Dnepr Mogilev U20

26 Apr 2027
Monday
Process
38 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Vladislav Zaytsev breaks a bone — 14 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Egor Karpitskiy 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 172% of everything Dnepr Mogilev earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Egor Karpitskiy

“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.

Match

Kirill Kirilenko sends Dnepr Mogilev past Slonim

It finished 1‑0, and it was Kirill Kirilenko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dnepr Mogilev.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kirill Kirilenko at his very best

Marked 8.49. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dnepr Mogilev.

Player ratings

Emerson Martins was immovable

16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nikita Krasnov

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Egor Karpitskiy takes the afternoon — 8.58

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Egor Karpitskiy provided it, and the 8.58 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Vladislav Zaytsev breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Egor Karpitskiy 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.

Match

Egor Karpitskiy sends Dnepr Mogilev past Bumprom Gomel

It finished 2‑1, and it was Egor Karpitskiy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dnepr Mogilev.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Egor Karpitskiy

At 23 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nikita Krasnov

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Fedor Yurkevich 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.

Market

Fedor Yurkevich told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Fedor Yurkevich has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Dnepr Mogilev.

Loan watch

Nikolay Sobolev counts the days

“I watch every Dnepr Mogilev game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Belshina runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

36 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Dnepr Mogilev

1‑2 against Smorgon, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Vladislav Zaytsev breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Artem Makavchik asks to leave Dnepr Mogilev

“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.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Vladislav Tarasenko at 21 — 7.98

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vladislav Tarasenko did not need any: 7.98, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Vladimir Fedotov keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dnepr Mogilev may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Robert Bencun signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robert Bencun commits to Dnepr Mogilev for another 2 years.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Timofey Tkachev

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

35 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nikita Krasnov 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Vladislav Zaytsev breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev come up short against Niva

Niva left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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.

Player ratings

Egor Karpitskiy could have had three

10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Dnepr Mogilev

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Player ratings

Nikita Krasnov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

34 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Vladislav Zaytsev breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Boardroom

157% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

33 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Dnepr Mogilev tear Osipovichi apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Osipovichi, and it could have been more.

Squad

Vladislav Zaytsev breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

3 goals for Egor Karpitskiy

The match ball belongs to Egor Karpitskiy, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Player ratings

Fedor Yurkevich was immovable

21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Egor Karpitskiy was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Egor Karpitskiy

At 23 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.

Player ratings

Alexey Dunaev shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

32 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Artem Makavchik hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Match

The wait goes on for Dnepr Mogilev

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vadim Arutyunyan

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Boardroom

6 academy players handed senior numbers at Dnepr Mogilev

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Market

Stanislau Palitsevich steps up from the Dnepr Mogilev academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stanislau Palitsevich 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.

Market

Dnepr Mogilev promote Pavel Pavlov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pavel Pavlov 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.

In brief

31 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nikita Krasnov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fedor Yurkevich 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.

Squad

Kirill Zabelin 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.

Squad

Oleg Kovalev signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oleg Kovalev and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 1 years.

Market

The Vladislav Tarasenko conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Isloch will make the call about Vladislav Tarasenko this week. Dnepr Mogilev have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

30 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Bencun 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 160% of everything Dnepr Mogilev earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Market

Eyes on Vladislav Tarasenko again

The phone has started ringing about Vladislav Tarasenko again, and this time the name on the line is Isloch. Dnepr Mogilev are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Dnepr Mogilev

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

No hiding place for Daniil Zhabrakov

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

In brief

29 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sergey Rusak hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Dnepr Mogilev turn down Dinamo Minsk for Andrey Shemruk

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

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Dnepr Mogilev sell Pavel Sedich for $47.0K

Pavel Sedich has left for Isloch in a $47.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Squad

Alexey Dunaev has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

28 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Dnepr Mogilev say no — this time

The offer from Slonim for Vadim Arutyunyan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

Fedor Yurkevich signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fedor Yurkevich and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 3 years.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fedor Yurkevich 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.

Squad

Makar Litskevich pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Market

Isloch expected to open talks for Pavel Sedich

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dnepr Mogilev will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

27 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Makar Litskevich asks to leave Dnepr Mogilev

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Market

Dinamo Minsk watching Andrey Shemruk

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dnepr Mogilev have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Fedor Yurkevich

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

Market

Lida are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Dnepr Mogilev will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

26 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Kirill Zabelin 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Boardroom

155% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Roman Piletskiy

“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

No place for Sergey Rusak in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sergey Rusak has his answer from Dnepr Mogilev; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

25 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fedor Yurkevich 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.

Squad

Nikita Bylinkin 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

24 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Artem Makavchik

“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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Squad

An unwelcome headline for Danila Glushakov

He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.

Squad

Voices raised on the Dnepr Mogilev training ground

Two players, one bad tackle and a session that had to be stopped. It was over in a minute; it was outside the gates in an hour.

Market

11 months and counting on Vladimir Fedotov

Still no offer on the table, and Vladimir Fedotov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Market

Still no ink between Dnepr Mogilev and Roman Durko

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dnepr Mogilev, another week without a signature from Roman Durko.

In brief

22 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Makar Litskevich hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Boardroom

237% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

21 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yaroslav Chistyakov has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Emerson Martins 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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.

In brief

20 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Squad

Dnepr Mogilev lose Andrey Shemruk

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

19 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Vadim Afanasjev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Roman Durko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Durko and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 2 years.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

18 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Artem Makavchik keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dnepr Mogilev may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Bencun 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

17 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Yaroslav Chistyakov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Chistyakov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Arutyunyan 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

16 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fedor Yurkevich 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.

Squad

Erik Torosyan 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

15 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Makar Litskevich asks to leave Dnepr Mogilev

“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

Vadim Afanasjev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Vadim Afanasjev has agreed to leave Dnepr Mogilev 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

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Squad

Alexey Dunaev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexey Dunaev commits to Dnepr Mogilev for another 4 years.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nikita Krasnov 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Erik Torosyan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Erik Torosyan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Dnepr Mogilev to lose Erik Torosyan for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Erik Torosyan 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Boardroom

225% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

13 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Andrey Potapenko says Dnepr Mogilev went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

Dnepr Mogilev to lose Yaroslav Chistyakov for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Yaroslav Chistyakov 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

Only the photograph left for Yaroslav Chistyakov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Chistyakov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

12 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Roman Piletskiy says Dnepr Mogilev went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

Alexey Shashkun has agreed to leave Dnepr Mogilev 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

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

11 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Alexey Zayats signs for Vitebsk while still at Dnepr Mogilev

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

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Arutyunyan 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

10 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Makar Litskevich hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Maxim Aleksievich signs for Orsha while still at Dnepr Mogilev

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

Squad

Emerson Martins signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emerson Martins commits to Dnepr Mogilev for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Boardroom

266% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fedor Yurkevich 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

9 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

Daniil Zhabrakov 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

8 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

Vadim Arutyunyan 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Andrey Shemruk

“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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nikita Bylinkin asks to leave Dnepr Mogilev

“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.

Squad

Robert Bencun 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fedor Yurkevich 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kirill Zabelin

“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.

Squad

Dmitriy Guschenko has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Still no ink between Dnepr Mogilev and Vladislav Stepanenko

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dnepr Mogilev, another week without a signature from Vladislav Stepanenko.

In brief

6 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Artem Makavchik hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Orsha come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Dnepr Mogilev did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Bencun 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Roman Durko

“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.

Squad

This league is too small for Robert Bencun

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Dnepr Mogilev will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief

5 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for Dnepr Mogilev

1‑2 against BATE, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market

Nikita Krasnov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 29 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Player ratings

Roman Piletskiy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Alexey Dunaev at 21 — 7.83

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alexey Dunaev did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

4 matches without a win for Dnepr Mogilev

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Dnepr Mogilev are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Squad

Roman Piletskiy 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.

Market

Alexey Yazepov attracts admirers

The name of Alexey Yazepov has come up in conversations Dnepr Mogilev were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

4 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Artem Makavchik is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Artem Makavchik: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Nikolay Sobolev sends Dnepr Mogilev through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Nikolay Sobolev obliged against Dinamo Brest. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dnepr Mogilev.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Nikolay Sobolev at 19 — 8.07

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nikolay Sobolev did not need any: 8.07, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Vadim Afanasjev 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Dnepr Mogilev turn down Ostrovets for Daniil Zhabrakov

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roman Piletskiy

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Vladimir Fedotov will join Dnepr Mogilev for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Vladimir Fedotov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dnepr Mogilev have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Market

Lida watching Nikita Sednev

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dnepr Mogilev have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

3 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Dmitriy Guschenko is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Dmitriy Guschenko: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev march on in the cup

Slutsk are out and Dnepr Mogilev go through, 2‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Nikolay Sobolev takes the afternoon — 8.16

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nikolay Sobolev provided it, and the 8.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Dnepr Mogilev say no — this time

The offer from Belshina for Nikolay Sobolev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Erik Torosyan

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev see off Ostrovets

Three points for Dnepr Mogilev, 3‑1 the final word against Ostrovets in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Daniil Zhabrakov attracts admirers

The name of Daniil Zhabrakov has come up in conversations Dnepr Mogilev were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The terraces

Dnepr Mogilev supporters have found a favourite in Egor Karpitskiy

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Egor Karpitskiy has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

2 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nothing got past Vadim Arutyunyan

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Market

Makar Litskevich hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Fedor Yurkevich

Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

Dnepr Mogilev say no — this time

The offer from Ostrovets for Vladislav Tarasenko was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Dnepr Mogilev

Kirill Kirilenko 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.

Market

Eyes on Makar Litskevich again

The phone has started ringing about Makar Litskevich again, and this time the name on the line is Lida. Dnepr Mogilev are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxim Kasarab 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Egor Karpitskiy

“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.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev find a way past Uni-X Labs

Uni-X Labs made Dnepr Mogilev work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

1 Edition

The Dnepr Mogilev Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nikita Krasnov asks to leave Dnepr Mogilev

“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.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kirill Kirilenko and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 4 years.

Squad

Kirill Kirilenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Vladislav Tarasenko attracts admirers

The name of Vladislav Tarasenko has come up in conversations Dnepr Mogilev were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings

Roman Piletskiy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev come up short against Volna Pinsk

Volna Pinsk left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Kirill Kirilenko

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

Squad

Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Bylinkin 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