Torpedo-BelAZ U20

23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
3 Edition

The Torpedo-BelAZ Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Maxim Budko sends Torpedo-BelAZ through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Maxim Budko obliged against Uni-X Labs. 4‑3 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Torpedo-BelAZ.

Market

Torpedo-BelAZ say no — this time

The offer from Lokomotiv Sofia for Steven Alfred 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

Kirill Premudrov, 34, rolls back the years — 7.86

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.86 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Uroš Drezgić delivers — 7.35

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Uroš Drezgić scored, was marked 7.35, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match

Torpedo-BelAZ cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Maxim Gaevoy scored one and made one — 6.44

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 6.44, and 2 involvements.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Torpedo-BelAZ and Uni-X Labs in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Transfer targets

Torpedo-BelAZ rebuffed over Čebrail Makreckis

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Qarabag have kept their man, and Torpedo-BelAZ go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Torpedo-BelAZ

Vadim Pobudey and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Torpedo-BelAZ Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Torpedo-BelAZ run riot against Slutsk

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Alexandr Frantsuzov takes the afternoon — 8.39

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexandr Frantsuzov provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Vintage Artem Bykov — 8.03

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.03, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Torpedo-BelAZ — 7.98

1 for Nikita Korzun, marked 7.98, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Soslan Takulov 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.

Transfer targets

Volna Pinsk tell Torpedo-BelAZ: Maxim Grechikha is not for sale

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Torpedo-BelAZ

Vadim Pobudey 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.

The terraces

Torpedo-BelAZ supporters have found a favourite in Alexandr Frantsuzov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandr Frantsuzov 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.

Market

Mikalai Palitsevich steps up from the Torpedo-BelAZ academy

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

In brief

1 Edition

The Torpedo-BelAZ Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pavel Pampukha arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Pavel Pampukha has, at Torpedo-BelAZ, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Sergey Ignatovich signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergey Ignatovich commits to Torpedo-BelAZ for another 2 years.

Transfer targets

Torpedo-BelAZ rebuffed over Denys Tvardovskyi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Torpedo-BelAZ go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Vadim Pobudey 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 Torpedo-BelAZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Zakhar Baranok again

The phone has started ringing about Zakhar Baranok again, and this time the name on the line is Slonim. Torpedo-BelAZ are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Yevhen Chahovets 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

24 months and counting on Sergey Ignatovich

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

Transfer targets

Torpedo-BelAZ ask about Uroš Drezgić

A loan enquiry to Rubin: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Still no ink between Torpedo-BelAZ and Pavel Pampukha

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Torpedo-BelAZ, another week without a signature from Pavel Pampukha.

In brief