FC BATE Borisov (russian: link=no, ФК БАТЭ Борисов, ''FK BATE Borisov'' ; be, ФК БАТЭ Барысаў, ''BATE Barysaw,'' ) is a professional Belarusian

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team from the city of

Barysaw Barysaw ( be, Барысаў, ) or Borisov (russian: Борисов, ) is a city in Belarus near the Berezina River in the Minsk Region 74 km north-east from Minsk. Its population is around 145,000. History Barysaw is first mentioned in t ...

. The club competes in the

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, of which they are the league's most successful club with 15 titles, including 13 won consecutively. The club has also won four

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s and four

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s. BATE is the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the

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( 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2015–16) and one of two to qualify for the group stage of the

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( 2009–10, 2010–11, 2017–18 and 2018–19), along with Dinamo Minsk. The club's home stadium is

Borisov Arena Borisov Arena ( be, Барысаў-Арэна, ''Barysaw-Arena''; russian: Борисов-Арена, link=no) is a football-specific stadium in Barysaw, Belarus and is the home stadium of FC BATE Borisov and the Belarus national football team. ...

, which was opened in 2014.

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

15 times and competed in

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In 2001, BATE reached the first round of the

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, 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

. 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 Aliaksandr Paulavich Hleb ( be, Аляксандр Паўлавіч Глеб, ; russian: Александр Павлович Глеб; born 1 May 1981), commonly referred to in English as Alexander Hleb, is a Belarusian former professional foot ...

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);

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and

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) and

Yuri Zhevnov Yuri Zhevnov ( be, Юры Жаўноў; born 17 April 1981) is a professional football coach and a former player from Belarus. He is the goalkeepers' coach with Zenit St. Petersburg. Career Zhevnov started his career at third division. In 2000 ...

(

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, and

Zenit Saint Petersburg Football Club Zenit (russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб «Зенит» ), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, acco ...

). Having started their professional careers with BATE, all are also former or present members of the Belarus national team. BATE won their tenth consecutive league title in

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, with four matches to spare. In the 2017 season, BATE drew an average home league attendance of 5,633, the second-highest in the league.

Supporters

BATE Borisov is one of the most popular football teams in Belarus. BATE fans have developed a rivalry with the fans of Dinamo Minsk and a friendship with fans of Polish club

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since 2011.

Current squad

Honours

** Winners (15):

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

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2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

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2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

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** ''Runners-up (7):'' 1998,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

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** Winners (5): 2005–06, 2009–10, 2014–15, 2019–20,

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** ''Runners-up (6):'' 2001–02, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2021–22 *

** Winners (8):

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...

** ''Runners-up (4):''

Belarusian Second League Belarusian Second League is the third tier of professional football in Belarus. It was established in 1992. History and format A strict number of teams and competition format are not defined for the league. Before the start of each season the for ...

** Winners: 1996 *

Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR The Championship of the Belarusian SSR in football – First League ( be, Першая ліга чэмпіянату БССР па футболе, Pershaja Liha chempijanatu BSSR pa futbole) was a top competition of association football in the By ...

** Winners (3): 1974, 1976, 1979

League and Cup history

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

European record

''As of match played 28 July 2022''

Managers

* Leu Mazurkevich (1973–1981) *

Yuri Puntus Yury Iosifovich Puntus ( be, Юрый Іосіфавіч Пунтус; russian: Юрий Иосифович Пунтус; born 8 October 1960) is a Soviet football player and a Belarusian football coach. He quit playing football in 1987 because ...

(1 March 1996 – 30 November 2004) *

Igor Kriushenko Igor Nikolayevich Kriushenko (russian: Игорь Николаевич Криушенко; born 10 February 1964) is a Belarusian professional football manager and former player. Honours Manager ;BATE Borisov *Belarusian Premier League: 2006, 2 ...

(1 January 2005 – 12 November 2007) *

Viktor Goncharenko Viktar Mihailavich Hancharenka ( be, Віктар Міхайлавіч Ганчарэнка, tr. Viktar Michajłavič Hančarenka; russian: Виктор Михайлович Гончаренко, ''Viktor Mikhailovich Goncharenko''; born 10 Ju ...

(13 November 2007 – 12 October 2013) *

Alyaksandr Yermakovich Alyaksandr Uladzimiravich Yermakovich ( be, Аляксандр Уладзіміравіч Ермаковіч; russian: Александр Владимирович Ермакович; born 21 January 1975) is a Belarusian football manager and a form ...

(12 October 2013 – 31 December 2017) * Oleg Dulub (5 January 2018 – 3 June 2018) * Aleksey Baga (4 June 2018 – 19 December 2019) * Kirill Alshevsky (1 January 2020 – 22 September 2020) * Aleksandr Lisovskiy (22 September 2020 – 31 December 2020) * Vitaly Zhukovsky (1 January 2021 –)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:BATE Association football clubs established in 1973 Football clubs in Belarus 1973 establishments in Belarus Barysaw