FC BATE Borisov

BATE

Full name	Football Club BATE Borisov
Founded	1973; 12 April 1996 (refounded)
Dissolved	1984
Ground	Borisov Arena Barysaw, Belarus
Ground Capacity	13,126
Chairman	Anatoli Kapski
Manager	Alyaksandr Yermakovich
League	Belarusian Premier League
2014	1st
Home colours Away colours

FC BATE Borisov (Belarusian: ФК БАТЭ Барысаў, IPA: [baˈtɛ]; Russian: ФК БАТЭ Борисов, FK BATE Borisov) is a Belarusian football team from the city of Barysaw. They compete in the Belarusian Premier League, of which they are the reigning champions, and are the league's most successful club with 11 titles. They have also won 2 Belarusian Cups and 4 Belarusian Super Cups.

BATE are the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13 and 2014–15) and one of two to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League (2009–10 and 2010–11) along with Dinamo Minsk.

Their home stadium is Borisov Arena, which was opened in 2014.^[1]

History

BATE is an acronym of Borisov Automobile and Tractor Electronics. The club was founded in 1973 and re-established in 1996. Since 1996, BATE have won the Belarusian Premier League eleven times and competed in UEFA competitions.

BATE playing at the Haradski Stadium in July 2009

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, Anderlecht and Levski Sofia to become the first Belarusian team to qualify for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.^[2] 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.^[3] BATE were drawn in Group I of the inaugural Europa League in 2009–10, along with Portuguese club Benfica, English team Everton and Greek side AEK Athens, but were eliminated in the group stage. In the same competition in 2010–11 they played in Group E along with AZ of the Netherlands and two teams from other former Soviet republics, Dynamo Kyiv of Ukraine and Sheriff Tiraspol from Moldova. They qualified from the group for the Round of 32. Then, they were eliminated in the Round of 32 on the away goals rule by Paris Saint-Germain.

Notable former players of BATE include Alexander Hleb (Stuttgart, Arsenal, Barcelona, and Birmingham City) he has since returned to the club and currently plays for them, Vitali Kutuzov (Milan, Sporting CP, Avellino, Sampdoria, Parma, Pisa, and Bari) and Yuri Zhevnov (FC Moscow, and Zenit St. Petersburg). Having started their professional careers with BATE, all are also now members of the Belarus national team.^[4]

On 26 August 2014 BATE played Champions League play-off round home match against Slovan Bratislava, won 3-0, 4-1 in aggregate and qualified to the group stage of Champions League for the fourth time after coming through three qualification stages of the tournament.

Current squad

As of April 2015

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

No. Position Player 2 MF Dzmitry Likhtarovich (c) 3 DF Vital Hayduchyk 4 DF Kaspars Dubra 5 MF Yevgeniy Yablonskiy 7 MF Alyaksandr Karnitsky 8 MF Alyaksandr Valadzko 9 MF Illya Aleksiyevich 13 FW Mikalay Signevich 15 DF Maksim Zhavnerchik 16 GK Syarhey Chernik 17 MF Alyaksey Ryas 18 FW Dzmitry Mazalewski 19 DF Nemanja Milunović

No. Position Player 20 FW Vitali Rodionov 21 FW Vladislav Klimovich 22 MF Ihar Stasevich 23 MF Edhar Alyakhnovich 25 DF Filip Mladenović 27 DF Dmitry Baiduk 33 DF Dzyanis Palyakow 34 GK Artem Soroko 35 GK Anton Chichkan 42 MF Maksim Valadzko 49 MF Aleksandr Dzhigero 55 MF Dzmitry Baha 62 MF Mikhail Gordeichuk

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League
  • Winners (11): 1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Runners-up (4): 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004
  • 3rd place: 2001

• Belarusian Cup
  • Winners (2): 2006, 2010
  • Runners-up (3): 2002, 2005, 2007

• Belarusian Super Cup
  • Winners (4): 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014
  • Runners-up: 2012

• Belarusian Second League
  • Winners: 1996

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

Season	Competition	Round		Club	1st Leg	2nd Leg
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	QR		Lokomotiv Moscow	1–7 (H)	0–5 (A)
2000–01	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Shirak	1–1 (A)	2–1 (H)
		2Q		Helsingborg	0–0 (A)	0–3 (H)
2001–02	UEFA Cup	Q		Dinamo Tbilisi	1–2 (A)	4–0 (H)
		1R		Milan	0–2 (H)	0–4 (A)
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R		Akademisk Boldklub	1–0 (H)	2–0 (A)
		2R		1860 Munich	1–0 (A)	4–0 (H)
		3R		Bologna	0–2 (A)	0–0 (H)
2003–04	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Bohemians	1–0 (H)	0–3 (A)
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1Q		Dinamo Tbilisi	2–3 (H)	0–1 (A)
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q		Torpedo Kutaisi	1–0 (A)	5–0 (H)
		2Q		Krylia Sovetov Samara	0–2 (A)	0–2 (H)
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1Q		Nistru Otaci	2–0 (H)	1–0 (A)
		2Q		Rubin Kazan	0–3 (A)	0–2 (H)
2007–08	UEFA Champions League	1Q		APOEL	0–2 (A)	3–0 (a.e.t.) (H)
		2Q		FH Hafnarfjördur	3–1 (A)	1–1 (H)
		3Q		Steaua Bucureşti	2–2 (H)	0–2 (A)
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1R		Villarreal	1–4 (A)	2–0 (H)
2008–09	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Valur	2–0 (H)	1–0 (A)
		2Q		Anderlecht	2–1 (A)	2–2 (H)
		3Q		Levski Sofia	1–0 (A)	1–1 (H)
		Group H		Real Madrid	0–2 (A)	0–1 (H)
				Juventus	2–2 (H)	0–0 (A)
				Zenit St. Petersburg	1–1 (A)	0–2 (H)
2009–10	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Makedonija Gjorče Petrov	2–0 (A)	2–0 (H)
		3Q		Ventspils	0–1 (A)	2–1 (H)
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Litex Lovech	0–1 (H)	4–0 (a.e.t.) (A)
		Group I		Benfica	0–2 (A)	1–2 (H)
				Everton	1–2 (H)	1–0 (A)
				AEK Athens	2–1 (H)	2–2 (A)
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	2Q		FH Hafnarfjörður	5–1 (H)	1–0 (A)
		3Q		Copenhagen	0–0 (H)	2–3 (A)
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Marítimo	3–0 (H)	2–1 (A)
		Group E		Dynamo Kyiv	2–2 (A)	1–4 (H)
				AZ Alkmaar	4–1 (H)	0–3 (A)
				Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0 (A)	3–1 (H)
		R32		Paris Saint-Germain	2–2 (H)	0–0 (A)
2011–12	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Linfield	1–1 (A)	2–0 (H)
		3Q		Ekranas	0–0 (A)	3–1 (H)
		Play-off		Sturm Graz	1–1 (H)	2–0 (A)
		Group H		Viktoria Plzeň	1–1 (A)	0–1 (H)
				Barcelona	0–5 (H)	0–4 (A)
				Milan	0–2 (A)	1–1 (H)
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Vardar	3–2 (H)	0–0 (A)
		3Q		Debrecen	1–1 (H)	2–0 (A)
		Play-off		Ironi Kiryat Shmona	2–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
		Group F		Lille	3–1 (A)	0–2 (H)
				Bayern Munich	3–1 (H)	1–4 (A)
				Valencia	0–3 (H)	2–4 (A)
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	R32		Fenerbahçe	0–0 (H)	0–1 (A)
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Shakhter Karagandy	0–1 (H)	0–1 (A)
2014–15	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Skënderbeu Korçë	0–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
		3Q		Debrecen	0–1 (A)	3–1 (H)
		Play-off		Slovan Bratislava	1–1 (A)	3–0 (H)
		Group H		Porto	0–6 (A)	0–3 (H)
				Athletic Bilbao	2–1 (H)	0–2 (A)
				Shakhtar Donetsk	0–7 (H)	0–5 (A)

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for BATE.

Managers

• Leu Mazurkevich (1973 – 1981)
• Yuri Puntus (March 1, 1996 – November 30, 2004)
• Igor Kriushenko (January 1, 2005 – November 12, 2007)
• Viktor Goncharenko (November 13, 2007 – October 12, 2013)
• Alyaksandr Yermakovich (October 12, 2013–present)

References

External links

• Official website