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Head coach: Yuri Puntus
Captain: Sergei Gurenko
Top scorer: Maxim Romaschenko
FIFA ranking: 72
The Belarus national football team is the national football team of Belarus and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus. After the split of Soviet Union, they played their first match against Lithuania on July 20, 1992. Before that, Belarus players played for the USSR national football team.
The team plays its home matches at Dinamo Stadium (Minsk).
On May 24th, 2006, Belarus rallied for a surprise 2 - 1 victory over England B Team. It was their first shock victory since their 1 - 0 success over the Netherlands in a Euro 96 qualifier in Minsk during 1995, the match seen the winning goal come from a very wide angle from the Dutch net.
| Belarus Team | |||||||||||||||||
| No. | NAME | POS | H(M) | W(Kg) | Age | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasili Khomutovsky | G | 1.87 | 78 | 28 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Vladimir Gaev | G | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Anton Amelchenko | G | 1.92 | 84 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Yuri Zhevnov | G | 1.83 | 81 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Sergei Omelyanchuk | D | 1.76 | 70 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Sergey Shtanuk | D | 1.91 | 81 | 35 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Artem Cheliadinsky | D | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Artem Radkov | D | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Alexander Yurevich | D | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 19 | Alexey Pankovets | D | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 22 | Yan Tigorev | D | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Aleksandr Kulchy | M | 1.81 | 74 | 33 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Timofey Kalachev | M | 1.81 | 70 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Vladimir Korytko | M | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Denis Kovba | M | 1.88 | 76 | 27 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Alexander Hleb | M | 1.85 | 70 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Oleg Strakhanovich | M | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Sergey Kornilenko | S | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Vitaliy Bulyga | S | 1.79 | 69 | 27 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Vitaly Kutuzov | S | 1.83 | 83 | 27 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Roman Vasiluk | S | - | - | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | Gennady Bliznuk | S | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Viacheslav Hleb | S | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| Group G | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | P | |
| Romania | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 17 |
| Bulgaria | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| Albania | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| Belarus | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -5 | 7 |
| Slovenia | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 4 |
| Luxembourg | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 14 | -13 | 0 |