Slavia Mozyr

Full name	Football Club Slavia Mozyr
Founded	1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Ground	Yunost Stadium, Mozyr, Belarus
Capacity	5,300
Chairman	Andrey Vasilets
Manager	Ivan Bionchik
League	Belarusian Premier League
2023	Belarusian Premier League, 7th of 15
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Slavia Mozyr (Belarusian: ФК Славія Мазыр, FK Slavija Mazyr) is a Belarusian football club based in Mozyr, Belarus.

History

The team was founded in 1987 as Polesie Mozyr. Between 1987 and 1991, they played in the Belarusian SSR league. From 1992 till 1995, they played in the Belarusian First League. They changed their name to MPKC Mozyr since the 1994–95 season. MPKC stands for the Mozyr Industrial-Commercial Center. They won the First League the same year and made their debut in the Belarusian Premier League in fall 1995 season.

They finished second in 1995 and won the championship in 1996, becoming the first team other than Dinamo Minsk to win it. After changing their name to Slavia Mozyr in 1998, they again finished second in 1999 and won the title in 2000. After that, the results deteriorated and in 2005 they finished last and were relegated.

After the relegation, they had to merge with ZLiN Gomel in order for both teams to survive in any form due to financial problems. The new team went through a number of name changes before arriving with the current name, FC Slavia Mazyr.

Name changes

• 1987: Founded as FC Polesye Mozyr
• 1994: Renamed FC MPKC Mozyr
• 1998: Renamed FC Slavia Mozyr
• 2006: Merged with ZLiN Gomel and renamed FC Mozyr-ZLiN
• 2007: Renamed FC Mozyr
• 2008: Renamed FC Slavia Mozyr

Honours

• Belarusian Premier League

Winners (2): 1996, 2000

Runners-up (2): 1995, 1999

• Belarusian First League

Winners (3): 1994–95, 2011, 2018

Runners-up (3): 1992–93, 1993–94, 2014

• Belarusian Cup

Winners (2): 1995–96, 1999–00

Runners-up (2): 1998–99, 2000–01

Current squad

As of March 2024 ^[1]

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  RUS Aleksei Kozlov 2 DF  BLR Aleksandr Chizh 4 MF  BLR Daniil Prudnik 5 MF  BLR Sergey Tikhonovsky 6 MF  MDA Cristian Dros 7 FW  BLR Roman Gribovsky 9 MF  UKR Oleksandr Batyshchev 11 MF  BLR Yuliy Kuznetsov 12 DF  BLR Alyaksey Ivanow 13 MF  BLR Vladislav Poloz 14 MF  BLR Sergey Sazonchik 15 MF  BLR Andrey Shamruk 17 MF  BLR Pavel Kotlyarov

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  BLR Ivan Grudko 21 MF  KGZ Ermek Kenzhebayev 22 GK  BLR Yevgeny Ivanenko 27 MF  BLR Pavel Chikida 30 FW  BLR Andrey Solovey 31 DF  BLR Andrey Zaleski 34 GK  BLR Artyom Soroko 49 MF  BLR Aleksandr Dzhigero 59 MF  BLR Nikolay Ryabykh 88 MF  BLR Kirill Kirilenko 93 DF  RUS Georgi Bugulov — FW  BLR Vladislav Lozhkin

League and Cup history

• ¹ Including additional game (2–1 win) for the 13th place, which was necessary as Slavia-Mozyr gained the same number of points as Spartak Shklov while only one team should be relegated.

Slavia in European Cups

Season	Competition	Round		Club	1st Leg	2nd Leg
1996–97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	QR		KR Reykjavík	2–2 (H)	0–1 (A)
1997–98	UEFA Champions League	1Q		Constructorul Chişinău	1–1 (A)	3–2 (H)
		2Q		Olympiacos	0–5 (A)	2–2 (H)
1997–98	UEFA Cup	1R		Dinamo Tbilisi	1–1 (H)	0–1 (A)
2000–01	UEFA Cup	1Q		Maccabi Haifa	1–1 (H)	0–0 (A)
2001–02	UEFA Champions League	1Q		VB Vágur	0–0 (A)	5–0 (H)
		2Q		Inter Bratislava	0–1 (H)	0–1 (A)

Managers

• Anatoliy Yurevich (1993–1997)
• Aleksandr Bubnov (1997–1998)
• Aleksandr Kuznetsov (1998–2000)
• Vlad Petrovich (1998–2000)
• Pavel Radnyonak (2001–02)
• Aleksandr Prazhnikov (2002–03)
• Vladimir Kurnev (2003–04)
• Andrey Sosnitsky (2004–05)
• Aleksandr Belan (2005)
• Ilia Karp (2005)
• Ihar Fralov (2006)
• Vyacheslav Shevchyk (2008)
• Sergey Yasinsky (2008–09)
• Vyacheslav Shevchyk (2009)
• Vitaliy Pavlov (2009)
• Yury Maleyew (2010–14)
• Yury Puntus (2014–17)
• Mikhail Martinovich (2018–)