FC Orsha

FC Orsha

Full name	Football Club Orsha
Founded	1951; 73 years ago (1951)
Ground	City Stadium
Capacity	2,852
Head Coach	Nikolay Kitayev
League	Belarusian First League
2023	Belarusian First League, 14th of 17
Home colours Away colours

FC Orsha is a football club based in Orsha, Vitebsk Oblast.

History

The team was founded in 1951 as Trud Orsha.^[1] The club was renamed to ZShM in 1956 and then to Mashinostroitel Orsha in 1960.

In 1965 the club was renamed to Start Orsha. The 60s and the 70s were the most successful years for the club, as they won the Vitebsk Oblast league in 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1977 as well as the Vitebsk Oblast cup in 1961, 1971, 1972 and 1976. In 1971, they reached the final of the Belarusian SSR Cup.^[2] They played in the Belarusian SSR top league from 1971 until 1985.

In 1992, the team was renamed to Legmash Orsha and joined the newly created Belarusian Second League. In 1994, the team was renamed to Maxim-Legmash Orsha due to sponsorship. After a successful 1995 season, Maxim-Legmash was promoted to the First League. Before the start of the 1996 season, the 'Legmash' part of the name was dropped due to Legmash plant withdrawal from team support and the team spent one season as Maxim-Orsha before being renamed again into FC Orsha in 1997. At the end of 2001, Orsha withdrew to the amateur level (Vitebsk Oblast championship) due to financial troubles.

The team returned in 2004, once again joining the Second League. The first post-return season was quite successful and Orsha was promoted to the First League for the 2005 season, but they quickly relegated back and since 2006 onwards, they've been playing in the Second League. In 2006, the team was known as Orsha-BelAutoService. Since 2014, they play in the First League.

Name changes

• 1951: founded as FC Trud Orsha
• 1956: renamed to FC ZShM Orsha
• 1960: renamed to FC Mashinostroitel Orsha
• 1965: renamed to FC Start Orsha
• 1992: renamed to FC Legmash Orsha
• 1995: renamed to FC Maxim-Orsha Orsha
• 1996: renamed to FC Maxim-Legmash Orsha
• 1997: renamed to FC Orsha
• 2006: renamed to FC Orsha-BelAutoService Orsha
• 2007: renamed to FC Orsha

Honours

Belarusian SSR cup

• Runner-Up: 1971

Current squad

As of April 2024

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  BLR Andrey Ignatovich 3 FW  RUS Kantemir Soblirov 4 MF  RUS Stanislav Irshev 5 DF  BLR Nikita Tyunis 7 MF  BLR Aleksey Chernodarov 9 MF  BLR Dmitriy Tikhomirov 10 MF  BLR Pavel Rassolko 11 DF  BLR Dmitry Tamelo 14 MF  BLR Aleksandr Kucherov 17 MF  BLR Artem Antonov 18 DF  BLR Nikita Volchenko 20 MF  BLR Vladislav Puninskiy

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  BLR Gleb Zheleznikov 23 MF  BLR Artem Gonzhurov 33 GK  BLR Roman Kravchenko 46 DF  RUS Daniil Pakhomov 55 MF  BLR Syarhey Melnik 70 MF  BLR Pavel Sushkov 77 FW  RUS Vladislav Kormishin 82 MF  RUS Vitaliy Shalychev 91 MF  RUS Nathan Shamsiev 99 MF  BLR Yegor Malatkov — FW  BLR Vital Bulyga

References

External links

• FC Orsha on VK

This page was last edited on 13 May 2024, at 09:09