Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih

FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih plays at Metalurh Stadium in Kryvyi Rih, a long, narrow industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of central-eastern Ukraine. The stadium has a capacity of approximately 29,000 spectators and has served as the main football venue for a city that stretches over 120 kilometres and is one of the largest cities in Ukraine by area, historically dominated by iron ore mining (the name Kryvyi Rih means "crooked horn" in Ukrainian). The city gained international attention in recent years as the birthplace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up in Kryvyi Rih and has sometimes referenced the city's football culture.

Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih enjoyed their most celebrated era in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the club participated regularly in the Ukrainian Premier League and competed in UEFA competition. The club won the Ukrainian Cup in 1999 and reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1999–2000, their greatest European achievement. The Metalurh Stadium hosted these memorable European fixtures, bringing continental-level football to one of Ukraine's major industrial cities. Kryvbas developed several notable players during this period, and the club was regarded as one of Ukrainian football's genuine forces before financial difficulties caused their dissolution in 2012.

FC Kryvbas was reformed in 2014 and has rebuilt its way back to the Ukrainian Premier League, a journey that has been widely celebrated in the city. Their return to the top flight has been an important moment for the Kryvyi Rih football community, which had missed Premier League football during the years of the original club's dissolution. The Metalurh Stadium, the venue for both the club's historic achievements and their contemporary renewal, continues to serve as the heart of football life in a city that has faced enormous challenges — particularly following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which has brought the war very close to Kryvyi Rih given the city's proximity to the front lines.