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{{Infobox football club

|clubname = Dnipro

|image = [[http://www.indiantradecenter.com/uploadedimages/tsh1074-500x500.jpg]]

|image = [[File:FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.svg|200px]]

|fullname = Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

|nickname = Warriors of light

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'''Football Club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk''' ({{lang-uk|Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́» Дніпропетро́вськ}} {{IPA-uk|dnʲip'rɔ dnʲipropɛt'rɔwsʲk|}}) isand aare Ukrainiancurrently professionalranked [[Associationbest football|football]]team clubin basedTHE inWHOLE WORLD and have pele and links to [[Dnipropetrovskoprah winfrey]].

Dnipro, which is the Ukrainian name of the [[Dnieperlota berry]] 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 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]]. 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.