FC BATE Borisov

BATE

Full name	FC BATE Borisov
Founded	1973
Ground	Haradzki Stadium Borisov, Belarus (Capacity: 5,402)
Chairman	Anatoli Kapski
Manager	Viktor Goncharenko
League	Belarusian Premier League
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC BATE Borisov (Belarusian: ФК БАТЭ Барысаў, FK BATE Barysaw, pronounced [bʌˈtə]; Russian: ФК БАТЭ Борисов, FK BATE Borisov) is a Belarusian football team playing in the city of Barysaw. They compete in the Belarusian Premier League and are the reigning champions. BATE are the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, having done so in 2008–09. Their home stadium is the Borisov City Stadium.

History

BATE, an acronym of Borisov Works of Automobile and Tractor Electric Equipment, was founded in 1973 in BSSR. The club was re-established in 1996. Since 1996, BATE have won the Belarusian Premier League six times and competed in UEFA competitions. In 2001, BATE reached the first round of the UEFA Cup, their first appearance in the competition beyond the qualifying rounds. 2008 saw BATE beat Valur, R.S.C. Anderlecht and Levski Sofia to become the first Belorusian team to qualify for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.^[1] In a group also featuring Juventus, Real Madrid and Zenit St. Petersburg, BATE finished at the bottom with three points, having drawn against Zenit in Russia, and both games with Juventus^[2].

Notable former players of BATE include Vitali Kutuzov (AC Milan, Sporting CP, Avellino, Sampdoria, Parma FC, Pisa) and Yuri Zhevnov (FC Moscow). Having started their professional careers with BATE, all are also now members of the Belarus national team. BATE were drawn in Group I of the inaugural Europa League in 2009-10, along with Portuguese club Benfica, English team Everton & Greek side AEK Athens, but were eliminated in the group stage. In the same competition in 2010-11 they will play in Group E along with AZ Alkmaar of the Netherlands and two teams from other former Soviet republics, Dinamo Kiev of Ukraine and FC Sheriff from Moldova.

Current squad

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 MF Dmitri Likhtarovich 3 DF Sergei Sosnovski 4 DF Igor Shitov 5 DF Aliaksandr Yurevich 6 MF Oleg Patotskiy 7 FW Artem Kontsevoy 8 MF Aleksandr Volodko 10 MF Renan Bressan 13 MF Pavel Nekhaichik 14 DF Artyom Radkov 15 FW Maksim Skavysh

No. Position Player 16 GK Sergei Veremko 17 MF Aleksandr Pavlov 18 DF Maksim Bordachov 19 MF Kirill Aleksiyan 20 FW Vitali Rodionov 23 MF Edgar Olekhnovich 24 MF Maksim Volodko 25 MF Dzmitry Baha 30 GK Alyaksandr Hutar 32 DF Vladimir Rzhevsky 33 GK Dmytro Ivanov

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League:6

1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

• Belarusian Cup: 2

2006,2010

• SSR Belarusian League: 3

1974, 1976, 1979

League and Cup history

• ¹ Including play-off (1–0 win) for the 1st place against Neman Grodno, as both teams finished with equal points.

European record

As of August, 2010.

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Home	Away
1999/00	UEFA Cup	Q		Lokomotiv Moskva	1–7	0–5
2000/01	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Shirak	2–1	1–1
		2Q		Helsingborg	0–3	0–0
2001/02	UEFA Cup	Q		Dinamo Tbilisi	4–0	1–2
		1R		Milan	0–2	0–4
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R		Akademisk Boldklub	1–0	2–0
		2R		1860 Munich	4–0	1–0
		3R		Bologna	0–0	0–2
2003/04	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Bohemians	1–0	0–3
2004/05	UEFA Cup	1Q		Dinamo Tbilisi	2–3	0–1
2005/06	UEFA Cup	1Q		Torpedo Kutaisi	5–0	1–0
		2Q		Krylia Sovetov	0–2	0–2
2006/07	UEFA Cup	1Q		Nistru Otaci	2–0	1–0
		2Q		Rubin Kazan	0–2	0–3
2007/08	UEFA Champions League	1Q		APOEL	3–0 (AET)	0–2
		2Q		FH Hafnarfjördur	1–1	3–1
		3Q		Steaua Bucureşti	2–2	0–2
2007/08	UEFA Cup	1R		Villarreal	0–2	1–4
2008/09	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Valur	2–0	1–0
		2Q		Anderlecht	2–2	2–1
		3Q		Levski Sofia	1–1	1–0
		Group H		Real Madrid	0–1	0–2
				Juventus	2–2	0–0
				Zenit St. Petersburg	0–2	1–1
2009/10	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Makedonija GP	2–0	2–0
		3Q		FK Ventspils	0–1	2–1
2009/10	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Litex Lovech	0–1	4–0 (AET)
		Group I		Benfica	1–2	0–2
				Everton	1–2	1–0
				AEK Athens	2–1	2–2
2010/11	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Hafnarfjörður	5–1	1-0
		3Q		F.C. Copenhagen	0-0	2-3
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Maritimo	3-0	2-1
		Group E		AZ Alkmaar
				Dinamo Kiev
				FC Sheriff

References

External links

• Official Website – Russian
• Official Website – English
• FC BATE Supporters Discussion Board
• FC BATE Ultras site
• FC BATE at UEFA.COM
• FC BATE at EUFO.DE
• FC BATE at Weltfussball.de
• FC BATE at Weltfussballarchiv.com
• FC BATE at Playerhistory.com
• FC BATE at Transfermarkt.de
• FC BATE at National Football Teams.com
• FC BATE at Football-Lineups.com
• FC BATE FORUM