2024 Belarusian First League

2024 Belarusian First League is the 34th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and will finish in November 2024.

Belarusian First League
Season2024
Matches played276
Goals scored792 (2.87 per match)
Top goalscorerDmitry Fedortsov (19 goals)
2023
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Team changes from 2023 season

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Two best teams of 2023 Belarusian First League (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two last-placed team of 2023 Belarusian Premier League (Belshina Bobruisk). Third-placed club Vitebsk won the promotion/relegation play-off against Energetik-BGU Minsk and got promoted as well, while Energetik-BGU relegated to the First League to replace Vitebsk.

Last placed team of the last season (Osipovichi) relegated to the Second League.

Three clubs were supposed to get promoted from the Second League. 2023 Second League champions Partizan Soligorsk and runners-up Krumkachy Minsk did not apply for the First League license due to insufficient financing. Third-placed club Football Center Brest initially confirmed their intentions to get promoted, but in February withdrew their application due to apparent conflict between club's owner and ABFF. For the first time in history of the First League, no club got promoted from the Second League.[1]

On 11 February 2024, Zhodino-Yuzhnoye announced that the club withdrew from the league and ceased to exist.[2]

At a series of ABFF executive committee meetings in January–March 2024 it was decided that Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship will be abolished and reserve teams of Premier League clubs are to be integrated into First and Second leagues as farm clubs, with a maximum of 4 farm clubs in the First League. For 2024 season, the First League included three best teams of 2023 Reserves Championships (Dinamo-2 Minsk, BATE-2 Borisov and Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino) as well as Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk (which became direct successor to Shakhtyor Petrikov).[3][4][5][6] In addition, a special team (ABFF U-17) was created under direct management from ABFF to develop youth players as candidates for Belarus national under-19 football team.[7]

Teams summary

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Team Location Position in 2023
Energetik-BGU Minsk Minsk 14 (Premier League)
Belshina Bobruisk Bobruisk 15 (Premier League)
Lokomotiv Gomel Gomel 4
Maxline Vitebsk Vitebsk 5
Baranovichi Baranovichi 6
Volna Pinsk Pinsk 8
Niva Dolbizno Dolbizno [be] 9
Lida Lida 10
Molodechno Molodechno 11
Ostrovets Ostrovets 12
Bumprom Gomel Gomel 13
Orsha Orsha 14
Slonim-2017 Slonim 15
Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk Soligorsk 16 (First League) / 11 (Reserves League)
Dinamo-2 Minsk Minsk 1 (Reserves League)
BATE-2 Borisov Borisov 2 (Reserves League)
Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino Zhodino 3 (Reserves League)
ABFF U-17 Minsk n/a

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Molodechno 32 21 7 4 59 26 +33 70 Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League
2 Niva Dolbizno 32 20 7 5 67 29 +38 67
3 Maxline Vitebsk 32 21 4 7 66 27 +39 67 Advance to the promotion play-offs
4 Belshina Bobruisk 32 21 5 6 78 40 +38 63[a]
5 Volna Pinsk 32 20 3 9 68 39 +29 63
6 Lida 32 14 7 11 43 37 +6 49
7 BATE-2 Borisov 32 14 7 11 45 42 +3 49
8 Bumprom Gomel 32 13 8 11 47 33 +14 47
9 Dinamo-2 Minsk 31 13 7 11 48 38 +10 46
10 Ostrovets 32 12 7 13 43 53 −10 43
11 Orsha 32 10 12 10 41 45 −4 42
12 Lokomotiv Gomel 32 7 11 14 38 48 −10 32
13 Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk 32 9 4 19 33 57 −24 31
14 Baranovichi 32 7 7 18 27 59 −32 28
15 Slonim-2017 32 6 7 19 26 64 −38 25 Relegation to the Belarusian Second League
16 ABFF U-17 31 6 6 19 28 52 −24 24
17 Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino 32 6 3 23 34 85 −51 21
18 Energetik-BGU Minsk (R) 32 7 8 17 36 53 −17 19[b]
Updated to match(es) played on 13 November 2024. Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored.
(R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Belshina Bobruisk were deducted 5 points for match-fixing.[8]
  2. ^ Energetik-BGU Minsk were deducted 10 points for match-fixing.[8]

Results

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Home \ Away BFF BAR BT2 BSH BUM DM2 ENE LID LGM MAX MOL NIV ORS OST SH2 SLO TB2 VOL
ABFF U-17 2–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 0–2 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–3 0–1 0–4 0–2
Baranovichi 2–2 0–1 0–4 2–1 0–3 2–0 0–2 2–1 2–4 0–3 1–3 0–2 0–1 0–0 2–1 3–2
BATE-2 Borisov 3–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 0–5 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 4–0 3–2 0–0 0–0 6–2 1–3
Belshina Bobruisk 1–0 5–0 1–0 2–0 3–1 2–0 2–1 2–4 2–0 1–3 5–0 1–1 1–0 4–0 2–1 3–1
Bumprom Gomel 2–2 2–1 3–0 1–2 3–1 4–1 4–1 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–0 3–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–2
Dinamo-2 Minsk 0–0 1–2 2–2 1–2 3–2 0–2 0–0 1–0 3–3 1–2 2–2 3–0 0–1 2–0 3–0
Energetik-BGU Minsk 0–0 0–2 3–2 0–1 1–2 0–0 2–0 2–5 0–4 1–1 0–1 2–1 6–0 0–2 1–4
Lida 1–2 3–0 2–0 1–5 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–2 0–1 0–2 0–1 0–1 1–5 4–0 1–0
Lokomotiv Gomel 3–2 3–3 1–2 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–3 1–1 1–1 4–0 4–1 1–0 5–2 0–3
Maxline Vitebsk 3–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 4–2 0–1 1–1 3–1 5–0 5–0 2–0
Molodechno 3–2 1–1 3–1 5–0 0–0 2–1 3–3 1–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 2–1 4–0 3–0
Niva Dolbizno 1–0 0–1 5–3 3–3 5–1 2–1 0–1 2–0 3–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 7–1 1–2
Orsha 2–0 4–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–2 2–4 1–1 0–1 0–1 3–5 1–1 3–2 2–0 0–2 1–1
Ostrovets 1–2 1–0 3–1 2–2 0–0 0–3 1–0 0–2 1–1 1–2 3–3 0–5 1–0 3–2 3–0 1–0
Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk 2–0 1–3 3–5 2–1 1–2 0–0 2–4 2–1 0–3 0–2 0–2 0–0 2–3 0–1 1–0 1–4
Slonim-2017 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–2 1–0 2–3 2–2 1–0 1–4 2–3 0–3 2–0 2–1 1–2 0–1 2–3
Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino 0–3 3–2 1–3 3–6 1–8 0–1 0–1 1–3 2–1 0–2 0–3 1–1 2–4 1–1 2–3 1–1
Volna Pinsk 3–0 2–0 2–1 0–4 3–0 1–2 3–2 2–1 1–2 2–1 1–1 3–0 3–2 5–0 6–1 3–0
Updated to match(es) played on 13 November 2024. Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

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Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1   Dmitry Fedortsov Niva Dolbizno 18
2   Pavel Pampukha Niva Dolbizno 13
3   Maksim Budko Dinamo-2 Minsk 12
  Vladislav Yatskevich Ostrovets 12
5   Vladislav Kabachevskiy Belshina Bobruisk 10
  Valery Potorocha Belshina Bobruisk 10
  Deni Makayev Bumprom Gomel 10

Updated to games played on 3 November 2024
Source: football.by

See also

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References

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