UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC BATE Borisov Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC Play-offs, first leg Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Wednesday 22 August 2012 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Squad list...........................................................................................................................4 Match officials....................................................................................................................6 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................7 Match-by-match lineups....................................................................................................9 Team facts.......................................................................................................................10 Competition format..........................................................................................................12 Legend............................................................................................................................13 FC BATE Borisov - Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC Wednesday 22 August 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Previous meetings Head to Head None FC BATE Borisov - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None Last updated 22/08/12 17:52:17CET 2 Previous meetings FC BATE Borisov - Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC Wednesday 22 August 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Match background Surprise winners of the Israeli title last season, Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC are one step away from taking their fairy tale on to the UEFA Champions League stage, but to get there they will need to produce another upset against FC BATE Borisov. • BATE, the champions of Belarus for the last six seasons, start this play-off tie as favourites given a growing European pedigree that includes two prior appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage – in 2008/09 and 2011/12. Match background • BATE will enter the first leg eager to avoid another slow start to a home match given they needed late goals to rescue themselves in their two previous qualifying fixtures, both played at the Gorodskoi Stadion. • Vitali Rodionov's two added-time goals earned a dramatic 3-2 comeback win against FK Vardar in the first leg of BATE's second qualifying round tie, and it then took a 93rd-minute own goal to earn them a 1-1 draw against Debreceni VSC in the third qualifying round – a tie they eventually won 3-1 on aggregate. • Kiryat Shmona set up their visit to the Dinamo Stadion by beating MŠK Žilina 2-1 on aggregate in the second qualifying round and then Neftçi PFK 6-2 on aggregate. Their progress is all the more commendable considering that this is only their second European campaign – the first, in 2008/09, comprised a 4-1 aggregate win over FK Mogren in the UEFA Cup first qualifying round, and subsequent 2-1 aggregate loss to PFC Litex Lovech. • Gil Landau's men are bidding to follow in the footsteps of Maccabi Haifa FC, Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC and Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC and become the fourth Israeli club to compete in the group stage. Team ties • Israel and Belarus have never played a competitive fixture at full international level but they have met in friendlies and in August 2007, BATE's Roman Vasilyuk scored the opening goal in a 2-1 win for Belarus over Israel in Minsk. • At Under-21 level, Daniel Amos kept a clean sheet when Israel U21s beat a Belarus side including BATE's Maksim Bordachev, Aleksandr Volodko and Filipp Rudik in a friendly at Ramat Gan Stadium in August 2008. • BATE coach Viktor Goncharenko tasted defeat in an earlier U21 friendly with Belarus in Israel – a 6-3 reverse featuring two goals from Yossi Benayoun. • Kiryat Shmona's Darko Tasevski appeared as a substitute for PFC Levski Sofia in a 1-0 home loss to BATE in their first leg of the Bulgarian team's UEFA Champions League third qualifying round defeat in 2008/09. • In the most recent competitive encounter between clubs from Belarus and Israel, FC Dinamo Minsk defeated Maccabi Haifa 3-2 on aggregate in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. • En route to becoming Israel's first participants in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 2002/03, Maccabi Haifa overcame Belarus's FC Belshina Bobruisk 5-0 on aggregate in the second qualifying round. Twelve months previously, Maccabi had beaten FC Slavia Mozyr on away goals in the UEFA Cup qualifying round. Last updated 22/08/12 17:52:17CET 3 Match background FC BATE Borisov - Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC Wednesday 22 August 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Squad list FC BATE Borisov Current season All-time QUAL UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 16 Andrei Scherbakov BLR 31/01/91 21 - - - - - - - - - - - 30 Aleksandr Gutor BLR 18/04/89 23 - - - - - 2 - 6 - 19 - 34 Artem Soroko BLR 01/04/92 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 35 Andrei Gorbunov BLR 29/05/83 29 - 4 - - - 17 - - - 6 - 39 Aleksei Mokhnach BLR 06/02/93 19 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 5 Aleksandr Yurevich BLR 08/08/79 33 - 3 - - - 13 - 10 - 63 1 14 Artem Radkov BLR 26/08/85 26 - 4 - - - 17 - 2 - 37 1 18 Maksim Bordachev BLR 18/05/86 26 - 4 - - - 14 - 6 - 40 - 21 Yegor Filipenko BLR 10/04/88 24 - - - - - 13 - 4 - 23 - 22 Marko Simić SRB 16/06/87 25 * 4 - - - 16 1 6 - 18 2 24 Evgeni Kuntsevich BLR 16/08/88 24 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 31 Roman Morozov BLR 18/09/93 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 33 Denis Polyakov BLR 17/04/91 21 - 2 - - - 15 - - - 2 - 37 Denis Zhbankov BLR 29/04/93 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 38 Igor Zhuravlev BLR 16/02/93 19 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 2 Dmitri Likhtarovich BLR 01/03/78 34 - 3 - - - 14 - 9 - 79 2 3 Ilya Anufriev BLR 04/08/93 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Sergei Glebko BLR 23/08/92 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Artem Kontsevoi BLR 20/05/83 29 * 3 - - - 15 3 6 - 41 7 8 Aleksandr Volodko BLR 18/06/86 26 - 4 1 - - 14 - 11 - 43 3 10 Renan Bressan BLR 03/11/88 23 - - - - - 16 5 6 2 27 10 11 Zaven Badoyan ARM 22/12/89 22 - - - - - 6 - - - - - 15 Aleksandr Hleb BLR 01/05/81 31 - 2 - - - 1 - 47 2 80 8 17 Aleksandr Pavlov BLR 18/08/84 28 - 4 - - - 15 1 4 - 29 5 23 Edgar Olekhnovich BLR 17/05/87 25 - 3 - - - 9 1 5 - 28 2 25 Dmitri Baga BLR 04/01/90 22 - 1 - - - 15 5 6 - 21 - 26 Aleksei Dugel BLR 28/07/94 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 27 Vadim Kurlovich BLR 30/10/92 19 - - - - - 3 - 1 - 1 - 29 Dmitri Lazarchik BLR 12/11/93 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 32 Mikhail Sivakov BLR 16/01/88 24 - - - - - 1 - 6 - 16 - 36 Evgeni Zdanyuk BLR 19/01/94 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 77 Filipp Rudik BLR 22/03/87 25 - 4 - - - 13 1 3 - 16 - Forwards 6 Aleksei Bogdei BLR 05/01/93 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 13 Dmitri Mozolevski BLR 30/04/85 27 - 4 2 - - 13 7 - - 6 2 19 Evgeni Kalinin BLR 15/08/93 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 20 Vitali Rodionov BLR 11/12/83 28 - 4 2 - - 19 4 5 - 53 13 28 Vladimir Karp BLR 09/10/94 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 78 Roman Vasilyuk BLR 23/11/78 33 - 1 - - - 2 1 - - 7 - Coach - Viktor Goncharenko BLR 10/06/77 35 - 4 - - - - - 12 - 53 - Last updated 22/08/12 17:52:17CET 4 Squad list FC BATE Borisov - Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC Wednesday 22 August 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC Current season All-time QUAL UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Rom David Iluz ISR 05/10/94 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 13 Daniel Amos ISR 02/02/87 25 - 4 - - - - - - - 7 - 45 Itamar Nitzan ISR 19/06/87 25 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 3 Mekonent Yazo ISR 01/01/91 21 - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Ben Vahaba ISR 27/03/92 20 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 5 Shir Tzedek ISR 22/08/89 23 * 4 - - - - - - - 4 - 15 El'ad Gabai ISR 15/11/85 26 - 4 - - - - - - - 4 - 17 Salah Hasarma ISR 24/02/74 38 * 4 - - - - - - - 8 - 20 Lior Levi ISR 26/10/87 24 - - - - - - - - - - - 21 Eytan Tibi ISR 16/11/87 24 - - - - - - - - - - - 81 Dušan Matović SRB 08/07/83 29 - 4 - - - - - - - 14 2 Midfielders 6 Ravid Gazal ISR 09/06/82 30 - 4 - - - - - - - 17 - 8 Ehud Maaravi ISR 19/09/92 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 12 Beni Ben Zaken ISR 18/10/82 29 - - - - - - - - - 1 - 14 Wael Mresat ISR 06/05/92 20 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 16 Adi Elisha ISR 28/01/90 22 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 18 Bryan Gerzicich USA 20/03/84 28 - 4 2 - - - - - - 4 2 22 Darko Tasevski MKD 20/05/84 28 - 4 - - - - - - - 43 3 23 Adrian Rochet ISR 26/05/87 25 - 4 - - - - - - - 4 - 24 David Solari ARG 21/07/86 26 - 3 - - - - - - - 3 - 26 Sintayehu Salalik ISR 20/06/91 21 - - - - - - - - - - - Forwards 7 Ahmed Abed ISR 30/03/90 22 - 4 - - - - - - - 4 - 9 Yoel Czehanovicz ISR 26/07/93 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 10 Barak Badash ISR 30/08/82 29 - 4 2 - - - - - - 6 2 19 Shimon Abihazira ISR 10/10/86 25 - 4 2 - - - - - - 4 2 25 Ofir Mizrachi ISR 04/12/93 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 29 László Lencse HUN 02/07/88 24 - 2 1 - - - - - - 4 1 Coach - Gil Landau ISR 07/08/58 54 - 4 - - - - - - - 4 - Last updated 22/08/12 17:52:17CET 5 Squad list FC BATE Borisov - Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC Wednesday 22 August 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Match officials Referee Howard Webb (ENG) Assistant referees