FC Dinamo Brest

FC Dinamo Brest

Full name	Football Club Dinamo-Brest[1]
Founded	1960
Ground	Regional Sport Complex Brestskiy Brest, Belarus
Capacity	10,060
Manager	Sergey Kovalchuk
League	Belarusian Premier League
2015	12th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FC Dinamo Brest (Belarusian: ФК Дынама Брэст; Russian: ФК Динамо Брест) is a Belarusian football club based in Brest. The club plays in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football.

History

The club was founded in 1960 as Spartak Brest and joined Soviet Class B (second-tier league) the same year. After 1962 season they were relegated as a result of league reorganization. They were close to promotion twice (in 1964 and 1967) but lost the final round both times. They finally got promoted from the third attempt (1969), but the following year they again dropped to the third tier due to league reorganization.^[2] In 1972 the team was renamed to Bug Brest and finally, in 1976 to Dinamo Brest. From 1970 till the end of Soviet era the club was playing in the Soviet third-tier league. Dinamo Brest had a strong connection with Dinamo Minsk during these years (as both clubs were affiliated to Dinamo Sports Society) and often accepted young Minsk team players on loan.^[3]

In 1992 Dinamo Brest joined Belarusian Premier League and have been playing there ever since. Their best result was a third place in inaugural 1992 season, and they were finishing in the middle and bottom parts of the table ever since. In 2007 Dinamo Brest won Belarusian Cup, also securing their only UEFA Cup participation. During 2012 season they were using the name FC Brest due to legal issues with using a Dinamo brand name the rights to which were claimed by Belarusian Dynamo Sport Society. This issue was resolved only by the end of the year.

Name changes

• 1960: founded as Spartak Brest
• 1972: renamed to Bug Brest (after Bug River)
• 1976: renamed to Dinamo Brest
• 2012: renamed to FC Brest
• 2013: renamed back to Dinamo Brest

Supporters and rivalries

The first organised fan group was created on 1 August 1998, and the fanatical stand can hold around 200-500 fanatics. An ultras group was created in 2008. The fans call themselves the Blue White Devils. They are politically right-wing.^[4]

The club have two fan-clubs: Volna Pinsk and SC Kobrin. The one official friendship, with fans of Orlęta Radzyń Podlaski, and good contacts with fans Dinamo Minsk and BATE Borisov. Their rivals are all left-wing fans, FK Homel, Dnepr Mogilev, Shakhtyor Soligorsk, Slavia Mozyr, Belshina Bobruisk, Torpedo Minsk and Neman Grodno.^[5]

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League
  • 3rd place (1): 1992
• Belarusian Cup
  • Winners (1): 2007

Current squad

As of August 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 GK Artem Denisenko 2 MF Alyaksandr Novik 4 DF Alyaksey Hawrylovich 5 MF Simon Ogar 6 MF Boris Konevega 8 MF Mikita Bukatkin 9 MF Alyaksandr Dzyameshka 10 FW Raman Vasilyuk 11 FW Latif Amadu 12 GK Vladislav Kuzhal 13 DF Pavel Nazarenko 17 MF Pavel Sedko 18 DF Georgi Zabedashvili 20 FW Joel Fameyeh 21 MF Vadim Pobudey 22 DF Igor Tymonyuk 23 MF Leandro Torres

No. Position Player 25 DF Artem Tatarevich 28 MF Andriy Stryzheus 31 MF Maksim Chizh 45 FW Dickson Afoakwa 62 FW Jahongir Ergashev 64 GK Dmitry Asnin 65 DF Adrian Avrămia 77 FW Idrissa Kouyaté 80 MF Vasili Sumnakaev 88 MF Dmitry German 97 DF Alyaksey Ivanow DF Illya Kavalchuk GK Roman Bekach DF Denis Samosyuk DF Andrey Kinakh FW Anton Demkov MF Vladislav Dybin

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1960	2nd	15	30	7	4	19	27–59	18
1961	2nd	13	30	7	8	15	28–43	22	Round of 64
1962	2nd	4	32	15	9	6	39–25	39	Round of 512	Relegated^1
1963	3rd	15	30	7	9	14	16–27	23	Round of 1024
1964	3rd	4	30	12	12	6	25–12	36	Round of 2048
		5	4	0	0	4	2–6	0		Final round^2
1965	3rd	10	30	9	8	13	28–30	26	Round of 1024
1966	3rd	11	32	8	11	13	26–34	27
1967	3rd	4	34	14	12	8	33–28	40	Round of 4096
		2	3	1	2	0	3–2	4		Semi-final round^3
1968	3rd	3	38	21	8	9	48–27	50
			2	1	1	0	2–0	3		Promotion/relegation play-off^4
1969	2nd	13	40	12	13	15	30–29	37	Round of 32	Relegated^5
1970	3rd	16	42	12	13	17	32–48	37	Round of 128
1971	3rd	9	38	13	16	9	33–29	55
1972	3rd	6	38	14	15	9	44–32	57
1973	3rd	11	32	10	9	13	35–46	23^6
1974	3rd	14	40	10	14	16	33–44	34
1975	3rd	10	34	12	7	15	38–44	31
1976	3rd	2	38	20	10	8	63–38	50
1977	3rd	11	40	14	13	13	51–44	41	Round of 64
1978	3rd	6	46	24	10	12	62–37	58
1979	3rd	3	46	24	14	8	77–35	62
1980	3rd	4	32	12	10	10	39–36	34
1981	3rd	6	40	13	10	17	45–37	56
1982	3rd	13	30	9	4	17	30–44	22
1983	3rd	9	32	10	10	12	41–36	30
1984	3rd	12	34	9	9	16	38–50	27
1985	3rd	6	30	13	7	10	40–33	33
1986	3rd	7	30	15	3	12	41–31	33
1987	3rd	4	34	18	6	10	54–26	42
1988	3rd	10	34	14	6	14	43–41	34
1989	3rd	5	42	19	10	13	53–51	48	Round of 128
1990	3rd	9	42	15	15	12	49–39	45
1991	3rd	16	42	14	9	19	50–50	37
1992									Round of 128

• ¹ Relegated as the 2nd level (Class B) was reduced from 10 zones (150 teams) in 1962 to a single group of 18 teams in 1963.
• ² Advanced to the final round as the best-placed team from Belarusian SSR. No team won the promotion from this final group in the end.
• ³ Advanced to the semifinal round of promotion tournament (for one spot) as one of top 8 teams not from Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh or Central Asian SSR.
• ⁴ As the best-placed team from Belarusian SSR, Spartak advanced to promotion/relegation play-off against the lowest-placed Belarusian team from the 2nd level.
• ⁵ Relegated as the 2nd level (Class B Second Group, renamed to Class B First Group from next season) was reduced from 4 zones (87 teams) in 1969 to a single group of 22 teams in 1970.
• ⁶ In 1973 every draw was followed by a penalty shoot-out, with a winner gaining 1-point and loser gaining 0.

Belarus

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1992	1st	3	15	8	3	4	21–10	19	Semifinals
1992–93	1st	7	32	13	9	10	33–29	35	Round of 16
1993–94	1st	8	30	11	9	10	30–29	31	Semifinals
1994–95	1st	10	30	9	10	11	33–33	28	Round of 16
1995	1st	10	15	5	2	8	27–32	17	Round of 16
1996	1st	10	30	7	11	12	39–43	32
1997	1st	7	30	12	6	12	44–52	42	Quarterfinals
1998	1st	9	28	12	2	14	40–40	38	Round of 16
1999	1st	7	30	14	4	12	59–52	46	Round of 16
2000	1st	10	30	10	4	16	37–51	34	Quarterfinals
2001	1st	11	26	8	5	13	26–38	29	Round of 16
2002	1st	10	26	8	8	10	25–26	32	Semifinals
2003	1st	11	30	5	12	13	21–49	27	Round of 16
2004	1st	8	30	10	9	11	39–41	39	Round of 32
2005	1st	8	26	11	3	12	39–33	36	Round of 16
2006	1st	9	26	8	7	11	17–31	31	Quarterfinals
2007	1st	12	26	6	8	13	23–31	25	Winners
2008	1st	6	30	13	8	9	40–34	47	Round of 16
2009	1st	5	26	10	8	8	30–24	38	Round of 32
2010	1st	5	33	12	10	11	48–40	46	Round of 32
2011	1st	10	33	8	11	14	38–46	35	Quarterfinals
2012	1st	8	30	8	5	17	27–38	29	Quarterfinals
2013	1st	8	32	11	7	14	32–41	40	Quarterfinals
2014	1st	11	32	7	5	20	29–68	26	Round of 16
2015	1st	12	26	7	3	16	23-42	24	Quarterfinals
2016	1st								Round of 16

European record

As of December 2008.

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Home	Away	Agg.
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q		Liepājas Metalurgs	1–2	1–1	2–3

Managers

Eduard Malofeyev (1977–78) Ivan Shchekin (Jan 1, 1985 – Dec 31, 1986) Liudas Rumbutis (Jan 1, 1987 – Dec 31, 1990) Yuri Kurnenin (Jan 1, 1991 – Dec 31, 1992) Vladimir Gevorkyan (Jan 1, 1994 – Jan 1, 1997) Viktor Sokol (2001) Andrey Sosnitskiy (Jan 1, 2002 – Jan 1, 2003) Vladimir Gevorkyan (July 1, 2003 – Dec 30, 2003) Viktors Ņesterenko (Jan 9, 2004 – May 31, 2004) Vladimir Kurnev (June 1, 2004 – Nov 30, 2004) Mikhail Markhel (Jan 1, 2005 – Dec 5, 2005) Sergei Borovsky (Dec 6, 2005 – Dec 31, 2006)

Vladimir Gevorkyan (Jan 1, 2007 – April 28, 2008) Vyacheslav Arushanov (interim) (April 29, 2008 – June 11, 2008) Evgeni Trotsyuk (June 12, 2008 – Aug 5, 2009) Sergey Kovalchuk (interim) (Aug 6, 2009 – Sept 15, 2009) Yuri Puntus (Sept 16, 2009 – July 12, 2011) Sergey Kovalchuk (interim) (July 13, 2011 – Aug 22, 2011) Sergey Kovalchuk (Aug 23, 2011 – July 8, 2012) Vladimir Kurnev (interim) (July 9, 2012 – Dec 4, 2012) Vladimir Kurnev (Dec 5, 2012 – Sept 20, 2013) Andrey Prokopyuk (interim) (Sept 21, 2013 – Sept 24, 2013) Sergey Kovalchuk (Sept 25, 2013–)

References

1. "ВОПРОС - ОТВЕТ". Dynamo-brest.by. ФК "Динамо-Брест". Retrieved 1 February 2016.
2. History of Dinamo Brest. The 60s.
3. History of Dinamo Brest. The 80s.
4. To My Kibice Plus, No.1(43), Spring 2014, pages 42-43
5. To My Kibice Plus, No.1(43), Spring 2014, pages 42-43

External links

• Home page (Russian)
• Dinamo Brest at UEFA.COM
• Dinamo Brest at EUFO.DE
• Dinamo Brest at Weltfussball.de
• Dinamo Brest at Football-Lineups.com