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).
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.
Team | Location | Venue | Capacity | Position in 2022 | |
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BATE | Borisov | Borisov Arena | 13,126 | 3rd | |
Belshina | Bobruisk | Spartak Stadium | 3,700 | 12th | |
Dinamo Minsk | Minsk | Dinamo Stadium | 22,000 | 4th | |
Dynamo Brest | Brest | OSK Brestsky | 10,169 | 13th | |
Energetik-BGU | Minsk | RCOR-BGU Stadium | 1,500 | 2nd | |
Gomel | Gomel | Central Stadium | 14,307 | 7th | |
Isloch | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,000 | 5th | |
Minsk | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,000 | 6th | |
Naftan | Novopolotsk | Atlant Stadium | 5,300 | 1st (First League) | |
Neman | Grodno | Neman Stadium | 8,479 | 9th | |
Shakhtyor | Soligorsk | Stroitel Stadium | 4,200 | 1st | |
Slavia | Mozyr | Yunost Stadium | 5,300 | 10th | |
Slutsk | Slutsk | City Stadium | 1,896 | 11th | |
Smorgon | Smorgon | Yunost Stadium | 3,200 | 2nd (First League) | |
Torpedo-BelAZ | Zhodino | Torpedo Stadium | 6,524 | 8th |
Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 28 matches over 30 matchdays.
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.
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Vladislav Morozov | Dinamo Minsk | 16 |
2 | Yahor Zubovich | Neman Grodno | 14 |
3 | Pavel Savitsky | Neman Grodno | 13 |
4 | Yegor Karpitsky | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 12 |
Mikhail Gordeychuk | Dynamo Brest | 12 | |
6 | Andrei Panyukov | Naftan Novopolotsk | 10 |
7 | Dušan Bakić | Dinamo Minsk | 9 |
Euloge Placca Fessou | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 9 | |
Denis Mitrofanov | Isloch Minsk Raion | 9 | |
Denis Kozlovskiy | Gomel | 9 |