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Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Slavia Mozyr, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Trakai for Nikita Melnikov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Roman Begunov, 33, rolls back the years — 7.93
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.93 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vladislav Poloz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Minsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match29 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dinamo Minsk have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Dinamo Minsk — 7.87
1 for Fawaz Abdullahi, marked 7.87, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$2.2M was the most the club would pay and Alashkert were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Vladislav Poloz has agreed terms with BATE for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
A 3‑0 win over Baranovichi, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match22 Aug 2026
Smorgon will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dinamo Minsk were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Roman Begunov, 33, rolls back the years — 7.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 Aug 2026
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Dinamo Minsk have paid $82.0K for Andrey Solovey, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$82.0K settles it between the clubs for Andrey Solovey
Slavia Mozyr have accepted the money. What Dinamo Minsk do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Alashkert this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Gleb Sereda has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $330.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Slavia Mozyr drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Denis Khvostovich arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Denis Khvostovich has, at Dinamo Minsk, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nikita Bylinkin has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dinamo Minsk have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Dinamo Minsk asked and Dinamo Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Fawaz Abdullahi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Egor Parkhomenko would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Egor Parkhomenko is living that version at Dinamo Minsk, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$1.0M on the table at Asteras. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexey Ivanov and Dinamo Minsk agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dinamo Minsk are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Akhmat Grozny have kept their man, and Dinamo Minsk go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Roman Begunov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Leonard Chatelin Gweth has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Dinamo Minsk, 1‑0 the final word against Naftan in a contest settled by the finer margins.