2023 Belarusian Premier League Explained

Competition:Belarusian Premier League
Season:2023
Winners:Dinamo Minsk
Relegated:Belshina Bobruisk
Energetik-BGU Minsk
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Dinamo Minsk
Continentalcup2:Conference League
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Isloch Minsk Raion
Neman Grodno
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
League Topscorer:Pavel Savitsky
Vladislav Morozov
Yegor Karpitsky
Biggest Home Win:
Biggest Away Win:


Highest Scoring:
Matches:142
Total Goals:364
Longest Wins:6 matches
Neman Grodno
Longest Unbeaten:12 matches
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Longest Winless:10 matches
Energetik-BGU Minsk
Longest Losses:8 matches
Naftan Novopolotsk
Prevseason:2022
Nextseason:2024
Updated:17 September 2023

The 2023 Belarusian Premier League was the 33rd season of top-tier football in Belarus. Shakhtyor Soligorsk were the defending champions (although they were stripped of their title as a result of a match-fixing scandal).[1] [2]

The winners (Dinamo Minsk, their eighth title win) qualified for the 2024–25 Champions League first qualifying round. The 2023–24 Belarusian Cup winners (Neman Grodno) qualified for the 2024–25 Conference League second qualifying round, with the third and fourth-placed teams (Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino and Isloch Minsk Raion) qualifying for the first qualifying round. The fourteenth-placed team (Energetik-BGU Minsk) qualified for the Belarusian Premier League play-off, losing and being relegated to the 2024 Belarusian First League alongside the bottom-placed team (Belshina Bobruisk).

Teams

The bottom-placed teams from the 2022 season (Vitebsk and Dnepr Mogilev) were relegated to the First League. They were replaced by Naftan Novopolotsk and Smorgon, champions and runners-up of the 2022 Belarusian First League respectively.

14th-placed team of the last season (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk) were relegated after they lost relegation/promotion playoffs against First League third-placed team Maxline Rogachev. Despite winning the play-off, Maxline Rogachev were denied Premier League license[3] and remained in the First League. As no other potential replacement team applied for the license, it was decided to play 2023 season with just 15 clubs.

TeamLocationVenueCapacityPosition in 2022
BATEBorisovBorisov Arena13,1263rd
BelshinaBobruiskSpartak Stadium3,70012th
Dinamo MinskMinskDinamo Stadium22,0004th
Dynamo BrestBrestOSK Brestsky10,16913th
Energetik-BGUMinskRCOR-BGU Stadium1,5002nd
GomelGomelCentral Stadium14,3077th
IslochMinskFC Minsk Stadium3,0005th
MinskMinskFC Minsk Stadium3,0006th
NaftanNovopolotskAtlant Stadium5,3001st (First League)
NemanGrodnoNeman Stadium8,4799th
ShakhtyorSoligorskStroitel Stadium4,2001st
SlaviaMozyrYunost Stadium5,30010th
SlutskSlutskCity Stadium1,89611th
SmorgonSmorgonYunost Stadium3,2002nd (First League)
Torpedo-BelAZZhodinoTorpedo Stadium6,5248th

League table

Results

Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 28 matches over 30 matchdays.

Belarusian Premier League play-off

The fourteenth-placed club (Energetik-BGU Minsk) faced the third-placed club from the 2023 Belarusian First League (Vitebsk) for the final place in the following season's Belarusian Premier League.

Second leg

Statistics

Top scorers

[4]

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Vladislav MorozovDinamo Minsk16
2 Yahor ZubovichNeman Grodno14
3 Pavel SavitskyNeman Grodno13
4 Yegor KarpitskyShakhtyor Soligorsk12
Mikhail GordeychukDynamo Brest12
6 Andrei PanyukovNaftan Novopolotsk10
7 Dušan BakićDinamo Minsk9
Euloge Placca FessouShakhtyor Soligorsk9
Denis MitrofanovIsloch Minsk Raion9
Denis KozlovskiyGomel9

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022 Belarusian Premier League . Soccerway . 10 January 2023.
  2. Web site: Федэрацыя футбола пазбавіла салігорскі "Шахцёр" чэмпіёнства 2022 года. euradio.fm. 11 May 2023.
  3. https://football.by/news/169969 Maxline can't play in the 2023 top flight
  4. Web site: Football.by | Statistica . football.by .