FC Slavia Mozyr ( be, ФК Славія Мазыр, ''FK Slavija Mazyr'') is a

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History

The team was founded in 1987 as Polesie Mozyr. Between 1987 and 1991, they played in the Belarusian SSR league. From 1992 till 1995, they played in the Belarusian First League. They changed their name to MPKC Mozyr since the 1994–95 season. MPKC stands for the Mozyr Industrial-Commercial Center. They won the First League the same year and made their debut in the

Belarusian Premier League The Belarusian Premier League or the Vyšejšaja Liha or the Vysheyshaya Liga ( be, Вышэйшая ліга, russian: Высшая лига, "Top League") is the top division of professional football in Belarus, and is organized by the Belarusi ...

in fall 1995 season. They finished second in 1995 and won the championship in 1996, becoming the first team other than Dinamo Minsk to win it. After changing their name to Slavia Mozyr in 1998, they again finished second in 1999 and won the title in 2000. After that, the results deteriorated and in 2005 they finished last and were relegated. After the relegation, they had to merge with ZLiN Gomel in order for both teams to survive in any form due to financial problems. The new team went through a number of name changes before arriving with the current name, FC Slavia Mazyr.

Name changes

* 1987: Founded as FC Polesye Mozyr * 1994: Renamed FC MPKC Mozyr * 1998: Renamed FC Slavia Mozyr * 2006: Merged with ZLiN Gomel and renamed FC Mozyr-ZLiN * 2007: Renamed FC Mozyr * 2008: Renamed FC Slavia Mozyr

Honours

:: ''Winners (2):'' 1996,

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:: ''Runners-up (2):''

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, 1999 * Belarusian First League :: ''Winners (3):'' 1994–95,

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, 2018 :: ''Runners-up (3):'' 1992–93, 1993–94, 2014 *

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:: ''Winners (2):'' 1995–96, 1999–00 :: ''Runners-up (2):'' 1998–99, 2000–01

Current squad

''As of December 2022''

League and Cup history

*¹ Including additional game (2–1 win) for the 13th place, which was necessary as Slavia-Mozyr gained the same number of points as Spartak Shklov while only one team should be relegated.

Slavia in European Cups

Managers

* Anatoliy Yurevich (1993–1997) * Aleksandr Bubnov (1997–1998) * Aleksandr Kuznetsov (1998–2000) * Vlad Petrovich (1998–2000) *

Pavel Radnyonak Pavel Radnyonak ( be, Павел Раднёнак; russian: Павел Роднёнок; born 30 July 1964) is a Belarusian professional Association football, football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Energetik-BGU Minsk, Energet ...

(2001–02) * Aleksandr Prazhnikov (2002–03) *

Vladimir Kurnev Vladimir Borisovich Kurnev (russian: Владимир Борисович Курнев; born 12 September 1950) is a Belarusian professional football coach and a former player. He works as youth coordinator with FC Minsk. As a player, he spent t ...

(2003–04) * Andrei Sosnitskiy (2004–05) * Aleksandr Belan (2005) * Ilia Karp (2005) * Ihar Fralov (2006) * Vyacheslav Shevchyk (2008) * Sergey Yasinsky (2008–09) * Vyacheslav Shevchyk (2009) * Vitaliy Pavlov (2009) * Yury Maleyew (2010–14) *

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(2014–17) * Mikhail Martinovich (2018–)

References

External links

Official website
Football clubs in Belarus 1987 establishments in Belarus Association football clubs established in 1987 {{Belarus-footyclub-stub