2024 Belarusian First League

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Belarusian First League
Season2024
Matches played108
Goals scored317 (2.94 per match)
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2024 Belarusian First League is the 34th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and will finish in November 2024.

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Team changes from 2023 season

Two best teams of 2023 Belarusian First League (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two last-placed team of 2023 Belarusian Premier League (Belshina Bobruisk). Third-placed club Vitebsk won the promotion/relegation play-off against Energetik-BGU Minsk and got promoted as well, while Energetik-BGU relegated to the First League to replace Vitebsk.

Last placed team of the last season (Osipovichi) relegated to the Second League.

Three clubs were supposed to get promoted from the Second League. 2023 Second League champions Partizan Soligorsk and runners-up Krumkachy Minsk did not apply for the First League license due to insufficient financing. Third-placed club Football Center Brest initially confirmed their intentions to get promoted, but in February withdrew their application due to apparent conflict between club's owner and ABFF. For the first time in history of the First League, no club got promoted from the Second League. [1]

On 11 February 2024, Zhodino-Yuzhnoye announced that the club withdrew from the league and ceased to exist. [2]

At a series of ABFF executive committee meetings in January–March 2024 it was decided that Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship will be abolished and reserve teams of Premier League clubs are to be integrated into First and Second leagues as farm clubs, with a maximum of 4 farm clubs in the First League. For 2024 season, the First League included three best teams of 2023 Reserves Championships (Dinamo-2 Minsk, BATE-2 Borisov and Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino) as well as Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk (which became direct successor to Shakhtyor Petrikov). [3] [4] [5] [6] In addition, a special team (ABFF U-17) was created under direct management from ABFF to develop youth players as candidates for Belarus national under-19 football team. [7]

Teams summary

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Location of teams in 2024 Belarusian First League
TeamLocationPosition in 2023
Energetik-BGU Minsk Minsk
Belshina Bobruisk Bobruisk
Lokomotiv Gomel Gomel 4
Maxline Vitebsk Vitebsk 5
Baranovichi Baranovichi 6
Volna Pinsk Pinsk 8
Niva Dolbizno Dolbizno  [ be ]9
Lida Lida 10
Molodechno Molodechno 11
Ostrovets Ostrovets 12
Bumprom Gomel Gomel 13
Orsha Orsha 14
Slonim-2017 Slonim 15
Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk Soligorsk
Dinamo-2 Minsk Minsk
BATE-2 Borisov Borisov
Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino Zhodino
ABFF U-17 Minsk

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Molodechno 131021289+1932Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League
2 Niva Dolbizno 138413314+1928
3 Volna Pinsk 148242619+726Advance to the promotion play-offs
4 Lida 147341815+324
5 BATE-2 Borisov 136431815+322Ineligible for promotion as a reserve side
6 Maxline Vitebsk 136342515+1021
7 Belshina Bobruisk 138232718+921 [lower-alpha 1]
8 Dinamo-2 Minsk 136251713+420Ineligible for promotion as a reserve side
9 Ostrovets 135441817+119
10 Orsha 133731617−116
11 Bumprom Gomel 134362115+615
12 Baranovichi 134271024−1414
13 Lokomotiv Gomel 132741517−213
14 Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino 133371731−1412 [lower-alpha 2] Ineligible for promotion as a reserve side
15 Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk 143381727−1012 [lower-alpha 2] Relegation to the Belarusian Second League
16 ABFF U-17 1440101529−1412 [lower-alpha 2]
17 Slonim-2017 132471423−910
18 Energetik-BGU Minsk 131391128−17−4 [lower-alpha 3]
Updated to match(es) played on 5 July 2024. 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.
Notes:
  1. ↑ Belshina Bobruisk were deducted 5 points for match-fixing. [8]
  2. 1 2 3 Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino are ahead of Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk and ABFF U-17 on head-to-head points (head-to-head goal difference): Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino 4 (+4), Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk 4 (+2), ABFF U-17 0 (–6)
  3. ↑ Energetik-BGU Minsk were deducted 10 points for match-fixing. [8]

Results

Home \ Away BFF BAR BT2 BSH BUM DM2 ENE LID LGM MAX MOL NIV ORS OST SH2 SLO TB2 VOL
ABFF U-17 2–03–12–10–21–21–30–4
Baranovichi 2–10–22–11–30–02–1
BATE-2 Borisov 2–11–01–11–13–20–0
Belshina Bobruisk 1–05–01–01–31–12–1
Bumprom Gomel 1–20–00–12–13–01–2
Dinamo-2 Minsk 0–01–23–20–21–23–02–0
Energetik-BGU Minsk 0–23–20–12–50–40–21–4
Lida 1–21–02–12–20–10–11–51–0
Lokomotiv Gomel 3–21–11–10–31–11–14–1
Maxline Vitebsk 3–01–21–10–11–12–0
Molodechno 3–23–15–02–12–03–0
Niva Dolbizno 3–30–13–10–00–07–1
Orsha 4–01–11–02–23–51–1
Ostrovets 0–01–00–21–11–03–23–0
Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk 2–01–33–51–20–00–20–01–4
Slonim-2017 0–22–21–01–42–31–22–3
Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino 1–82–10–21–11–12–31–1
Volna Pinsk 3–02–00–41–13–03–2
Updated to match(es) played on 5 July 2024. Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

RankGoalscorerTeamGoals
1 Flag of Belarus.svg Pavel Pampukha Niva Dolbizno 8
Flag of Belarus.svg Dmitry Fedortsov Niva Dolbizno 8
3 Flag of Russia.svg Mark Krasnov Maxline Vitebsk 7
4 Flag of Belarus.svg Dmitriy Denisenko Belshina Bobruisk 6

Updated to games played on 23 June 2024
Source: football.by

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