Minsk

History and achievements

FC Minsk is a football club in Belarus, located in the capital. The club was founded in 2006. The team was formed on the base of the football club Smena Minsk, which was established in 1954. After the dissolution of the USSR, in 1992 Smena won the third division. In 2004 they won the second division and in 2006 a new team was formed on the base of Smena, FC Minsk.

Smena was the Belarusian First League team and a newly established Minsk began to compete in the First League. Among their achievements are the semifinals of the Belarusian Cup in 2007 and the second place in 2012, in 20101 they won bronze medals in the domestic league, which allowed them to qualify for the UEFA Europa League. In the first round FC Minsk overcame AZAL Baku and in the second qualifying round they were eliminated by Gaziantepspor.

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Club top players

№	Name and surname	Role	Ranking	Age	Weight	Height	Country
1	Syarhey Vyeramko	goalkeeper	149	40 years	90 kg	191 cm	Belarus
2	Pavel Plaskonny	defender	13	38 years	80 kg	185 cm	Belarus
3	Illya Aleksiyevich	midfielder	9	32 years	64 kg	173 cm	Belarus
4	Syarhey Koshal	forward	6				Belarus
5	Evgen Bokhashvili	forward	0	30 years	69 kg	182 cm	Ukraine
6	Igor Shumilov	defender	0	29 years			Belarus
7	Leonid Kovel	forward	0	37 years	82 kg	178 cm	Belarus
8	Yury Astravukh	defender	0	35 years	68 kg	174 cm	Belarus
9	Roman Begunov	defender	0	30 years	77 kg	181 cm	Belarus
10	Andrey Razin	midfielder	0	44 years	70 kg	176 cm	Belarus