# 2014–15 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk season

During the 2014–15 season, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk competed in the Ukrainian Premier League, Ukrainian Cup, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

## Season summary

Dnipro reached the Europa League final, only to be defeated by a Sevilla side in the middle of three consecutive Europa League wins.

## Players
### First-team squad

    Squad at end of season
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 | UKR | Oleksiy Bashtanenko |
| 2 | DF | ROU | Alexandru Vlad |
| 3 | DF | CZE | Ondřej Mazuch |
| 4 | MF | UKR | Serhiy Kravchenko |
| 5 | DF | UKR | Vitaliy Mandzyuk |
| 7 | MF | GEO | Jaba Kankava |
| 8 | MF | UKR | Pavlo Ksyonz (loaned from Karpaty Lviv) |
| 9 | FW | CRO | Nikola Kalinić |
| 10 | MF | UKR | Yevhen Konoplyanka |
| 11 | FW | UKR | Yevhen Seleznyov |
| 12 | DF | BRA | Léo Matos |
| 14 | DF | UKR | Yevhen Cheberyachko |
| 15 | DF | UKR | Dmytro Chyhrynskyi |
| 16 | GK | CZE | Jan Laštůvka |
| 17 | FW | UKR | Denys Balanyuk |
| 18 | FW | UKR | Roman Zozulya |
| 19 | MF | UKR | Roman Bezus |
| 20 | MF | POR | Bruno Gama |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | CRO | Mladen Bartulović |
| 22 | FW | UKR | Yevhen Bokhashvili |
| 23 | DF | BRA | Douglas |
| 24 | MF | UKR | Valeriy Luchkevych |
| 25 | MF | UKR | Valeriy Fedorchuk |
| 27 | MF | UKR | Oleksandr Vasylyev |
| 28 | MF | UKR | Yevhen Shakhov |
| 29 | MF | UKR | Ruslan Rotan |
| 30 | DF | SEN | Papa Gueye |
| 39 | DF | UKR | Oleksandr Svatok |
| 44 | DF | UKR | Artem Fedetskyi |
| 47 | MF | UKR | Serhiy Horbunov |
| 71 | GK | UKR | Denys Boyko |
| 77 | GK | UKR | Denys Shelikhov |
| 90 | MF | UKR | Oleksandr Mihunov |
| 96 | MF | UKR | Maksym Tretyakov |
| 97 | FW | UKR | Andriy Bliznichenko |
| 99 | FW | BRA | Matheus |

### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | BRA | Egídio (contract terminated) |
| 8 | DF | UKR | Volodymyr Polyovyi (loaned to Volyn Lutsk) |
| 17 | DF | CRO | Ivan Strinić (to Napoli) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 89 | MF | UKR | Serhiy Politylo (loaned to Volyn Lutsk) |
| 91 | GK | UKR | Ihor Vartsaba (loaned to Naftovyk-Ukrnafta) |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Ukrainian Premier League | 25 July 2014 | 30 May 2015 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 26 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 47 | 17 | +30 | 061.54 |
| Ukrainian Cup | 23 August 2014 | 20 May 2015 | Round of 32 | Semi-finals | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 057.14 |
| UEFA Champions League | 30 July 2014 | 6 August 2014 | Third qualifying round | Third qualifying round | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 20 August 2014 | 27 May 2015 | Play-off round | Runners-up | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 14 | +3 | 041.18 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 52 | 27 | 13 | 12 | 75 | 36 | +39 | 051.92 |
Source: Competitions

### Ukrainian Premier League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv (C) | 26 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 65 | 12 | +53 | 66 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 71 | 21 | +50 | 56 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 26 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 47 | 17 | +30 | 54 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 4 | Zorya Luhansk | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 31 | +9 | 45 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 5 | Vorskla Poltava | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 35 | 22 | +13 | 42 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
* 1 2 Since winners of 2014–15 Ukrainian Cup, Dynamo Kyiv, qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, the place in the Europa League group stage for the cup winner will be given to the third-placed team and the spots to Europa League third qualifying round will be given to the fourth-placed and fifth-placed teams.
* ↑ Zorya Luhansk were initially deducted a total of 3 points on decision of the FFU Control Disciplinary Committee on 18 February 2015, but the decision was reversed and the FFU reinstated the three points to Zorya Luhansk. (17 June 2015)

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Competitions

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| Ground | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | L | L | D | D | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | L | L | W | D |
| Position | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |

#### Matches
### Ukrainian Cup

Round of 16 The second leg was originally scheduled for 30 October 2014, but was moved to an earlier date.
Quarter-finals The first leg was originally scheduled for 4 March 2015, but was postponed.
Semi-finals

### UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

### UEFA Europa League

Play-off round

#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | INT | DNI | QAR | SET |
| 1 | Internazionale | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 |
| 2 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 7 | Advance to knockout phase | 0–1 | — | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Qarabağ | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 6 | | 0–0 | 1–2 | — | 0–0 |
| 4 | Saint-Étienne | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 5 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — |

#### Knockout phase

Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals Order of legs reversed after original draw.
Semi-finals
Final