FC Partizan Minsk
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.
History
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.
Achievements
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- 2005, 2008
Current squad
As of December 2011
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Former managers
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 |
|
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|
|
Quarterfinals |
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FC MTZ-RIPO in Europe
References
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