FC BATE Borisov

BATE

Full name	Football Club BATE
Founded	1973
Ground	Borisov Arena Barysaw, Belarus
Ground Capacity	13,126
Chairman	Anatoli Kapski
Manager	Alyaksandr Yermakovich
League	Belarusian Premier League
2016	1st
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC BATE Borisov (Belarusian: ФК БАТЭ Барысаў, IPA: [baˈtɛ]; Russian: ФК БАТЭ Борисов, FK BATE Borisov [bɐˈtɛ bɐˈrʲisəf]) is a Belarusian football team from the city of Barysaw. The club competes in the Belarusian Premier League, of which they are the reigning champions and are the league's most successful club with 13 titles, 11 won consecutively. The club has also won three Belarusian Cups and four Belarusian Super Cups.

BATE is the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2015–16) and one of two to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League (2009–10 and 2010–11), along with Dinamo Minsk.

The club's home stadium is Borisov Arena, which was opened in 2014.^[1]

History

BATE is an acronym of Borisov Automobile and Tractor Electronics. The team was founded in 1973 and managed to win Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic league three times (1974, 1976 and 1979) before being disbanded in 1984. The club was re-established in 1996. Since then, BATE have won the Belarusian Premier League 11 times and competed in UEFA competitions.^[2]

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 becoming the first Belarusian team to qualify for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.^[3] As of 2015, BATE have played five times in the Champions League group stage, as well as twice in UEFA Europa League group stage, also reaching the knockout phase of the latter competition in 2010–11 and 2012–13.

Notable former players of BATE include Alexander Hleb (VfB Stuttgart, Arsenal, Barcelona and Birmingham City); Vitali Kutuzov (Milan, Sporting CP, Avellino, Sampdoria, Parma, Pisa and Bari) and Yuri Zhevnov (FC Moscow, and Zenit Saint Petersburg). Having started their professional careers with BATE, all are also former or present members of the Belarus national team.^[4]

BATE won their tenth consecutive league title in 2015, with four matches to spare.^[5] In the 2017 season, BATE drew an average home league attendance of 5,633, the second-highest in the league. ^[6]

Supporters

BATE Borisov is one of the most popular football teams in Belarus. BATE fans developed a rivalry with the fans of Dinamo Minsk and a friendship with fans of Polish club Piast Gliwice since 2011.^[7]

Current squad

As of July 2017 ^[8]

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

No. Position Player 3 DF Vital Hayduchyk 5 MF Yevgeniy Yablonskiy 6 DF Jurica Buljat 7 MF Yevgeniy Berezkin 8 MF Alyaksandr Valadzko 9 FW Anes Rušević 10 MF Mirko Ivanić 13 FW Mikalay Signevich 14 DF Artur Pikk 16 GK Syarhey Vyeramko 17 MF Alyaksey Ryas 19 DF Nemanja Milunović 20 FW Vitali Rodionov 21 MF Stanislaw Drahun 22 MF Ihar Stasevich

No. Position Player 24 FW Jasse Tuominen 25 MF Dzmitry Baha 33 DF Dzyanis Palyakow 34 DF Artem Shkurdyuk 35 GK Anton Chichkan 42 DF Maksim Valadzko 43 MF Nikita Filippovich 44 DF Vladislav Malkevich 45 FW Vladislav Mukhamedov 46 MF Aleksey Khanevich 48 GK Denis Scherbitskiy 62 MF Mikhail Gordeichuk 77 MF Yury Kendysh 80 MF Valerian Gvilia

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League
  • Winners (13): 1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Runners-up (4): 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004
  • 3rd place: 2001
• Belarusian Cup
  • Winners (3): 2006, 2010, 2015
  • Runners-up (4): 2002, 2005, 2007, 2016
• Belarusian Super Cup
  • Winners (7): 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Runners-up: 2012
• Belarusian Second League
  • Winners: 1996
• Belarusian Soviet era champions
  • Winners (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 2, 2017

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		Helsingborgs IF	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		AB	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 București	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 Saint 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)
	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)
	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Marítimo	3–0 (H)	2–1 (A)
		Group E		Dynamo Kyiv	2–2 (A)	1–4 (H)
				AZ	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)
	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)
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Dundalk	2–1 (H)	0–0 (A)
		3Q		Videoton	1–1 (A)	1–0 (H)
		Play-off		Partizan	1–0 (H)	1–2 (A)
		Group E		Bayer Leverkusen	1–4 (A)	1–1 (H)
				Roma	3–2 (H)	0–0 (A)
				Barcelona	0–2 (H)	0–3 (A)
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	2Q		SJK	2–0 (H)	2–2 (A)
		3Q		Dundalk	1–0 (H)	0–3 (A)
	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Astana	0–2 (A)	2–2 (H)
2017–18	UEFA Champions League	2Q		Alashkert	1–1 (H)	3–1 (A)
		3Q		Slavia Prague	0–1 (A)	2–1 (H)
	UEFA Europa League	PO		Oleksandriya

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 (1 March 1996 – 30 November 2004)
• Igor Kriushenko (1 January 2005 – 12 November 2007)
• Viktor Goncharenko (13 November 2007 – 12 October 2013)
• Alyaksandr Yermakovich (12 October 2013– present)

References

External links

• Official website