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Season | 2023 |
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Champions | Dinamo Minsk |
Relegated | Belshina Bobruisk Energetik-BGU Minsk |
Champions League | Dinamo Minsk |
Conference League | Isloch Minsk Raion Neman Grodno Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino |
Matches played | 142 |
Goals scored | 364 (2.56 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Pavel Savitsky Vladislav Morozov Yegor Karpitsky (12 goals each) |
Biggest home win | Dinamo Minsk 7–2 Belshina Bobruisk (1 July 2023) |
Biggest away win | Smorgon 0–4 Isloch Minsk Raion (7 April 2023) Gomel 0–4 Dinamo Minsk (13 May 2023) |
Highest scoring | Shakhtyor Soligorsk 7–3 Belshina Bobruisk (9 April 2023) |
Longest winning run | 6 matches Neman Grodno |
Longest unbeaten run | 12 matches Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino |
Longest winless run | 10 matches Energetik-BGU Minsk |
Longest losing run | 8 matches Naftan Novopolotsk |
← 2022 2024 → All statistics correct as of 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 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Dinamo Minsk (C) | 28 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 72 | 21 | +51 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round |
2 | Neman Grodno | 28 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 60 | 22 | +38 | 62 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round [a] |
3 | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | 28 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 33 | 18 | +15 | 49 | Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round |
4 | Isloch Minsk Raion | 28 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 40 | 29 | +11 | 47 [b] | |
5 | BATE Borisov | 28 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 49 | 32 | +17 | 47 [b] | |
6 | Gomel | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 45 | 48 | −3 | 41 | |
7 | Slavia Mozyr | 28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 32 | 30 | +2 | 40 | |
8 | Slutsk | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 38 | 40 | −2 | 35 | |
9 | Minsk | 28 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 21 | 26 | −5 | 33 | |
10 | Dynamo Brest | 28 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 33 | 50 | −17 | 30 | |
11 | Smorgon | 28 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 28 | 59 | −31 | 24 | |
12 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 28 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 28 | 57 | −29 | 23 | |
13 | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 50 | 40 | +10 | 9 [c] | |
14 | Energetik-BGU Minsk (R) | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 4 [d] | Qualification for the Belarusian Premier League play-off |
15 | Belshina Bobruisk (R) | 28 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 61 | −40 | 3 [e] | Relegation to the Belarusian First League |
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.
6 December 2023 | Energetik-BGU Minsk | 0–0 | Vitebsk | Minsk |
16:00 BST | Stadium: RCOR-BGU Stadium |
9 December 2023 | Vitebsk | 1–0 (1–0 agg.) | Energetik-BGU Minsk | Vitebsk |
16:00 BST | Teverov 7' (pen) | Stadium: Vitebsky Central Sport Complex |
# | Football club | Home games | Average attendance [6] |
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1 | Dinamo Minsk | 14 | 5,133 |
2 | Dynamo Brest | 14 | 4,967 |
3 | FC Gomel | 14 | 3,082 |
4 | FC Slavia Mozyr | 14 | 2,729 |
5 | BATE Borisov | 14 | 2,535 |
6 | Neman Grodno | 14 | 2,286 |
7 | Torpedo Zhodino | 14 | 1,750 |
8 | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 14 | 1,353 |
9 | FC Smorgon | 14 | 1,264 |
10 | FC Slutsk | 14 | 1,167 |
11 | Belshina Bobruisk | 14 | 991 |
12 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 14 | 487 |
13 | Isloch Minsk Raion | 14 | 420 |
14 | FC Minsk | 14 | 402 |
15 | FC Energetik-BGU Minsk | 14 | 330 |
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