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|nickname = Warriors of light

|founded = {{Start date and age|1918|df=yes}}

|dissolved = 2016

|ground = [[Dnipro-Arena]], [[Dnipropetrovsk]]

|capacity = 33,993

| owntitle = Owner

| owner = [[AnthonyIhor HollinsheadKolomoyskyi]]

|chrtitle = President

|chairman = Ihor Kolomoyskyi

|mgrtitle = Head coach

|manager = [[LiamMyron DuffyMarkevych]]

|league = [[Ukrainian Premier League]]

|season = [[2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League|2015–16]]

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'''Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk''' ({{lang-uk|Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́» Дніпропетро́вськ}} {{IPA-uk|dnʲiˈprɔ dnʲiprɔpɛˈtrɔβ̞sʲk|IPA}}) wasis a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] professional [[Association football|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,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.ukrbandy.org.ua/zmagannya_en.html | title = Ukrainian bandy championship | publisher = [[Ukrainian Federation of Bandy and Rink-Bandy]] | accessdate = 16 May 2014}}</ref> basketball team and others. However, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk is not a multi-sport club. The club is owned by the [[Privat Group]] that also owns [[BC Dnipro|BC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk]] and [[HC Budivelnyk|Budivelnyk Kyiv]].

During the Soviet Union 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 Soviet Top League|1983]] and [[1988 Soviet Top League|1988]]. Sometime after the [[fall of the Soviet Union]], the club was privatized.

The club was disbanded late June 2016 after owner [[Ihor Kolomoyskyi]] stopped funding the club.<ref name="FC Dnipro bankrupt">{{cite web|url= http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/353274.html|title= Dnipro football club disbanded|publisher=[[Interfax-Ukraine]] |date=29 June 2016}}</ref>

==History==

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Following the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]], the club took on the Ukrainian version name of ''Dnipro'', the name of the biggest river and one of the major symbols of [[Ukraine]]. The club joined the [[association football|football]] federation of the native country and remained one of the top contenders in the newly formed [[Ukrainian Premier League]]. 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]] finals in 1995, 1997 and 2004, but lost all three to [[FC Shakhtar Donetsk|Shakhtar Donetsk]]. FC Dnipro is currently controlled by the [[Privat Group]].

===FinalMarkevych yearsera===

On 14 May 2015, following a historical 1–0 victory over [[SSC Napoli|Napoli]] after a 1–1 draw in Italy in the semi-finals, Dnipro qualified for their first ever European final, the [[2015 UEFA Europa League Final]] where they played defending champions [[Sevilla FC|Sevilla]] on 27 May at the [[Stadion Narodowy]] in [[Warsaw]], Poland.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/14/dnipro-napoli-europa-league-semi-final-second-leg-match-report|title=Dnipro’s Yevhen Seleznyov sinks Napoli to seal Europa League final place|date=14 May 2015|work=Guardian |accessdate=15 May 2015}}</ref> Despite going up 1–0 on the 6th minute, Dnipro lost 3–2.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32908634|title=Dnipro 2 Sevilla 3|date=28 May 2015|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=28 May 2015}}</ref>

This was one of the club's greatest successes, not just in terms of records and trophies; they were also able to inspire the residents who were suffering in war torn territories. The situation was such that during the entire course of the campaign, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk had to play all of their home matches some 400 kilometres away in [[Kyiv]] due to the war.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk&nbsp;– Angels amidst War : "During the entire course of the campaign, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk had to play all of their home matches some 400 kilometres away in Kyiv due to the war. "|url=http://www.goaldentimes.org/dnipro-dnipropetrovsk-angels-amidst-war/|website=http://www.goaldentimes.org|accessdate=26 May 2015}}</ref> On 31 March 2016, the club was excluded by [[UEFA]] from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which it would otherwise qualify in the next three seasons (i.e. the 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons) for violating the [[UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations|Financial Fair Play]] regulations.<ref>{{cite web|title=CFCB adjudicatory chamber orders|url=http://www.uefa.org/protecting-the-game/club-licensing-and-financial-fair-play/news/newsid=2347734.html|date=31 March 2016|publisher=[[UEFA]]}}</ref>

On 29 June 2016 the club announced on its website it had ceased to exist because owner [[Ihor Kolomoyskyi]] had stopped funding the club.<ref name="FC Dnipro bankrupt"/>

==Stadium==

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