FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

The FK Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian ФК Дніпро Дніпропетровськ; UEFA transcription FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk; Russian ФК Днепр Днепропетровск, FK Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk ) is a Ukrainian football club from the city of Dnipropetrovsk.

At the times of the Soviet Union was next to Dnipro Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk one of the most successful teams of the Ukrainian SSR and has won in the 1980s once the Cup twice and the championship of the USSR.

  • 3.1 National
  • 3.2 International

History

Soviet Union

The club was founded in 1918 as the works team of the Petrovsky steel mills, 1936, the team for the first time at a unterklassigen USSR -wide league under the name Stal ( = steel) part, in 1946 the team was renamed Metalurg and retained this name until 1961 when they was delivered to the Jugmasch works and was given this name. In 1968/69 the team was again given, it was given the name Dnepr after the brand name of a Ukrainian motorcycle and a young, new coach Valery Lobanovsky, the first experiences with Dnepr before after 1974 at Dynamo Kiev at one of the most successful coaches in the world been. 1971 Dnepr succeeded the first-time promotion to the top Soviet league. Since then, the association remained, except for a two-year second-division game between 1978-80, first class. After the second rise to Dnepr developed in the 1980s to one of the best teams in the USSR, who appeared regularly for the championship. The former team succeeded in 1983 and 1988, winning the Soviet Cup in 1988 was celebrated also the Soviet Cup victory. 1987 and 1989, was runner- Dnepr.

At that team Dnepr included stars such as Oleg Protasov, Gennadi Litovchenko or Vladimir Ljuty. Numerous talents came here from their own youth.

Dnepr was five times the best football club in the Republic of Ukraine. Judging by the number of titles the club was even the second most successful Ukrainian club at all, after Dynamo Kiev. During the existence of the Soviet Union, the club was known mainly under the Russian name, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk ( in the notation Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk ).

Ukraine

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the club has played in the newly established, first Ukrainian Premier League, also became internationally and at club symbols, including FIFA and UEFA, now using the Ukrainian name of the club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

After the independence of Ukraine " Dnipro " was able to win any more titles, but three times reached the cup final and landed six times in the top three of the Ukrainian championship. Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk is one of the four teams, in addition to Dynamo Kiev, Shakhtar Donetsk and Simferopol Tawrija that have never been relegated from the Premjer - Liha. Main sponsor of the club for many years the private group, an influential group of companies based in Dnipropetrovsk. The best-known players of the club are Andriy Rusol, who scored the first goal of the Ukraine in a World Cup, Oleh Wenglinskij, the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year in 2003 and Alexei Bluhm, who after 14 seconds scored the fastest goal of the Wyschtscha Liha. Since October 2010 Dnipro is coached by two-time UEFA Cup winners Juande Ramos. Coach of FK Dnipro was, inter alia, also Bernd Stange (1995 /96).

Several times Dnipro had taken part in European competitions, twice at the European Cup of Champions (1985, 1990), while the club could each reach the quarter-finals. In the UEFA Europa League 2011/12 Dnipro failed in the play-off round of the English representatives Fulham FC.

Better it was for the Ukrainian representatives in the Champions League season 2012/13. There, the team was able to not only reach the group stage, but to assert confidently with 5 wins and only one defeat against Napoli, PSV Eindhoven and AIK Solna as group winners. In the second round Dnipro difference after a 0-2 away defeat and a 1-1 draw at home against the Swiss side FC Basel.

After the success in the playoffs, Dnipro reached the end of August 2013, the group stage of the Europa League 2013 / 14th They occupied in their group in second place and qualified for the knockout stage so that in which they were eliminated against Tottenham Hotspur.

Stadium

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk plays its home games at Dniprostadion, which was opened after a three- year construction period 14 September 2008 and has a capacity of 31 003 spectators.

Achievements

National

  • Championship: Soviet champion: 1983, 1988
  • Ukrainian runner-up: 1993
  • Cup competition: Soviet Super Cup winner: 1988
  • Soviet Cup winner: 1989
  • Ukrainian Vice Cup Winners: 1995, 1997, 2004

Internationally

  • Quarter-finalist in the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1985, 1990

Current squad

As of June 2013

Well-known former players

Ukraine and CIS

  • Georgia Revaz Barabadse
  • Kazakhstan Yevgeny Jarowenko
  • Kazakhstan Eduard Son
  • Lithuania Linas Klimavičius
  • Alexandru Popovici Moldova
  • Rolan Gusev Russia
  • Soviet Union, Andriy Biba
  • Soviet Union Anatoly Demjanenko
  • Soviet Union Yuri Gavrilov
  • Soviet Union Wadym Yevtushenko
  • Soviet Union Alexei Kurilenko
  • Soviet Union Anatoly Kuzew
  • Soviet Union Igor Ledjachow
  • Soviet Union Volodymyr Ljutyj
  • Soviet Union Hennadij Lytowtschenko
  • Soviet Union Peter Neustadt
  • Soviet Union Oleh Protasov
  • Soviet Union Yevhen Schachow
  • Ukraine Olexij Bjelik
  • Ukraine Volodymyr Jeserskyj
  • Ukraine Maxym Kalynytschenko
  • Ukraine Yuri Maximov
  • Ukraine Serhiy Nazarenko
  • Ukraine Serhiy Perchun
  • Ukraine Olexandr Radchenko
  • Ukraine Andriy Russol
  • Ukraine Oleh Schelajew
  • Ukraine Yevhen Seleznev
  • Ukraine Victor Skripnik
  • Ukraine Andriy Worobej
  • Vitaliy Denisov of Uzbekistan

Europe

South America

  • Brazil Alcides
  • Brazil Émerson

America

Africa

Coach

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BC Dnipro Dnipro-Arena 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League Hennadiy Lytovchenko SC Tavriya Simferopol Fulham F.C. 1984–85 European Cup 1989–90 European Cup Defender (association football) Giuliano Victor de Paula Ruslan Rotan Yevhen Seleznyov Anatoliy Demyanenko Anatoliy Kutsev Igor Lediakhov Oleksandr Aliyev Yuriy Maksymov Andreas Sassen 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League FC Hoverla Uzhhorod FC Sevastopol FC Chornomorets Odesa FC Volyn Lutsk FC Arsenal Kyiv Insolvency
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