Egor Filipenko

Who is Egor Filipenko?

Yahor Usevaladavich Filipenka is a Belarussian footballer who plays for BATE Borisov.

Filipenko was born in Minsk and was part of Smena Minsk's youth team.

His transfer to Spartak Moscow attracted a lot of attention in Belarus, but he had difficulties retaining his place in the first team following the resignation of Stanislav Cherchesov and was sent out on a number of loans to other Eastern European teams.

On 27 September 2009, Filipenko scored his first and only goal for the Moscow side in a 5–0 home win against one of his former clubs Tom Tomsk.

On 25 June 2011, at the finals in Denmark, Filipenko scored the only goal of the game in the Olympic Play-Off against the Czech Republic in the 88th minute. This took Belarus to the Olympic football championship for the first time in their history.