2020 Belarusian First League

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Belarusian First League
Season2020
Champions Sputnik Rechitsa
Promoted Sputnik Rechitsa,
Gomel,
Smorgon
Matches played151
Goals scored482 (3.19 per match)
Top goalscorer Flag of Belarus.svg Andrey Solovey (Lokomotiv Gomel)
Biggest home win Gomel 7–2 Lida
Biggest away win Oshmyany 0–6 Lokomotiv Gomel
Highest scoring Oshmyany 5–5 Volna Pinsk
2019
2021

2020 Belarusian First League is the 30th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2020.

Contents

Team changes from 2019 season

Two best teams of 2019 Belarusian First League (Belshina Bobruisk and Smolevichi), as well as third-placed Rukh Brest (who won the promotion/relegation play-off) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by 15th-placed teams of 2019 Belarusian Premier League (Gomel) and 14th-placed Dnyapro Mogilev (who lost the play-off to Rukh Brest). 16th-placed Premier League team Torpedo Minsk disbanded, leaving a vacancy in the First League.

Last placed team of the last season (Baranovichi) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2019 Second League (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Oshmyany).

NFK Minsk reverted their name to Krumkachy Minsk during the winter break.

Dnyapro Mogilev ceased to exist in the spring. To fill in two vacant spots left by Dnyapro and Torpedo and to return to 16 participants, two teams were additionally promoted (Molodechno and Underdog Chist as the 3rd- and 4th-placed Second League teams). However, as both clubs represent neighboring cities, Molodechno were unable to secure the necessary financial support from the Maladzyechna Raion administration (who decided to fully support Underdog instead) and were forced to give up the promotion. Underdog Chist, however, were also excluded a few weeks later due to financial problems of their own, and the league was left with only 14 participants for the season.

As a result of investigation of match-fixing incidents during 2017 and 2018 seasons, five clubs were punished with points deductions before the start of the season. [1] [2]

Teams summary

Belarus adm location map.svg
Location of teams in 2020 Belarusian First League
TeamLocationPosition in 2019
Gomel Gomel
Lokomotiv Gomel Gomel 4
Naftan Novopolotsk Novopolotsk 5
Sputnik Rechitsa Rechitsa 6
Lida Lida 7
Krumkachy Minsk Minsk 8
Granit Mikashevichi Mikashevichi 9
Orsha Orsha 10
Khimik Svetlogorsk Svetlogorsk 11
Volna Pinsk Pinsk 12
Slonim-2017 Slonim 13
Smorgon Smorgon 14
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Dzerzhinsk
Oshmyany Oshmyany

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Sputnik Rechitsa (C, P)2619435018+3261Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League
2 Gomel [lower-alpha 1] (P)2618536020+4054
3 Krumkachy 2616464628+1852Advance to the promotion play-offs
4 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 2613764128+1346
5 Lokomotiv Gomel 2613675638+1845
6 Smorgon (P)26106102926+336Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League
7 Lida [lower-alpha 2] 2697103742531
8 Slonim-2017 26861222321030
9 Volna Pinsk 26761341521127
10 Oshmyany (W)2668123543826Withdrew
11 Orsha [lower-alpha 3] 26761330421224
12 Naftan Novopolotsk [lower-alpha 4] 26106103643721
13 Granit Mikashevichi (W)26451721523117Withdrew
14 Khimik Svetlogorsk [lower-alpha 5] (Q, W)2624201252401Advance to the relegation play-offs; Withdrew
Updated to match(es) played on 21 November 2020. Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (W) Withdrew after the season
Notes:
  1. Gomel were deducted 5 points before the start of the season as a result of match-fixing investigation in the previous season. [2]
  2. Lida were deducted 3 points before the start of the season as a result of match-fixing investigation in the previous season. [1]
  3. Orsha were deducted 3 points before the start of the season as a result of match-fixing investigation in the previous season. [1]
  4. Naftan Novopolotsk were deducted 15 points before the start of the season as a result of match-fixing investigation in the previous season. [1]
  5. Khimik Svetlogorsk were deducted 9 points before the start of the season as a result of match-fixing investigation in the previous season. [1]

Results

Home \ Away ARS GOM GRA KHI KRU LID LGM NAF ORS OSH SLO SPU SMR VOL
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 1–13–01–01–11–24–04–21–00–34–11–11–03–2
Gomel 0–12–13–10–27–22–30–04–22–03–01–01–12–0
Granit Mikashevichi 1–21–42–11–21–21–11–21–11–31–00–11–00–1
Khimik Svetlogorsk 2–20–10–00–40–10–40–12–11–40–10–32–11–2
Krumkachy Minsk 2–01–14–11–02–21–01–02–01–02–10–22–12–3
Lida 1–00–22–30–02–14–22–21–53–13–00–10–00–1
Lokomotiv Gomel 1–11–44–05–04–02–33–31–12–00–01–12–11–0
Naftan Novopolotsk 2–11–43–03–01–21–11–53–01–12–10–30–12–0
Orsha 0–10–22–14–00–43–20–20–20–01–30–00–03–2
Oshmyany 0–11–11–10–02–33–20–65–10–01–00–10–15–5
Slonim-2017 0–10–31–11–01–00–03–01–12–12–01–30–11–1
Sputnik Rechitsa 2–10–42–01–02–11–05–15–04–21–03–01–13–1
Smorgon 1–11–35–02–01–31–01–21–00–11–10–22–12–0
Volna Pinsk 1–10–33–14–22–22–22–31–22–33–20–01–32–3
Updated to match(es) played on 25 October 2020. Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion play-offs

First leg

Krumkachy Minsk 0–2 Slutsk
Report Bobko Soccerball shade.svg 45'
Sirima Soccerball shade.svg 79' (pen.)
Football Manege, Minsk
Attendance: 0
Referee: Andrey Vasilevich (Mozyr)

Second leg

Slutsk 2–1 Krumkachy Minsk
Mohammed Soccerball shade.svg 5'
Sirima Soccerball shade.svg 34' (pen.)
Report Yatskevich Soccerball shade.svg 90+2'
Football Manege, Minsk
Attendance: 0
Referee: Sergey Stetsurin (Brest)

Slutsk won 4–1 on aggregate and therefore both clubs remain in their respective leagues.

Relegation play-offs

First leg

Khimik Svetlogorsk 0–0 Molodechno
Report
Khimik Stadium, Svetlogorsk
Referee: Denis Scherbakov (Minsk)

Second leg

Khimik Svetlogorsk won 4–0 on aggregate and therefore both clubs remain in their respective leagues.

Top goalscorers

RankGoalscorerTeamGoals
1 Flag of Belarus.svg Andrey Solovey Lokomotiv Gomel 20
2 Flag of Belarus.svg Artsyom Vaskow Gomel 16
3 Flag of Belarus.svg Dmitry Gomza Gomel 11
4 Flag of Belarus.svg Yan Senkevich Lida 10
Flag of Belarus.svg Pavel Klenyo Lokomotiv Gomel 10
Flag of Belarus.svg Pavel Demidchik Oshmyany 10
Flag of Russia.svg Iskandar Zarobekov Volna Pinsk 10
Flag of Belarus.svg Valery Potorocha Sputnik Rechitsa 10

Updated to games played on 21 November 2020
Source: football.by

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References

  1. "«Нафтан» начнет сезон с -15 очками, «Химик» лишен 9 очков, «Лида», «Неман-Агро» и «Орша» – 3 очков" [Naftan will start with minus 15 points; Khimik deducted 9 points; Lida, Neman-Agro and Orsha deducted 3 points each.]. Tribuna.com (in Russian). 13 February 2020.
  2. "«Гомель» лишили 5 очков за участие в договорных матчах" [Gomel deducted 5 points due to match-fixing.]. Tribuna.com (in Russian). 16 April 2020.