- FC MTZ-RIPO
Football club infobox
clubname = FC MTZ-RIPO
fullname = Football Club MTZ-RIPO
nickname = Traktor Boys
founded =1947
ground =Traktor Stadium ,Minsk
capacity = 17,600
chairman = flagicon|BelarusMikhail Yuferev
manager = flagicon|BelarusYuri Puntus
league =Belarusian Premier League
season = 2007
position = 5th
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leftarm2=FF0000|body2=FF0000|rightarm2=FF0000|shorts2=000000|socks2=FF0000FC MTZ-RIPO ( _be. ФК МТЗ-РІПА) is a
Belarusian Premier League football team (formerly known as "FC Traktor " and "FC MTZ"), part of Russian-Lithuania n businessmanVladimir Romanov 's soccer holding which also includesScottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga championFBK Kaunas . The club made their top flight debut in2004 .History
Established in
1947 during building of Minsk Traktor Plant (MTZ) as a sport section for construction workers (including GermanPOW ) and later for local factory personnel. This sport section was transformed to a professional football team in1948 .
*1947 established
*2002 Merged withRIPO (“Trudovye Rezervy-RIPO ”) to create FC MTZ-RIPO MinskRecently announced a possible name change before the start of next season.Fact|date=December 2007
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Achievements
* Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Champion: 2:: 1948, 1949
*
Belarusian Cup : 2:: 2005, 2008UEFA Cup 2005-06
First Qualifying Round
*First leg 14 July 2005
*Ferencvárosi TC 0 – 2FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk
*Second leg 28 July 2005
*FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk 1 – 2 Ferencvárosi TCecond Qualifying Round
*First leg, 11 August 2005
*MTZ-RIPO Minsk 1 – 1FK Teplice
*Second leg 25 August 2005. Progressing teams shown in bold
*FK Teplice 2–1 MTZ-RIPO MinskManagers
*
Andrei Zygmantovich - current
*Eduard Malofeev
*Yuri Puntus
*Alexandr Piskarev Current squad
External links
Official website
* [http://www.mtz-ripo.by/ www.mtz-ripo.by]
Supporters' website
* [http://www.mtz-ripo.com/ www.mtz-ripo.com]
tatistics websites
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesw/witrchamp.html RSSSF - Belarus: List of Champions]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesw/witrhist.html RSSSF - Belarus: Championships before Independence]
* [http://www.eufo.de/football/blr/mtz_insk.html FC MTZ-RIPO at eufo.de]Other websites
* [http://www.uefa.com/magazine/news/Kind=8/newsId=319022.html UEFA.com - The real Tractor Boys]
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