FC Neman Grodno

For other uses, see Neman (disambiguation).

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
1966	3rd	3	3	1	1	1	3–3	3		Final round¹
1967	3rd	2	34	15	12	7	32–20	42	Round of 4096
		1	3	3	0	0	9–0	6		Semifinal round²
		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
1969	2nd	2	2	0	2	0	2–2	2	Round of 256	Promotion/relegation play-off³
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	19⁴
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
1980	3rd	2	4	1	3	0	5–4	5		Final round⁵
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	Round of 32
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	27¹	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

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

External links

Belarusian Premier League clubs

Current (2017)	BATE Borisov Dinamo Brest Dinamo Minsk Dnepr Mogilev Gomel Gorodeya Isloch Minsk Raion Krumkachy Minsk Minsk Naftan Novopolotsk Neman Grodno Shakhtyor Soligorsk Slavia Mozyr Slutsk Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Vitebsk

Former	Belshina Bobruisk Granit Mikashevichi Lida Molodechno-2000 Smorgon Svisloch-Krovlya Osipovichi Torpedo-SKA Minsk Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev Zvezda-BGU Minsk

Defunct	Ataka Minsk Bobruisk Darida Minsk Raion Dinamo-93 Minsk Kommunalnik Slonim Lokomotiv Minsk Lokomotiv Vitebsk Partizan Minsk Savit Mogilev Stroitel Starye Dorogi Vedrich-97 Rechitsa

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