FC Belshina Bobruisk (, ''FK Belshyna Babruisk'') is a

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ian

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club based in

Bobruisk Babruysk (, ) or Bobruysk (, ; , ) is a city in Mogilev Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Babruysk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. It is situated on the Berezina River. Babruysk o ...

. The team has won one

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title, as well as 3

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titles.

History of the club and football in Bobruisk

The city of Bobruisk was represented by its football team as early as 1920s, when in 1926 a collective football team of Bobruisk city won the Belarusian football championship. Winning in 1926, Bobruisk football team became the first from a provincial city that won the republican competitions. Until 1958, it was the only achievement of the Bobruisk football. In 1958, ''Spartak Bobruisk'' became a champion of Belarus donating the second title to the Bobruisk city football. In 1972 and 1973, ''Stroitel Bobruisk'' also won a title of the champion of Belarus. The current club was founded in 1976 as Shinnik Bobruisk. Since the inception the team was attached to and later sponsored by local tire manufacturing company

Belshina Belshina (, ) is a tire, tyre manufacturer in Belarus. The name is an abbreviation for "Belaruskaya shina", or "Belarusian Tyre". The Belarusian tyre works is located in the Belarusian industrial city Babruysk. Belshina produces over 180 tyre s ...

. The club spent most of Soviet-era seasons in the

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league (with a couple of seasons in the Mogilev Oblast league). Shinnik won the league title twice (in 1978 and 1987) and also won the Belarusian SSR Cup in 1979. In 1992, Shinnik joined the

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and in 1994, they were promoted to the

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. In 1996, they were renamed to Belshina Bobruisk. The club's most successful seasons came in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Belshina won the champions title in 2001, finished as runners-up in 1997 and won the

three times (1997, 1999, 2001).

Name changes

*1976: Founded as Shinnik Bobruisk *1996: Renamed to Belshina Bobruisk

Honours

** ''Winners (1):''

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

** ''Runners-up (1):''

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

** ''3rd place (2):''

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

** ''Winners (3):''

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Current squad

Domestic results

*¹ 3 points deducted for unpaid transfer. *² 2 points deducted due to transfer irregularities in the previous season.

European results

Managers

* Liudas Rumbutis (July 1, 1998 – Dec 31, 1999), (Jan 1, 2003 – Dec 31, 2003) * Vladimir Gevorkyan (Jan 1, 2003 – Jan 13, 2004) * Oleg Volokh ''(interim)'' (May 14, 2004 – May 27, 2004) * Sergei Borovsky (Sept 3, 2004 – Dec 31, 2004) * Oleg Volokh (Jan 1, 2006 – May 11, 2006) * Mikhail Markhel (May 16, 2006 – Dec 31, 2006) * Aleksandr Sednyov (Jan 1, 2009 – Nov 30, 2011) * Sergey Yaromko (Jan 1, 2012 – July 21, 2012) * Vitaliy Pavlov ''(caretaker)'' (July 21, 2012 – July 23, 2012) * Aleksandr Sednyov (July 23, 2012 – December 31, 2015) * Vitaliy Pavlov (January 1, 2016 – )

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Belshina Bobruislk Football clubs in Belarus Association football clubs established in 1976 Babruysk 1976 establishments in Belarus