2013 Belarusian First League

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Belarusian First League
Season2013
Champions Slutsk
Promoted Slutsk
Relegated SKVICH Minsk
Polotsk
Matches played238
Goals scored644 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer Syarhey Krot (17)
Biggest home win Smolevichi-STI 9–0 Polotsk
Biggest away win Polotsk 0–8 Gorodeya
Highest scoring Smolevichi-STI 9–0 Polotsk
2012
2014

The 2013 Belarusian First League is the 23rd season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2013.

Contents

Team changes from 2012 season

The winners of last season (Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. No teams relegated directly from the Premier League as it was expanded from 11 to 12 teams.

The runners-up of last season (Gorodeya) lost the promotion/relegation play-off to Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino (11th-placed Premier League team) and both clubs stayed in their respective leagues.

One team that finished at the bottom of 2012 season table (Rudensk) relegated to the Second League. To compensate for Premier League and First League club withdrawals from last year, they were replaced by three best teams of 2012 Second League (Smolevichi-STI, Slonim and Isloch Minsk Raion) and the league was expanded from 15 to 16 clubs.

DSK Gomel withdrew from the league and disbanded due to lack of financing. They were replaced by Minsk-2, who finished 5th in last year's Second League. Gomelzheldortrans, Second League 4th team, declined invitation due to insufficient financing.

Teams summary

TeamLocationPosition in 2012
Gorodeya Gorodeya 2
Vitebsk Vitebsk 3
SKVICH Minsk 4
Slutsk Slutsk 5
Granit Mikashevichi 6
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 7
Volna Pinsk 8
Bereza-2010 Bereza 9
Smorgon Smorgon 10
Lida Lida 11
Polotsk Polotsk 12
Khimik Svetlogorsk 13
Smolevichi-STI Smolevichi
Slonim Slonim
Isloch Minsk Raion Minsk Raion
Minsk-2 Minsk

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Slutsk (P)3019925419+3566Promotion to Belarusian Premier League
2 Gorodeya 3018666832+3660Qualification for promotion play-off
3 Vitebsk 3016774029+1155
4 Lida 3015785338+1552
5 Bereza-2010 3014884430+1450
6 Smorgon 30137104535+1046
7 Granit Mikashevichi 3012994231+1145
8 Smolevichi-STI 30128105037+1344
9 Isloch Minsk Raion 30118113937+241
10 Khimik Svetlogorsk 30118113736+141
11 Volna Pinsk 301161330411139
12 Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 3091294736+1139
13 Slonim 30713103845734
14 Minsk-2 30751832491726
15 SKVICH Minsk (R)30332421634212Relegation to Belarusian Second League
16 Polotsk (R)30242410928210
Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Promotion play-offs

The 11th placed team of 2013 Premier League Dnepr Mogilev played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2013 Belarusian First League Gorodeya for one spot in the 2014 Premier League and won the series 3–1 on aggregate.

Results

Home \ Away BER GRD GRA ISL KHI LID MIN POL SKV SLO SLU SML SMR V97 VIT VOL
Bereza-2010 0–24–12–10–10–23–07–01–01–01–12–11–15–30–00–0
Gorodeya 3–12–21–05–30–22–02–13–26–21–16–11–01–13–14–0
Granit Mikashevichi 5–11–13–12–02–00–00–11–01–11–20–13–23–00–12–1
Isloch Minsk Raion 1–21–02–20–12–12–16–02–11–00–21–10–02–32–12–2
Khimik Svetlogorsk 1–00–01–00–11–10–06–02–01–01–10–00–00–10–22–2
Lida 0–30–21–30–23–02–05–03–03–11–32–11–42–11–12–0
Minsk-2 1–11–21–01–12–30–11–04–11–21–22–11–02–10–10–2
Polotsk 0–20–80–41–20–11–10–41–50–02–10–11–21–50–40–3
SKVICH Minsk 0–20–50–00–20–11–24–30–00–21–20–30–30–41–23–0
Slonim 0–02–22–22–22–12–22–13–0 [lower-alpha 1] 2–10–00–11–13–31–41–2
Slutsk 2–01–02–13–01–03–33–13–05–11–10–01–00–01–00–1
Smolevichi-STI 1–24–01–20–01–60–33–39–02–05–11–13–13–00–11–1
Smorgon 0–12–13–04–24–20–32–13–0 [lower-alpha 2] 0–03–20–40–10–04–01–0
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 2–21–20–00–01–13–34–00–03–00–00–12–11–12–05–0
Vitebsk 1–01–00–02–15–20–01–02–12–00–01–41–13–22–10–1
Volna Pinsk 0–01–20–11–02–02–33–02–01–00–30–30–21–21–01–1
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Awarded to Slonim as Polotsk did not show up for the game.
  2. Awarded to Smorgon as Polotsk did not show up for the game.

Top goalscorers

RankGoalscorerTeamGoals
1 Flag of Belarus.svg Syarhey Krot Smorgon 17
2 Flag of Belarus.svg Dzmitry Kavalyonak Granit Mikashevichi / Lida 15
3 Flag of Belarus.svg Dzmitry Lebedzew Gorodeya 12
4 Flag of Belarus.svg Ilya Pukhov Gorodeya 11
Flag of Belarus.svg Denis Trapashko Smolevichi-STI 11

Updated to games played on 23 November 2013
Source: football.by

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