2005 Belarusian First League Explained

Competition:Belarusian First League
Season:2005
Winners:Belshina Bobruisk
Promoted:Belshina Bobruisk
Lokomotiv Vitebsk
Relegated:Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev
Orsha
Dnepr-DUSSh-1 Rogachev
Matches:240
Total Goals:636
Prevseason:2004
Nextseason:2006

2005 Belarusian First League was the 15th season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2005.

Team changes from 2004 season

Two top teams of the last season (Lokomotiv Minsk and Vedrich-97 Rechitsa) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two teams that finished at the bottom of 2004 Belarusian Premier League table (Lokomotiv Vitebsk and Belshina Bobruisk).

Two teams that finished at the bottom of 2004 season table (Vertikal Kalinkovichi and Dinamo-Juni Minsk) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2004 Second League (Smena Minsk and Orsha).

Vedrich-97 Rechitsa were not able to fulfill Premier League licensing criteria and remained in the First League.

Molodechno-2000 (who finished 13th last season) withdrew to the Second League due to insufficient financing.

Teams and locations

width=120Teamwidth=110Locationdata-sort-type="number"Position in 2004
LokomotivVitebskPremier League, 15
BelshinaBobruiskPremier League, 16
Vedrich-97Rechitsa2
SmorgonSmorgon3
GranitMikashevichi4
ZLiNGomel5
VerasNesvizh6
BaranovichiBaranovichi7
LidaLida8
KhimikSvetlogorsk9
BerezaBereza10
KommunalnikSlonim11
Torpedo-KadinoMogilev12
Dnepr-DUSSh-1Rogachev14
SmenaMinskSecond League, 1
OrshaOrshaSecond League, 2

Top goalscorers

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1 Ruslan UsawLokomotiv Vitebsk32
2 Dzmitry AsipenkaSmorgon17
3 Aleksandr ChudukBaranovichi15
4 Vadim SugakoKommunalnik Slonim13
5 Dmitry GavrilovichKhimik Svetlogorsk12
Sergey VekhtevLokomotiv Vitebsk12
Oleksiy KopylchenkoBelshina Bobruisk12
Andrey ChistyGranit Mikashevichi12

See also

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