2024 Belarusian Premier League

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Belarusian Premier League
Season2024
Dates14 March – 30 November [1]
Matches played104
Goals scored244 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer Egor Kortsov
(9 goals)
Biggest home win BATE Borisov 6–0 Slutsk
(31 May 2024)
Biggest away win Slutsk 0–5 Dinamo Minsk
(15 June 2024)
Highest scoring Dynamo Brest 6–1 Dnepr Mogilev
(15 June 2024)
Longest winning run4 matches
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Neman Grodno
Slavia Mozyr
Longest unbeaten run13 matches
Dinamo Minsk
Longest winless run13 matches
Minsk
Longest losing run7 matches
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
2023
2025
All statistics correct as of 23 June 2024.

The 2024 Belarusian Premier League is the 34th season of top-tier football in Belarus.

Contents

Teams

The league consisted of sixteen teams; the top thirteen teams from the previous season, and three teams promoted from the 2023 Belarusian First League. Dinamo Minsk entered the season as defending champions.

Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Dnepr Mogilev were promoted as champions and runners-up of the 2023 First League (replacing the bottom-placed Premier League team Belshina Bobruisk). Third-placed First League team Vitebsk defeated the second-bottom Premier League team Energetik-BGU Minsk in the 2023 Belarusian Premier League play-off, taking their place in the league.

TeamLocationVenueCapacityPosition in 2023
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Dzerzhinsk City Stadium1,0001st (First League)
BATE Borisov Borisov Borisov Arena 13,1265th
Dynamo Brest Brest OSK Brestsky 10,16910th
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo Stadium 22,0001st
Dnepr Mogilev Mogilev Spartak Stadium 7,3502nd (First League)
Gomel Gomel Central Stadium 14,3076th
Isloch Minsk Raion Minsk FC Minsk Stadium 3,0004th
Minsk Minsk FC Minsk Stadium 3,0009th
Naftan Novopolotsk Novopolotsk Atlant Stadium 5,30012th
Neman Grodno Grodno Neman Stadium 8,4792nd
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Soligorsk Stroitel Stadium 4,20013th
Slavia Mozyr Mozyr Yunost Stadium 5,3007th
Slutsk Slutsk City Stadium 1,8968th
Smorgon Smorgon Yunost Stadium 3,20011th
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Zhodino Torpedo Stadium 6,5243rd
Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsky CSK 8,1443rd (First League)

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Neman Grodno 2115152917+1246Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 Dinamo Minsk 191351349+2544Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round [lower-alpha 1]
3 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 2113443015+1543
4 Dynamo Brest 2212555125+2641
5 Vitebsk 229582018+232
6 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 229582525032
7 Gomel 228772922+731
8 Slutsk 2294922331131
9 Slavia Mozyr 227872424029
10 Isloch Minsk Raion 227782421+328
11 BATE Borisov 227692323027
12 Smorgon 2148923381520
13 Minsk 22471120321219
14 Naftan Novopolotsk 20371021331216Qualification for the Belarusian Premier League play-off
15 Dnepr Mogilev 22261419422312Relegation to the Belarusian First League
16 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 2255121633170 [lower-alpha 2]
Updated to match(es) played on 22 September 2024. Source: 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.
Notes:
  1. The 2024–25 Belarusian Cup winners qualify for the Conference League second qualifying round (or the second-placed team of the Belarusian Premier League if the Belarusian Cup winners finish first). If the Belarusian Cup winners finish in the top three of the Belarusian Premier League, the second Conference League first round spot will be passed to the fourth-placed team.
  2. Shakhtyor Soligorsk were deducted 20 points for match-fixing. [2]

Results

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

Home \ Away ARS BAT DBR DMI DNE GOM ISL FCM NAF NEM SHA SLA SLU SMR TZH VIT
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 2–00–21–23–130 Nov3–19 Nov0–35 Oct2–01–11–02–00–11–1
BATE Borisov 19 Oct3–10–21–11–31–10–11–12 Nov28 Sep1–06–030 Nov1–21–0
Dynamo Brest 2–19 Nov30 Nov6–11–13–23–02–226 Oct3–03–05 Oct4–10–11–1
Dinamo Minsk 26 Oct23 Nov1–02–02–028 Sep2–02–22–13–219 Oct2 Nov5–00–01–1
Dnepr Mogilev 0–01–12 Nov0–20–123 Nov1–15 Oct0–22–31–22–32–126 Oct1–2
Gomel 5–02–028 Sep0–119 Oct2 Nov2–02–12–31–223 Nov1–22–10–00–0
Isloch Minsk Raion 0–21–21–10–11–11–03–026 Oct2–00–00–00–05 Oct9 Nov30 Nov
Minsk 1–20–13–20–028 Sep3–119 Oct1–10–20–02 Nov23 Nov2–31–21–2
Naftan Novopolotsk 23 Nov0–03–62–10–22–10–225 Sep2 Nov0–11–41–128 Sep19 Oct
Neman Grodno 1–01–02–09 Nov3–11–10–330 Nov2–11–028 Sep19 Oct2–11–00–1
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 0–31–30–45 Oct30 Nov9 Nov0–126 Oct0–00–11–31–22–21–01–0
Slavia Mozyr 3–05 Oct1–11–12–00–02–11–19 Nov0–10–10–026 Oct30 Nov1–2
Slutsk 28 Sep26 Oct1–40–50–11–11–31–030 Nov2–00–01–09 Nov1–02–0
Smorgon 2 Nov0–00–215 Nov0–02–21–11–11–023 Nov19 Oct3–34–10–428 Sep
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 1–12–019 Oct4–25 Oct1–02–22–11–423 Nov3–01–02–02 Nov
Vitebsk 0–01–023 Nov1–09 Nov26 Oct0–15 Oct2–00–12–12–32–00–10–1
Updated to match(es) played on 22 September 2024. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Belarusian Premier League play-off

The fourteenth-placed team will face the third-placed team of the 2024 Belarusian First League for the final place in the following season's Belarusian Premier League.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of match played 1 June 2024
RankPlayerClubGoals [3]
1 Flag of Gabon.svg Junior Effaghe Gomel 7
Flag of Belarus.svg Aleksandr Shestyuk Isloch Minsk Raion
3 Flag of Russia.svg Yegor Kortsov Dynamo Brest 6
Flag of Belarus.svg Pavel Chikida Slavia Mozyr
5 Flag of Belarus.svg Mikhail Gordeychuk Dynamo Brest 5
Flag of Belarus.svg Maksim Skavysh Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Flag of Belarus.svg Kirill Leonovich Smorgon
8 Flag of Russia.svg Dmitry Radikovsky Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 4
Flag of Nigeria.svg Raymond Adeola Dinamo Minsk
Flag of Russia.svg Andrei Panyukov BATE Borisov
Flag of Ukraine.svg Roman Paparyha Naftan Novopolotsk

Own goals

Clean sheets

As of match played 1 June 2024
RankPlayerClubClean sheets
1 Flag of Belarus.svg Fedor Lapoukhov Dinamo Minsk 6
Flag of Belarus.svg Yevgeniy Abramovich Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Flag of Belarus.svg Maksim Belov Neman Grodno
4 Flag of Belarus.svg Ivan Sanko Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 4
Flag of Belarus.svg Dzmitry Kharytonaw Vitebsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Stanislav Kleschuk Gomel
7 Flag of Russia.svg Yegor Generalov Dnepr Mogilev 3
Flag of Belarus.svg Mikhail Kozakevich Dynamo Brest
Flag of Belarus.svg Aleksandr Svirskiy Isloch Minsk Raion
10 Flag of Belarus.svg Uladzislaw Ihnatsyew BATE Borisov 2
Flag of Belarus.svg Syarhey Chernik Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Timofey Yurasov Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Flag of Belarus.svg Ivan Novichkov Smorgon
Flag of Belarus.svg Arseniy Skopets BATE Borisov
15 Flag of Belarus.svg Artyom Soroko Slavia Mozyr 1
Flag of Belarus.svg Aleksey Kharitonovich Naftan Novopolotsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Maksim Azarko Minsk
Flag of Russia.svg Aleksei Kozlov Slavia Mozyr
Flag of Belarus.svg Denis Sadovsky Slutsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Ilya Branovets Slutsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Maksim Plotnikov Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Stanislav Boldysh Minsk
Flag of Belarus.svg Sergey Ignatovich Shakhtyor Soligorsk

Timofey Yurasov & Yevgeniy Abramovich both played in Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino's 1-0 victory over Slutsk on 31 March

Discipline

Red cards

As of match played 1 June 2024

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