2004 Belarusian First League Explained

Competition:Belarusian First League
Season:2004
Winners:Lokomotiv Minsk
Promoted:Lokomotiv Minsk
Relegated:Molodechno-2000
Vertikal Kalinkovichi
Dinamo-Juni Minsk
Matches:240
Total Goals:577
Prevseason:2003
Nextseason:2005

2004 Belarusian First League was the 14th season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2004.

Team changes from 2003 season

Two top teams of last season (Lokomotiv Vitebsk and MTZ-RIPO Minsk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two teams that finished at the bottom of 2003 Belarusian Premier League table (Lokomotiv Minsk and Molodechno-2000).

Two teams that finished at the bottom of 2003 season table (Neman Mosty and Pinsk-900) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2003 Second League (Baranovichi and Veras Nesvizh).

Teams and locations

width=120Teamwidth=110Locationdata-sort-type="number"Position in 2003
LokomotivMinskPremier League, 15
Molodechno-2000MolodechnoPremier League, 16
SmorgonSmorgon3
Vedrich-97Rechitsa4
GranitMikashevichi5
ZLiNGomel6
KhimikSvetlogorsk7
LidaLida8
Torpedo-KadinoMogilev9
KommunalnikSlonim10
Dnepr-DUSSh-1Rogachev11
Dinamo-JuniMinsk12
VertikalKalinkovichi13
BerezaBereza14
BaranovichiBaranovichiSecond League, 1
VerasNesvizhSecond League, 2

Top goalscorers

Rankwidth=170Goalscorerwidth=170TeamGoals
1 Aleksei MartynovLokomotiv Minsk19
2 Mihail LitvinchukLokomotiv Minsk16
Dzmitry VyarstakSmorgon16
4 Sergey KrivetsLokomotiv Minsk12
Mihail EramchukVedrich-97 Rechitsa12
Dmitry GavrilovichVeras Nesvizh12

See also

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