FC Neman Grodno

Neman Grodno

Full name	Football Club Neman Grodno[1]
Founded	1964
Ground	Neman Stadium, Grodno
Capacity	8 479
Chairman	Ivan Vorsovich
Manager	Igor Kovalevich
League	Belarusian Premier League
2015	8th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

FC Neman Grodno (Belarusian: ФК Нёман Гродна, FK Nyoman Hrodna; Russian: ФК Неман Гродно) is a Belarusian football club from the city of Grodno, named after the Neman River and founded in 1964. Since 1992 participates in the top league of Belarus.

History

Since 1964 the team was playing at the 3rd level of Soviet football system almost constantly, excluding two seasons (1968 and 1969) spent on 2nd level. They were close to get the promotion in 1966 and 1980, but lost the final tournament between 3rd level zone winners on both occasions.

Since 1992 Neman plays in Belarusian Premier League. In 1993 they won Belarusian Cup. The most successful years for the team were early 2000s, when they finished 4th twice in a row before finishing 2nd in 2002 after losing 1st place play-off against BATE Borisov.

Name changes

• 1964: founded as Neman Grodno
• 1973: renamed to Khimik Grodno
• 1993: renamed to Neman Grodno
• 1999: renamed to Neman-Belcard Grodno
• 2002: renamed to Neman Grodno

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League
  • Runners-up (1): 2002
• Belarusian Cup
  • Winners (1): 1993
  • Runners-up (2): 2011, 2014

Current squad

As of November 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 Uladzimir Zhuraw 3 DF Sergey Sosnovski 4 MF Serhiy Rozhok 6 DF Aleksandr Poznyak 7 MF Filip Rudzik 8 MF Paul Bebey Kingué 10 FW Dzmitry Kavalyonak 11 FW Vasily Zhurnevich 13 DF Aleksandr Pavlovets 14 DF Alyaksandr Anyukevich 16 MF Artsyom Vaskow 17 MF Yan Senkevich 18 DF Uladzislaw Kasmynin

No. Position Player 19 GK Syarhey Kurhanski 21 MF Anton Sorokin 24 FW Vladislav Klimovich 25 DF Yevgeniy Leshko 28 DF Yaroslav Yarotsky 29 FW Artur Bombel 31 DF Semen Smunev 32 MF Andrey Horbach 33 MF Yawhen Savastsyanaw 35 GK Maksim Shishlov 77 FW Artem Kontsevoy 78 DF Alyaksandr Dzemidovich 88 MF Pavel Savitski

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1964	3rd	16	30	6	6	18	16–60	18	Round of 2048
1965	3rd	11	30	9	7	14	27–34	25	Round of 1024
1966	3rd	4	32	15	10	7	38–15	40
		3	3	1	1	1	3–3	3		Final round^1
1967	3rd	2	34	15	12	7	32–20	42	Round of 4096
		1	3	3	0	0	9–0	6		Semifinal round^2
		1	1	1	0	0	3–0	2		Final round; Promoted
1968	2nd	19	40	6	17	17	20–53	29	Round of 256
1969	2nd	14	40	7	23	10	27–27	37	Round of 256
		2	2	0	2	0	2–2	2		Promotion/relegation play-off^3
1970	3rd	18	42	11	13	18	27–48	35	Round of 256
1971	3rd	12	38	11	12	15	28–36	45
1972	3rd	18	38	10	10	18	24–45	40
1973	3rd	14	32	6	11	15	24–42	19^4
1974	3rd	21	40	3	9	28	21–71	15
1975	3rd	18	34	5	6	23	22–48	16
1976	3rd	9	38	15	8	15	49–60	38
1977	3rd	6	40	17	12	11	45–36	46
1978	3rd	13	46	14	16	16	42–54	44
1979	3rd	7	46	22	13	11	56–33	57
1980	3rd	1	32	18	8	6	42–23	44
		2	4	1	3	0	5–4	5		Final round^5
1981	3rd	4	38	14	13	11	48–44	41	Group stage
1982	3rd	2	30	17	6	7	43–23	40
1983	3rd	3	32	15	11	6	35–19	41
1984	3rd	5	34	16	7	11	51–42	39
1985	3rd	4	30	15	6	9	43–27	36
1986	3rd	6	30	14	7	9	37–30	35
1987	3rd	10	34	12	6	16	33–39	30	Round of 16
1988	3rd	5	34	18	10	6	48–31	46
1989	3rd	10	42	18	8	16	46–41	44
1990	3rd	15	42	16	6	20	46–52	38	Round of 64
1991	3rd	22	42	7	9	26	32–55	23
1992									Round of 64

• ¹ Advanced to the final round for one promotion spot as the best-placed team from Belarusian SSR.
• ² 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.
• ³ As the worst-placed team from Belarusian SSR, Neman had to play promotion/relegation play-off against the best-placed Belarusian team from the 3rd level.
• ⁴ In 1973 every draw was followed by a penalty shoot-out, with a winner gaining 1 point and loser gaining 0.
• ⁵ Advanced to the final round for one promotion spot as winners of their zone.

Belarus

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	Goals	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1992	1st	5	15	9	0	6	21–17	18	Round of 16
1992–93	1st	4	32	18	9	5	39–27	45	Winners	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
1993–94	1st	11	30	8	8	16	29–41	24	Round of 32
1994–95	1st	7	30	10	11	9	26–27	31	Round of 16
1995	1st	8	15	6	1	8	20–35	19	Round of 32
1996	1st	13	30	7	8	15	25–48	29
1997	1st	10	30	10	8	12	32–41	38	Round of 16
1998	1st	10	28	8	7	13	27–44	31	Quarterfinals
1999	1st	9	30	10	7	13	36–43	37	Quarterfinals
2000	1st	4	30	17	6	7	56–29	57	Quarterfinals
2001	1st	4	26	14	8	4	44–20	50	Round of 16
2002	1st	2	27^1	17	5	5	47–21	56	Round of 16	UEFA Cup
2003	1st	7	30	10	9	11	24–35	39	Quarterfinals
2004	1st	7	30	11	7	12	37–33	40	Quarterfinals	Intertoto Cup
2005	1st	12	26	7	3	16	20–50	24	Semifinals
2006	1st	10	26	8	6	12	24–30	30	Round of 16
2007	1st	6	26	9	9	8	23–22	36	Semifinals
2008	1st	12	30	8	9	13	36–40	33	Round of 16
2009	1st	7	26	11	4	11	23–31	37	Semifinals
2010	1st	10	33	7	10	16	27–42	31	Quarterfinals
2011	1st	8	33	8	13	12	33–45	37	Runners-up
2012	1st	5	30	10	11	9	43–36	41	Semifinals
2013	1st	4	32	13	8	11	34–30	47	Round of 16
2014	1st	8	32	11	9	12	41–36	42	Runners-up	Europa League
2015	1st	8	26	8	8	10	21-32	32	Quarterfinals
2016	1st								Round of 16

• ¹ Including additional game (0–1 loss) against BATE for the first place.

Neman in Europe

As of August, 2014.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993–94	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	QR	Lugano	2–1	0–5	2–6
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR	Steaua Bucureşti	1–1	0–0	1–1
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Tescoma Zlín	0–1	0–0	0–1
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	2Q	FH Hafnarfjörður	1–1	0–2	1–3

Notes

• QR: Qualifying round
• 1R: First round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round

Managers

• Valery Yanochkin (Sept 1, 1993 – April 1, 1995)
• Sergey Solodovnikov (Sept 1, 1997 – Feb 1, 1998), (May 1, 1998 – June 30, 2005)
• Vladimir Kurnev (Jan 1, 2006 – Dec 31, 2006)
• Liudas Rumbutis (Jan 1, 2007 – Dec 31, 2007)
• Vyacheslav Akshaev (Jan 4, 2008 – July 20, 2008)
• Oleg Radushko (July 21, 2008 – July 19, 2010)
• Aleksandr Koreshkov (June 25, 2010 – Aug 11, 2011)
• Petr Kachuro (caretaker) (Aug 13, 2011 – Aug 15, 2011)
• Sergey Solodovnikov (Aug 16, 2011 – Apr 26, 2016)
• Oleg Kirenya (caretaker) (Apr 26, 2016 – Jun 16, 2016)
• Igor Kovalevich (Jun 17, 2016 –)

References

1. "ОБЩАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ". Fcneman.by. ФК «НЕМАН». Retrieved 1 February 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Neman Grodno at UEFA.COM