UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Jan Breydelstadion - Bruges Thursday 16 April 2015 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Club Brugge KV Quarter-finals, First leg FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Last updated 09/06/2015 20:58CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 18 Legend 19 1 Club Brugge KV - FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Thursday 16 April 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Venhlinskiy 14, 62, FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - 21/10/2004 GS 3-2 Dnipropetrovsk Rykun 45; Čeh 37, Club Brugge KV Balaban 43 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Club Brugge KV 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 Club Brugge KV - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Club 03/12/2009 GS 0-0 Donetsk Brugge KV Geraerts 62; Gai 11, Club Brugge KV - FC Shakhtar 17/09/2009 GS 1-4 Bruges Willian 19, Srna 35, Donetsk Kravchenko 75 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Club Brugge KV - FC Shakhtar 2-2 Čeh 15, 34 (P); Vukić 25/08/2004 QR3 Bruges Donetsk agg: 3-6 6, 52 Aghahowa 15, Marica FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Club 70, Vorobey 77, 11/08/2004 QR3 4-1 Donetsk Brugge KV Brandão 90+1; Balaban 50 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Club Brugge KV - FC Shakhtar 28/08/2002 QR3 agg: 2-2 (aet, 4- Bruges Čeh 75; Vorobey 13 Donetsk 1pens) FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Club Aghahowa 47; 14/08/2002 QR3 1-1 Donetsk Brugge KV Simons 86 (P) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Martens 4, 73, 90, Club Brugge KV - FC Arsenal 5-0 01/11/2001 R2 Bruges Verheyen 7, Mendoza Kyiv agg: 7-0 42 FC Arsenal Kyiv - Club Brugge 18/10/2001 R2 0-2 Kyiv Verheyen 33, 47 KV 2 Club Brugge KV - FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Thursday 16 April 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Club 1-1 Voskoboinik 62; 28/09/1995 R1 Donetsk Brugge KV agg: 1-2 Stanić 61 Club Brugge KV - FC Shakhtar 14/09/1995 R1 1-0 Bruges Spehar 86 Donetsk FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Club Brugge KV 5 2 2 1 6 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 11 3 5 3 17 16 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 3 Club Brugge KV - FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Thursday 16 April 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges Match background Having accounted for Beşiktaş JK in the round of 16, unbeaten Club Brugge KV will look to forge on to the UEFA Europa League semi-finals at the expense of FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Previous meetings • The teams have met once before, Yevgen Kucherevskyy's Dnipro coming from 2-1 down to beat Trond Sollied's side 3-2 in Dnipropetrovsk in a 2004 UEFA Cup group game – Dnipro's only previous encounter with Belgian opponents. Dnipro ultimately finished top of the section; Club Brugge bowed out. • The teams for that game on 21 October 2004 were: Dnipro: Kernozenko, Hrystai, Yezerskiy, Shelayev, Kostyshyn, Venhlinskiy (Melashchenko 89), Radchenko, Rusol, Mykhaylenko, Rykun, Nazarenko (Semochko 62). Club Brugge: Butina, Simons*, Van der Heyden, Clement, Verheyen, Englebert, Čeh (Stoica 77), Balaban, Gvozdenović (Lange 46), Cornelis, Maertens (Simões 70). *registered to play for the club in this season's competition • Club Brugge have won three of their 11 games against Ukrainian clubs, but are without a success in the most recent seven of those fixtures (D4 L3). Form guide • Club Brugge are the only unbeaten side left in the competition and have won their last five matches, with the record W11 D3 since entering this season's competition in the third qualifying round. By contrast Dnipro have lost four matches since the start of the group stage – as many as they have won – and have won only one of their seven European away games this season (W1 D3 L3). • Club Brugge are in the quarter-finals for the first time since the advent of the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stages. The Belgian side have not reached the latter stages of a UEFA tournament since they made it to the last four in the 1991/92 European Cup Winners' Cup, losing to SV Werder Bremen. • Club Brugge have never lost a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League quarter-final, overcoming AC Milan in 1975/76 and Panathinaikos FC in 1987/88, winning both ties 3-2 on aggregate. • Dnipro have reached the quarter-finals of this competition for the first time. Their biggest European successes were making it to the quarter-finals of the 1984/85 and 1989/90 European Champion Clubs' Cups. Trivia and links • With eight-goal top scorers Alan (FC Salzburg) and Romelu Lukaku (Everton FC) both eliminated, the top marksmen left in the competition are SSC Napoli's Gonzalo Higuaín and Club Brugge's Lior Refaelov, with six goals each. • Dnipro remain the most combative side in the competition, with 179 fouls committed (and 171 sustained) and have received 38 yellow cards – 11 more than any other side. • Dnipro's Czech defender Ondřej Mazuch played in Belgium with RSC Anderlecht (2009–11), with Club Brugge's Tom De Sutter one of his team-mates in Brussels. • Dnipro's Yevhen Konoplyanka is the most fouled played in this season's competition by some distance. He has been impeded 36 times – ten more than any other player. • Due to extra time in the round of 16 decider, Dnipro goalkeeper Denys Boyko and defender Douglas have now played 930 minutes of football in this season's competition – 30 more than any other player. • Club Brugge won their first trophy in eight years on 22 March, beating RSC Anderlecht 2-1 in a thrilling Belgian Cup final. Refaelov scored the late winner. • Dnipro were initially drawn at home but the fixture was reversed according to the draw procedure as the first leg clashed with FC Dynamo Kyiv's home encounter with ACF Fiorentina. The coaches • A goalkeeper for R. Standard de Liège, Mechelen, SL Benfica and Belgium, for whom he earned 58 caps, Michel Preud'homme has been in charge of Club Brugge since September 2013. As a coach, he has claimed league titles in Belgium (Standard, 2007/08) and Saudi Arabia (al-Shabab FC, 2011/12) in addition to the Belgian Cup (KAA Gent, 2009/10) and the Dutch Cup (FC Twente, 2010/11). • Dnipro coach since May 2014, Myron Markevych started out as a midfielder with home-town club FC Karpaty Lviv. While his playing career was not a huge success, he served Karpaty in four spells as a coach before a lengthy stint at 4 Club Brugge KV - FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Thursday 16 April 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges FC Metalist Kharkiv earned him a reputation for attacking football. He briefly coached Ukraine in 2010. 5 Club Brugge KV - FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Thursday 16 April 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges Team facts Club Brugge KV Formed: 1891 Nickname: Blauw-Zwart (Blue and Black) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1978) • UEFA Cup: (1976) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 13 (2005) Belgian Cup: 10 (2007) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: third qualifying round 2012/13: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: group stage 2009/10: round of 32 2008/09: group stage 2007/08: first round 2006/07: group stage 2005/06: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2004/05: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 8-0: Club Brugge v Floriana FC 19/09/73, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 1-6: ÍA Akranes v Club Brugge 23/08/01, UEFA Cup qualifying round second leg 0-5: Újpesti TE v Club Brugge 15/09/98, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: Club Brugge v FC Shakhtar Donetsk 17/09/09, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: AS Monaco FC v Club Brugge 09/11/88, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-1: Club Brugge v Olympiakos Nicosia FC 27/09/01, first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-6: ÍA Akranes v Club Brugge (see above) 0-5: Újpesti TE v Club Brugge (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: Club Brugge v FC Shakhtar Donetsk (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: FC Girondins de Bordeaux v Club Brugge 20/09/12, group stage FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Formed: 1918 Nickname: Dnipryani (Dnepr-siders) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) 6 Club Brugge KV - FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Thursday 16 April 2015 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges • none Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) National title: 2 (1988) Domestic cup: 1 (1989) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: round of 32 2012/13: round of 32 2011/12: play-offs 2010/11: play-offs 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: