The Belarusian Premier League or the Vyšejšaja Liha or the Vysheyshaya Liga 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 Dinamo-93 Minsk was a Belarusian football club based in Minsk. They disbanded in 1998.
FC Darida Minsk Raion is a defunct 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.
Minsk-2 was a Belarusian football club based in Minsk and was a reserve team of FC Minsk.
Sergei Vladimirovich Borovsky is a football coach and former player.
Raman Vasilyuk is a former Belarusian footballer.
Ihor Gavrilovich Chumachenko is a Belarusian professional football coach and former player. Besides Belarus, he has played in Ukraine.
Alyaksandr Uladzimiravich Sachywka is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays for Dinamo Minsk.
FC Torpedo 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 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 Region.
Emueje Ogbiagbevha is a Nigerian football striker currently playing 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, with which she won two doubles. She has also played the Champions League with Energiya Voronezh and Kazygurt, and she is a member of the Nigerian national team. Her contract with BIIK Kazygurt finishes in the end of 2012. 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 Spanish Liga F club FC Levante Las Planas and the Nigeria women's national team. In 2019 she became the first African footballer to play in 5 FIFA World Cup Tournaments.
Artyom Gennadyevich Bykov is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dinamo Minsk.
Roman Begunov is a Belarusian footballer who plays for Dinamo Minsk.
Ukpong Esther Sunday is a Nigerian footballer, who plays for OKS Stomil Olsztyn. Sunday has previously played at a club level for Sunshine Queens and Pelican Stars in the Nigerian Women's Championship, as well as FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. She has also played at an international level for the Nigeria women's national football team in several tournaments.
Kirill Alshevsky is a Belarusian professional football manager.
Vitaly Zhukovsky is a Belarusian professional football coach and a former player. Between 2010 and 2020, he worked as a head coach at Isloch Minsk Raion. In 2021 he was in charge of BATE Borisov.
