FC Belshina Bobruisk

FC Belshina Bobruisk

Full name	Football Club Belshina
Founded	1976
Ground	Spartak Stadium, Bobruisk
Capacity	3,700
Chairman	Mikhail Bondarenko
Manager	Vyacheslav Geraschenko
League	Belarusian Premier League
2015	4th
Home colours Away colours

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

History

The 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).

Name changes

• 1976: Founded as Shinnik Bobruisk
• 1996: Renamed to Belshina Bobruisk

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 April 2016

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 Anton Amelchenko 4 DF Alyaksey Hawrylovich 5 FW Henri Belle 6 MF Anton Burko 7 DF Mikhail Afanasyev 8 MF Danila Buranov 9 MF Matías Zaragoza 10 FW Vital Bulyga 11 MF Anton Matsveenka 14 MF Facundo Zamarián 15 FW Dzmitry Kamarowski 16 GK Maksim Tanko

No. Position Player 17 FW Joel Fameyeh 18 FW Kirill Shokurov 20 MF Leandro Torres 22 DF Oleh Karamushka 23 MF Aleksey Skvernyuk 26 DF Syarhey Kantsavy 30 GK Barys Pankrataw 35 MF Andrey Khachaturyan 55 MF Aleksandr Yushin 57 DF Pavel Grechishko 88 MF Mikita Bukatkin MF Ivan Savonchik

League and Cup history

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1992	2nd	2	16^1	11	2	3	24–9	24	Round of 32
1992–93	2nd	1	30	21	8	1	69–19	50	Round of 32	Promoted
1993–94	1st	7	30	15	1	14	41–41	31	Quarterfinals
1994–95	1st	13	30	7	9	14	31–50	23	Semifinals
1995	1st	15	15	4	3	8	17–29	15	Round of 32
			2	1	0	1	3–2	3		Relegation Play-off^2
1996	1st	3	30	20	3	7	67–32	63
1997	1st	2	30	21	3	6	67–30	66	Winners
1998	1st	3	28	17	6	5	47–17	57	Round of 16
1999	1st	8	30	13	6	11	52–42	45	Winners
2000	1st	9	30	11	5	14	42–38	38	Semifinals
2001	1st	1	26	17	4	5	43–20	55	Winners
2002	1st	8	26	12	4	10	44–38	37^3	Round of 16
2003	1st	10	30	8	8	14	44–50	32	Semifinals
2004	1st	16	30	2	6	22	21–62	12	Round of 16	Relegated
2005	2nd	1	30	23	4	3	61–19	73	Quarterfinals	Promoted
2006	1st	14	26	1	6	19	16–46	9	Round of 64	Relegated
2007	2nd	4	26	15	7	4	46–26	49^4	Round of 32
2008	2nd	3	26	15	4	7	34–21	49	Round of 32
2009	2nd	1	26	20	4	2	55–15	64	Round of 16	Promoted
2010	1st	6	33	12	9	12	31–42	45	Round of 16
2011	1st	5	33	12	12	9	41–35	48	Semifinals
2012	1st	7	30	7	9	14	26–40	30	Round of 16
2013	1st	7	32	15	8	9	42–38	47	Quarterfinals
2014	1st	10	32	8	8	16	42–56	32	Quarterfinals
2015	1st								Quarterfinals

• 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

1. History of Belshina Bobruisk

External links

• Official website