FC Slavia Mozyr or FK Slaviya Mazyr (, ) is a

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ian professional

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club based in Mazyr,

History

The team was founded in 1987 as Polessie (

Polesia Polesia, also called Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye, is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the East European Plain, including the Belarus–Ukraine border region and part of eastern Poland. This region shou ...

). 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 Mazyr since the 1994–95 season. MPKC stands for the Mazyr Industrial-Commercial Center. They won the First League the same year and made their debut in the

Belarusian Premier League The Belarusian Premier League (, ''Vyšejšaja Liha'' or ''Vysheyshaya Liga''; ; "Top League"), also called the BETERA Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Belarus and the highest level of the B ...

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 (Slaviya) 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 (Slaviya).

Name changes

* 1987: Founded as Palyessye Mazyr/Polesye Mozyr (, ) * 1994: Renamed FC MPKC Mazyr * 1998: Renamed FC Slavia Mazyr * 2006: Merged with ZLiN Gomel and renamed FC Mozyr-ZLiN/Mazyr-ZLiN * 2007: Renamed FC Mozyr / Mazyr * 2008: Renamed FC Slavia Mazyr

Honours

**Winners (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 ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

**Runners-up (2):

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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 ...

* Belarusian First League **Winners (3): 1994–95,

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

**Runners-up (3): 1992–93, 1993–94,

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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**Winners (2): 1995–96, 1999–00 **Runners-up (2): 1998–99, 2000–01

Current squad

''As of April 2025''

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

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–)

References

External links

* Football clubs in Belarus 1987 establishments in Belarus Association football clubs established in 1987 {{Belarus-footyclub-stub