Dmitriy Sibilev

Defensive Midfielder - Niva
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dmitriy Sibilev

6 Edition

The Niva Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Grigory Komovnikov asks to leave Niva

“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.

Market

Artem Kuratnik has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Niva they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Artem Kuratnik signs for Dinamo Brest while still at Niva

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Artem Kuratnik has agreed terms with Dinamo Brest for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at Niva

Dmitriy Sibilev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Niva rebuffed over Maxim Autko

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neman have kept their man, and Niva go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Niva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Kuratnik is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexandr Grin

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Niva and Mikhail Gordeychuk are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Vladimir Skomarovskiy

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Vladimir Skomarovskiy has come out of that comparison in the side, and Niva have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Niva Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nikita Dovnar stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Alexandr Voronovich, 20, steals the show — 7.61

Marked 7.61 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Gleb Soldatenkov asks to leave Niva

“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.

Player ratings

Dmitriy Sibilev pops up at the right end — 7.66

7.66, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vladislav Dybin

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Vladislav Kalinichev due for a Niva medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Niva

Dmitriy Sibilev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Temerlan Salimov

Niva asked and Orsha said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Niva get the job done against Osipovichi

A 2‑1 win over Osipovichi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

  • The terraces One of their own: Nikita Dovnar
  • Squad A row about effort at Niva
  • Squad 16 new faces, and Niva are still learning each other
4 Edition

The Niva Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Roman Kozel puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Niva, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Igor Monich

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Igor Monich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Niva the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

No end in sight to Niva's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Niva has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Mikhail Gordeychuk beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Niva

Dmitriy Sibilev 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.

Transfer targets

Dinamo Minsk tell Niva: Vadim Konyukhov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Dmitriy Galuza’s goal not enough for Niva

Dmitriy Galuza scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Slonim, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Maxim Zhabitskiy

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Niva and Vladislav Dybin are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

3 Edition

The Niva Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Niva out of the cup

Gomel ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Boardroom

Niva to lose Igor Monich for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Igor Monich 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.

Market

As if he never left: Vladislav Dybin returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Vladislav Dybin is a Niva player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

Maxim Azarov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Niva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Alexandr Grin was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Alexandr Shvedchikov

Niva asked and BATE said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Niva

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dmitriy Sibilev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dmitriy Sibilev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Sibilev, and the manager let it.

Match

Niva caught on 87 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Bumprom Gomel scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

In brief

2 Edition

The Niva Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Nikita Dovnar

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Niva turn down Molodechno for Igor Monich

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Danila Kashtelyan has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Niva they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Danila Kashtelyan has agreed to leave Niva for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words exchanged at Niva

Dmitriy Sibilev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

No deal for Anton Suchkov at that price

Niva offered $110.0K; Neman said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Grigory Komovnikov 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. Grigory Komovnikov has, at Niva, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Neman tell Niva: Guljigit Borubaev is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Niva

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ilya Rabeshko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

1 Edition

The Niva Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Mikhail Gordeychuk, 36, rolls back the years — 8.17

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Dmitriy Sibilev stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmitriy Sibilev and Niva agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Niva

Dmitriy Sibilev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Gomel tell Niva: Anton Semenov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Niva find a way past Uni-X Labs

Uni-X Labs made Niva work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Vladimir Skomarovskiy

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Talks stall between Niva and Mikhail Gordeychuk

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

7 new faces, and Niva are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

Words at Niva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeniy Mashagin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief