The Belarus national football team ( belarusian : Нацыянальная зборная Беларусі па футболе / Nacyjanalnaja zbornaja Biełarusi pa futbole ) represents Belarus in external football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus ‘ home ground is Dinamo Stadium in Minsk. Since independence in 1991, Belarus has not so far qualified for a FIFA World Cup or UEFA european Championship .
history [edit ]
After the burst of the Soviet Union, Belarus played their first gear match against Lithuania on 20 July 1992. [ 3 ] Before that, several Belarusian players played for the Soviet Union national team. The first base FIFA -recognized external was a friendly against Ukraine on 28 October 1992, and their first base win came in a peer against Luxembourg on 12 October 1994.
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Belarus have never qualified for either the FIFA World Cup, or the UEFA european Championship. Despite the lack of any significant achiever during the 1990s, some luminary results were still achieved, like a home win against the Netherlands in the qualifiers for Euro 1996, and two draws against eventual runner-up Italy during Euro 2000 qualifiers. Under bus Eduard Malofeyev, the team came very close up to playing Germany in a play-off cycle to qualify for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, but were defeated by Wales in the last group stage peer, missing the find to overtake Ukraine, who drew their death game, finishing the group second behind Poland. Their euro 2004 qualifying campaign was very abortive as Belarus lost seven of their eight games. Around the lapp time, a generational change occurred and a number of players from the U-21 team ( which qualified for the 2004 european U-21 Championship ) joined the elder national team. With each subsequent head coach ( Anatoly Baidachny, Yuri Puntus and Bernd Stange ) the team improved their assail skills. As a result, in each subsequent qualify tournament starting with the 2006 World Cup, Belarus scored more goals ( entire and average per game ) than in former campaigns. however, problems in defense and missed scoring opportunities prevented them from finishing higher than fourthly in the group. Some celebrated results during this period, included a high-scoring 3–4 aside loss to eventual World Cup winner Italy in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers ( the first time Italy conceded 3 goals in a home passing game since 1983 ), another home victory against the Netherlands during the Euro 2008 qualifiers equally well as an off win and a home draw against France in the Euro 2012 qualifiers. Belarus achieved some success in minor tournaments. In 2002, the team defeated Russia and Ukraine to win the LG Cup. In 2004 and 2008, they won the 12th and 14th editions of the Malta International Tournament respectively. The first with its Olympic Squad, and the late with the first base team ( many starters were alone available for the end crippled against Malta ). During UEFA Euro 2020 qualify, Belarus once again end fourth in their group. With Belarus managing to top their group in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League D, it qualified for the area ‘s beginning always play-offs, and the team was scheduled to play against Georgia. however, they lost 1–0, the team missed out on a place at Euro 2020 .
team prototype [edit ]
nickname [edit ]
In August 2016, the Football Federation announced that the national team ‘s nickname would be the “ White Wings ”. [ 4 ] The name was influenced by the book The Land Beneath White Wings ( 1977 ) by celebrated belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkevich. The BFF ‘s fresh commercialize and communications conductor, Uladzimir Berezhkov, said : “ We are looking at versatile ways of establishing links with our literary inheritance and cultural traditions ”, commenting that “ If the belarusian people opt to associate the team with Karatkevich, about every phrase in the book can be used as a hashtag ! ” [ 5 ]
home venue [edit ]
Dinamo Stadium in Minsk is the venue for most Belarus international matches The team played the majority of its home plate matches at the Dinamo Stadium in Minsk. occasionally other venues are besides used : Molodechno City Stadium in May 1996 ( friendly against Azerbaijan ), Vitebsky Central Sport Complex in Vitebsk in November 2005 ( friendly against Latvia ), Central Stadium in Gomel in October 2007 ( Euro 2008 qualifying catch against Luxembourg ), Neman Stadium in Grodno June 2009 ( 2010 World Cup modifier against Andorra ), Borisov City Stadium just a few days by and by ( friendly against Moldova ), Regional Sport Complex Brestskiy in Brest in October 2009 ( another 2010 World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan ) and in June 2018 ( friendly against Hungary ) and Torpedo Stadium in Zhodino in March 2021 ( friendly against Honduras ). In late 2012 Dinamo Stadium was closed for renovation and the team started alternating between different family venues : Central Stadium in Gomel ( 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Finland and France ), Borisov City Stadium ( friendly against Kyrgyzstan ), Torpedo Stadium in Zhodino ( friendlies against Montenegro and Japan ) and Traktor Stadium in Minsk ( friendly against New Zealand ). From 2014 until 2017 angstrom well as in 2019 ( UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying against Germany and Northern Ireland ), Belarus played at Borisov Arena. In 2018, they returned to Dinamo Stadium, which was re-opened after major renovation. Since September 2021 Central Stadium in Kazan, Russia is the home venue because of travel sanctions imposed after a Ryanair Flight 4978 .
Kit [edit ]
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Belarus played home plate games in all white, occasionally changing shorts to green. All green uniform or green jerseys/white shorts were used as away kits. Since qualifying campaign for UEFA Euro 2004, Belarus changed their primary colors to crimson jerseys and green shorts, and aside kits to all white. In 2011, home colors were changed to all red. All-White became the home plate color a short circuit time later and now appears with the convention on the Belarus flag, with the away kit out being in Black in 2016, besides using an adidas template and placing the ease up pattern on it .
Kit suppliers [edit ]
holocene results and approaching fixtures [edit ]
Win Draw Loss
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2021 [edit ]
Players [edit ]
current team [edit ]
The follow players were called up for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Wales and friendly match against Jordan on 13 and 16 November 2021.
Caps and goals are correct as of 16 November 2021, after the game against Jordan.
recent call-ups [edit ]
The following players have besides been called up to the Belarus team during last 12 months .
Records [edit ]
- As of 16 November 2021[6]
- Players in bold are still active with Belarus.
Most appearances [edit ]
Alyaksandr Kulchy is the most capped player in the history of Belarus
- Sergei Aleinikov reached a combined 81 caps and 6 goals for Soviet Union, CIS and Belarus during 1984–1994.[7]
exceed goalscorers [edit ]
Maksim Romaschenko is the top scorekeeper in the history of Belarus with 20 goals
Coaching history [edit ]
- As of 16 November 2021
competitive record [edit ]
FIFA World Cup [edit ]
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification [edit ]
UEFA
Rules for classification: source : FIFA Rules for classification : Tiebreakers
UEFA european championship [edit ]
UEFA Euro 2020 qualification [edit ]
UEFA Nations League [edit ]
UEFA Nations League record
Year
Division
Group
2018–19
D
2
1st
6
4
2
0
10
0
43rd
2020–21
C
4
2nd
6
3
1
2
10
8
38th
2022–23
C
Future event
Total
–
12
7
1
2
20
8
38th
2020–21 UEFA Nations League [edit ]
Rules for classification:
( P ) Promoted; ( Q ) Qualified to the phase indicated source : UEFA Rules for classification : Tiebreakers Promoted ; Qualified to the phase indicated
tete-a-tete commemorate [edit ]
- As of 13 November 2021
Belarus B national team has been assembled a number of times throughout the history to participate in occasional minor friendly matches and tournaments. The team typically consists of domestic league players who are considered a potential backing for the main senior team. The team was most recently assembled for participation in 2017 King ‘s Cup in Thailand on 14–16 July 2017 .
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
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