FC MTZ-RIPO

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FC MTZ-RIPO

Full name

Football Club MTZ-RIPO

Nickname(s)

Traktor Boys

Founded

1947

Ground

Traktor Stadium, Minsk
(Capacity 17,600)

Chairman

Mikhail Yuferev

Manager

Yuri Puntus

League

Belarusian Premier League

2006

3rd





Home colours





Away colours

FC MTZ-RIPO is a Belarusian Premier League football team (formerly known as FC Traktor and FC MTZ), part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas. The club made their top flight debut in 2004.

1 History
2 Achievements
3 UEFA Cup 2005-06
- 3.1 First Qualifying Round
- 3.2 Second Qualifying Round
4 Managers
5 Current squad
6 External links

[edit] History

Established in 1947 during building of Minsk Traktor Plant (MTZ) as a sport section for construction workers (including German POW) and later for local factory personnel. This sport section was transformed to a professional football team in 1948.

1947 established
2002 Merged with RIPO (“Trudovye Rezervy-RIPO”) to create FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk

Recently announced a possible name change before the start of next season.^{[citation needed]}

Season	League	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Notes
2002	3D	1	24	22	2	0	102	21	68		Promoted
2003	2D	1	30	22	4	4	63	15	70	2nd Round	Promoted
2004	1D	15	30	6	9	15	32	56	27	3rd Round	Relegation Playoff
2005	1D	3	26	16	1	9	43	30	49	Winner	UEFA Cup
2006	1D	4	26	16	3	7	54	24	51	3rd Round	UEFA Intertoto Cup
2007	1D	5	26	11	9	6	32	25	42

[edit] Achievements

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Champion: 2

1948, 1949

Belarusian Cup: 2

2005, 2008

[edit] UEFA Cup 2005-06

[edit] First Qualifying Round

First leg 14 July 2005
Ferencvárosi TC 0 – 2 FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk
Second leg 28 July 2005
FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk 1 – 2 Ferencvárosi TC

[edit] Second Qualifying Round

First leg, 11 August 2005
MTZ-RIPO Minsk 1 – 1 FK Teplice
Second leg 25 August 2005. Progressing teams shown in bold
FK Teplice 2–1 MTZ-RIPO Minsk

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ferencvárosi TC	2-3	FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk	0-2	2-1
MTZ-RIPO Minsk	2-3	FK Teplice	1-1	1-2

[edit] Managers

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
12	GK	Pavel Chesnovski
25	GK	Denis Dechko
1	GK	Aleksandr Sulima
19	DF	Anton Bubnov
33	DF	Aleksandr Bucha
4	DF	Artem Fedorchenko
16	DF	Nikolai Osipovich
14	DF	Oleg Popel
34	DF	Evgeni Snopko
23	DF	Aleksandr Stashchenyuk
3	DF	Valeri Tarasenko
5	DF	Janko Valkanov
32	DF	Maksim Vitus
11	MF	Mikhail Afanasev
18	MF	Maksim Bordachev

No.	Position	Player
2	MF	Aleksandr Bylina
9	MF	Mikhail Eremchuk
17	MF	Sergiu Japalau
13	MF	Igor Maltsev
10	MF	Denis Sashcheko
8	MF	Dmitri Shegrikovich
15	MF	Adama Soro
	MF	Oleg Strakhanovich
21	FW	Ilgiz Fattakhov
20	FW	Vyacheslav Hleb
41	FW	Dmitri Kharitonchik
28	FW	Sergey Kisli
7	FW	Artem Kontsevoy
6	FW	Bojan Mamic
	FW	Ryhor Zubovich