SC Dnipro-1

SC Dnipro-1 (Ukrainian: СК «Дніпро-1») is a professional Ukrainian football team from Dnipro. While not officially a successor of FC Dnipro, SC Dnipro-1 took over all of the infrastructure of the former club including its academy. Founded in 2015,[1][2] SC Dnipro-1 is competing in the Ukrainian Premier League, having been promoted from the First League in 2019.[3]

Not to be confused with the military unit Dnipro-1 that the team is named after or FC Dnipro.
Dnipro-1
Full nameСпортивний клуб «Дніпро-1»
Sport Club Dnipro-1
Founded29 November 2015 (2015-11-29)
GroundDnipro Arena, Dnipro
Capacity31,003 (Dnipro)
OwnerMaksym Bereza
Hennadiy Polonskyi
PresidentYuriy Bereza
Head CoachOleksandr Kucher
LeagueUkrainian Premier League
2021–22Ukrainian Premier League, 3rd
WebsiteClub website
Emblem of the Police Special Patrol Detachment "Dnipro-1", Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

History

The club owners are Maksym Bereza[lower-alpha 1] and Hennadiy Polonskyi. The club adopted an emblem and name similar to the Special Tasks Patrol Police Dnipro-1 — a Ukrainian volunteer battalion formed during the war in Donbas that used to be led by Yuriy Bereza (Maksym Bereza's father) which represents the Lisovskyi tryzub.

The Professional Football League of Ukraine reviewed the matter of admitting the club SC Dnipro-1 on 21 June 2017.[4]

On 6 July 2017, it was announced that SC Dnipro-1 would adopt the FC Dnipro football school.[5] The same day SC Dnipro-1 announced its squad for the upcoming 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League season, having a number of well known footballers in Ukraine such as Yevhen Cheberyachko, Serhiy Kravchenko and many others.[6]

Its first game on professional level the club played on 9 July 2017 hosting FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi as part of the 2017–18 Ukrainian Cup. Its first official league game the club played next week on 15 July 2017 hosting FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv as part of the 2017–18 Ukrainian Second League. That season Dnipro-1 became the second club in history of the Ukrainian Cup that reached the semifinals while competing at the third tier and also earned promotion by placing the first place in its group.

As champion of the 2018–19 Ukrainian First League Dnipro-1 promoted to the Ukrainian Premier League in 2019.[3]

Due to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dnipro-1 completed 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League campaign at Košická futbalová aréna in Košice, Slovakia, while conducting training sessions in nearby Malá Ida and completing domestic league fixtures in Uzhhorod. Multiple members of the first team relocated to Košice temporarily for the duration of the campaign.[7]

Critical perception: SC Dnipro-1 vs FC Dnipro

In 2018 FC Dnipro was forced into bankruptcy by FIFA due to multiple legal claims for failing to pay its promised monetary compensation to players and managers.

Among members of the former football club Dnipro that never got paid, there are Egídio Pereira Júnior, Danilo Sousa Campos, manager Juande Ramos and his coaching staff, Jaba Kankava, Vitaliy Mandzyuk,[8] and others.

On 22 February 2021, FIFA dismissed the claim of Jaba Kankava who appealed with a request to recognize SC Dnipro-1 a sports successor of FC Dnipro in order to recover his unpaid salary from FC Dnipro.[9]

Other former players perceive the creation of SC Dnipro-1 as a type of scheme.[10][8]

Players

First-team squad
As of 3 March 2023[11][12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Ukraine UKR Vladyslav Rybak (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
2 DF Ukraine UKR Mykyta Kononov
3 DF Ukraine UKR Volodymyr Adamyuk
4 DF Argentina ARG Emiliano Purita
5 MF Ukraine UKR Eduard Sarapiy (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
7 FW Ukraine UKR Artem Dovbyk
8 MF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Pikhalyonok
9 MF Ukraine UKR Oleksiy Hutsulyak
10 FW Brazil BRA Peglow (on loan from Internacional)
11 FW Ukraine UKR Yevhen Pidlepenets (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
12 GK Ukraine UKR Yakiv Kinareykin
13 DF Algeria ALG Yanis Hamache
14 DF Ukraine UKR Vitaliy Fedoriv (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
18 MF Ukraine UKR Ruslan Babenko
22 MF Ukraine UKR Valentyn Rubchynskyi
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 MF Argentina ARG Domingo Blanco
24 MF Ukraine UKR Valeriy Luchkevych
25 MF Ukraine UKR Ihor Kohut
26 DF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Kapliyenko (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
27 DF Brazil BRA Hayner (on loan from Azuriz)
29 MF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Nazarenko
30 MF France FRA Farès Bahlouli (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
31 MF Ukraine UKR Vyacheslav Tankovskyi (on loan from Metalist Kharkiv)
34 MF Ukraine UKR Volodymyr Tanchyk
39 DF Ukraine UKR Oleksandr Svatok (captain)
42 MF Ukraine UKR Yevhen Pasich
44 DF Costa Rica CRC Rónald Matarrita
93 GK Brazil BRA Max Walef
99 DF Brazil BRA Gabriel Gomes (on loan from Inter de Minas)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK Ukraine UKR Valeriy Yurchuk (at Lviv until 30 June 2023)
— GK Ukraine UKR Myroslav Znovenko (at Metalist Kharkiv until 30 June 2023)
— DF Ukraine UKR Serhiy Lohinov (at Oleksandriya until 30 June 2023)
— DF Portugal POR Nélson Monte (at Portugal Chaves until 30 June 2023)
— MF Ukraine UKR Serhiy Horbunov (at Karpaty Lviv until 30 June 2023)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Ukraine UKR Maksym Solovyov (at Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk until 30 June 2023)
— FW Brazil BRA Bill (at Brazil Inter de Limeira until 30 June 2023)
— FW Spain ESP Marc Gual (at Poland Jagiellonia Białystok until 30 June 2023)
— FW Brazil BRA Felipe Pires (at Greece Volos until 30 June 2023)

Coaches and administration
Administration[13] Coaching[14] Coaching youth[15]
  • Honorary President – Yuriy Bereza
  • President – Maksym Bereza
  • General director – Anton Fursov
  • Executive director – Andriy Rusol
  • Head coach – Hennadiy Shchekotylin
  • Assistant coach – Ivan Telko
  • Fitness coach – Anton Dyachenko
  • Goalies coach – Volodymyr Timenko

League and cup history
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Cup Europe Notes
2017–18 Druha Liha 1 33 26 3 4 87 15 81 1/2 finals Promoted
2018–19 Persha Liha 1 28 21 4 3 72 21 67 1/2 finals Promoted
2019–20 Premier Liha 7 32 15 4 13 42 42 49 1⁄8 finals EL play-offs – 1/2 finals
2020–21 7 26 8 6 12 36 38 30 1⁄4 finals
2021–22 3 18 13 1 4 35 17 40 1⁄4 finals
2022–23

European record
Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Aggregate
2022–23 UEFA Europa League PO Cyprus AEK Larnaca 1–2 0–3 1–5
2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League Group E Netherlands AZ 0–1 1–2 2nd
Cyprus Apollon Limassol 1–0 3–1
Liechtenstein Vaduz 2–2 2–1
KPO Cyprus AEK Larnaca 0–0 0–1 0–1
Notes
  • PO: Play-off round

Honours
Ukrainian First League
Ukrainian Second League

Reserves

In 2019 the club also fielded its reserve team in amateur competitions SC Dnipro-1-Borysfen that previously (in 2018–19) played at the Youth League and PFL under-19 competitions.[16][17] The team played in the under-19 competitions along with SC Dnipro-1 under-19 team which won the competitions.

Managers

Notes
  1. son of Yuriy Bereza

References
  1. "We are 6 years old! (Нам 6 років!)". scdnipro1.com.ua (in Ukrainian). SC Dnipro-1. 2021-11-29.
  2. "History of SC Dnipro-1 (Історія СК «Дніпро-1»)". scdnipro1.com.ua (in Ukrainian). SC Dnipro-1. 2020-03-07.
  3. (in Ukrainian) "Dnipro-1" left the UPL ahead of schedule, TSN (1 May 2019)
  4. Serhiy Sytnyk. Officially: Dnipro 1 is admitted to the PFL (Официально: "Днепр 1" принят в ПФЛ). Footboom. 21 June 2017. (in Ukrainian)
  5. FC Dnipro football school will be transferred to SC Dnipro-1 (Школа ФК Днепр перейдет к СК Днепр-1). Sport Arena. 6 July 2017
  6. Kravchenko, Polyovyi, and Cheberyachko will play for Dnipro-1 (Кравченко, Польовий і Чеберячко виступатимуть за Дніпро-1). UA-Football. 6 July 2017
  7. "Prenajali si apartmány i hotel. Hráči Dnipra sa už v Košiciach cítia ako doma". sportnet.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  8. Mandzyuk: Drown Dnipro and create Dnipro-1, I think, it is the Kolomoyskyi's scheme (Мандзюк: Втопити Дніпро і зробити Дніпро-1, думаю, це схема Коломойського). UA-Football. 30 March 2021
  9. Oles Khorunzhyi. SC Dnipro-1 confirmed that FIFA dismissed the claim of Jaba Kankava and did not recognize the club a successor of Dnipro (Днепр-1 подтвердил, что ФИФА отклонила иск Канкавы и не признала клуб правопреемником Днепра). Sport Arena. 23 February 2021.
  10. Bezus: I do not perceive Dnipro-1 as a continuation of Dnipro. My disposition to it is not very positive (Безус: Не сприймаю Дніпро-1 як продовження Дніпра. Ставлюся до нього не дуже позитивно). UA-Football. 7 July 2020
  11. "СК «Дніпро-1»". 2 October 2017.
  12. "Dnipro-1".
  13. "КЕРІВНИЦТВО". SC Dnipro-1. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  14. "ТРЕНЕРИ". SC Dnipro-1. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  15. "ТРЕНЕРИ ЮНАКІВ СК ДНІПРО-1". SC Dnipro-1. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  16. SC Dnipro-1-Borysfen. AAFU.
  17. SC Dnipro-1-Borysfen. Footballfacts.
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