Belarusian clubs have already earned over three million euros in this year's European cups
Belarusian football clubs have already earned over 3 million euros collectively based on the results of the first two qualifying rounds of the European cups, Belta reports .
Team "ML Vitebsk". Photo: "Belarusian Football"
The largest prize fund so far has been received by the country's champion "ML Vitebsk", which advanced to the third qualifying round of the Conference League. The club will receive 1.335 million euros from UEFA.
Minsk "Dinamo", which also successfully overcame two qualifying stages of the Conference League, has already guaranteed itself 1.075 million euros.
Borisov BATE concluded its performance in the European cups but will also receive 700 thousand euros.
Based on the results of two rounds, Belarusian clubs brought the country 1.833 ranking points. In the UEFA coefficient table, Belarus currently occupies 44th place with a total of 8.208 points. If the country maintains its place in the top fifty of the ranking after the end of the current European cup season, then in the next two seasons, Belarus will be represented in European cups by four clubs.
In the third qualifying round of the Conference League, "ML Vitebsk" will meet Bosnian "Borac" in Banja Luka on August 6. Minsk "Dinamo" will play away against Portuguese "Braga" on the same day.
The return matches will take place on August 13. "ML Vitebsk" will nominally play its home match in Mezőkövesd, Hungary, and Minsk "Dinamo" will host its opponent in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.