Kantsavy
Artsiom

Artsiom Kantsavy is a prominent figure in the history of the "Yellow-Blues". BATE was his first professional team and a talented youngster managed to kick-start from the first days in Borisov, scoring a lot of important goals, including UEFA Intertoto bombs in the games against Danish Akademic and German Munchen 1860. This was not surprising that a lot of big teams started the hunt to sign the Belarusian talent from BATE, who became Belarusian champions in 2002. Spartak Moscow were successful, but Kantsavy failed to become a first team player there and after spending some time at Chernomorets Novorossiysk travelled back to Belarus to join FC MTZ-RIPO Minsk. He played there for four years, proving to be one of the best strikers in the Belarusian Champioship. After that he decided to move abroad one more time and signed by Spartak Nalchik from Russia.

In 2010 BATE loaned the player for a year from Spartak Nalchik, and after that transferred the player permanently to Borisov. His experience helped the Yellow-Blues both in the domestic competitions and in European tournaments scoring against FC Kopenhagen and AZ Alkmaar. After his return to BATE he added four more champions titles, one Belarusian Cup and two Belarusian Supercups to his career. In total Artiom played 194 games for BATE, scoreing 58 goals (Belarusian Championship - 137/35, Belarusian Cup - 19/18, Belarusian Supercup - 3/0, UEFA Champions League - 22/1, UEFA Europa League - 7/1, UEFA Intertoto Cup - 6/3).

Artsiom Kantsavy was inducted into BATE hall of fame in January 2014, just before his move to FC FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino. "BATE is a special club and will always remain in my heart. Particular thank you to the fans who are always with the team", said Artsiom in his farewell speech.