FC Torpedo Minsk

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Torpedo Minsk
FC Torpedo Minsk logo.svg
Full name FC Torpedo Minsk
Founded 1947
2007 (reformed)
Dissolved 2006–2007
Ground Torpedo Stadium, Minsk
Ground Capacity 4,800
Head coach Pavel Batyuto
League Belarusian First League
2015 Second League, 3rd (promoted)

FC Torpedo Minsk is a Belarusian football club, playing in Minsk. The team plays their home games at the Torpedo Stadium in Minsk, which holds 4,800 people.

History

During Soviet years Torpedo was playing in Belaruasin SSR top league and won a championships in 1947, 1962, 1966, 1967 and 1969.

The team was playing in Belarusian Premier League since 1992. Their most successful years were early 2000s, when the team finished on 4th position twice in a row (2002, 2003) and reached the final of Belarusian Cup (2000).

In early 2005 Torpedo-SKA lost financial support from their sponsor and, after losing almost all their main squad and not having funds to pay entrance fee for next season's Premiere League, had to relegate to the Second League. The team won the Second League in 2005 and received a promotion to the First League.

At the end of 2005 Torpedo-SKA was disbanded. A new football team, named FC Minsk was formed on the base of another Minsk team from the First League, Smena Minsk. FC Minsk had the same owner, office and stadium as disbanded Torpedo-SKA, but was legally a successor of Smena, also having most of its initial squad formed from Smena players and newly transferred players from other teams. Only one player from Torpedo-SKA 2005 squad joined Minsk.

In 2007 the team was reformed as Torpedo-MAZ and started playing in Minsk championship, which is a part of KFK, Belarusian amateur league (4th lever in league pyramid).[1] In 2009 the team finished on the 3rd position and was eligible to represent Minsk in the final tournament for two promotion spots to Second League (as the first two teams either declined or weren't eligible), but finished on the 3rd position.[2] Successful performance in Minsk championship and cup allowed them to qualify for Belarusian Cup twice (2009 and 2010), but they were eliminated from the tournament after the first game both times.

In 2014 the team rejoined Belarusian Second League under their original name Torpedo Minsk, and in the following year was won the promotion into Belarusian First League.

Name change
  • 1947: Torpedo
  • 1999: Torpedo-MAZ
  • 2003: Torpedo-SKA
  • 2005: disbanded
  • 2007: Torpedo-MAZ
  • 2014: Torpedo

Honours

Current squad

As of April 2016

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

No. Position Player
1 Belarus GK Vladimir Pyatigorets
2 Belarus MF Aleksei Petrusevich
3 Belarus DF Vladislav Kaborda
4 Belarus DF Vladislav Krivitsky
5 Belarus FW Dzmitry Ivanow
7 Belarus MF Roman Durko
8 Belarus MF Vitaly Likhtin
9 Belarus MF Vital Shapyatowski
10 Belarus MF Dzyanis Sashcheka
11 Belarus FW Dmitry Kupnevsky
13 Belarus FW Maksim Shkuratenko
14 Belarus FW Yevgeny Nikitin
No. Position Player
16 Belarus GK Maksim Vysotskiy
17 Belarus MF Kirill Aleksiyan
18 Belarus MF Dzmitry Khmyalnitski
19 Belarus FW Alyaksandar Krotaw
21 Belarus MF Konstantin Kuimov
26 Belarus FW Sergey Lynko
33 Belarus DF Yawhen Marozaw
77 Belarus FW Fedor Sapon
Belarus GK Andrey Nikitin
Belarus DF Artem Mikheyenko
Belarus DF Vasily Tagil
Belarus DF Aleksey Thagolegov

League and Cup history

Season Level Pos Pld W D L Goals Points Domestic Cup Notes
1992 1st 10 15 5 3 7 15–17 13 Quarterfinals
1992–93 1st 9 32 10 10 12 29–33 30 Round of 32
1993–94 1st 6 30 9 15 6 18–18 33 Quarterfinals
1994–95 1st 6 30 11 10 9 36–29 32 Round of 16
1995 1st 9 15 5 3 7 12–27 18 Round of 32
1996 1st 12 30 7 8 15 32–53 29
1997 1st 8 30 12 6 12 45–43 42 Round of 16
1998 1st 7 28 12 8 8 44–22 44 Round of 16
1999 1st 10 30 10 5 15 31–47 35 Semifinals
2000 1st 8 30 13 10 7 45–28 49 Runners-up
2001 1st 8 26 10 7 9 31–32 37 Round of 16
2002 1st 4 26 15 6 5 30–16 51 Round of 16
2003 1st 4 30 19 7 4 54–20 64 Round of 16
2004 1st 6 30 13 7 10 37–31 46 Round of 32 Bankrupted, relegated
2005 3rd 1 26 22 4 0 75–9 70 Round of 16 Disbanded
2006 Round of 64
2007 4th 5
2008 4th 5
2009 4th 3
2010 4th Round of 64
2011 4th
2012 4th 3 14 7 2 5 25–20 23
2013 4th

References

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External links

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