Marked for Yauhen Korzun
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Nikita Dovnar 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Yauhen Korzun out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Niva will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Murad Məmmədov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Murad Məmmədov and Niva agree another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Yauhen Korzun out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Niva will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Niva is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Niva may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Niva
Dmitriy Galuza 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mikhail Gordeychuk 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.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Yauhen Korzun out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Niva will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Kuratnik
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Kuratnik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Niva the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Niva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Gordeychuk 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Vitebsk have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dmitriy Sibilev. The answer from Niva has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Niva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Gordeychuk 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mikhail Gordeychuk, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hleb Yablonski has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Yauhen Korzun joins the Niva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yauhen Korzun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Uladzislau Dragun has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 7.82 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Niva had the best player on the pitch.
Squad10 Aug 2026
11 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.