BATE out to halt Everton momentum

Everton are sure to finish second in Group I despite winning 1-0 at AEK Athens FC on Matchday 5, while FC BATE Borisov's UEFA Europa League campaign is certain to conclude at Goodison Park.

• Everton are three points adrift of section leaders SL Benfica but cannot finish above them due to their inferior head-to-head record, having lost both their games against the Portuguese side.

Previous meetings
• The teams met for the first time on Matchday 2 with Everton coming from behind to win 2-1 in Minsk. It was their first game against a Belarussian side and BATE's first experience of English football.

Match background
• BATE made their debut in the group stage of a UEFA club competition in last season's UEFA Champions League. They finished at the foot of Group H despite two draws against Juventus and another against then UEFA Cup holders FC Zenit St. Petersburg.

• Everton claimed maximum points in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage, eventually losing out to ACF Fiorentina on penalties in the round of 16.

Team facts
• BATE, famously a team founded at a Borisov tractor factory, are led by Viktor Goncharenko, who last season became the youngest coach in charge of a side in the UEFA Champions League at 31. A year older, he is now the youngest coach to lead a team into the UEFA Europa League group stage.

• Once a BATE defender, Goncharenko was forced to retire young with a cruciate injury, but stayed at the club as a coach, working his way up through the ranks before taking sole command in 2007.

• Everton's Scottish manager David Moyes had an unremarkable career as a central defender after starting off as a trainee at Celtic FC. He played the bulk of his games for Shrewsbury Town FC, Dunfermline Athletic FC and Preston North End FC, whom he later coached before moving to Goodison Park in 2002.

• Everton midfielder Diniyar Bilyaletdinov played for FC Lokomotiv Moskva from 2004 to 2009, the same club where BATE's Armenian forward Hovannes Goaryan was a trainee from 2007 to 2008.

• BATE have already booked a place in next season's UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, having taken their fourth successive Belarussian title – and sixth in total – in October.