The club was founded as
MTZ-RIPO Minsk (
MTZ-RIPA, ) in 2002 as a merger of two
Minsk teams from the
Second League (
Traktor Minsk, a club with a 55-year history, and
Trudovye Rezervy-RIPO Minsk, a football academy-based team named after the
Trudovye Rezervy which only spent one season in the Second League). The merge allowed the new team to have its own football school to recruit young players from, as well as financial support from the
Minsk Tractor Works, the main sponsor of Traktor Minsk. MTZ-RIPO Minsk started playing in the Second League in 2002. In their first season the team finished first, and then did the same in the
First League in 2003. Since 2004, they played in the
Belarusian Premier League. At the end of 2004 the club was acquired by a
Russian-
Lithuanian businessman
Vladimir Romanov and became a part of his football holding alongside
Scottish Premier League club
Hearts and
Lithuanian A Lyga club
FBK Kaunas. During 2005–2010 many foreign players owned by FBK Kaunas or Hearts had successful loan spells in MTZ-RIPO. Before the start of the 2010 season, the club announced a name change. On 27 January 2010, the new name was revealed to be
Partizan Minsk. Partizan finished the
2010 season at bottom of the table and were relegated. In the
following season in the Belarusian First League, they finished second and had to face
FC Vitebsk in a two-legged play-off, which they won 3–2 on aggregate to secure a place in the
2012 Belarusian Premier League. In early 2012, the club was mostly abandoned by Romanov (who withdrew his financial support, having some legal troubles himself) and had to release all its players. Partizan withdrew from the Premier League, leaving the division with only 11 teams. The team spent the 2012 season playing at the amateur level in the Minsk Championship. In 2013, the club renamed to
Partizan-MTZ Minsk and joined the
Second League, before renaming back to
Partizan Minsk in 2014. Midway through the 2014 season, the club announced its withdrawal from the league and was folded. The club was succeeded by
Traktor Minsk who re-founded in 2015. == Honours ==