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Steady
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Denis Laptev 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 Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pavel Pashevich, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Denis Laptev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gomel 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Daniil Silinskiy 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.
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Steady
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Pavel Pashevich: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Gomel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Danila Kalatsey will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pavel Pashevich and Gomel agree another 3 years.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igor Zayats 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Gomel
Dmitriy Emeljanov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Polushko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Polushko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Timofey Simanenka and Gomel agree another 5 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Artem Karatay 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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vadzim Rios 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Artem Hryshyn joins the Gomel first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artem Hryshyn is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Gomel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Pashevich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Kirill Burov 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Timofey Simanenka 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Denis Laptev 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Timofey Simanenka is the weekend's best young player
At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Dmitriy Emeljanov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gomel 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.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Gomel bow out of the cup
Dinamo Brest go through and Gomel go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Gomel's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Denis Laptev 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 Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Lazarev 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.
The dugout28 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Yahor Hryshyn after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Denis Laptev knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Danila Kalatsey will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Gomel
Denis Laptev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 14 actions, 6.52, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Match19 Sep 2026
Gomel come up short against Naftan
Naftan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Gomel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Pashevich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
The dugout21 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Pavel Pashevich
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Squad
Kirill Burov has had enough of the bench
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Steady
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Gomel close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Polushko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Polushko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Anton Semenov to Neman has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Gomel with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Gomel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timofey Simanenka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mikita Malevich 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Egor Filipenko 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Igor Zayats
“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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.96, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ivan Pavlov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Ivan Pavlov has agreed to leave Gomel 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.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Gomel get the job done against Slutsk
A 3‑2 win over Slutsk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Gomel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timofey Simanenka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Gomel asked and Slask said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 22 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.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
Gomel through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Neman, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Gomel had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Egnatia Rrogozhinë, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Denis Laptev 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 Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Gomel asked and Ural said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Pavel Pashevich 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Dmitriy Emeljanov at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Gomel.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Wiktor Kamiński is in the works
Gomel have made the call to Slask. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Gomel
A 2‑1 win over Slutsk, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Anton Semenov at 21 — 8.24
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Anton Semenov did not need any: 8.24, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
Anton Semenov 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 Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
7.55, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Nasaf keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Gomel
Denis Laptev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match22 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Gomel against BATE
1‑2 to BATE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Gomel through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Niva, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
Anton Semenov wins it after the whistle should have gone
100 minutes played. Anton Semenov found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Niva went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Pavel Sergutko, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.57
A mark of 8.57 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Artem Polushko has agreed terms with Slutsk for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market17 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Polushko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Polushko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Gomel asked and Rostov said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Pavel Sergutko 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Denis Laptev, 35, rolls back the years — 8.67
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.67 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Daniil Silinskiy delivers — 7.85
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Daniil Silinskiy scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Denis Laptev 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 Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Daniil Silinskiy. 2‑0 against Smorgon, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduard Shikavka 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yahor Nekhaichik 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikita Savitski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Match1 Aug 2026
Gomel throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Molodechno the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Gomel will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad3 Aug 2026
12 seasons and 245 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniil Silinskiy commits to Gomel for another 4 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.54 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 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 dugout3 Aug 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.