Belarus national football team

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Belarus
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Nickname -
Association Football Federation of Belarus
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Head coach Flag of Belarus Yuri Puntus (2006-)
Most caps Sergei Gurenko (80)
Top scorer Maxim Romaschenko (14)
Home stadium Dinamo Stadium
FIFA code BLR
FIFA ranking 66
Highest FIFA ranking 59 (November 2005)
Lowest FIFA ranking 142 (March 1994)
Elo ranking 66
Team colours Team colours Team colours
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First kit
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Second kit
First international
Flag of Lithuania Lithuania 1 - 1 Belarus Flag of Belarus
(Vilnius, Lithuania; July 20, 1992)
Biggest win
Flag of Belarus Belarus 5 - 0 Lithuania Flag of Lithuania
(Minsk, Belarus; June 7, 1998)
Biggest defeat
Flag of Austria Austria 5 - 0 Belarus Flag of Belarus
(Innsbruck, Austria; June 11, 2003)

The Belarus national football team is the national football team of Belarus and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus. After the split of Soviet Union, they played their first match against Lithuania on July 20, 1992. Before that, Belarus players played for the USSR national football team.

The team plays its home matches at Dinamo Stadium (Minsk).

On May 24th, 2006, Belarus rallied for a surprise 2 - 1 victory over England B Team. It was their first shock victory since their 1 - 0 sucsess over the Netherlands in a Euro 96 qualifier in Minsk during 1995, the match seen the winning goal come from a very wide angle from the Dutch net.

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See World Cup 2006 Qualification details

The following players named for Euro 2008 qualifying match against Luxembourg on March 24, 2007. (Shirt Numbers from ECQ matches of October 2006)

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club
1 GK Vladimir Gaev 28 October 1977 ? 0 Flag of Ukraine FC Chornomorets Odessa
-- GK Yuri Zhevnov 17 April 1981 13 0 Flag of Russia FK Moscow
-- GK Vasily Khomutovsky 30 August 1978 21 0 Flag of Russia FC Tom Tomsk


No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club
4 DF Sergei Omelyanchuk 8 August 1980 35 1 Flag of Russia FC Shinnik Yaroslavl
5 DF Sergei Shtanyuk 13 August 1973 68 3 Flag of Russia FC Luch-Energia Vladivostok
16 DF Artem Radkov 26 August 1985 ? 0 Flag of Belarus FC BATE
-- DF Dmitry Lentsevich 20 June 1983 7 0 Flag of Russia Torpedo Moscow
-- DF Aliaksandr Yurevich 8 August 1979 8 0 Flag of Belarus FC Shakhtyor
-- DF Artem Chelyadinsky 29 December 1977 6 0 Flag of Ukraine FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhya


No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club
2 MF Aliaksandr Kulchiy 1 November 1973 61 5 Flag of Russia FC Tom Tomsk
3 MF Denis Kovba 6 September 1976 35 2 Flag of Russia FC Krylya Sovetov
8 MF Timofei Kalachev 1 May 1981 20 1 Flag of Russia FC Rostov
13 MF Aliaksandr Hleb 1 May 1981 27 4 Flag of England Arsenal FC
17 MF Vladimir Korytko 6 July 1979 23 2 Flag of Ukraine Chernomorets Odessa
18 MF Oleg Strakhanovich 13 November 1979 7 0 Flag of Lithuania FBK Kaunas
-- MF Dmitri Likhtarovich 1 March 1978 ? ? Flag of Belarus FC BATE


No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club
14 FW Artem Kontsevoy 20 May 1983 9 0 Flag of Belarus FC MTZ-RIPO
15 FW Vyacheslav Hleb 12 February 1983 14 5 Flag of Lithuania FBK Kaunas
19 FW Leonid Kovel 29 July 1986 ? 1 Flag of Ukraine FC Karpaty Lviv
21 FW Sergei Kornilenko 14 June 1983 15 7 Flag of Ukraine Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
-- FW Vitali Kutuzov 20 March 1980 32 9 Flag of Italy Parma F.C.
-- FW Gennadi Bliznyuk 30 July 1980 3 1 Flag of Belarus FC BATE


The following players have all recently been called up to the Belarus squad. Bracket shows last call-up time.

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club
-- DF Pavel Plaskonny 29 January 1985 2 0 Flag of Belarus FC Shakhtyor (friendly v. Iran, 7 February.)
-- MF Andrey Poryvayev 3 January 1982 1 0 Flag of Russia FC SKA-Energia Khabarovsk (friendly v. Iran, 7 February.)
-- FW Aliaksandr Klimenko 28 March 1983 1 0 Flag of Belarus FC Shakhtyor (friendly v. Iran, 7 February.)


Manager Belarus career
Mihail Verhejenka October 28, 1992 - May 25, 1994
Siarhej Barouski August 17, 1994 - October 9, 1996
Mihail Verhejenka January 5, 1997 - September 8, 1999
Siarhej Barouski October 9, 1999 - June 4, 2000
Eduard Malofeev August 16, 2000 - June 12, 2003
Valery Stralcou (caretaker) September 7, 2002
Anatoly Baidachny August 8, 2003 - December 10, 2005
Yuri Puntus February 24, 2006 - Present


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