Belarus national football team

Belarus
Nickname(s)	The White Wings
Association	Football Federation of Belarus
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Alyaksandr Khatskevich
Captain	Alyaksandr Martynovich
Most caps	Alyaksandr Kulchy (102)
Top scorer	Maksim Romaschenko (20)
Home stadium	Borisov Arena, Borisov
FIFA code	BLR
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	74 3 (24 November 2016)
Highest	36 (February 2011)
Lowest	142 (March 1994)
First international
	Unofficial:; Lithuania 1–1 Belarus ; (Vilnius, Lithuania; July 20, 1992); Official:; Belarus 1–1 Ukraine ; (Minsk, Belarus; October 28, 1992)
Biggest win
	Belarus 5–0 Lithuania ; (Minsk, Belarus; June 7, 1998); Belarus 6–1 Tajikistan ; (Borisov, Belarus; September 4, 2014)
Biggest defeat
	Austria 5–0 Belarus ; (Innsbruck, Austria; June 11, 2003)

Belarus national football team (Belarusian: Нацыянальная зборная Беларусi па футболе; Natsyyanalnaya zbornaya Bielarusi pa Futbolie) represents Belarus in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus' home ground is Borisov Arena in Borisov. Belarus has not yet qualified for a FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Championship. Since December 2014 the team is coached by Alyaksandr Khatskevich.

History

After the split of Soviet Union, Belarus played their first match against Lithuania on July 20, 1992. Before that, some Belarusian players played for the USSR national football team. The first FIFA-recognized international was a friendly against Ukraine on October 28, 1992 and their first win came in a match against Luxembourg on October 12, 1994.

Belarus have never qualified for either the FIFA World Cup, or the UEFA European Championship. Despite the lack of any significant success during the 1990s, some notable results were still achieved, like a home win against the Netherlands in qualification for Euro 1996 and two draws against Italy during Euro 2000 qualification.

Under coach Eduard Malofeyev the team came very close to playing Germany in a play-off round to qualify for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, but were defeated by Wales in the last group stage match, missing the chance to overtake Ukraine, who drew their last game, finishing the group second behind Poland.

Their Euro 2004 qualifying campaign was very unsuccessful as Belarus lost 7 of their 8 games. Around the same time a generational change occurred and a number of players from the U-21 team (which qualified for the 2004 European U-21 Championship) joined the senior national team. With each subsequent head coach (Anatoly Baidachny, Yuri Puntus and Bernd Stange) the team improved their attacking skills. As a result, in each subsequent qualifying tournament starting with the 2006 World Cup Belarus scored more goals (total and average per game) than in previous campaigns. However, problems in defense and a lot of missed goals prevented them from finishing higher than 4th in the group. Some notable results during this period included a high-scoring 3–4 away loss to Italy in a 2006 World Cup qualifier (the first time Italy conceded 3 goals in a home qualifying game since 1983), another home victory against the Netherlands during Euro 2008 qualifying as well as away win and home draw against France in Euro 2012 qualification.

Belarusians achieved some success in minor tournaments. In 2002 the team beat out Russia and Ukraine to win the "LG Cup". In 2004 and 2008, they won the 12th and 14th editions of Malta International Football Tournament respectively. The first with its Olympic Squad and the later with the first team (many starters were only available for the last game vs Malta).

Home venue

The team plays vast majority of its home matches at the 40,000 Dinamo Stadium in Minsk.

Occasionally other venues are also used: Molodechno City Stadium in May 1996 (friendly against Azerbaijan), Vitebsky Central Sport Complex in Vitebsk in November 2005 (friendly against Latvia), Central Stadion in Gomel in October 2007 (Euro 2008 qualifying match against Luxembourg), Neman Stadium in Grodno June 2009 (2010 World Cup qualifier against Andorra), Borisov City Stadium just a few days later (friendly against Moldova) and Regional Sport Complex Brestskiy in Brest in October 2009 (another 2010 World Cup quallifier against Kazakhstan).

In late 2012 Dinamo Stadium was closed for renovation and the team started alternating between different home venues: Central Stadion in Gomel (2014 World Cup qualifiers against Finland and France), Borisov City Stadium (friendly against Kyrgyzstan) and Torpedo Stadium in Zhodino (friendlies against Montenegro and Japan).

Since 2014 Belarus moved to the newly opened Borisov Arena.

Colors

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Belarus played home games in all white, occasionally changing shorts to green. All green uniform or green jerseys/white shorts were used as away kits. Since qualifying campaign for UEFA Euro 2004 Belarus changed their primary colors to red jerseys and green shorts, and away kits to all white. In 2011 home colors were changed to all red. All-White became the home colour a short time later and now appears with the pattern on the Belarus flag, with the away kit being in Black in 2016, also using an adidas template and placing the flag pattern on it.

Nickname

In August 2016, the Football Association announced that the team's nickname would be the "White Wings".^[1] The name was influenced by the book The Land Beneath White Wings (1977) by famous Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkevich. The BFF’s new marketing and communications director, Uladzimir Berezhkov, said: "We are looking at various ways of establishing links with our literary heritage and cultural traditions", commenting that "If the Belarusian people opt to associate the team with Karatkevich, almost every phrase in the book can be used as a hashtag!"^[2]

Kit suppliers

Kit provider	Period
Umbro	2002–2004
Puma	2004–2012
Adidas	2012–present

UEFA European Championship record

Finals record		Qualification record
Year	Result	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1960–1992	Part of Soviet Union
1996	Did Not Qualify	4	10	3	2	5	8	13	−5
2000		5	8	0	3	5	4	10	−6
2004		5	8	1	0	7	4	20	−16
2008		4	12	4	1	7	17	23	−6
2012		4	10	3	4	3	8	7	+1
2016		4	10	3	2	5	8	14	−6
2020	To Be Determined
Total	0/15	–	48	11	10	27	41	73	-32

UEFA Euro 2016 qualification

FIFA World Cup record

Finals record		Qualification record
Year	Result	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1930–1990	Part of Soviet Union
1994	Did Not Enter
1998	Did Not Qualify	6	10	1	1	8	5	21	−16
2002		3	10	4	3	3	12	11	+1
2006		5	10	2	4	4	12	14	−2
2010		4	10	4	1	5	19	14	+5
2014		5	8	1	1	6	7	16	−9
2018	To Be Determined
2022	To Be Determined
Total	0/20	–	48	12	10	26	55	76	-21

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

Template:2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A table

Fixtures and results

Recent results

Friendly match

25 March 2016

19:00 UTC+4

Armenia	0 – 0	Belarus
	Report

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: George Vadachkoria (Georgia)

Friendly match

29 March 2016

19:00 UTC+2

Montenegro	0 – 0	Belarus
	Report

Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Danilo Grujić (Serbia)

Friendly match

27 May 2016

19:45 UTC+1

Northern Ireland	3 – 0	Belarus
Lafferty 6' Washington 45' Grigg 88'	Report

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 14,229

Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

Friendly match

31 May 2016

19:45 UTC+1

Republic of Ireland	1 – 2	Belarus
Ward 72'	Report	Gordeichuk 20' M.Valadzko 63'

Turners Cross, Cork

Attendance: 7,200

Referee: Dejan Jakimovski (Macedonia)

Friendly match

31 August 2016

19:30 UTC+2

Norway	0 – 1	Belarus
	Report	Krivets 56'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 7,180

Referee: Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen (Denmark)

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

6 September 2016

21:45 UTC+3

Belarus	0 – 0	France
	Report

Borisov Arena, Borisov

Attendance: 12,920

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

7 October 2016

21:45 UTC+3

Netherlands	4 – 1	Belarus
Promes 15', 31' Klaassen 56' Janssen 64'	Report	Ryas 47'

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 41,840

Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

10 October 2016

21:45 UTC+3

Belarus	1 – 1	Luxembourg
Savitski 80'	Report	Joachim 85'

Borisov Arena, Borisov

Attendance: 9,011

Referee: Tobias Welz (Germany)

Friendly match

9 November 2016

22:15 UTC+3

Greece	0 – 1	Belarus
	Report	Palitsevich 14'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 3,108

Referee: Craig Pawson (England)

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

13 November 2016

20:00 UTC+3

Bulgaria	1 – 0	Belarus
I. Popov 10'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Stephan Klossner (Switzerland)

Upcoming fixtures

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

25 March 2017

20:00 UTC+3

Sweden	–	Belarus

Friends Arena, Solna

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

9 June 2017

21:45 UTC+3

Belarus	–	Bulgaria

Borisov Arena, Borisov

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

31 August 2017

21:45 UTC+3

Luxembourg	–	Belarus

Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

3 September 2017

19:00 UTC+3

Belarus	–	Sweden

Borisov Arena, Borisov

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

7 October 2017

21:45 UTC+3

Belarus	–	Netherlands

Borisov Arena, Borisov

Record versus different opponents

Tournament	Pld	W	D	L	Goals
World Cup Qualifying	52	12	12	28	57–82
Euro Qualifying	58	14	12	32	49–87
Friendly	96	36	32	28	140–116
Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	Goals
Luxembourg	9	4	4	1	10–4
Ukraine	9	1	3	5	5–12
Lithuania	8	4	3	1	15–5
Norway	7	2	2	3	5–9
Netherlands	7	2	0	5	4–14
Latvia	6	4	1	1	13–7
Armenia	6	3	2	1	8–5
Moldova	6	2	2	2	9–7
Poland	6	2	2	2	10–9
Bulgaria	6	1	0	5	4–11
Albania	5	2	2	1	8–5
Israel	5	2	0	3	8–9
Estonia	5	2	0	3	4–5
France	5	1	2	2	5–8
Romania	5	0	2	3	4–10
Andorra	4	3	0	1	11–4
Slovenia	4	1	2	1	6–5
Turkey	4	1	1	2	7–8
Scotland	4	1	1	2	2–5
Wales	4	1	0	3	5–7
Finland	4	0	3	1	4–5
Italy	4	0	2	2	5–9
Russia	4	0	2	2	4–8
Czech Republic	4	0	0	4	3–11
Spain	4	0	0	4	1–10
Austria	4	0	0	4	0–12
Kazakhstan	3	2	1	0	10–2
Malta	3	2	1	0	4–1
Iran	3	1	2	0	4–3
Slovakia	3	1	0	2	2–7
Montenegro	3	0	2	1	1–2
Sweden	3	0	0	3	2–8
Hungary	2	1	1	0	6–3
Uzbekistan	2	1	1	0	4–3
North Macedonia	2	1	1	0	2–1
Cyprus	2	1	0	1	3–2
Georgia	2	1	0	1	2–1
Canada	2	1	0	1	2–1
United Arab Emirates	2	1	0	1	3–3
Greece	2	1	0	1	1–1
Libya	2	0	2	0	2–2
Denmark	2	0	1	1	0–1
Croatia	2	0	0	2	1–4
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	0	0	2	0–3
Switzerland	2	0	0	2	0–3
England	2	0	0	2	1–6
Tajikistan	1	1	0	0	6–1
Liechtenstein	1	1	0	0	5–1
Oman	1	1	0	0	4–0
Kyrgyzstan	1	1	0	0	3–1
Iceland	1	1	0	0	2–0
Mexico	1	1	0	0	3–2
Republic of Ireland	1	1	0	0	2–1
South Korea	1	1	0	0	1–0
Japan	1	1	0	0	1–0
Germany	1	0	1	0	2–2
Azerbaijan	1	0	1	0	2–2
Honduras	1	0	1	0	2–2
Peru	1	0	1	0	1–1
Ecuador	1	0	1	0	1–1
Saudi Arabia	1	0	1	0	1–1
Argentina	1	0	1	0	0–0
Gabon	1	0	1	0	0–0
Jordan	1	0	0	1	0–1
Egypt	1	0	0	1	0–2
Tunisia	1	0	0	1	0–3
Northern Ireland	1	0	0	1	0–3
Total:	206	62	56	88	246–285

Current squad

The following players were named for preliminarily lineup for friendly match against Greece and 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Bulgaria on 9 and 13 November 2016.
Caps and goals are correct as of 13 November 2016, after the game against Bulgaria.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
22	1GK	Andrey Harbunow	(1983-05-25) 25 May 1983 (age 40)	12	0	Atromitos
12	1GK	Syarhey Chernik	(1988-03-05) 5 March 1988 (age 36)	9	0	Nancy
1	1GK	Alyaksandr Hutar	(1989-04-18) 18 April 1989 (age 35)	7	0	Orenburg

3	2DF	Alyaksandr Martynovich (Captain)	(1987-08-26) 26 August 1987 (age 36)	54	2	Krasnodar
4	2DF	Igor Shitov	(1986-10-24) 24 October 1986 (age 37)	53	1	Astana
21	2DF	Egor Filipenko	(1988-04-10) 10 April 1988 (age 36)	47	1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
5	2DF	Dzyanis Palyakow	(1991-04-17) 17 April 1991 (age 33)	24	0	BATE Borisov
19	2DF	Maksim Valadzko	(1992-11-10) 10 November 1992 (age 31)	16	1	BATE Borisov
6	2DF	Syarhey Palitsevich	(1990-04-09) 9 April 1990 (age 34)	15	1	Gençlerbirliği
18	2DF	Roman Begunov	(1993-03-22) 22 March 1993 (age 31)	1	0	Dinamo Minsk
2	2DF	Yevgeniy Klopotskiy	(1993-08-12) 12 August 1993 (age 30)	0	0	Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino

10	3MF	Alexander Hleb	(1981-05-01) 1 May 1981 (age 43)	77	6	BATE Borisov
15	3MF	Syarhey Kislyak	(1987-08-06) 6 August 1987 (age 36)	62	9	Gaziantepspor
13	3MF	Pavel Nyakhaychyk	(1988-05-17) 17 May 1988 (age 35)	21	1	Orenburg
11	3MF	Mikhail Gordeichuk	(1989-10-23) 23 October 1989 (age 34)	19	4	BATE Borisov
18	3MF	Ivan Mayewski	(1988-05-05) 5 May 1988 (age 36)	11	0	Anzhi Makhachkala
9	3MF	Pavel Savitski	(1994-07-12) 12 July 1994 (age 29)	6	3	Neman Grodno
7	3MF	Nikita Korzun	(1995-03-06) 6 March 1995 (age 29)	6	0	Dynamo Kyiv
16	3MF	Alexei Rios	(1987-05-14) 14 May 1987 (age 36)	3	1	BATE Borisov
14	3MF	Yury Kendysh	(1990-06-10) 10 June 1990 (age 33)	2	0	BATE Borisov

8	4FW	Sergei Kornilenko	(1983-06-14) 14 June 1983 (age 40)	78	17	Krylia Sovetov Samara
20	4FW	Mikalay Signevich	(1992-02-20) 20 February 1992 (age 32)	8	1	BATE Borisov
23	4FW	Dzyanis Laptsew	(1991-08-01) 1 August 1991 (age 32)	3	0	Shakhtyor Soligorsk

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Belarus squad during last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Andrey Klimovich	(1988-08-27) 27 August 1988 (age 35)	0	0	Minsk	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^PRE

DF	Maksim Bardachow	(1986-06-18) 18 June 1986 (age 37)	44	2	Tom Tomsk	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^INJ
DF	Mikhail Sivakow	(1988-01-16) 16 January 1988 (age 36)	13	0	Zorya Luhansk	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^INJ

MF	Timofei Kalachev	(1981-05-01) 1 May 1981 (age 43)	76	10	Rostov	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^INJ
MF	Stanislaw Drahun	(1988-06-04) 4 June 1988 (age 35)	38	5	Dynamo Moscow	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^PRE
MF	Sergey Krivets	(1986-06-08) 8 June 1986 (age 37)	38	5	Wisła Płock	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^INJ
MF	Ihar Stasevich	(1985-10-21) 21 October 1985 (age 38)	30	2	BATE Borisov	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^INJ
MF	Syarhey Balanovich	(1987-08-29) 29 August 1987 (age 36)	25	2	Amkar Perm	v. Netherlands, 7 October 2016 ^PRE
MF	Renan Bressan	(1988-11-03) 3 November 1988 (age 35)	23	3	APOEL	v. Norway, 31 August 2016 ^PRE

FW	Ruslan Teverov	(1994-05-01) 1 May 1994 (age 30)	0	0	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	v. Greece, 9 November 2016 ^PRE
FW	Vitali Rodionov	(1983-12-11) 11 December 1983 (age 40)	46	10	BATE Borisov	v. Norway, 31 August 2016 ^PRE
FW	Mikalay Yanush	(1984-09-09) 9 September 1984 (age 39)	4	0	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	v. Norway, 31 August 2016 ^INJ

^INJ Withdrew due to an injury
^PRE Preliminary squad

Players

Most capped players

Currently active players are listed in bold

Rank	Player	Caps	Goals	Years
1	Alyaksandr Kulchy	102	5	1996–2012
2	Sergei Gurenko	80	3	1994–2006
3	Sergei Kornilenko	78	17	2003–
4	Alexander Hleb	77	6	2001–
5	Timofei Kalachev	76	10	2004–
6	Syarhey Amelyanchuk	74	1	2002–2011
7	Syarhey Shtanyuk	71	3	1995–2007
8	Maksim Romaschenko	64	20	1998–2008
9	Syarhey Kislyak	62	10	2009–
10	Yuri Zhevnov	58	0	2003–

Sergei Aleinikov has reached combined 81 caps and 6 goals for Soviet Union, CIS and Belarus during 1984–1994.

Top scorers

Currently active players are listed in bold.

Rank	Player	Goals	Caps	Years
1	Maksim Romaschenko	20	64	1998–2008
2	Sergei Kornilenko	17	78	2003–
3	Vitali Kutuzov	13	52	2002–2011
4	Vyacheslav Hleb	12	45	2004–2011
5	Raman Vasilyuk	10	24	2000–2008
	Vitali Rodionov	10	46	2007–2014
	Valyantsin Byalkevich	10	56	1992–2005
	Timofei Kalachev	10	76	2004–
9	Syarhey Kislyak	9	62	2009–
10	Vital Bulyga	8	37	2003–2008

Managers

Manager	Career	Games Managed	Wins	Draws	Loses	Goals
Mikhail Vergeyenko	1992–1994, 1997–1999	24	2	6	16	22–40
Sergei Borovsky	1994–1996, 1999–2000	26	4	9	13	21–43
Eduard Malofeyev	2000–2003	22	10	5	7	31–31
Valery Streltsov (caretaker)	2002	1	0	0	1	0–3
Anatoly Baidachny	2003–2005	22	10	4	8	34–29
Yuri Puntus	2006–2007	14	3	4	7	19–26
Bernd Stange	2007–2011	49	17	14	18	65–54
Georgi Kondratiev	2011–2014	27	9	8	11	37–35
Andrei Zygmantovich (caretaker)	2014	2	1	0	1	3–5
Alyaksandr Khatskevich	2014–	18	6	6	6	14–19
Total:	1992–Present	206	62	56	88	246–285

External links

References

^ "Владимир Бережков: «3 сентября приглашаем всех на открытую тренировку сборной»". abff.by (in Russian). 11 August 2016.
^ "UEFA Direct – August/September 2016" (pdf). 3 August 2016.

[1] "Владимир Бережков: «3 сентября приглашаем всех на открытую тренировку сборной»". abff.by (in Russian). 11 August 2016.

[2] "UEFA Direct – August/September 2016" (pdf). 3 August 2016.

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See also

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