The Gomel Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
12 seasons of Oleg Kovalev
245 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Gomel know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Denis Laptev signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denis Laptev commits to Gomel for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gomel
Denis Laptev 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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Vladislav Kibak will join Gomel for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Vladislav Kibak has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Gomel have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Arseniy Achapovskiy falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
Alexandr Ryzhchenko attracts admirers
The name of Alexandr Ryzhchenko has come up in conversations Gomel were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Anton Semenov
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gomel and Dmitriy Lisakovich 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Kirill Leonovich
Still no offer on the table, and Kirill Leonovich’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Player ratings Dmitriy Lisakovich takes the honours
- Market No place for Daniil Makhnach in the plan
- Match Gomel draw a blank against Molodechno