Neman Grodno

Full name	Football Club Neman Grodno[1]
Founded	1964; 60 years ago (1964)
Ground	Neman Stadium, Grodno
Capacity	8,479
Chairman	Ivan Vorsovich
Manager	Igor Kovalevich
League	Belarusian Premier League
2023	Belarusian Premier League, 2nd of 15
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Neman Grodno (Belarusian: ФК Нёман Гродна, FK Nioman Hrodna; Russian: ФК Неман Гродно) is a Belarusian football club based in the city of Grodno, named after the Neman River and was founded in 1964. Since 1992, the team has participated in the highest division of Belarusian football league system.

History

Since 1964, the team was playing in the third tier of the Soviet football system almost constantly, excluding two seasons (1968 and 1969) spent in the second tier. Since 1992, Neman plays in the Belarusian Premier League. In 1993, they won the Belarusian Cup. The most successful years for the team were in the early 2000s, when they finished fourth twice in a row before finishing second in 2002 after losing the first 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 (2): 2002, 2023
• Belarusian Cup
  • Winners (1): 1993
  • Runners-up (2): 2011, 2014

Current squad

As of March 2024^[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BLR Artur Maliyevsky 4 DF  RUS Andrei Vasilyev 5 DF  BLR Yegor Parkhomenko 7 FW  CMR Leonard Gweth 8 DF  UKR Yuriy Pantya 9 MF  MDA Igor Costrov 10 MF  KGZ Gulzhigit Alykulov 11 MF  BLR Ilya Kukharchik 12 GK  BLR Maksim Belov 13 MF  BLR Aleksey Dayneko 14 DF  BLR Alyaksandr Anyukevich 15 MF  BLR Oleg Yevdokimov 17 FW  BLR Yahor Zubovich 18 FW  BLR Maksim Kravtsov

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  BLR Ivan Sadownichy 21 MF  BLR Sergey Guzarevich 23 MF  BLR Ruslan Lisakovich 24 MF  BLR Andrey Yakimov 32 MF  BLR Yury Pavlyukovets 33 DF  BLR Sergey Karpovich 35 GK  BLR Kirill Veydyger 46 MF  BLR Aleksey Legchilin 47 MF  BLR Mikhail Kazlow 55 DF  BLR Aleksey Lavrik 88 MF  BLR Pavel Savitsky 90 DF  BLR Uladzislaw Kasmynin 99 MF  BLR Vladislav Varaksa

League and Cup history

Soviet Union

• ¹ Advanced to the final round for one promotion spot as the best-placed team from Belarusian SSR.
• ² Advanced to the semi-final 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 the 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

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

Neman in Europe

As of match played 17 August 2023

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 București	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
2023–24	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q	Vaduz	1–1	2–1	3–2
		2Q	Balzan	2–0	0−0	2−0
		3Q	Celje	1–4	0–1	1–5
2024–25	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q

Managers

• Vyacheslav Sivakov
• 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 Akshayev (Jan 4, 2008 – July 20, 2008)
• Oleg Radushko (July 21, 2008 – July 19, 2010)
• Aleksandr Koreshkov (June 25, 2010 – Aug 11, 2011)
• Pyotr Kachura (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 –)