Editing FC Dnipro (section)

===Golden generation===
In 1973 and 1976, Dnepr reached the semi-finals of the USSR Cup. In 1978, the team was relegated to the lower league for two years. Their next return to the top flight was not as inviting as their first one and the team languished at the bottom of the table for several years. In the following years, the governing body of the team hired new promising coaches&nbsp;– ''Volodymyr Yemets'' and ''Hennadiy Zhizdik''. After those changes, ''Dnepr'' became a strong contender for the [[Soviet Top League|Soviet championship]] winning it twice: once with Yemets and Zhizdik in 1983, and another one with [[Evgeny Kucherevsky|Yevhen Kucherevsky]] in 1988. Also, in 1989 ''Dnepr'' became the first professional football club in the Soviet Union. During those years, the team featured many notable players such as [[Oleg Protasov]], [[Hennadiy Lytovchenko]], [[Oleksiy Cherednyk]] and [[Oleh Taran]].