The agreement with FС BATE was concluded by 29-year-old striker Andrei Panyukov.

The forward has experience playing in the Russian Premier League - 75 matches, 13 goals. In Russia he defended the colors of FC Dinamo Moscow (2012, 2013), FC Khimki (2013), FC Spartak Nalchik (2014), FC Baltika Kaliningrad (2014), FC Zenit St. Petersburg (2017-18) and FC Zenit-2 (2018), FC Ural Yekaterinburg (2018-21), FC Veles Moscow (2022); in Lithuania – FC Atlantas Klaipeda (2017, 2018, 2019); in France – FC Ajaccio (2015-16) and FC Ajaccio-2 (2016); in Portugal – FC Braga-2 (2016-17); in Kazakhstan – FC Kyzyl-Zhar from Petropavlovsk (2022).
Last May he moved to FC Slaviya Mozyr, for which he played 3 matches and scored 1 goal, bringing the team a draw in the last seconds of the away match with FC BATE (1:1). In the summer he moved to FC Naftan, eventually scoring 9 goals in 14 games for Novopolotsk.

At the start of his career he was in demand in Russian youth teams of different ages: over the course of five years, he played about fifty matches and scored 26 goals.