and grouped around the Privatbank. Privat Group controls dozens of companies of virtually every industry in Ukraine, Ghana, Russia, Romania, United States and other countries. Steel, oil&gas, chemical, energy...

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Stadiums

Since the club's foundation in 1918, Dnipro's home was Stadium Meteor
Stadium Meteor
Stadium Meteor was a multi-purpose stadium in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. It was used mostly for football matches, and was the home of FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. The stadium can hold 24,381 people. Currently its tenant, Dnipro was relocated to Dnipro Stadium after a long spell at this...

 in Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

. 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
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

. 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
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

's largest construction company Hochtief
Hochtief
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. 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
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 president Victor Yushchenko, a concert performance by a number of famous Ukrainian musicians and two football matches: Veterans of Dynamo Kyiv vs Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow is a Russian football club from Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships and 9 of 19 Russian championships they are one of the country's most successful clubs. They have also won the Soviet Cup 10 times and the Russian Cup 3 times...

 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
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
FC Metalurh Zaporizhya is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Zaporizhia. The club has always been in the top league, since the first season in 1992 until the season 2010/11 when it took the last position and was relegated to the Ukrainian First League.- Early years :The...

, but Dnipro lost 1–2. They set a new attendance record for the Ukrainian Premier League
Ukrainian Premier League
The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...

 2008–09 season, at 31,000 spectators.

European Cups History

UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

/Europa League:
Season Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1985-86
UEFA Cup 1985-86
The UEFA Cup 1985-86 was won by Real Madrid on aggregate over 1. FC Köln. English clubs were banned from European football competitions for five years, with Liverpool, who had already won the UEFA Cup twice, banned for six years...

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
UEFA Cup 1988-89
The UEFA Cup 1988-89 was won by Napoli over Stuttgart.It was the fourth season for which English clubs were banned from European competitions as a result of the Heysel disaster in May 1985...

1   Bordeaux
FC Girondins de Bordeaux
Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux is a French association football club based in the city of Bordeaux. The club currently play in Ligue 1, the first division of French football, and won its last Ligue 1 title in the 2008–09 season....

1-1 1-2 2-3
1990-91
UEFA Cup 1990-91
The UEFA Cup 1990–91 was won by Internazionale on aggregate over Roma. This tournament also marked the return of English clubs after a five-year ban resulting from the Heysel Stadium Disaster in 1985...

1   Hearts FC 1-1 1-3 2-4
1993–94 1   Admira Wacker 1-0 3-2 4-2
2   Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt
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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
FC Vaduz
FC Vaduz is a Liechtenstein football club from Vaduz, that play in the Swiss Football League. The club plays at the national Rheinpark Stadion, which has a capacity of 6,127 when all seated but has additional standing places in the North and South ends of the ground, giving a total stadium capacity...

1-0 1-0 2-0
1   Hamburger SV
Hamburger SV
Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department...

3-0 1-2 4-2
2   Dinamo Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb
GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...

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.
Maccabi Haifa F.C.
Maccabi Haifa Football Club is an Israeli football team from the city of Haifa, a section of Maccabi Haifa sports club. The club has won 12 championships, 5 State Cups and 4 Toto Cups...

2-0 0-1 2-1
Group   Club Brugge
Club Brugge
Club Brugge Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging is a football club from Bruges in Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and is one of the top clubs in Belgium. Its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,472....

3-2
  FC Utrecht 2-1
  Austria Wien 1-0
  Real Zaragoza
Real Zaragoza
Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. is a Spanish association football team from Zaragoza in Spain. Founded on 18 March 1932, Real Zaragoza have spent the majority of their 78 year history in the Spanish top-flight. Real Zaragoza are Spain's 9th highest ranked team in overall league points...

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.
Hibernian F.C.
Hibernian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Leith, in the north of Edinburgh. They are one of two Scottish Premier League clubs in the city, the other being their Edinburgh derby rivals, Hearts...

5-1 0-0 5-1
Group   AZ Alkmaar 1-2
  Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...

0-3
  Litex 0-2
  Grasshoppers 3-2
2007–08 Q2   GKS Bełchatów 1-1 4-2 5-3
1   Aberdeen F.C.
Aberdeen F.C.
Aberdeen Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen...

1-1 0-0 1-1
2008–09 Q2   AC Bellinzona
AC Bellinzona
AC Bellinzona is a Swiss football club based in Bellinzona. It was founded in 1904, and won the Swiss Super League in 1948.-History:Since Bellinzona is an Italian speaking region, many Italian Serie A clubs loan youth players to the club to get first team experience. AS Roma are a parent club to...

3-2 1-2 4-4
2010–11 Q3   Spartak Zlatibor Voda 2-0 1-2 3-2
Play-off   Lech Poznań
Lech Poznan
Lech Poznań is a Polish football club based in Poznań, Poland. The club is named after Lech, the legendary founder of Polish nation.The club was established in 1922 as Lutnia Dębiec, later changing its name several times. From 1933 until 1994, the club was closely linked to Polish State Railways...

0-1 0-0 0-1
2011–12
2011–12 UEFA Europa League
The 2011–12 UEFA Europa League is the third season of the competition since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup. It began on 30 June 2011 with the first legs of the first qualifying round, and will end on 9 May 2012 with the final to be held at Stadionul Național in Bucharest, Romania...

Play-off   Fulham F.C.
Fulham F.C.
Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season...

1-0 0-3 1-3

UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
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:
Season Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1984-85
European Cup 1984-85
The season 1984–85 of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Juventus in a close final against defending champions Liverpool. However, the result was left meaningless after the deaths of 39 spectators in the Heysel Stadium disaster...

1   Trabzonspor
Trabzonspor
Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, Trabzonspor won six championships in Turkish Super League. The Club won their first Championship title in 1975 which is also the Club's initiation year...

3-0 0-1 3-1
2   Levski Sofia 2-0 1-3 3-3
Q   Bordeaux
FC Girondins de Bordeaux
Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux is a French association football club based in the city of Bordeaux. The club currently play in Ligue 1, the first division of French football, and won its last Ligue 1 title in the 2008–09 season....

1-1 1-1 3-5 (PKs)
1989-90 1   Linfield F.C.
Linfield F.C.
Linfield F.C. , is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team....

2-1 1-0 3-1
2   Tirol Innbruck
FC Swarovski Tirol
FC Swarovski Tirol was an Austrian association football club from 1986–1992, based in Innsbruck, Tyrol.It was created as a split-off of FC Wacker Innsbruck, whose Bundesliga license it adopted at the end of the 1985–86 season. With manager Ernst Happel it won the Austrian football championship of...

2-0 2-2 4-2
Q   Benfica 0-1 0-3 0-4

Soviet Union

  • Soviet Top League
    Soviet Top League
    The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons...

    • Winners: 1983, 1988
      1988 Soviet Top League
      -Final Standings:* 10 draw limited * + - Newly promotedPromotion* Pamir Dushanbe * Rotor Volgograd -Top scorers:16 goals* Aleksandr Borodyuk * Yevhen Shakhov 15 goals...

    • Runners-up: 1987, 1989
  • USSR Cup
    • Winners: 1989
  • USSR Super Cup
    USSR Super Cup
    The USSR Super Cup, or Season's Cup, featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one or two legged playoff for the trophy. The competition never took off, as the Super Cup winner was only determined 7 times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It wasn't...

    :
    • Winners: 1988
    • Runners-up: 1983
  • USSR Federation Cup
    USSR Federation Cup
    The Cup of Football Federation of USSR was the official name for a short-lived premier Soviet football competition similar to the USSR Cup that exclusively featured Soviet Top League competitors...

    :
    • Winners: 1986, 1989
    • Runners-up: 1990

Ukraine

  • Ukrainian Championship:
    • Runners-up: 1993
  • Ukrainian Cup
    Ukrainian Cup
    The Ukrainian Cup is a national knockout cup competition in Ukrainian football, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. The winner of the competition is awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup , under special circumstances the finalist also may enter...

    :
    • Runners-up: 1995, 1997, 2004

Other

  • UEFA Champions Cup
    European Champion Clubs' Cup
    The European Champion Clubs' Cup, also known as Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens, or simply the European Cup, is a trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that wins the UEFA Champions League...

     Quarterfinalist in 1985 (lost on penalties) and 1990
    European Cup 1989-90
    The 1989–90 European Cup was the 35th edition of Europe's premier club football tournament, the European Cup. The final was played at the Praterstadion in Vienna on 23 May 1990. The final was contested by Italian defending champions Milan and Portuguese two-time former winners Benfica. Milan...

  • USSR Championship
    USSR Championship
    USSR Championship* Soviet Top League - football competition.* Soviet Hockey League - Top league of Soviet hockey* Soviet Championship - rugby union competition.* USSR Chess Championship - chess competition....

     3rd place in 1984, 1985
  • Ukrainian Championship 3rd place in 1992, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004
  • Best Ukrainian club in the USSR Championship
    USSR Championship
    USSR Championship* Soviet Top League - football competition.* Soviet Hockey League - Top league of Soviet hockey* Soviet Championship - rugby union competition.* USSR Chess Championship - chess competition....

     in 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989

Current squad

Squad is given according to the club's official website on August 14, 2011.
For recent transfers, see List of Ukrainian football transfers summer 2010 and List of Ukrainian football transfers winter 2010–2011.

Out on loan

Famous players

Osmar Ferreyra
Osmar Ferreyra
Osmar Daniel Malevo Ferreyra is an Argentine football midfielder. He plays for Independiente in the Argentine Primera División.-Club career:...

 Eduardo Alcides Matheus
Matheus Leite Nascimento
Matheus Leite Nascimento , simply Matheus, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League, as a forward.-Football career:...

 Ivan Strinić
Ivan Strinić
Ivan Strinić , is a Croatian defender who plays for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and the Croatia national football team.-External links:...

 Mario Holek
Mario Holek
Mario Holek is a Czech professional footballer currently playing for the Ukrainian team Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Holek is a midfielder and stands 185 cm, Holek started his career in his hometown of Brno in the Czech Republic playing for the local club 1. FC Brno, where he spent five seasons...

 Jan Laštůvka
Jan Laštuvka
Jan Laštůvka is a Czech football goalkeeper who currently plays for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.- Career :Laštůvka started his career at Czech side FC Karviná and moved in summer 2000 to FC Baník Ostrava for four years. In 2003 he won the Talent of the Year award at the Czech Footballer of the Year...

 Ucha Lobjanidze
Ucha Lobjanidze
Ucha Lobjanidze is a Georgian footballer who plays as a defender for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih on loan from FC Dnipro.Lobjanidze made his Georgia debut on 27 May 2008, a friendly match against Estonia.-External links:...

 Derek Boateng
Derek Boateng
Derek Owusu Boateng is a Ghanaian professional footballer, who currently plays as a midfielder for Ukrainian club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ghana national team....

 Samuel Inkoom
Samuel Inkoom
Samuel Inkoom is a Ghanaian professional footballer, who currently plays as a defender for Ukrainian club FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ghana national team.-Career:- Club :...

 Nery Castillo
Nery Castillo
Nery Alberto Castillo Confalonieri , is a Mexican international footballer who currently plays for Aris.He began his career at Uruguayan club Danubio, moving to Greece at the age of 16 to play for Olympiacos....

 Serhiy Bezhenar
Serhiy Bezhenar
Serhiy Bezhenar is a Ukrainian professional football player. He plays in defense, usually as a fullback. Even though he won four championships and two cups with Dynamo Kyiv, Serhiy is more closely associated with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk...

 Anatoly Demyanenko
Anatoly Demyanenko
Anatoliy Vasilyovich Demyanenko, sometimes referred to as Anatoli Demianenko is a Ukrainian football coach and former football defender.-Player:...

 Gennadiy Litovchenko
Gennadiy Litovchenko
Hennadiy Volodymyrovych Lytovchenko is a Ukrainian soccer coach and former midfielder and head-coach of FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv...

 Yuri Maximov
Yuri Maximov
Yuriy Vilyovych Maksymov is a Ukrainian football coach, in charge of FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, and a former midfielder.- Playing career :Maksymov played for Valery Lobanovsky's Dynamo Kyiv in his native Ukraine, before transferring to SV Werder Bremen and SV Waldhof Mannheim in Germany. Ukraine...

 Dmytro Mykhailenko
Dmytro Mykhailenko
Dmytro Stanislavovych Mykhaylenko is a Ukrainian midfielder. He is currently playing for Cypriot side APOP Kinyras Peyias FC.-International career:He won third place in 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship....

  Yevhen Konoplianka
Yevhen Konoplianka
Yevhen Olehovych Konoplianka is a professional Ukrainian football striker playing in the professional Ukrainian Premier League club FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and he also plays for Ukraine national football team...

 Serhiy Konovalov
Serhiy Konovalov
Serhiy Konovalov is a Ukrainian current football coach and former football midfielder. He last played for FC Inter Baku.He capped for USSR Youth Team in 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship.- Club career :*1990–1994 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk...

 Serhiy Kovalets
Serhiy Kovalets
Serhiy Kovalets is a former Ukrainian football midfielder, and currently head-coach of Obolon Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.-Playing career:...

 Serhiy Nazarenko
Serhiy Nazarenko
Serhiy Yuriyovych Nazarenko is a Ukrainian football midfielder for SC Tavriya Simferopol and the Ukrainian national football team.- Club career :...

 Dmytro Parfenov
Dmytro Parfenov
Dmytro Volodymyrovych Parfenov is a Ukrainian footballer who last played for Saturn Moscow Oblast.Parfenov is best known as a player of Chornomorets Odesa and Spartak Moscow...

 Maksym Pashayev Mykola Pavlov
Mykola Pavlov
Mykola Petrovych Pavlov is a former Ukrainian football defender, and currently head-coach of FC Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League.-Playing career:...

 Oleg Protasov
Oleg Protasov
Oleh Valeriyovych Protasov is a former football striker. He was a key member of the Soviet Union national team throughout the 1980s; his 29 goals for the Soviet Union are second in the team's history, behind Oleh Blokhin's 42...

 Ruslan Rotan
Ruslan Rotan
Ruslan Petrovych Rotan is a Ukrainian footballer. He plays in midfield for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and is an international for the Ukrainian national football team.-Career:...

 Andriy Rusol
Andriy Rusol
Andriy Rusol is a Ukrainian retired footballer, who last time played as a defender for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and the Ukrainian national team.-Club career:...

 Oleh Venglinsky
Oleh Venglinsky
Oleh Venhlynskyi is a Ukrainian football player.Oleh Venhlynskyi began his career with the Ukrainian powerhouse Dynamo Kyiv, but made a name for himself after moving to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk...

 Volodymyr Yezerskiy
Volodymyr Yezerskiy
Volodymyr Ivanovych Yezerskiy is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays for Tavriya Simferopol. He also plays for the Ukrainian national team.- Club :...

 Oleh Taran
Oleh Taran
Oleh Anatolyevich Taran is a former Ukrainian football player, now coach. He was a prolific forward with a quick dribling and a powerful shot...

 Vadim Yevtushenko Vitaliy Denisov
Vitaliy Denisov
Vitaliy Gennadievich Denisov is an Uzbekistani footballer with Russian origins, currently playing for Ukrainian Premier League club FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk as a defender.He is a member of the Uzbekistan national football team....


Coaches

Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1969-73) József Szabó
Yozhef Sabo
Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo is a former Soviet football player of Hungarian ethnicity-Club:Szabó made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from 1959 to 1969...

 (1978-80) Volodymyr Yemets and Hennadiy Zhizdik (1981-86) Yevhen Kucherevskyi(1987-92) Mykola Pavlov
Mykola Pavlov
Mykola Petrovych Pavlov is a former Ukrainian football defender, and currently head-coach of FC Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League.-Playing career:...

 (1992-94) Bernd Stange
Bernd Stange
Bernd Stange is a German football manager currently managing Belarus.Stange was born in a Sorbian town of Saxony. He started playing at an early age and was called into the East German youth team...

 (1995-96) Mykola Fedorenko
Mykola Fedorenko
Mykola Ivanovych Fedorenko is a retired Soviet football player and a current Ukrainian football coach.-International career:...

(1999-01) Yevhen Kucherevskyi(2001-05) Vadym Tyschenko (2005) (interim) Oleh Protasov (2006-08) Volodymyr Bezsonov (2008-10) Vadym Tyschenko (2010) (interim) Juande Ramos (2010-)

Soviet Union

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup
Soviet Cup
The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup , was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union.-Finals:-Performance by club:-Performance by republic:-References:*, rsssf.com. Accessed on 16 May 2006....

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
1985
1985 Soviet Top League
* Draw limit - 10 games, overlimit is deducted.* Next season the League has been planned to be reduced to 16 members. The teams that placed 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament with the two best out of the Soviet First League...

1st 3 34 16 11 7 71 41 42 1/4 ECL
European Cup 1984-85
The season 1984–85 of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Juventus in a close final against defending champions Liverpool. However, the result was left meaningless after the deaths of 39 spectators in the Heysel Stadium disaster...

1/4
1986
1986 Soviet Top League
The 1986 Soviet Top League season was the 49th since its establishment. Dynamo Kyiv were the defending 11-times champions.A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, which is two teams less than in the 1985 season and no teams were promoted from the First League, due to the league...

1st 11 30 8 12 10 41 41 28 1/16 UC
UEFA Cup 1985-86
The UEFA Cup 1985-86 was won by Real Madrid on aggregate over 1. FC Köln. English clubs were banned from European football competitions for five years, with Liverpool, who had already won the UEFA Cup twice, banned for six years...

1/8
1987
1987 Soviet Top League
-Final Standings:* 10 draw limited* + - Newly promotedPromotion* Lokomotiv Moscow * Chornomorets Odessa -Top scorers:18 goals* Oleh Protasov 16 goals* Arminas Narbekovas 12 goals* Fyodor Cherenkov...

1st 2 30 15 9 6 42 22 39 1/16 UC 1st round
1988
1988 Soviet Top League
-Final Standings:* 10 draw limited * + - Newly promotedPromotion* Pamir Dushanbe * Rotor Volgograd -Top scorers:16 goals* Aleksandr Borodyuk * Yevhen Shakhov 15 goals...

1st 1 30 18 10 2 49 23 46 1/2
1989
1989 Soviet Top League
-Final Standings:Promotion* CSKA Moscow * Guria Lanchkhuti * After this season the teams in italics quit the USSR Football Federation and joined the leagues of their native countries...

1st 2 30 18 6 6 47 27 42 Winner UC
UEFA Cup 1988-89
The UEFA Cup 1988-89 was won by Napoli over Stuttgart.It was the fourth season for which English clubs were banned from European competitions as a result of the Heysel disaster in May 1985...

1st round
1990
1990 Soviet Top League
The 1990 Soviet Top League season was the 53rd since its establishment. Spartak Moscow were the defending 12-times champions. The league was shortened and a total of fourteen teams participated. By the start of the season both Georgian teams have withdrew followed by another withdrawal from...

1st 6 24 11 6 7 39 26 28 1/16 finals ECL
European Cup 1989-90
The 1989–90 European Cup was the 35th edition of Europe's premier club football tournament, the European Cup. The final was played at the Praterstadion in Vienna on 23 May 1990. The final was contested by Italian defending champions Milan and Portuguese two-time former winners Benfica. Milan...

1/4
1991
1991 Soviet Top League
The 1991 Soviet Top League season was the 54th since its establishment and the last one. Dynamo Kyiv were the defending 13-times champions. A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, twelve of them have contested in the 1990 season while the remaining four were promoted from the Soviet...

1st 9 30 9 10 11 31 36 28 1/8 finals UC
UEFA Cup 1990-91
The UEFA Cup 1990–91 was won by Internazionale on aggregate over Roma. This tournament also marked the return of English clubs after a five-year ban resulting from the Heysel Stadium Disaster in 1985...

1st round

Ukraine

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Domestic Cup
Ukrainian Cup
The Ukrainian Cup is a national knockout cup competition in Ukrainian football, run by the Football Federation of Ukraine. The winner of the competition is awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup , under special circumstances the finalist also may enter...

Europe Notes
1992
Ukrainian Premier League 1992
Ukrainian Premier League 1992 was the very first football championship organized in Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and disbandment of the Soviet Football Union...

1st 3 18 10 3 5 26 15 23 1/4 finals yielded to FC Metalist Kharkiv
FC Metalist Kharkiv
FC Metalist Kharkiv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kharkiv. It competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the highest football level in the country. Founded in 1925, the team worked its way up the rungs of the Soviet football system, eventually being promoted to the Soviet Top...


1/8 final of Soviet Cup
Soviet Cup
The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup , was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union.-Finals:-Performance by club:-Performance by republic:-References:*, rsssf.com. Accessed on 16 May 2006....

1992–93
Ukrainian Premier League 1992-93
The Ukrainian Premier League 1992–93 season was the second since the nation's independence in 1991.-Overview:It started on August 15, 1992 and finished on June 15, 1993 with the winter break between November 22 and March 14. The Crimean Tavria were the defending champions, but managed only to place...

1st 2 30 18 8 4 51 20 44 1/8 finals
1993–94
Ukrainian Premier League 1993-94
Ukrainian Premier League 1993–94 was the third season of the Ukrainian Premier League.Last season the league champions Dynamo received a fierce competition from the Pavlov led Dnipro out of Dnipropetrovsk. The third season was promising to be even more exiting...

1st 4 34 16 9 9 53 35 41 1/4 finals UC 2nd round
1994–95
Ukrainian Premier League 1994-95
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final standings:Legend:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers...

1st 3 34 19 8 7 60 33 65 Runner-up
1995–96
Ukrainian Premier League 1995-96
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final standings:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1996 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers*Oleksandr Palyanytsia, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to FC Karpaty Lviv...

1st 3 34 19 6 9 65 34 63 1/4 finals
1996–97
Ukrainian Premier League 1996-97
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final standings:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers*Andrei Fedkov, FC Torpedo Zaporizhia to FC Baltika Kaliningrad...

1st 4 30 14 13 3 48 19 55 Runner-up
1997–98
Ukrainian Premier League 1997-98
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final table of Ukrainian Premier League season 1997-98:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1998 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:-Managers:-External links:*...

1st 4 30 17 4 9 47 27 55 1/4 finals UC
UEFA Cup 1997-98
The UEFA Cup 1997–98 was won by Internazionale comfortably in an all-Italian final against Lazio. It was their third title in eight years in the competition....

2nd qual round
1998–99
Ukrainian Premier League 1998-99
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final table of Ukrainian Premier League season 1998-99:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 1999 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers...

1st 12 30 9 5 16 28 46 32 1/8 finals
1999-00
Ukrainian Premier League 1999-00
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final table of Ukrainian Premier League season 1999-00:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 2000 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers...

1st 11 30 8 9 13 26 52 33 1/8 finals
2000–01
Ukrainian Premier League 2000-01
-Preseason changes:Managers-Final table of Ukrainian Premier League season 2000-01:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 2001 Ukrainian Cup Final.-Top goalscorers:Notable Transfers...

1st 3 26 17 4 5 37 18 55 1/2 finals
2001–02
Ukrainian Premier League 2001-02
-Final standings:Note:* In bold are the participants of the 2002 Ukrainian Cup Final.Play-off:-Top goalscorers:-European competitions:Champion's Cup Champion's Cup...

1st 6 26 11 7 8 30 20 40 1/2 finals UC 1st round
2002–03
Ukrainian Premier League 2002-03
-Final standings:-Top goal scorers:-European competitions:Champion's Cup Champion's Cup UEFA Cup UEFA Cup -External links:*...

1st 4 30 18 5 7 48 27 59 1/2 finals
2003–04
Ukrainian Premier League 2003-04
-Final standings:-Top goal scorers:-European competitions:Champion's Cup Champion's Cup UEFA Cup UEFA Cup -External links:*...

1st 3 30 16 9 5 44 23 57 Runner-up UC 3rd round
2004–05
Ukrainian Premier League 2004-05
The 2004–05 Ukrainian Premier League season was the fourteenth since its establishment.The season started on July 15, 2004 with all eight games of the first round. The last day of the competition was June 16, 2005. Shakhtar Donetsk has managed to win its second champion's title place ahead of the...

1st 4 30 13 9 8 38 34 48 1/2 finals UC
UEFA Cup 2004-05
The 2004–05 UEFA Cup season was won by CSKA Moscow, coming from behind in the final against Sporting Clube de Portugal. It was the first win by a Russian side in any European competition, and was even more impressive considering that the final was held at the José Alvalade Stadium, the home of...

Round of 32
2005–06
Ukrainian Premier League 2005-06
The 2005–06 Ukrainian Premier League season was the fifteenth since its establishment.The season started on July 12, 2005 with six games of the first round. The last day of the competition was May 10, 2006. However, because the top two teams have finished with equal amount of points, it was decided...

1st 6 30 11 10 9 33 23 43 1/8 finals UC
UEFA Cup 2005-06
The UEFA Cup 2005–06 season was won by Sevilla FC, beating Middlesbrough FC in the final. It was the first victory for Sevilla in a European competition, and the first appearance by Middlesbrough in a European final. The final took place at Philips Stadion, in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The match was...

Group stage
2006–07
Ukrainian Premier League 2006-07
The 2006-07 Ukrainian Premier League season is the sixteenth since its establishment. The official name of the competition was Soyuz-Viktan Ukrainian football championship. Soyuz-Viktan became the first title sponsor in the League's history....

1st 4 30 11 14 5 32 24 47 1/4 finals
2007–08
Ukrainian Premier League 2007-08
The 2007–08 Ukrainian Premier League season is the seventeenth since its establishment. This season competition was sponsored by Biola which became the title sponsor of the League for the season. It began on July 17, 2007, and ended on May 18, 2008...

1st 4 30 18 5 7 40 27 59 1/16 finals UC 1st round
2008–09
Ukrainian Premier League 2008-09
The 2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League season was the eighteenth since its establishment. Shakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions, having won their fourth league title. The season began on 16 July 2008 with a scoreless draw between Tavriya and Dnipro. The last round of matches were played on 26...

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
2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League
The 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season was the 20th since its establishment and third since its reorganization. Shakhtar Donetsk were the defending champions, having won their 5th league title...

1st 4 30 16 9 5 46 20 57 1/2 finals EL Play-off Round
2011-12 1/8 finals EL Play-off Round

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