Krumkachy Minsk

Full name	Football Club NFK Minsk
Nickname(s)	Ravens
Founded	2011; 13 years ago (2011)
Ground	SOK Alimpijski, Minsk
Capacity	1,500
Chairman	Oleg Davidovich
Head Coach	Syarhey Kazeka
League	Belarusian Second League
2022	2nd
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

NFC Krumkachy Minsk (Belarusian: HФК Крумкачы Мінск, Russian: НФК Крумкачы) is a Belarusian professional football club based in the capital city of Minsk.

History

The club was founded in 2011 by a group of football fans. The club was named after the Belarusian word for ravens. After competing in the Belarusian amateur leagues for a few seasons, they joined the Belarusian Second League, the third division of Belarusian football, in 2014.^[1] With the help of some experienced players, the team was able to finish 2nd in their debut season in the third tier and was promoted to the Belarusian First League for the 2015 season. At the end of the 2015 season, Krumkachy successfully completed back-to-back promotions and were promoted to the Belarusian Premier League for the first time in their history after a 2–0 win against Dnepr Mogilev.

Their first ever season in the Belarusian top flight was successful as they finished in 11th place. They followed this up with a good second season, again finishing in mid-table in 13th place. In early 2018, however, Krumkachy were excluded from the Premier League and demoted to the Second League due to persistent financial issues and payment delays as well as licensing issues.^[2] The club was restarted as a new legal entity. They finished 2nd in the 2018 Second League season and were again promoted to the First League.

In early 2019, the club changed its name to NFK Minsk to avoid BFF membership clash with the old Krumkachy legal entity. In 2020, the naming issue was resolved, and the club's name was reverted to the original Krumkachy Minsk.

Current squad

As of October 2023 ^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  BLR Vladimir Bushma — GK  BLR Kirill Khomich — DF  BLR Daniil Volkov — DF  BLR Gleb Krivtsov — DF  BLR Andrey Kukhotskovolets — DF  BLR Pavel Ratskevich — DF  BLR Ilya Sugakov — DF  BLR Stanislav Khodanovich — DF  BLR Vladislav Khomutovskiy — MF  BLR Sergey Yakimtsov — MF  BLR Dmitry Vashkel — MF  BLR Yevgeniy Gordeychik — MF  BLR Daniil Dubrovskiy — MF  BLR Ilya Zaytsev — MF  BLR Syarhey Kazeka — MF  BLR Marat Kozyrev

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  BLR Konstantin Kuimov — MF  BLR Artem Kuratnik — MF  BLR Nikita Ovsyanik — MF  BLR Maksim Pavlovets — MF  BLR Vadim Prokopenko — MF  BLR Arseniy Starikov — MF  BLR Nikita Yukhnovich — FW  BLR Yegor Antonovich — FW  BLR Ivan Kalenskiy — FW  BLR Ivan Korzhenevskiy — FW  BLR Ilya Kuralenko — FW  BLR Yanush Ladutko — FW  BLR Sergey Lipnitskiy — FW  BLR Sergey Lynko — FW  BLR Pavel Schuka