FC Torpedo Minsk

{{Short description|Association football club in Belarus}}

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| clubname = Torpedo Minsk

| image = FC Torpedo Minsk logo.svg

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| fullname = FC Torpedo Minsk

| nickname = Чорна-белыя (The Black-Whites)
Аўтазаводцы (Car factory men)

| founded = {{start date and age|1947}}

| dissolved =

| ground = Torpedo Stadium, Minsk

| capacity = 4,800

| chrtitle =

| chairman =

| mgrtitle = Head coach

| manager = Aleksandr Mostovich

| league = Belarusian Second League

| season = 2019

| position = Premier League, 16th (withdrew)

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{{for|a team with similar name, Torpedo-MTZ Minsk|FC Traktor Minsk}}

FC Torpedo Minsk or PFK Tarpeda Minsk ({{langx|be|ПФК Тарпеда Мінск}}; {{langx|ru|link=no|ПФК Торпедо Минск}}) is a Belarusian football club, playing in Minsk. The team plays their home games at the Torpedo Stadium in Minsk, which holds 4,800 people. They currently play in Belarusian Second League.

History

File:Torpedo Minsk — Dynamo Brest (Belarusian Premier League, 02-06-2018) 01.jpg

During Soviet years, Torpedo was playing in the Belarusian SSR top league and won championships in 1947, 1962, 1966, 1967 and 1969.

The team was playing in the Belarusian Premier League since 1992. Their most successful years were in the early 2000s, when the team finished in 4th position twice in a row (2002, 2003) and reached the final of the Belarusian Cup (2000).

In early 2005, Torpedo-SKA lost financial support from their sponsor and, after losing almost all their main squad and not having funds to pay entrance fee for next season's Premiere League, had to relegate to the Second League. Torpedo-SKA won the Second League in 2005, but at the end of the season, the club was disbanded. The owner moved to a new football team, named FC Minsk (legally a successor of Smena Minsk), which also used the same office and stadium as disbanded Torpedo-SKA. Only one player from Torpedo-SKA 2005 squad joined Minsk.

In 2007, the team was reformed as Torpedo-MAZ and started playing in Minsk championship, which is a part of KFK, Belarusian amateur league (4th lever in league pyramid).{{cite web|title=Тарпеда Менск. 2000–ыя гады |url=http://tarpeda.org/?page_id=341 |access-date=2009-07-05 |publisher=tarpeda.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313181253/http://tarpeda.org/?page_id=341 |archive-date=2014-03-13 }} In 2009, the team finished in 3rd position and was eligible to represent Minsk in the final tournament for two promotion spots to the Second League (as the first two teams either declined or weren't eligible), but finished on the 3rd position.{{cite web |title=Тарпеда Менск. Сезон 2009 |url=http://tarpeda.org/?page_id=13 |access-date=2009-04-03 |publisher=tarpeda.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090920144819/http://tarpeda.org/?page_id=13 |archive-date=2009-09-20 }} Successful performance in Minsk championship and cup allowed them to qualify for Belarusian Cup twice (2009 and 2010), but they were eliminated from the tournament after the first game both times.

In 2014, the team rejoined Belarusian Second League under their original name Torpedo Minsk, and in the following year was won the promotion into Belarusian First League. In 2018, they were promoted to the Belarusian Premier League as a replacement for Krumkachy Minsk, who had their Premier League license revoked due to debts.

Midway through the 2019 season, Torpedo withdrew from the Premier League due to lack of financing. All their remaining matches were forfeited 0–3 in favor of their opponents.[http://abff.by/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=5612&category_id=2&Itemid=106&lang=ru Минское «Торпедо» снимается с чемпионата Беларуси]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;Name changes:

  • 1947: Torpedo (Tarpeda)
  • 1999: Torpedo-MAZ (Tarpeda-MAZ)
  • 2003: Torpedo-SKA (Tarpeda-SKA)
  • 2005: disbanded
  • 2007: Torpedo-MAZ
  • 2014: Torpedo

Current squad

As of October 2023

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{{Fs player|no=|name=Denis Karbanovich|nat=BLR|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Vadzim Lebedzew|nat=BLR|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Aleksandr Ozhigin|nat=BLR|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Dmitriy Bortnik|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Ilya Denisenya|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Yevgeniy Zaboronko|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Nikita Skuratovets|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Ruslan Strelchenya|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Aleksey Tseluyev|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Vladislav Shut|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Vladislav Yakavitskiy|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Yevgeniy Yastremskiy|nat=BLR|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Ivan Bashkov|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Ivan Grusha|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

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{{Fs player|no=|name=Aleksey Demidovich|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Artem Korenevskiy|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Maksim Kuratskiy|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Yegor Lobakh|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Vladislav Tsurko|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Maksim Sharendo|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Zakhar Yakubtsevich|nat=BLR|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Dzmitry Ivanovich|nat=BLR|pos=FW}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Kanstantsin Kazakow|nat=BLR|pos=FW}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Maksim Mozol|nat=BLR|pos=FW}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Andrey Novik|nat=BLR|pos=FW}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Yevgeniy Pashkevich|nat=BLR|pos=FW}}

{{Fs player|no=|name=Rostislav Sery|nat=BLR|pos=FW}}

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Honours

League and Cup history

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!width=55|Season

!width=50|{{Tooltip|Level|League level}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|Pos|Position}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|Pld|Played}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|W|Won}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}

!width=30|{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}

!width=60|Goals

!width=45|Points

!Domestic Cup

!Notes

19921st101553715–1713Quarter-finals
1992–931st93210101229–3330Round of 32
1993–941st630915618–1833Quarter-finals
1994–951st6301110936–2932Round of 16
19951st91553712–2718rowspan="2"|Round of 32
19961st1230781532–5329
19971st8301261245–4342Round of 16
19981st728128844–2244Round of 16
19991st10301051531–4735style="background:#cc9966"|Semi-finals
20001st8301310745–2849style="background:silver"|Runners-up
20011st826107931–3237Round of 16
20021st426156530–1651Round of 16
20031st430197454–2064Round of 16
20041st6301371037–3146Round of 32Bankrupted, relegated
2005style="background:#A3E9FF"| 3rd126224075–970Round of 16Disbanded
2006colspan="8"|Round of 64
2007style="background:#FEC9C9"| 4th52083937-4227
2008style="background:#FEC9C9"| 4th51443719-3315
2009style="background:#FEC9C9"| 4th3
2010style="background:#FEC9C9"| 4th418102635-1732Round of 64
2011style="background:#FEC9C9"| 4th11493240-1430Round of 64
2012style="background:#FEC9C9"| 4th31472525–2023
2013style="background:#FEC9C9"| 4th922741136–3825
2014style="background:#A3E9FF"| 3rd62285928–2629
2015style="background:#A3E9FF"| 3rd418104427–1334Round of 128promoted
2016style="background:#D0F0C0"| 2nd926961135–3633Round of 64
2017style="background:#D0F0C0"| 2nd330176760–2957Round of 32promoted
20181st1430661820–4124Round of 32
20191st163013264–636Round of 16Withdrew, relegated
2020colspan="8"|Round of 16Disbanded

References

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