FC Belshina Bobruisk

FC Belshina Bobruisk

Full name	Football Club Belshina
Founded	1976
Ground	Spartak Stadium, Bobruisk
Ground Capacity	3,700
Chairman	Mikhail Bondarenko
Manager	Vitaliy Pavlov
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 September 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 Denis Dechko 4 MF Ivan Zhostkin 5 DF Aleksei Gerasimov 6 MF Ivan Veras 7 MF Sergey Vodyanovich 8 FW Stanislav Murikhin 9 MF Ihar Yasinski 10 DF Dzhabrail Kadiyev 11 MF Valery Karnitsky 14 DF Vadym Shevchuk 15 MF Dmitry Bubnov 16 GK Maksim Tanko 17 DF Eduard Zhevnerov

No. Position Player 18 FW Kirill Shokurov 20 MF Dzmitry Turlin 22 FW Kirill Shreitor 23 MF Aleksey Skvernyuk 26 DF Dzmitry Zinovich 30 GK Barys Pankrataw 35 MF Gleb Zheleznikov 55 MF Aleksandr Yushin 57 DF Pavel Grechishko 88 DF Aleksandr Puzevich MF Ivan Savonchik MF Anton Burko DF Artem Bobukh

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