The die of the round of the play-offs of the Europa League chose the Belarusian BATE who was unable to qualify for the second consecutive season in the rivals of Alexandria.

The team was founded in 1996. Performs at the stadium Borisov-Arena, which seats 13,126 spectators.

BATE became the champion of Belarus 13 times (1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016), won the National Cup three times (2006, 2010 and 2015), and seven times - Supercup of the country (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017).

BATE debut in European competition in the UEFA Cup-1999/2000 and was broken in the first round locomotive M - 1: 7 and 0: 5. The team from Borisov for the 19th time entered the fight for European club trophies. In the European club tournaments, BATE had a total of 136 matches (48 wins, 34 draws and 52 losses), 90 of them in the Champions League (32, 27, 32), 40 in the UEFA Cup and the European League (13, 6, 21) And 6 in the Intertoto Cup (4, 1, 1).

The highest achievement in the Champions League is the third place in the group tournament in the 2012/2013 season, in which BATE faced Bayern (3: 1 and 1: 4), Valencia (0: 3 and 2: 4) and Lille (3: 1 and 0: 2). In the same season, it was established and the highest achievement in the European League - 1/16 finals, where the Barysau players lost to Fenerbahce (0: 0 and 0: 1).

Twice on the football paths of the Old World, the paths of BATE and representatives of Ukraine crossed, and both ended in favor of our teams. In the 2010/2011 group stage Dynamo played against Alexandriya's future rival on the road - 2: 2, but at home took a convincing revenge - 4: 1. Miner in the group round of the Champions League 2014/2015 simply did not notice the team from Borisov - 7-0 at home and 5-0 at home.

Aloncert (1: 1 and 3: 1) beat BATE in the second qualifying round of the Champions League, but lost at the next stage of Prague Slavia (0: 1 and 2: 1).

Composition:.

Goalkeepers - Sergey Veremko, Anton Chichkan, Denis Shcherbitsky.

Defenders - Vitaly Gayduchyk, Jurica Buljat (Croatia), Arthur Pikk (Estonia), Alexey Rios, Nemanja Milunovic (Serbia), Denis Polyakov, Maxim Volodko.

Midfielders - Evgeny Yablonsky, Evgeny Berezkin, Alexander Volodko, Mirko Ivanich (Montenegro), Stanislav Dragun, Igor Stasevich, Dmitry Baga, Yuri Knedysh, Valerian Gvilia (Georgia).

Forwards - Anes Rushevich (Serbia), Nikolay Signevich, Vitaly Rodionov, Iasi Tuominen (Finland), Mikhail Gordeychuk.

Trainer - Alexander Ermakovich.