The Belarusian Premier League, also called The Belarusbank Premier League for sponsorship reasons, or the Vyšejšaja Liha or the Vysheyshaya Liga,(Belarusian: Вышэйшая ліга, Russian: Высшая лига, "Top League") is the top division of professional football in Belarus, and is organized by the Belarusian Football Federation. The number of teams in the competition has varied over the years from as high as 17 to as low as 11 (2012). As of 2016, the league included 16 teams. Each team plays every other team twice during the course of the season. At the end of the season, the two teams with the fewest points are automatically relegated to the Belarusian First League, while the third worst team plays a promotion-relegation playoff against the third best team from the second tier. The top two teams from the Belarusian First League automatically win promotion to the Premier League. Shakhtyor Soligorsk are the current champions, after winning their second championship title in 2021.
FC Energetik-BGU Minsk is a Belarusian football club based in Minsk.
FC Dinamo-93 Minsk was a Belarusian professional football club based in Minsk. They were disbanded in 1998.
FC Darida Minsk Raion was a Belarusian football club. Their home stadium was Darida Stadium, located in Kuntsevschina district in Minsk. They disbanded in 2008.
FC SKVICh Minsk was a Belarusian football club based in Minsk, last playing in the Belarusian Second League.
Sergei Vladimirovich Borovsky is a football coach and former player.
Ihor Gavrilovich Chumachenko is a Belarusian professional football coach and former player. Besides Belarus, he has played in Ukraine.
Vitali Ledenev is a Belarusian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Alyaksandr Uladzimiravich Sachywka is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays for Dinamo Minsk.
FC Torpedo Minsk or PFK Tarpeda Minsk is a Belarusian football club, playing in Minsk. The team plays their home games at the Torpedo Stadium in Minsk, which holds 4,800 people. They currently play in Belarusian Second League.
FC Ataka Minsk (Атака) was a Belarusian football club based in Minsk. They disbanded in 1998.
FC Starye Dorogi is a Belarusian football club based in Staryya Darohi, Minsk Oblast.
Emueje Ogbiagbevha is a Nigerian football striker who plays for FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. She previously played for BIIK Kazygurt in the Kazakhstani Championship, and in the Russian Championship for Rossiyanka and Energiya Voronezh. She was the top scorer of the 2010 season. While playing in Rossiyanka she won two doubles. She has also played the Champions League with Energiya Voronezh and Kazygurt She is also a member of the Nigerian national team. In 2016, Ogbiagbevha joined FC Minsk.
Sergey Yaromko is a former Belarusian footballer (forward) and currently a coach. From June 2019 till December 2020 he was a head coach for Belarus national under-21 football team.
Onome Ebi is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Nigerian club Abia Angels and the Nigeria women's national team. In 2023 she became the first African footballer, male or female, to play in 6 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
Roman Begunov is a Belarusian footballer who plays for Dinamo Minsk.
Aleksandr Selyava is a Belarusian professional footballer. He plays for Dinamo Minsk and for the Belarus national team.
Ukpong Esther Sunday is a Nigerian footballer, who plays for OKS Stomil Olsztyn and has also played for the Nigeria women's national football team.
Anastasia Linnik is a Belarusian football who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Dinamo-BGU and the Belarus women's national team.
Vitaly Zhukovsky is a Belarusian professional football coach and a former player who is the head coach of Kazakhstani club Atyrau. Between 2010 and 2020, he worked as a head coach at Isloch Minsk Raion. In 2021 he was in charge of BATE Borisov.
