Artem Bykov

Artem Bykov's most recent headline came far from the biggest occasion of his career: in April 2026, playing for Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino, he was named the best player of round four of the Belarusian Premier League after scoring twice in a 2-2 draw against Dnepr-Mogilev.

The Minsk-born midfielder started out at Zvezda-BSU before Dinamo Minsk signed him in 2011; he made his debut for the club that June. Two loan spells followed, at Berezha-2010 and at Minsk, before he established himself back in the capital. In 2018 he moved to Dinamo-Brest, where he won the Belarusian championship in 2019 and the Belarusian Super Cup in both 2019 and 2020.

He returned to Dinamo Minsk in 2021 and added a second league title with the club in 2023, having already collected two silver and two bronze medals there in earlier seasons. In August 2024 he left Belarus for the first time, joining Greek side Lamia for a fee of €100,000. The move proved short: by February 2025 he was back on a free transfer at Dinamo-Brest, before moving on to Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino later that year.

Bykov also built a long international record with Belarus, progressing through the under-19 and under-21 sides before making his senior debut against Iran in May 2014, a match that finished goalless. He went on to earn 27 caps and score once for the national team.