FC Torpedo Minsk

Torpedo Minsk
Full name FC Torpedo Minsk
Nickname(s) Черно-белые (The Black-Whites)
Avtozavodtsy
Founded 1947
Ground Torpedo Stadium, Minsk
Capacity 4,800
Head coach Vladimir Nevinsky
League Belarusian Premier League
2017 First League, 3rd (Promoted)

FC Torpedo Minsk (Belarusian: ПФК Тарпеда Мінск, PFK Tarpeda Minsk; Russian: ПФК Торпедо Минск) is a Belarusian football club, playing in Minsk. The team plays their home games at the Torpedo Stadium in Minsk, which holds 4,800 people.

History

During Soviet years Torpedo was playing in Belarusian SSR top league and won a championships in 1947, 1962, 1966, 1967 and 1969.

The team was playing in Belarusian Premier League since 1992. Their most successful years were early 2000s, when the team finished on 4th position twice in a row (2002, 2003) and reached the final of Belarusian Cup (2000).

In early 2005 Torpedo-SKA lost financial support from their sponsor and, after losing almost all their main squad and not having funds to pay entrance fee for next season's Premiere League, had to relegate to the Second League. Torpedo-SKA won the Second League in 2005, but at the end of the season the club was disbanded. The owner moved to a new football team, named FC Minsk (legally a successor of Smena Minsk), which also used the same office and stadium as disbanded Torpedo-SKA. Only one player from Torpedo-SKA 2005 squad joined Minsk.

In 2007 the team was reformed as Torpedo-MAZ and started playing in Minsk championship, which is a part of KFK, Belarusian amateur league (4th lever in league pyramid).[1] In 2009 the team finished on the 3rd position and was eligible to represent Minsk in the final tournament for two promotion spots to Second League (as the first two teams either declined or weren't eligible), but finished on the 3rd position.[2] Successful performance in Minsk championship and cup allowed them to qualify for Belarusian Cup twice (2009 and 2010), but they were eliminated from the tournament after the first game both times.

In 2014 the team rejoined Belarusian Second League under their original name Torpedo Minsk, and in the following year was won the promotion into Belarusian First League.

Name change
  • 1947: Torpedo
  • 1999: Torpedo-MAZ
  • 2003: Torpedo-SKA
  • 2005: disbanded
  • 2007: Torpedo-MAZ
  • 2014: Torpedo

Honours

Current squad

As of September 2018

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

No. Position Player
1 Belarus GK Vladimir Pyatigorets
2 Belarus DF Vladislav Glinskiy
4 Russia DF Andrei Vasilyev
5 Belarus DF Artyom Sokol
6 Russia DF Igor Gubanov
7 Belarus MF Syarhey Hlyabko
8 Belarus MF Denis Yakubovich
10 Russia MF Boris Tsygankov
11 Ivory Coast FW Cédric Kouadio
13 Belarus FW Aleksandr Filanovich
14 Belarus FW Yevgeny Nikitin
17 Belarus MF Aleksey Butarevich
20 Belarus DF Roman Gaev
21 Belarus DF Dmitry Tamelo
22 Belarus MF Aleksandr Perepechko
No. Position Player
23 Belarus MF Pavel Klenyo
25 Belarus MF Yevgeniy Yelezarenko
27 Belarus DF Igor Shumilov
33 Belarus DF Yawhen Marozaw
35 Belarus GK Raman Stsyapanaw
39 Belarus MF Sergey Rusak
47 Belarus FW Sergey Lynko
59 Belarus DF Roman Krivulkin
66 Belarus MF Nikita Patsko
80 Belarus DF Alyaksey Abramaw
90 Belarus MF Artur Tishko
99 Belarus GK Artem Makavchik
Belarus MF Dmitry Lisakovich
Belarus DF Andrey Pilipovets

League and Cup history

Season Level Pos Pld W D L Goals Points Domestic Cup Notes
19921st101553715–1713Quarter-finals
1992–931st93210101229–3330Round of 32
1993–941st630915618–1833Quarter-finals
1994–951st6301110936–2932Round of 16
19951st91553712–2718Round of 32
19961st1230781532–5329
19971st8301261245–4342Round of 16
19981st728128844–2244Round of 16
19991st10301051531–4735Semi-finals
20001st8301310745–2849Runners-up
20011st826107931–3237Round of 16
20021st426156530–1651Round of 16
20031st430197454–2064Round of 16
20041st6301371037–3146Round of 32Bankrupted, relegated
20053rd126224075–970Round of 16Disbanded
2006Round of 64
20074th5
20084th5
20094th3Round of 64
20104th4Round of 64
20114th1
20124th31472525–2023
20134th922741136–3825
20143rd62285928–2629Round of 128
20153rd418104427–1334Round of 64promoted
20162nd926961135–3633Round of 32

References

  1. ↑ "Тарпеда Менск. 2000–ыя гады". tarpeda.org. Archived from the original on 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
  2. ↑ "Тарпеда Менск. Сезон 2009". tarpeda.org. Archived from the original on 2009-09-20. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
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