FC Partizan Minsk

Partizan Minsk
Full name	Football Club Partizan Minsk
Founded	2002
Ground	Traktor Stadium, Minsk; (Capacity: 17,600)
Chairman	Mikhail Yuferev
Manager	Sergey Tsykalo
League	Belarusian Premier League
2010	12th (relegated)
Home colours	Away colours

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FC Partizan Minsk (Belarusian: ФК Партызан) is a Belarusian Premier League football team, part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas. The club made their top flight debut in 2004.

[edit] History

The old MTZ-RIPO logo.

The club was founded as MTZ-RIPO in 2002 as a merger of two Minsk teams from the Second League - FC Traktor Minsk, a club with a 55-year history, and Trudovye Rezervy-RIPO, a football academy-based team which only spent one season in the Second League. The merge allowed the new team to have their own football school to recruit young players from as well as financial supply from the Minsk Tractor Works, the main sponsor of Traktor Minsk.

MTZ-RIPO Minsk started playing in the Second League in 2002. In their first season the team finished first, and then did the same in the First League in 2003. Since 2004 they play in Belarusian Premier League.

Before the start of the 2010 season the club announced a name change. ^[1] On January 27 2010 the new name was revealed to be FC Partizan Minsk.

Partizan finished the 2010 Belarusian Premier League bottom of the table and hence were relegated. The following season in the the Belarusian First League they finished second and had to face FC Vitebsk in a two-legged play-off, which they won 3-2 on aggregate to secure a place in the 2012 Belarusian Premier League.

[edit] Achievements

Belarusian Cup: 2

2005, 2008

[edit] Current squad

As of January 2012

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

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Alyaksandr Skshynetski
3	MF	Anton Bubnow
4	DF	Syarhey Khaletski
5	DF	Dzmitry Shmatko
6	MF	Aboubacar Camara
9	MF	Mikhail Gornak
12	GK	Syarhey Kurhanski
13	MF	Alyaksandr Makas
14	FW	Artsyom Hancharyk
15	DF	Maksim Vitus
16	FW	Dzmitry Yuzvovich
17	MF	Sergey Korsak
20	MF	Ivan Maewski

No.	Position	Player
21	MF	Andrey Misyuk
22	DF	Raman Haew
33	MF	Anatol Karp
35	GK	Vladimir Pyatigorets
79	DF	Oleg Ichim
	GK	Yevgeni Arkhipets
	MF	Dmitry Kharitanovich
	MF	Bogdan Dubovik
	MF	Sergey Yadlovsky
	FW	Anton Saroka
	MF	Vital Shapyatowski
	MF	Rafael Ledesma
	DF	Pascal Mendy
	GK	Džiugas Bartkus

[edit] Former managers

[edit] League and Cup history

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
2002	3rd	1	24	22	2	0	102–21	68		Promoted
2003	2nd	2	31¹	22	4	5	64–17	70	Round of 32	Promoted
2004	1st	14	31²	7	9	15	36–57	30	Round of 16
2005	1st	3	26	16	1	9	43–30	49	Winners
2006	1st	4	26	16	3	7	54–24	51	Round of 16
2007	1st	5	26	11	9	6	32–25	42	Quarterfinals
2008	1st	3	30	17	6	7	65–37	57	Winners
2009	1st	11	26	8	6	12	34–38	30	Quarterfinals
2010	1st	12	33	5	8	20	24–70	23	Quarterfinals	Relegated
2011	2nd								Quarterfinals

¹ Including additional game (1–2 loss) against Lokomotiv Vitebsk for the 1st place.
² Including additional game (4–1 win) against Lokomotiv Vitebsk for the 14th place.

[edit] FC MTZ-RIPO in Europe

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2005/06	UEFA Cup	1QR	Ferencváros Budapest	1-2	2-0
		2QR	FK Teplice	1-1	1-2
2006	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Shakhtyor Karaganda	1-3	5-1
		2R	FC Moskva	0-1	0-2
2008-09	UEFA Cup	1QR	MŠK Žilina	2-2	0-1
2009-10	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Sutjeska Nikšić	2-1(aet)	1-1
		2QR	FC Metalurh Donetsk	1-2	0-3