FC Belshina Bobruisk

FC Belshina Bobruisk

Full name	Football Club Belshina
Founded	1976
Ground	Spartak Stadium, Bobruisk
Capacity	3,700
Chairman	Mikhail Bondarenko
Manager	Georgi Kondratiev
League	Belarusian First League
2017	5th
Home colours Away colours

FC Belshina Bobruisk Belarusian: ФК «Белшына Бабруйск», FK Belshyna Babruisk) is a Belarusian football club based in Bobruisk.

History of the club and football in Bobruisk

The city of Bobruisk was represented by a its football team as early as 1920s, when in 1926 a collective football team of Bobruisk city won the Belarusian football championship. Winning the 1926, Bobruisk football team became the first from a provincial city that won the republican competitions. Until 1958 it was the only achievement of the Bobruisk football. In 1958 Spartak Bobruisk became a champion of Belarus donating the second title to the Bobruisk city football.

In 1972 and 1973 Stroitel Bobruisk also won a title of the champion of Belarus.

The current club was founded in 1976 as Sninnik Bobruisk. Since the inception the team was attached to and later sponsored by local tire manufacturing company Belshina. The club spent most of Soviet-era seasons in Belarusian SSR league (with a couple of seasons in Mogilev Oblast league). Shinnik won the league title twice (in 1978 and 1987) and also won Belarusian SSR Cup in 1979.^[1]

In 1992 Shinnik joined Belarusian First League and in 1994 they were promoted to Premier League. In 1996, they were renamed to Belshina Bobruisk. Club's most successful seasons came in late 90s and early 2000s. Belshina won the champions title in 2001, finished as runners-up in 1997 and won Belarusian Cup three times (1997, 1999, 2001).

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League
  • Winners (1): 2001
  • Runners-up (1): 1997
  • 3rd place (2): 1996, 1998
• Belarusian Cup
  • Winners (3): 1997, 1999, 2001

Current squad

As of August 2018 ^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ruslan Kapantsow 2 DF Roman Kozel 3 DF Vyacheslav Krivulets 4 DF Dmitry Ignatenko 5 DF Eduard Zhevnerov 6 MF Yury Pavlyukovets 7 MF Oleksiy Tupchiy 8 MF Ilya Rutskiy 9 MF Aleksey Tarakanov 10 MF Dzmitry Turlin 11 MF Dzmitry Shchagrykovich 12 MF Dmitry Gradoboyev

No. Position Player 13 DF Syarhey Kandratsyew 14 FW Kiryl Sidarenka 16 MF Yaroslav Shkurko 17 MF Ilya Kukharchik 19 DF Dmitry Baiduk 23 MF Maksim Rybakov 25 GK Maksim Shishlov 27 FW Dmitry Gomza FW Alyaksandr Krotaw GK Ilya Matalyha DF Petr Kazantsev MF Denis Golenko

League and Cup history

• ¹ Including play-off against Dinamo-2 Minsk for the 1st place and the only promotion spot, as both teams finished with equal points.
• ² Play-off for the 1996 Premier League spot against the 1995 First League runners-up Kommunalnik Pinsk.
• ^{3, 4} 3 points deducted for unpaid transfer.

Belshina in European Cups

Season	Competition	Round		Club	1st Leg	2nd Leg
1997–98	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	QR		Sadam Tallinn	1–1 (A)	4–1 (H)
		1R		Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2 (H)	0–3 (A)
1998–99	UEFA Cup	1Q		CSKA Sofia	0–0 (A)	1–3 (H)
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	QR		Omonia	1–5 (H)	0–3 (A)
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR		Ružomberok	1–3 (A)	0–0 (H)
2002–03	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Portadown	0–0 (A)	3–2 (H)
		2Q		Maccabi Haifa	0–4 (A)	0–1 (H)

Managers

• Liudas Rumbutis (July 1, 1998 – Dec 31, 1999), (Jan 1, 2003 – Dec 31, 2003)
• Vladimir Gevorkyan (Jan 1, 2003 – Jan 13, 2004)
• Oleg Volokh (interim) (May 14, 2004 – May 27, 2004)
• Sergei Borovsky (Sept 3, 2004 – Dec 31, 2004)
• Oleg Volokh (Jan 1, 2006 – May 11, 2006)
• Mikhail Markhel (May 16, 2006 – Dec 31, 2006)
• Aleksandr Sednev (Jan 1, 2009 – Nov 30, 2011)
• Sergey Yaromko (Jan 1, 2012 – July 21, 2012)
• Vitaliy Pavlov (caretaker) (July 21, 2012 – July 23, 2012)
• Aleksandr Sednev (July 23, 2012 – December 31, 2015)
• Vitaliy Pavlov (January 1, 2016 – )

References

External links

• Official website