2000 Belarusian First League Explained

Competition:Belarusian First League
Season:2000
Winners:Molodechno
Promoted:Molodechno
Relegated:Traktor Minsk
Veino-Dnepr
Polesye Kozenki
Matches:240
Total Goals:704
Prevseason:1999
Nextseason:2001

2000 Belarusian First League was the tenth season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2000.

Team changes from 1999 season

Two best teams of 1999 Belarusian First League (Kommunalnik Slonim and Vedrich-97 Rechitsa) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 1999 Premier League (Molodechno and Svisloch-Krovlya Osipovichi).

Two lowest placed teams of the 1999 First League (Pinsk-900 and Vitbich-Dinamo-Energo Vitebsk) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two newcomers from the Second League (Traktor Minsk and Luninets as the winners of their respective groups).

Before the start of the season Kommunalnik Svetlogorsk were renamed to Khimik Svetlogorsk.

Overview

This season winners Molodechno were promoted to the Premier League. Four lowest placed teams (Traktor Minsk, Khimik Svetlogorsk, Veino-Dnepr and Polesye Kozenki) were initially relegated to the Second League, although Khimik Svetlogorsk later avoided relegation due to withdrawal of two other teams before 2001 season.

Teams and locations

width=120Teamwidth=110Locationdata-sort-type="number"Position in 1999
Svisloch-KrovlyaOsipovichiPremier League, 15
MolodechnoMolodechnoPremier League, 16
Dinamo-JuniMinsk3
KhimikSvetlogorsk4
GranitMikashevichi5
NemanMosty6
TorpedoZhodino7
KeramikBereza8
OrshaOrsha9
RogachevRogachev10
ZLiNGomel11
Zvezda-VA-BGUMinsk12
PolesyeKozenki13
Veino-DneprVeino14
TraktorMinskSecond League, Group A, 1
LuninetsLuninetsSecond League, Group B, 1

Top goalscorers

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1Keramik Bereza19
2 Nikolay KurilovichKeramik Bereza17
3 Vladimir TaranTorpedo Zhodino15
4 Vladimir ProvalinskiyOrsha14
Maksim TsyhalkaDinamo-Juni Minsk14

See also

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