FC Neman Grodno

FC Neman Grodno or FK Nyoman Hrodna (ФК Нёман Гродна; ФК Неман Гродно) is a Belarusian professional football club based in the city of Grodno. It is named after the Neman River and founded in 1964. Since 1992, the team has participated in the highest division of Belarusian football league system.

History
Since 1964, the team was playing in the third tier of the Soviet football system almost constantly, excluding two seasons (1968 and 1969) spent in the second tier. Since 1992, Neman plays in the Belarusian Premier League. In 1993, they won the Belarusian Cup. The most successful years for the team were in the early 2000s, when they finished fourth twice in a row before finishing second in 2002 after losing the first place play-off against BATE Borisov.

Name changes

 * 1964: founded as Neman Grodno
 * 1973: renamed to Khimik Grodno
 * 1993: renamed to Neman Grodno
 * 1999: renamed to Neman-Belcard Grodno
 * 2002: renamed to Neman Grodno

Honours

 * Belarusian Premier League
 * Runners-up (2): 2002, 2023
 * Belarusian Cup
 * Winners (2): 1993, 2024
 * Runners-up (2): 2011, 2014

Current squad
As of June 2024

Soviet Union

 * 1 Advanced to the final round for one promotion spot as the best-placed team from Belarusian SSR.
 * 2 Advanced to the semi-final round of promotion tournament (for one spot) as one of top 8 teams not from Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh or Central Asian SSR.
 * 3 As the worst-placed team from the Belarusian SSR, Neman had to play promotion/relegation play-off against the best-placed Belarusian team from the 3rd level.
 * 4 In 1973, every draw was followed by a penalty shoot-out, with a winner gaining 1 point and loser gaining 0.
 * 5 Advanced to the final round for one promotion spot as winners of their zone.

Belarus

 * 1 Including additional game (0–1 loss) against BATE for the first place.

Neman in Europe
As of match played 17 August 2023

Managers

 * 🇧🇾 Vyacheslav Sivakov
 * 🇧🇾 Valery Yanochkin (Sept 1, 1993 – April 1, 1995)
 * 🇧🇾 Sergey Solodovnikov (Sept 1, 1997 – Feb 1, 1998), (May 1, 1998 – June 30, 2005)
 * 🇧🇾 Vladimir Kurnev (Jan 1, 2006 – Dec 31, 2006)
 * 🇧🇾 Liudas Rumbutis (Jan 1, 2007 – Dec 31, 2007)
 * 🇧🇾 Vyacheslav Akshayev (Jan 4, 2008 – July 20, 2008)
 * 🇧🇾 Oleg Radushko (July 21, 2008 – July 19, 2010)
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Koreshkov (June 25, 2010 – Aug 11, 2011)
 * 🇧🇾 Pyotr Kachura (caretaker) (Aug 13, 2011 – Aug 15, 2011)
 * 🇧🇾 Sergey Solodovnikov (Aug 16, 2011 – Apr 26, 2016)
 * 🇧🇾 Oleg Kirenya (caretaker) (Apr 26, 2016 – Jun 16, 2016)
 * 🇧🇾 Igor Kovalevich (Jun 17, 2016 –)