The Gomel Chronicle
Match12 Aug 2026
Kirill Burov sends Gomel through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Kirill Burov obliged against Niva. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Gomel.
Match12 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Niva as Gomel pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Gomel scored in the 109th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Vadim Martinkevich runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Cosmin Burca turns down Gomel
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Pandurii keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Gomel
Denis Laptev 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Kirill Burov
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Gomel against Slavia Mozyr
0‑1 to Slavia Mozyr, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vladislav Lazarev 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Vladislav Lazarev gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Squad Gomel count the cost of losing Evgeniy Alymov
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Transfer targets A loan move for David Tebili is in the works