2022 Belarusian Premier League

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Belarusian Premier League
Season2022
Dates18 March – 12 November 2022
Champions Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Relegated Vitebsk
Dnepr Mogilev
Champions League BATE Borisov
Conference League Dinamo Minsk
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Neman Grodno
Matches played240
Goals scored615 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorer Bobur Abdikholikov
(26 goals)
Biggest home win Energetik-BGU Minsk 5–0 Slavia Mozyr
(29 May 2022)
Minsk 5–0 Slavia Mozyr
(18 October 2022)
Slavia Mozyr 5–0 Dnepr Mogilev
(12 November 2022)
Biggest away win Dnepr Mogilev 0–7 Shakhtyor Soligorsk
(15 August 2022)
Highest scoring Dynamo Brest 4–4 Vitebsk
(29 October 2022)
Longest winning run6 matches
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Longest unbeaten run15 matches
Dinamo Minsk
Longest winless run12 matches
Dynamo Brest
Vitebsk
Longest losing run9 matches
Dnepr Mogilev
2021
2023
All statistics correct as of 12 November 2022.

The 2022 Belarusian Premier League was the 32nd season of top-tier football in Belarus. Shakhtyor Soligorsk defended their championship winning the fourth league title in club history. The title was subsequently stripped on May 11, 2023 following a match-fixing scandal. [1]

Contents

Teams

The 15th-placed team of the last season Smorgon was relegated to the 2022 Belarusian First League, ending their one-year stay in the top division. Sputnik Rechitsa were excluded from the league halfway through the last season and will not play in any league in 2022. Smorgon and Sputnik were replaced by two best teams of 2021 Belarusian First League (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, promoted to the top-flight for the first time in their history and Belshina Bobruisk, promoted after a one-year absence).

On 28 February 2022 Rukh Brest withdrew from the league, citing financial troubles caused by international sanctions upon club's owner Alexander Zaytsev and an undisclosed Russian company co-owning the club. [2] A few days later they were replaced by Dnepr Mogilev (5th-placed team of last year's First League season).

TeamLocationVenueCapacityPosition in 2021
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Gorodeya Stadium (Gorodeya)1,6251st (First League)
BATE Borisov Borisov Arena 12,8962nd
Belshina Bobruisk Spartak Stadium 3,7002nd (First League)
Gomel Gomel Central Stadium 14,3074th
Dinamo Brest Brest OSK Brestsky 10,0606th
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo Stadium 22,0003rd
Dnepr Mogilev Spartak Stadium 7,3505th (First League)
Energetik-BGU Minsk RCOR-BGU Stadium1,50013th
Isloch Minsk Raion FC Minsk Stadium 3,00010th
Minsk Minsk FC Minsk Stadium 3,00012th
Neman Grodno Neman Stadium 8,50011th
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Stroitel Stadium 4,2001st
Slavia Mozyr Yunost Stadium 5,30014th
Slutsk Slutsk City Stadium 1,8969th
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Torpedo Stadium 3,0208th
Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsky CSK 8,1007th

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3020555517+3865Excluded from European Competitions [lower-alpha 1]
2 Energetik-BGU Minsk 3018665027+2360
3 BATE Borisov 30161135121+3059Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round [lower-alpha 1]
4 Dinamo Minsk 30161135025+2559Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round [lower-alpha 1]
5 Isloch Minsk Raion 3016685133+1854Excluded from European Competitions [lower-alpha 1]
6 Minsk 30128104743+444
7 Gomel 30127113637143
8 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 30111093532+343Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round [lower-alpha 2]
9 Neman Grodno 3091383936+340Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round [lower-alpha 1]
10 Slavia Mozyr 30107134246437
11 Slutsk 307111226411532
12 Belshina Bobruisk 306121237501330
13 Dynamo Brest 305121329431427
14 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk (R)30581718422423Qualification to relegation play-offs
15 Vitebsk (R)304101628492122Relegation to the Belarusian First League
16 Dnepr Mogilev (R)30332421735212
Source: football.by Soccerway
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.
(R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Shakhtyor Soligorsk and Energetik-BGU Minsk were both found guilty of match-fixing by the Football Federation of Belarus and were denied UEFA licenses. As a result, the Champions league spot reserved to the first-placed team was awarded to the third-placed team (BATE Borisov), and the Europa Conference League spots reserved to the second and third-placed teams were awarded to the fourth and fifth-placed teams (Dinamo Minsk and Isloch Minsk Raion). Isloch Minsk Raion were later denied entry to the Europa Conference League due to the organization of match-fixing in 2016 (according to the UEFA regulations, a club can be suspended from European competitions due to the organization of match-fixing, regardless of the time). FC Gomel and FC Minsk did not apply for UEFA licences, and were therefore excluded, so the final Europa Conference League place was awarded to ninth-placed Neman Grodno. [3] [4] [5]
  2. Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino qualified to the Europa Conference League as Cup Winners.

Results

Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.

Home \ Away ARS BAT BSH DBR DMI DNE ENE GOM ISL FCM NEM SHA SLA SLU TZH VIT
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 0–20–00–20–11–00–21–21–30–01–11–23–21–11–20–0
BATE Borisov 1–22–24–10–02–11–12–10–13–22–10–24–04–01–12–1
Belshina Bobruisk 1–00–32–20–00–00–12–32–12–21–01–21–40–21–32–2
Dynamo Brest 0–00–31–11–34–01–21–12–23–10–01–11–30–00–14–4
Dinamo Minsk 1–12–20–00–04–01–43–01–23–12–01–00–01–12–22–1
Dnepr Mogilev 0–10–34–32–00–20–20–40–22–41–30–71–31–20–12–1
Energetik-BGU Minsk 0–10–23–10–01–31–10–01–22–02–10–15–01–13–13–1
Gomel 4–10–10–31–00–13–11–23–10–33–00–30–21–01–01–0
Isloch Minsk Raion 2–10–02–01–22–23–22–31–12–01–11–10–21–23–02–0
Minsk 2–02–22–42–00–11–00–01–11–53–21–05–01–01–02–0
Neman Grodno 2–00–02–22–12–32–01–43–01–01–11–12–01–02–01–1
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3–00–14–1*2–01–04–00–11–01–02–12–21–12–10–12–0
Slavia Mozyr 1–10–32–03–11–25–00–10–10–14–21–11–31–12–20–2
Slutsk 1–00–00–02–00–52–21–22–22–42–40–00–11–01–10–2
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 1–00–01–30–03–41–04–01–10–11–12–20–11–13–01–0
Vitebsk 3–01–12–20–10–02–10–31–11–31–12–20–50–30–10–1
Source: Football Federation of Belarus (in Russian) Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The 14th-place finisher of this season (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk) plays a two-legged relegation play-off against the third-placed team of the 2022 Belarusian First League (Rogachev) for a spot in the 2023 Premier League.

Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 3–2 Rogachev
Report
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Rogachev 3–1 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
Referee: Sergey Krasnikov

Rogachev won 5–4 on aggregate.

Top scorers

As of 12 November 2022 [6]
RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Bobur Abdikholikov Energetik-BGU Minsk 26
2 Flag of Belarus.svg Uladzimir Khvashchynski Minsk 21
3 Flag of Belarus.svg Ivan Bakhar Dinamo Minsk 11
4 Flag of Belarus.svg Gleb Zherdev Slavia Mozyr 10
Flag of Belarus.svg Stanislaw Drahun BATE Borisov
Flag of Niger.svg Daniel Sosah Isloch Minsk Raion
7 Flag of Belarus.svg Maksim Skavysh Shakhtyor Soligorsk 9
Flag of Russia.svg Ilya Vasilyev Belshina
Flag of Belarus.svg Pavel Savitski Neman Grodno
10 Flag of Montenegro.svg Dušan Bakić Dinamo Minsk 8
Flag of Belarus.svg Yahor Zubovich Neman Grodno
Flag of Belarus.svg Yegor Bogomolsky Minsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Alyaksandr Makas Gomel
Flag of Belarus.svg Valery Gorbachik Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino

Awards

Weekly awards

Player of the Week

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