FC Partizan Minsk
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| Full name | Football Club Partizan Minsk |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Dissolved | 2014 |
| Ground | SOK Olimpiysky, Minsk |
| Capacity | 1,500 |
| Head coach | Andrey Lavrik |
| League | Belarusian Second League |
| 2013 | 11th |
FC Partizan Minsk (Belarusian: ФК Партызан Мінск) is a Belarusian football club based in Minsk. The club was formerly a part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga side FBK Kaunas, before he withdrew his financial support in 2012. The club made their top flight debut in 2004.
The club was founded as MTZ-RIPO in 2002 as a merger of two Minsk teams from the Second League – Traktor Minsk, a club with a 55-year history, and Trudovye Rezervy-RIPO, a football academy-based team which only spent one season in the Second League. The merge allowed the new team to have their own football school to recruit young players from as well as financial supply from the Minsk Tractor Works, the main sponsor of Traktor Minsk.
MTZ-RIPO Minsk started playing in the Second League in 2002. In their first season the team finished first, and then did the same in the First League in 2003. Since 2004 they play in Belarusian Premier League.
Before the start of the 2010 season the club announced a name change. On January 27, 2010 the new name was revealed to be Partizan Minsk.
Partizan finished the 2010 Belarusian Premier League bottom of the table and hence were relegated. The following season in the Belarusian First League they finished second and had to face FC Vitebsk in a two-legged play-off, which they won 3–2 on aggregate to secure a place in the 2012 Belarusian Premier League.
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