FC BATE Borisov
Founded: 1996
Colors: yellow, blue
Ground: Borisov-Arena (13 121 seats)
Chairman: Andrei Kapsky
CEO: Mikhail Dementsevich
Head coach: Kirill Alshevsky
Position in 2019 domestic league: 2
Lineup average age: 27,2 years
Titles:
Champions of Belarus: 15 titles
Belarusian Cup: 3
Belarusian Super Cup: 7
2019 season
Last season Borisov side didn’t win the domestic league for the first time in 13 years. FC Dynamo Brest managed to leave them 5 points behind.
As for the national cup, BATE have reached the quarterfinal, where they’ll face FC Dynamo Minsk.
In 2019/2020 Champions League second qualifying round BATE lost against Rosenborg BK on aggregate (2:1 at home, 0:2 away). In the Europa League play-off round they were defeated by FC Astana (0:2 at home, 0:3 away).
Lineup
BATE have seven foreign performers in their lineup (30%).
Last year midfielder Ihar Stasevich became the best player of Belarus. Serbian defender Aleksandar Filipovic made the biggest number of appearances in 2019 (42). The best striker of the team was Stanislaw Drahun with 16 goals to his name.
Coach
38-year-old Kirill Alshevsky didn’t have outstanding career of player and started coaching in 2004. In 2009 he worked with Dynamo Minsk reserve team and first team.
In 2012 he became a deputy CEO of FC BATE Borisov. In 2014-2018 Alshevsky was in charge of Belarusian youth teams.
In 2019 he took charge of Bate youth team and won the league. On January 1 2020 he became the first team head coach.
Opposition history
Dynamo faced BATE for the first time in 2008 at the CIS Cup and played in a draw – 1:1.
Two years later these two sides opposed each other in the Europa League group stage. The first game in Kyiv ended in a draw – 2:2 – while in Borisov the White-Blues flattened BATE 4:1.
