FC Dinamo Minsk

Dinamo Minsk

Full name	Football Club Dinamo Minsk
Founded	18 June 1927; 94 years ago (1927-06-18)
Ground	Dinamo Stadium, Minsk
Capacity	22,000
Chairman	Andrey Tolmach
Manager	Artsyom Chelyadzinski (caretaker)
League	Belarusian Premier League
2020	6th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Dinamo Minsk (Belarusian: ФК Дынама Мінск, FK Dynama Minsk; Russian: ФК Динамо Минск) is a professional football club based in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk.

It was founded in 1927 as part of the Soviet Dinamo Sports Society, and was the only club from the Byelorussian SSR that competed in the Soviet Top League, playing 39 of the 54 seasons, and winning the title in 1982. Since the independence of Belarus, the club participates in the Belarusian Premier League, having won 7 league titles and 3 Belarusian Cups.

Dinamo plays its home games in the 22,246 capacity Dinamo Stadium in Minsk. Dinamo is the second Belarusian team, after BATE Borisov to reach UEFA Europa League group stages (2014–15 and 2015–16).

History[]

Soviet Union[]

Dinamo Minsk was founded in 1927 as a part of the Soviet Dinamo Sports Society. They spent some of their history in the lower leagues of the Soviet Union, but in 1940, they were promoted to the Soviet Top League, becoming the first and only Belarusian team to compete in the Soviet top division. They were relegated to the second level in 1952, but returned to the top level the next year. In 1954, they finished in the third place, their best performance in the top flight to date, and were dissolved, being re-founded as Spartak Minsk, only to be renamed in Belarus Minsk in 1959, in honor of the Soviet republic in the national championship. However, in 1962, they return to the original name of Dinamo Minsk. They were relegated again from top level in 1955 and in 1957. They played in the top level again in the 1960 season. They were relegated again in 1973 and returned to the top level in the 1975 season. But they relegated immediately in 1976. They returned top level after 2 years.

In 1982, Dinamo Minsk won the Soviet championship for the first and only time in their history. The following year saw them debuting in the European Cup against Grasshopper of Switzerland. They reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup after eliminating Grasshoppers and Győri ETO of Hungary, only to be eliminated by Dinamo București. In the 1984–85 season, Dinamo Minsk reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup after beating HJK Helsinki, Sporting CP and Widzew Łódź, but were eventually stopped by Željezničar Sarajevo. 1988 saw Dinamo Minsk up to a new European performance, the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, passing through Gençlerbirliği and Real Sociedad, but being eliminated by KV Mechelen.

Dinamo Minsk also participated in Belarusian SSR league. Since the mid-50s, their appearances were only sporadic and they were represented by youth teams in later seasons. They have won the championship 7 times.

Belarus[]

Dinamo Minsk won the inaugural season of the Belarusian Premier League in 1992. They became the top team in the new Belarusian championship and won 5 league titles until 1995, making only one appearance in the UEFA Champions League, in 1993. However, after a title in 1997, Dinamo Minsk last won the championship in 2004. The 2000s saw Dinamo Minsk failing to secure any league title in the battle against BATE Borisov, thus finishing on lower places, mostly second.

In 2014, Dinamo Minsk beat MYPA, CFR Cluj and Nacional to be drawn in Group K of Europa League, along with Italian side Fiorentina, French team Guingamp and Greek side PAOK, becoming the second team, after BATE Borisov, to reach group stages of Europa League. Dinamo finished at the bottom with four points, after a draw with Guingamp and a historical 2–1 victory over Fiorentina.

Name history[]

• 1927, club founded as Dinamo Minsk
• 1954, re-founded as Spartak Minsk
• 1959, renamed to Belarus Minsk
• 1962, renamed to Dinamo Minsk

Supporters and Rivalries[]

Dinamo Minsk is one of the most popular teams in Belarus. Among ultras groups, the largest is called Blue White Will. Fans of Dinamo Minsk are friends with Dinamo Brest fans.

The ultras of Dinamo Minsk are famous for their right-wing political orientation and there have been several riots, clashes with the police forces and chants against the Belarusian authoritarian regime, led by long-time President Alexander Lukashenko.

Their political views as well as geographic proximity and contest for dominance of the city make them huge rivals with neighbours Partizan Minsk, whose fans tend to be strongly left-wing.^[1] Dinamo Minsk also has a big rivalry with BATE Borisov from the city of Barysaw.^[2]

Honours[]

Belarus

Belarusian Premier League

• Winners (7): 1992, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997, 2004
• Runners-up: 1996, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017
• 3rd place: 2000, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018

Belarusian Cup

• Winners (3): 1992, 1993–94, 2002–03
• Runners-up: 1995–96, 1997–98, 2012–13

Season Cup

• Winners: 1994

Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship

• Champion (9): 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2020

Soviet Union

Soviet Top League

• Winners: 1982
• 3rd place: 1954, 1963, 1983

Soviet Cup

• Runners-up: 1965, 1987

Federation Cup

• Runners-up: 1989

Soviet First League:

• Winners: 1953, 1956
• Runners-up: 1951, 1975
• 3rd place: 1974, 1978

Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR

• Winners (6): 1937, 1938, 1939, 1945, 1951, 1975
• Runners-up: 1934, 1935, 1946, 1952, 1977
• 3rd place:1940, 1947

Belarusian SSR Cup

• Winners: 1936, 1940
• Runners-up: 1945

Current squad[]

As of July 2021^[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BLR Yahor Hatkevich 3 DF  BLR Maksim Shvyatsow 5 DF  BLR Nikita Naumov 6 DF  SRB Dominik Dinga 7 MF  BLR Artem Bykov 8 MF  BLR Aleksandr Selyava 10 MF  BLR Syarhey Kislyak 11 FW  SEN Ablaye Mbengue 13 MF  BLR Nikita Demchenko 14 MF  BLR Anton Putsila 15 FW  BLR Vladislav Klimovich 17 FW  BLR Ivan Bakhar 18 FW  BLR 19 DF  BLR Vladislav Lyakh 21 MF  BLR Roman Davyskiba

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  BLR Konstantin Kuchinskiy 25 FW  BLR Vladislav Lozhkin 26 DF  BLR Vladislav Kalinin 29 DF  UKR Andriy Batsula 31 GK  BLR Denis Shpakovskiy 33 DF  BLR Syarhey Matsveychyk 34 DF  BLR 37 MF  BLR Gleb Rovdo 49 GK  BLR Maksim Plotnikov 71 MF  BLR Mikhail Kazlow 77 FW  BLR Dmitriy Latykhov 97 MF  CIV Jean Morel Poé — DF  BLR Alexei Rios — FW  BLR — DF  BLR Yevgeniy Semenchuk

Coaching staff[]

Name	Role
Leonid Kuchuk	Head Coach
Syarhey Amelyanchuk	Assistant Coach
Dzyanis Parechyn	Goalkeeping Coach

Reserves[]

There has been several teams that served as Dinamo Minsk official reserve or farm clubs.

• Dinamo-d Minsk was the club's reserve team which competed in the Soviet Top League (or First League) Reserves championship. In 1992 this reserve team was transformed into Dinamo-2 Minsk, which eventually got promoted to Belarusian Premier League and split into new club Belarus Minsk (later renamed to more commonly known Dinamo-93 Minsk). This club disbanded in 1998.
• Dinamo-Juni Minsk was formed as an outfit for young Dinamo players in 1993 and played in Second League and First League from the 1993–94 season until the end of 2004.
• New Dinamo-2 Minsk was formed 2000. They were active in the Second League during 2000–2002 and again in 2011–2012.
• Bereza-2010 was originally an independent club, which since 2010 formed a partnership with Dinamo, serving as their farm club until the dissolution in late 2015.
• Since 2001 Dinamo is always represented by a reserve team in Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship.

Notable managers[]

• Eduard Malofeyev (1978–83): USSR Championship 1982
• Mikhail Vergeyenko (1991–94): Belarusian Championship 1992, 1992–93, 1993–94
• (1994–97): Belarusian Championship 1994–95, 1995
• Anatoli Baidachny (1997): Belarusian Championship 1997
• Yuri Shukanov (2004–05): Belarusian Championship 2004

League history[]

Belarus

Season	Level	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Pos	Domestic Cup
1992	1st	15	11	3	1	38–7	25	1 (16)	Winner
1992–93	1st	32	26	5	1	90–25	57	1 (17)	Semi-finals
1993–94	1st	30	24	4	2	76–20	52	1 (16)	Winner
1994–95	1st	30	20	8	2	83–24	48	1 (16)	Round of 16
1995 (autumn)	1st	15	12	2	1	42–13	38	1 (16)	Round of 16
1996	1st	30	23	6	1	83–20	75	2 (16)	Finals
1997	1st	30	21	7	2	74–24	70	1 (16)	Semi-finals
1998	1st	28	11	6	11	39–38	39	8 (15)	Finals
1999	1st	30	14	9	7	51–30	51	6 (16)	Round of 16
2000	1st	30	19	5	6	49–21	62	3 (16)	Round of 16
2001	1st	26	16	5	5	52–21	53	2 (14)	Semi-finals
2002	1st	26	12	6	8	44–28	42	7 (14)	Quarter-finals
2003	1st	30	20	4	6	62–24	64	3 (16)	Winner
2004	1st	30	24	3	3	64–18	75	1 (16)	Quarter-finals
2005	1st	26	15	5	6	50–26	50	2 (14)	Round of 16
2006	1st	26	15	7	4	44–22	52	2 (14)	Quarter-finals
2007	1st	26	8	11	7	27–28	35	9 (14)	Quarter-finals
2008	1st	30	19	5	6	49–29	62	2 (16)	Semi-finals
2009	1st	26	14	8	4	38–18	50	2 (14)	Round of 16
2010	1st	33	17	5	11	49–34	56	4 (12)	Quarter-finals
2011	1st	33	14	7	12	50–43	49	4 (12)	Round of 16
2012	1st	30	16	8	6	37–19	56	3 (11)	Round of 16
2013	1st	32	15	9	8	44–33	54	3 (12)	Finals
2014	1st	32	18	7	7	44–21	61	2 (12)	Round of 16
2015	1st	26	15	8	3	36–13	53	2 (14)	Semi-finals
2016	1st	30	15	10	5	46–28	55	3 (16)	Quarter-finals
2017	1st	30	22	2	6	46–15	68	2 (16)	Quarter-finals
2018	1st	30	18	9	3	20–7	63	3 (16)	Round of 16
2019	1st	30	15	5	10	43–39	50	4 (16)	Semi-finals
2020	1st	30	16	4	10	38-25	52	6 (16)	Quarter-finals

European record[]

Accurate as of 27 August 2020

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
European Cup / Champions League	12	3	5	4	18	18	+0	025.00
Cup Winners' Cup	6	2	3	1	6	4	+2	033.33
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	103	41	23	39	137	127	+10	039.81
UEFA Intertoto Cup	12	5	3	4	22	13	+9	041.67
Total	133	51	34	48	183	162	+21	038.35

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

Season	Competition	Round		Club	1st Leg	2nd Leg
1983–84	European Cup	1R		Grasshopper	1–0 (H)	2–2 (A)
		2R		Raba ETO	6–3 (A)	3–1 (H)
		QF		Dinamo București	1–1 (H)	0–1 (A)
1984–85	UEFA Cup	1R		HJK Helsinki	4–0 (H)	6–0 (A)
		2R		Sporting CP	0–2 (A)	2–0 (p. 5–3) (H)
		3R		Widzew Łódź	2–0 (A)	0–1 (H)
		QF		Željezničar Sarajevo	0–2 (A)	1–1 (H)
1986–87	UEFA Cup	1R		Raba ETO	2–4 (H)	1–0 (A)
1987–88	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Gençlerbirliği	2–0 (H)	2–1 (A)
		2R		Real Sociedad	1–1 (A)	0–0 (H)
		QF		Mechelen	0–1 (A)	1–1 (H)
1988–89	UEFA Cup	1R		Trakia Plovdiv	2–1 (A)	0–0 (H)
		2R		Victoria București	2–1 (H)	0–1 (A)
1993–94	UEFA Champions League	1R		Werder Bremen	2–5 (A)	1–1 (H)
1994–95	UEFA Cup	QR		Hibernians	3–1 (H)	3–4 (a.e.t.) (A)
		1R		Lazio	0–0 (H)	1–4 (A)
1995–96	UEFA Cup	QR		Universitatea Craiova	0–0 (A)	0–0 (p. 3–1) (H)
		1R		Austria Wien	2–1 (A)	1–0 (H)
		2R		Werder Bremen	0–5 (A)	2–1 (H)
1996–97	UEFA Cup	1Q		Bohemian	1–1 (A)	0–0 (H)
		2Q		Beşiktaş	2–1 (H)	0–2 (A)
1997–98	UEFA Cup	1Q		Kolkheti-1913 Poti	1–0 (H)	1–2 (A)
		2Q		Lillestrøm	0–2 (H)	0–1 (A)
1998–99	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Skonto Riga	0–0 (A)	1–2 (H)
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R		Hobscheid	6–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
		2R		Hapoel Haifa	2–0 (H)	1–0 (A)
		3R		Wolfsburg	3–4 (A)	0–0 (H)
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR		CSKA Sofia	1–4 (H)	0–1 (A)
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR		Brøndby	0–3 (A)	0–2 (H)
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R		Odra Wodzisław	0–1 (A)	2–0 (H)
		2R		Sartid Smederevo	1–2 (H)	3–1 (a.e.t.) (A)
		3R		Lille	1–2 (A)	2–2 (H)
2005–06	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Anorthosis	1–1 (H)	0–1 (A)
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1Q		Zagłębie Lubin	1–1 (A)	0–0 (H)
		2Q		Artmedia Petržalka	1–2 (A)	2–3 (H)
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q		Skonto Riga	1–1 (A)	2–0 (H)
		2Q		Odense	1–1 (H)	0–4 (A)
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	1Q		Renova	2–1 (H)	1–1 (A)
		2Q		Tromsø	0–0 (H)	1–4 (A)
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	2Q		Sillamäe Kalev	5–1 (H)	5–0 (A)
		3Q		Maccabi Haifa	0–1 (A)	3–1 (H)
		PO		Club Brugge	1–2 (A)	2–3 (H)
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	1Q		Kruoja Pakruojis	3–0 (A)	5–0 (H)
		2Q		Lokomotiva	1–2 (H)	3–2 (A)
		3Q		Trabzonspor	0–1 (H)	0–0 (A)
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	2Q		MyPa	3–0 (H)	0–0 (A)
		3Q		CFR Cluj	1–0 (H)	2–0 (A)
		PO		Nacional	2–0 (H)	3–2 (A)
		Group K		PAOK	1–6 (A)	0–2 (H)
				Fiorentina	0–3 (H)	2–1 (A)
				Guingamp	0–0 (H)	0–2 (A)
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	2Q		Cherno More	1–1 (A)	4–0 (H)
		3Q		Zürich	1–0 (A)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (H)
		PO		Red Bull Salzburg	2–0 (H)	0–2 (A) (p. 3–2)
		Group E		Viktoria Plzeň	0–2 (A)	1–0 (H)
				Rapid Wien	0–1 (H)	1–2 (A)
				Villarreal	0–4 (A)	1–2 (H)
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1Q		Spartaks Jūrmala	2–1 (H)	2–0 (A)
		2Q		St Patrick's Athletic	1–1 (H)	1–0 (A)
		3Q		Vojvodina	1–1 (A)	0–2 (H)
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q		NSÍ Runavík	2–1 (H)	2–0 (A)
		2Q		Rabotnički	1–1 (A)	3–0 (H)
		3Q		AEK Larnaca	0–2 (A)	1–1 (H)
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	1Q		Derry City	2–0 (A)	1–2 (H)
		2Q		Dunajská Streda	3–1 (A)	4–1 (H)
		3Q		Zenit Saint Petersburg	4–0 (H)	1–8 (a.e.t) (A)
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	1Q		Liepāja	1–1 (A)	1–2 (H)
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	1Q		Piast Gliwice	0–2 (H)	N/A

References[]

External links[]

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