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==History==

===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 ([[Dnipropetrovsk|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.

===Petrovets – Stal – Metalurh===

Due to World War I, BRIT was disbanded, but on 9 May 1925 a new team was formed in [[Dnipropetrovsk]] (coincidently, later the day became to be known as the [[Victory Day]]). 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 Union|Soviet]] competition under the name of ''Stal'' (steel, En) 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]], ''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 [[FC Ararat Yerevan|Spartak Yerevan]].