FC Neman Grodno

For other uses, see Neman (disambiguation).

Neman Grodno

Full name	Football Club Neman Grodno
Founded	1964
Ground	Neman Stadium, Grodno
Capacity	8,479
Chairman	Ivan Vorsovich
Manager	Igor Kovalevich
League	Belarusian Premier League
2020	5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Neman Grodno (Belarusian: ФК Нёман Гродна, FK Nyoman Hrodna; Russian: ФК Неман Гродно) is a Belarusian football club from the city of Grodno, named after the Neman River and was founded in 1964. Since 1992, the team has participated in the top league of Belarus.

History

Since 1964, the team was playing in the third tier of the Soviet football system almost constantly, excluding two seasons (1968 and 1969) spent in the second tier. They were close to achieving promotions in 1966 and 1980, but lost the final play-off against the third tier zone winners on both occasions.

Since 1992, Neman plays in the Belarusian Premier League. In 1993, they won the Belarusian Cup. The most successful years for the team were in the early 2000s, when they finished fourth twice in a row before finishing second in 2002 after losing the first place play-off against BATE Borisov.

Name changes

• 1964: founded as Neman Grodno
• 1973: renamed to Khimik Grodno
• 1993: renamed to Neman Grodno
• 1999: renamed to Neman-Belcard Grodno
• 2002: renamed to Neman Grodno

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League
  • Runners-up (1): 2002
• Belarusian Cup
  • Winners (1): 1993
  • Runners-up (2): 2011, 2014

Current squad

As of January 2021

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	BLR	Artur Maliyevskiy
3	DF	GEO	Giorgi Kantaria
4	DF	RUS	Andrei Vasilyev
5	DF	BLR	Yegor Parkhomenko
7	MF	ARM	Gegham Kadymyan
8	MF	KGZ	Emir Shigaybaev
9	MF	BLR	Roman Pasevich
10	FW	UKR	Volodymyr Koval
11	MF	BLR	Valery Zhukowski
13	FW	BLR	Gleb Rassadkin
14	DF	RUS	Oleg Murachyov
17	DF	BLR	Yegor Khvalko
19	GK	BLR	Syarhey Kurhanski

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
24	MF	BLR	Andrey Yakimov
25	DF	BLR	Yevgeniy Leshko
28	DF	SRB	Danijel Stojković
29	FW	BLR	Dzmitry Ivanow
46	MF	BLR	Alyaksey Lyahchylin
71	FW	BLR	Anton Suchkow
78	MF	BLR	Maksim Yablonskiy
87	MF	BLR	Vladislav Yatskevich
91	GK	BLR	Dmitry Dudar
—	MF	BLR	Aleksandr Dzhigero
—	MF	BLR	Yury Kazlow
—	FW	BLR	Roman Gribovskiy
—	DF	BLR	Nikita Stepanov

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1964	3rd	16	30	6	6	18	16–60	18	Round of 2048
1965	3rd	11	30	9	7	14	27–34	25	Round of 1024
1966	3rd	4	32	15	10	7	38–15	40
		3	3	1	1	1	3–3	3		Final round1
1967	3rd	2	34	15	12	7	32–20	42	Round of 4096
		1	3	3	0	0	9–0	6		Semi-final round2
		1	1	1	0	0	3–0	2		Final round; Promoted
1968	2nd	19	40	6	17	17	20–53	29	Round of 256
1969	2nd	14	40	7	23	10	27–27	37	Round of 256
		2	2	0	2	0	2–2	2		Promotion/relegation play-off3
1970	3rd	18	42	11	13	18	27–48	35	Round of 256
1971	3rd	12	38	11	12	15	28–36	45
1972	3rd	18	38	10	10	18	24–45	40
1973	3rd	14	32	6	11	15	24–42	194
1974	3rd	21	40	3	9	28	21–71	15
1975	3rd	18	34	5	6	23	22–48	16
1976	3rd	9	38	15	8	15	49–60	38
1977	3rd	6	40	17	12	11	45–36	46
1978	3rd	13	46	14	16	16	42–54	44
1979	3rd	7	46	22	13	11	56–33	57
1980	3rd	1	32	18	8	6	42–23	44
		2	4	1	3	0	5–4	5		Final round5
1981	3rd	4	38	14	13	11	48–44	41	Group stage
1982	3rd	2	30	17	6	7	43–23	40
1983	3rd	3	32	15	11	6	35–19	41
1984	3rd	5	34	16	7	11	51–42	39
1985	3rd	4	30	15	6	9	43–27	36
1986	3rd	6	30	14	7	9	37–30	35
1987	3rd	10	34	12	6	16	33–39	30	Round of 16
1988	3rd	5	34	18	10	6	48–31	46
1989	3rd	10	42	18	8	16	46–41	44
1990	3rd	15	42	16	6	20	46–52	38	Round of 64
1991	3rd	22	42	7	9	26	32–55	23
1992									Round of 64

• ¹ Advanced to the final round for one promotion spot as the best-placed team from Belarusian SSR.
• ² Advanced to the semi-final round of promotion tournament (for one spot) as one of top 8 teams not from Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh or Central Asian SSR.
• ³ As the worst-placed team from the Belarusian SSR, Neman had to play promotion/relegation play-off against the best-placed Belarusian team from the 3rd level.
• ⁴ In 1973, every draw was followed by a penalty shoot-out, with a winner gaining 1 point and loser gaining 0.
• ⁵ Advanced to the final round for one promotion spot as winners of their zone.

Belarus

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1992	1st	5	15	9	0	6	21–17	18	Round of 16
1992–93	1st	4	32	18	9	5	39–27	45	Winners	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
1993–94	1st	11	30	8	8	16	29–41	24	Round of 32
1994–95	1st	7	30	10	11	9	26–27	31	Round of 16
1995	1st	8	15	6	1	8	20–35	19	Round of 32
1996	1st	13	30	7	8	15	25–48	29
1997	1st	10	30	10	8	12	32–41	38	Round of 16
1998	1st	10	28	8	7	13	27–44	31	Quarter-finals
1999	1st	9	30	10	7	13	36–43	37	Quarter-finals
2000	1st	4	30	17	6	7	56–29	57	Quarter-finals
2001	1st	4	26	14	8	4	44–20	50	Round of 16
2002	1st	2	271	17	5	5	47–21	56	Round of 16	UEFA Cup
2003	1st	7	30	10	9	11	24–35	39	Quarter-finals
2004	1st	7	30	11	7	12	37–33	40	Quarter-finals	Intertoto Cup
2005	1st	12	26	7	3	16	20–50	24	Semi-finals
2006	1st	10	26	8	6	12	24–30	30	Round of 16
2007	1st	6	26	9	9	8	23–22	36	Semi-finals
2008	1st	12	30	8	9	13	36–40	33	Round of 16
2009	1st	7	26	11	4	11	23–31	37	Semi-finals
2010	1st	10	33	7	10	16	27–42	31	Quarter-finals
2011	1st	8	33	8	13	12	33–45	37	Runners-up
2012	1st	5	30	10	11	9	43–36	41	Semi-finals
2013	1st	4	32	13	8	11	34–30	47	Round of 16
2014	1st	8	32	11	9	12	41–36	42	Runners-up	Europa League
2015	1st	8	26	8	8	10	21–32	32	Quarter-finals
2016	1st	14	30	7	8	15	21–36	29	Round of 16
2017	1st	6	30	14	7	9	42–32	49	Round of 16
2018	1st	7	30	12	7	11	31–32	43	Semi-finals
2019	1st	10	30	10	6	14	28–37	36	Round of 32
2020	1st	5	30	16	5	9	41–29	53	Round of 32

• ¹ Including additional game (0–1 loss) against BATE for the first place.

Neman in Europe

As of August, 2014.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993–94	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	QR	Lugano	2–1	0–5	2–6
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR	Steaua București	1–1	0–0	1–1
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Tescoma Zlín	0–1	0–0	0–1
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	2Q	FH Hafnarfjörður	1–1	0–2	1–3

Notes

• QR: Qualifying round
• 1R: First round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round

Managers

• Valery Yanochkin (Sept 1, 1993 – April 1, 1995)
• Sergey Solodovnikov (Sept 1, 1997 – Feb 1, 1998), (May 1, 1998 – June 30, 2005)
• Vladimir Kurnev (Jan 1, 2006 – Dec 31, 2006)
• Liudas Rumbutis (Jan 1, 2007 – Dec 31, 2007)
• Vyacheslav Akshaev (Jan 4, 2008 – July 20, 2008)
• Oleg Radushko (July 21, 2008 – July 19, 2010)
• Aleksandr Koreshkov (June 25, 2010 – Aug 11, 2011)
• Petr Kachuro (caretaker) (Aug 13, 2011 – Aug 15, 2011)
• Sergey Solodovnikov (Aug 16, 2011 – Apr 26, 2016)
• Oleg Kirenya (caretaker) (Apr 26, 2016 – Jun 16, 2016)
• Igor Kovalevich (Jun 17, 2016 –)

External links

• Official website
• Neman Grodno at UEFA.COM