BATE Borisov

BATE Borisov is a professional football club from the city of Barysaw, Belarus, commonly referred to as BATE or BATE Borisov, and it competes in the Belarusian Premier League. The name is an acronym of Borisov Automobile and Tractor Electronics, and the team was founded in 1973, won the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic league in 1974, 1976 and 1979, and was disbanded in 1984 before being re-established by Anatoli Kapski in 1996. The club's home stadium is Borisov Arena, which opened in 2014, and it has won the Belarusian Premier League 15 times, including 13 consecutive titles, along with four Belarusian Cups and four Belarusian Super Cups. BATE became the first Belarusian team to reach the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in 2008 and is the only Belarusian club to have qualified for that stage, doing so five times, while it has also reached the group stage of the UEFA Europa League four times.

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