FC Slavia Mozyr

Slavia Mozyr
Full name	Football Club Slavia Mozyr
Founded	1987; 37 years ago
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	https://fcslavia.by/
Home colours	Away colours

FC Slavia Mozyr or FK Slaviya Mazyr (Belarusian: ФК Славія Мазыр, Russian: Славия-Мозырь) is a Belarusian professional football club based in Mazyr, Belarus.

History

The team was founded in 1987 as Polessie (Polesia). 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 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 (Belarusian: Палессе, Russian: Полесье)
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

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 September 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
4	MF	BLR	Daniil Prudnik
5	MF	BLR	Sergey Tikhonovsky
8	MF	BLR	Valyantsin Bandarenka
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
20	FW	BLR	Ivan Grudko
21	MF	KGZ	Ermek Kenzhebayev
22	GK	UKR	Denys Shelikhov


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
25	DF	KAZ	Aleksandr Shirobokov
27	MF	BLR	Pavel Chikida
30	FW	BLR	Andrey Solovey
31	DF	BLR	Andrey Zaleski
49	MF	BLR	Aleksandr Dzhigero
58	MF	RUS	Maksim Khachatryan
59	MF	BLR	Nikolay Ryabykh
63	FW	BLR	Kiryl Sidarenka
77	FW	CIV	Lamah Bamba
88	FW	BLR	Nikita Yakimovich
90	GK	BLR	Artem Makavchik
93	DF	RUS	Georgi Bugulov
99	FW	NGA	Joseph Adah

League and Cup history

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF–GA	Points	Domestic Cup	Notes
1992	2nd	7	15	5	6	4	18–22	16	Round of 64
1992–93	2nd	2	30	22	5	3	54–14	49	Round of 64
1993–94	2nd	2	28	19	5	4	48–18	43	Round of 32
1994–95	2nd	1	30	24	3	3	106–17	51	Quarter-finals	Promoted
1995	1st	2	15	11	3	1	44–9	36	Winners
1996	1st	1	30	24	4	2	64–17	76	Winners
1997	1st	6	30	12	7	11	39–30	43	Round of 16
1998	1st	6	28	12	9	7	41–36	45	Quarter-finals
1999	1st	2	30	20	5	5	74–25	65	Runners-up
2000	1st	1	30	23	5	2	78–25	74	Winners
2001	1st	7	26	13	5	8	49–27	44	Runners-up
2002	1st	11	26	6	6	14	38–61	24	Quarter-finals
2003	1st	14	30	6	7	17	29–64	25	Round of 16
2004	1st	12	30	9	4	17	32–51	31	Round of 32
2005	1st	14	26	2	5	19	14–60	11	Round of 16	Relegated
2006	2nd	4	26	11	10	5	44–24	43	Round of 16
2007	2nd	13	26	4	6	16	26–44	18	Round of 32
2008	2nd	13	26	6	5	15	33–62	23	Round of 32
2009	2nd	13	27¹	5	8	14	23–41	23	Round of 32
2010	2nd	9	30	10	7	13	33–44	37	Round of 16
2011	2nd	1	30	22	5	3	53–15	71	Round of 32	Promoted
2012	1st	10	30	7	6	17	22–58	27	Round of 32
2013	1st	12	32	5	8	19	24–47	23	Round of 16	Relegated
2014	2nd	2	30	18	6	6	55–38	60	Round of 16	Promoted
2015	1st	10	26	7	5	14	33–50	26	Round of 32
2016	1st	10	30	9	8	13	33–49	35	Round of 16
2017	1st	15	30	4	8	18	26–50	20	Round of 16	Relegated
2018	2nd	1	30	21	7	0	69–13	70	Round of 32	Promoted
2019	1st	8	30	10	7	13	35–40	37	Round of 16

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)
1997–98	UEFA Champions League	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)
2001–02	UEFA Champions League	2Q	Inter Bratislava	0–1 (H)	0–1 (A)