Graduated from Private Institute of Management and Business in 2003 as a lawyer.
Works at FC BATE Borisov since 2004.
In 2014 appointed Head of Legal Affairs in the club.
Yury Kalantai is a judge at Belarusian Court of Arbitration for Sports.
Author of numerous articles on sports law, winner of nationwide contest of legal articles on sports law. In 2021, he graduated with honors from the master's program "Innovative Management", taught at the Institute of Business of the Belarusian State University: the dissertation for the master's degree was written and defended in the sports direction - "Innovative technologies in the field of management in the sports industry".