2019 Belarusian First League Explained

Competition:Belarusian First League
Season:2019
Matches:210
Total Goals:636
Prevseason:2018
Nextseason:2020

2019 Belarusian First League is the 29th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2019.

Team changes from 2018 season

Two best teams of 2018 Belarusian First League (Slavia Mozyr and Energetik-BGU Minsk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 2018 Belarusian Premier League table (Smolevichi and Dnepr Mogilev).

Last placed team of the last season (Chist) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2018 Second League (Rukh Brest and Krumkachy Minsk), and the league was expanded to 16 teams.

Krumkachy Minsk were renamed to NFK Minsk during the winter break. In spring 2019, Dnepr Mogilev merged with Premier League team Luch Minsk, citing the willingness keep the city of Mogilev represented in top flight. The united club was named Dnyapro Mogilev.[1] As a result, Dnepr Mogilev vacated their First League spot, and Sputnik Rechitsa (Second League 3rd-placed team) was additionally promoted.[2]

A few days before the start of the season, UAS Zhitkovichi were denied a First League license due to debts and withdrew to the Second League, leaving the tournament one team short.

Teams summary

width=140Teamwidth=120Locationdata-sort-type="number"Position in 2018
SmolevichiSmolevichiPremier League, 15
Belshina BobruiskBobruisk3
LidaLida4
Naftan NovopolotskNovopolotsk5
Lokomotiv GomelGomel6
Slonim-2017Slonim7
Granit MikashevichiMikashevichi8
Khimik SvetlogorskSvetlogorsk9
SmorgonSmorgon11
OrshaOrsha12
Volna PinskPinsk13
BaranovichiBaranovichi14
Rukh BrestBrestSecond League, 1
NFK MinskMinskSecond League, 2
Sputnik RechitsaRechitsaSecond League, 3

League table

Top goalscorers

Rankwidth=170GoalscorerTeamGoals
1 Aleksandr YushinBelshina Bobruisk26
2 Dzmitry IvanowOrsha17
3 Ivan VerasGranit Mikashevichi15
Yawhen BarsukowSmolevichi15
5 Andrey SoloveyLokomotiv Gomel13
6 Vadzim DzemidovichRukh Brest12
Andrey LyasyukBelshina Bobruisk12
Denis KozlovskiyLokomotiv Gomel12
9 Dmitry GomzaSmolevichi11
Dmitry TameloNaftan Novopolotsk11
Updated to games played on 24 November 2019
Source: football.by

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The united team will be called Dnyapro . 2019-04-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326173228/http://www.dniapro.by/news/dniapro_is_coming . 2019-03-26 . dead .
  2. https://by.tribuna.com/football/1073050628.html NFK, Rukh and Sputnik obtained First League licenses