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Welcome everyone to Season 1 of my new save with FC Dnipro. For those who don't know who this team is, this is the Ukrainian side that made it all the way to the 2015 Europa League Final, where they lost 3-2 to Sevilla. It was the peak of FC Dnipro, but a financial meltdown in the couple seasons following ended up with a free fall into the depths of the Ukrainian football pyramid before disintegrating entirely.
But in this save, Dnipro is still "alive" with the help of a reunified Soviet government bringing all the old Soviet states back under the fold. I say "alive" because FC Dnipro starts in the 6th tier of the reorganized Soviet football pyramid. Now the ultimate goal is to become the strongest Soviet football club in the country, but one of the requirements that I have is that we must win the Europa League at some point in the save. It won't be anytime soon, as it's going to take a while to reach the top division of Soviet football. Now that the scenario has been set, lets take a look at rules of our league.
It's nothing too bad. I can sign anyone I want, but I will be limited to a certain amount of foreign players to the pitch. Now, unlike my Yugoslav save, where every former Yugoslavian country becomes a vegetable and every player is reassigned to the Yugoslav nationality, every country that used to be in the Soviet Union are still independent in regards to their national teams. These countries are then placed in a nations agreements that treats every player from those countries as non-foreign. For example, despite Dnipro being a Ukrainian team, I can still sign as many Russians, Estonians, Uzbek, etc without issue. A bit of a complicated explanation, but that's how it is.
Anyway, let's get into the matches. I have decided that I will briefly describe each match on a monthly basis instead of the broad picture. So far, we have played three competitive matches before the summer transfer window ended. Let's get into it.
Kubok 1st Qualifying Round
Before this match, I already brought in some new faces to fill in the gaps in the first team. Our first competitive game was a complete route, an excellent 12-0 victory against Spectr Birobidzhan. As they are in the same tier as us, this is a good sign for the rest of the season.
League Matchday 1
To my satisfaction, the opening day match against the Latvian side Miku/UPTK Liepaja was a 5-0 victory in our favor. It took us a bit to get up to speed, but once we scored, we did not really hold back. This is our statement that we will become great again.
League Matchday 2
Our first competitive home game ended just as good as the previous match with a 6-0 destruction of Rubican Kiev, a fellow Ukrainian side. The first half was a non-stop peppering of the opposition goal, though how we only scored once would be a mystery. The lads made up for it in the 2nd half, scoring 5.
Here's the league table going into September:
Not much to look at here for the moment, but we are top on goal difference.
And now, summer transfers.
Lots of newcomers to provide quality and depth to Dnipro while also selling some players to raise a bit of cash to ease our finances.
That's it for Part 1 of Season 1 with FC Dnipro. I will return with all of the September fixtures played very soon.
But in this save, Dnipro is still "alive" with the help of a reunified Soviet government bringing all the old Soviet states back under the fold. I say "alive" because FC Dnipro starts in the 6th tier of the reorganized Soviet football pyramid. Now the ultimate goal is to become the strongest Soviet football club in the country, but one of the requirements that I have is that we must win the Europa League at some point in the save. It won't be anytime soon, as it's going to take a while to reach the top division of Soviet football. Now that the scenario has been set, lets take a look at rules of our league.
It's nothing too bad. I can sign anyone I want, but I will be limited to a certain amount of foreign players to the pitch. Now, unlike my Yugoslav save, where every former Yugoslavian country becomes a vegetable and every player is reassigned to the Yugoslav nationality, every country that used to be in the Soviet Union are still independent in regards to their national teams. These countries are then placed in a nations agreements that treats every player from those countries as non-foreign. For example, despite Dnipro being a Ukrainian team, I can still sign as many Russians, Estonians, Uzbek, etc without issue. A bit of a complicated explanation, but that's how it is.
Anyway, let's get into the matches. I have decided that I will briefly describe each match on a monthly basis instead of the broad picture. So far, we have played three competitive matches before the summer transfer window ended. Let's get into it.
Kubok 1st Qualifying Round
Before this match, I already brought in some new faces to fill in the gaps in the first team. Our first competitive game was a complete route, an excellent 12-0 victory against Spectr Birobidzhan. As they are in the same tier as us, this is a good sign for the rest of the season.
League Matchday 1
To my satisfaction, the opening day match against the Latvian side Miku/UPTK Liepaja was a 5-0 victory in our favor. It took us a bit to get up to speed, but once we scored, we did not really hold back. This is our statement that we will become great again.
League Matchday 2
Our first competitive home game ended just as good as the previous match with a 6-0 destruction of Rubican Kiev, a fellow Ukrainian side. The first half was a non-stop peppering of the opposition goal, though how we only scored once would be a mystery. The lads made up for it in the 2nd half, scoring 5.
Here's the league table going into September:
Not much to look at here for the moment, but we are top on goal difference.
And now, summer transfers.
Lots of newcomers to provide quality and depth to Dnipro while also selling some players to raise a bit of cash to ease our finances.
That's it for Part 1 of Season 1 with FC Dnipro. I will return with all of the September fixtures played very soon.
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