The Vitebsk Herald
Match23 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Vitebsk
0-0 against Slavia Mozyr, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nikita Goilo is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Nikita Goilo: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match26 Sep 2026
11 unbeaten for Vitebsk
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Vitebsk did not have in the autumn.
Match26 Sep 2026
Vitebsk get the job done against Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
A 2-0 win over Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vladlen Anikeev 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mikhail Bashilov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Squad Ruslan Teverov has taken the shirt
- Market The Alexandr Anufriev talk will not go away
- The terraces The press have found their man in Nikita Goilo
- The terraces The stand has a song for Vladlen Anikeev