2018 Belarusian First League

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Belarusian First League
Season2018
Champions Slavia Mozyr
Promoted Slavia Mozyr
Energetik-BGU Minsk
Relegated Chist
Matches played210
Goals scored556 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer Vsevolod Sadovsky
(19 goals)
2017
2019

2018 Belarusian First League is the 28th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2018.

Contents

Team changes from 2017 season

Two best teams of 2017 Belarusian First League (Luch Minsk and Smolevichi-STI) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 2017 Belarusian Premier League table (Slavia Mozyr and Naftan Novopolotsk).

Two lowest placed teams of the last season (Osipovichi and Neman-Agro Stolbtsy) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2017 Second League (UAS Zhitkovichi and Chist).

In March 2018, Torpedo Minsk were granted additional promotion to Belarusian Premier League to replace Krumkachy Minsk (who failed to obtain a Premier League and were demoted to the Second League). Torpedo were not replaced any other team due to the lack of applicants, and the league was reduced to 15 clubs for the season.

Teams summary

TeamLocationPosition in 2017
Slavia Mozyr Mozyr
Naftan Novopolotsk Novopolotsk
Lokomotiv Gomel Gomel 4
Belshina Bobruisk Bobruisk 5
Energetik-BGU Minsk Minsk 6
Volna Pinsk Pinsk 7
Granit Mikashevichi Mikashevichi 8
Khimik Svetlogorsk Svetlogorsk 9
Orsha Orsha 10
Slonim-2017 Slonim 11
Baranovichi Baranovichi 12
Smorgon Smorgon 13
Lida Lida 14
UAS Zhitkovichi Zhitkovichi
Chist Chist

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Slavia Mozyr (P)2821706913+5670Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League
2 Energetik-BGU Minsk (P)2821436923+4667
3 Belshina Bobruisk 2818555923+3659
4 Lida 2818464518+2758
5 Naftan Novopolotsk 28101172824+441
6 Lokomotiv Gomel 28101084429+1540
7 Slonim-2017 2899103737036
8 Granit Mikashevichi [lower-alpha 1] 2881192834634
9 Khimik Svetlogorsk 2895143240832
10 UAS Zhitkovichi 286101223381528
11 Smorgon 286101219442528
12 Orsha 28831733532027
13 Volna Pinsk 28671523492625
14 Baranovichi 28471717422519
15 Chist (R)28172030895910Relegation to the Belarusian Second League
Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head matches won; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Matches won; 8) Goals scored.
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Granit were deducted 1 point due to delayed salary payments.

Results

Home \ Away BAR BSH CHI ENE GRA KHI LID LGM NAF ORS SLA SLO SMR UAS VOL
Baranovichi 1–22–10–11–20–20–10–00–00–11–30–00–10–01–2
Belshina Bobruisk 5–15–01–12–02–01–02–11–12–10–22–12–02–16–0
Chist 0–10–50–72–21–41–20–61–32–31–61–52–40–03–1
Energetik-BGU Minsk 3–12–25–13–13–02–13–00–04–02–22–13–05–12–1
Granit Mikashevichi 0–00–13–30–44–10–32–01–31–00–31–20–00–00–0
Khimik Svetlogorsk 3–01–33–0 [lower-alpha 1] 2–00–10–01–42–23–20–23–01–11–10–1
Lida 2–10–03–03–0 [lower-alpha 2] 1–24–02–01–02–00–20–13–01–14–1
Lokomotiv Gomel 4–03–25–21–31–12–00–00–20–20–03–00–13–13–0
Naftan Novopolotsk 1–11–02–20–11–11–00–11–11–00–10–01–01–22–1
Orsha 1–32–15–20–10–32–00–10–31–31–52–20–01–23–0
Slavia Mozyr 2–03–01–12–01–12–23–00–04–06–23–16–02–02–0
Slonim-2017 0–01–11–01–41–10–11–22–21–02–01–41–20–01–1
Smorgon 1–00–31–01–40–00–21–31–11–11–20–00–51–10–0
UAS Zhitkovichi 0–10–52–21–20–11–01–21–10–02–10–11–21–01–2
Volna Pinsk 4–20–12–20–21–01–00–30–00–11–10–11–42–21–2
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Chist were awarded a 0–3 loss for not showing up for away game against Khimik Svetlogorsk.
  2. Match between Lida and Energetik-BGU Minsk (originally 0–1) awarded 3–0 to Lida as Energetik-BGU used a suspended player.

Top goalscorers

RankGoalscorerTeamGoals
1 Flag of Belarus.svg Vsevolod Sadovsky Energetik-BGU Minsk 21
2 Flag of Belarus.svg Dmitry Gomza Belshina Bobruisk 17
3 Flag of Belarus.svg Yevgeniy Yudchits Energetik-BGU Minsk 13
Flag of Ukraine.svg Maksym Slyusar Slavia Mozyr 13
5 Flag of Belarus.svg Dmitry Baiduk Belshina Bobruisk 11

Updated to games played on 10 November 2018
Source: football.by

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