Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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| Full name | Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
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| Nickname(s) | Warriors of light |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Ground | Dnipro-Arena, Dnipropetrovsk |
| Capacity | 33,993 |
| Owner | Ihor Kolomoyskyi |
| President | Ihor Kolomoyskyi |
| Head coach | Dmytro Mykhaylenko (caretaker) |
| League | Ukrainian Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́» Дніпропетро́вськ IPA: [dnʲiˈprɔ dnʲiprɔpɛˈtrɔβ̞sʲk]) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Dnipropetrovsk.
Dnipro, which is the Ukrainian name of the Dnieper river in Ukraine, is a popular sports name in Dnipropetrovsk. Beside the association football club, there also is a bandy team under the same name, basketball team and others. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, however, is not a multi-sport club: the club is owned by the Privat Group that also owns BC Dnipro and Budivelnyk Kyiv.
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 Yuzhmash and carried both names Russian Dnepr and Ukrainian Dnipro, while Dnepr was also used for international competitions. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the club was the second most successful club of Ukraine that participated in the Soviet Top League, winning in 1983 and 1988. Sometime after the fall of the Soviet Union, the club was privatized.
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 championship). With the four other teams BRIT played its games on small stadium "Sokil" which was located at the corner of Pushkin street and Yuriy Savchenko street.
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