Belarusian Premier League

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The Belarusian Premier League (Template:Langx, Vyšejšaja Liha or Vysheyshaya Liga; Template:Langx; "Top League"), also called the BETERA Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Belarus and the highest level of the Belarusian football league system. It is organized by the Belarusian Football Federation. The number of teams in the competition has varied over the years from as high as 17 (1992–93 season) to as low as 11 (2012). since 2025,Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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. Dinamo Minsk are the current champions, after winning their ninth championship title in 2024.

History

The Belarusian Premier League was organized in 1992. The first participants were: Dinamo Minsk, the only Belarusian side in the former Soviet Top League, five teams from the lower tiers of the Soviet league system and represented other five regional centers of Belarus, and ten teams who were previous competitors in the Belarusian SSR First League.

After the league creation, it was decided to change its schedule from a Soviet-style summer season to a European-style winter season. In 1995, the winter season experiment was proven unsuccessful due to poor weather and field conditions in Belarus in the late autumn and early spring. The season was changed back to summer. Every season since 1996 has been played in the summer. Throughout the 2000s, the number of competing teams has changed several times. 2012 season was played with only 11 teams due to last minute withdrawal of Partizan Minsk.

In its earliest years, the league was dominated by Dinamo Minsk, who won the league five times in a row between 1992 and 1995. During the next ten seasons, seven different teams finished as champions: Slavia Mozyr (1996 as MPKC Mozyr, 2000), Dinamo Minsk (1997, 2004), Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev (1998), BATE Borisov (1999, 2002), Belshina Bobruisk (2001), Gomel (2003), Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2005). Since 2006, BATE Borisov has dominated the league, winning 13 championships in a row (2006–2018).

In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all the other football leagues in Europe were postponed, and by the end of the month, the Belarusian Premier League was the only top-flight league in the continent that was still playing.[1] Due to this, the league gained substantially increased viewership from abroad, with fans from all over the world watching the games online, due to the league being the only significant professional football available; the league signed new television rights deals with networks from countries including Russia and India.[2][3] Matches were also streamed on the Belarusian Football Federation's YouTube channel.[4] British betting companies also offered odds for the various matches,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". as the league's profile, previously relatively unknown outside of the country, grew a larger audience due to sporting inactivity elsewhere.[5][6]

Premier League in 2024

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Team Location Venue Capacity Position in 2023
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Dzerzhinsk City Stadium 1,000 1st (First League)
BATE Borisov Borisov Borisov Arena 13,126 5th
Dynamo Brest Brest OSK Brestsky 10,169 10th
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo Stadium 22,000 1st
Dnepr Mogilev Mogilev Spartak Stadium 7,350 2nd (First League)
Gomel Gomel Central Stadium 14,307 6th
Isloch Minsk Raion Minsk FC Minsk Stadium 3,000 4th
Minsk Minsk FC Minsk Stadium 3,000 9th
Naftan Novopolotsk Novopolotsk Atlant Stadium 5,300 12th
Neman Grodno Grodno Neman Stadium 8,479 2nd
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Soligorsk Stroitel Stadium 4,200 13th
Slavia Mozyr Mozyr Yunost Stadium 5,300 7th
Slutsk Slutsk City Stadium 1,896 8th
Smorgon Smorgon Yunost Stadium 3,200 11th
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Zhodino Torpedo Stadium 6,524 3rd
Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsky CSK 8,144 3rd (First League)

Soviet era champions

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Champions and top scorers

Season Champion Runner-up Third place Top scorer
1992
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (1) Dnepr Mogilev Dinamo Brest Template:Flagicon Andrey Skorobogatko (Dnepr Mogilev) (11)
1992–93
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (2) KIM Vitebsk Belarus Minsk Template:Flagicon Sergey Baranovsky (Dinamo Minsk) (19)
Template:Flagicon Miroslav Romaschenko (Vedrich Rechitsa / Dnepr Mogilev) (19)
1993–94
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (3) Dinamo-93 Minsk KIM Vitebsk Template:Flagicon Pyotr Kachuro (Dinamo-93 Minsk / Dinamo Minsk) (21)
1994–95
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (4) Dvina Vitebsk Dinamo-93 Minsk Template:Flagicon Pavel Shavrov (Dinamo-93 Minsk) (19)
1995
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (5) MPKC Mozyr Dinamo-93 Minsk Template:Flagicon Sergey Yaromko (MPKC Mozyr) (16)
1996
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MPKC Mozyr (1) Dinamo Minsk Belshina Bobruisk Template:Flagicon Andrey Khlebasolaw (Belshina Bobruisk) (34)
1997
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (6) Belshina Bobruisk Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk Template:Flagicon Andrey Khlebasolaw (Belshina Bobruisk) (19)
1998
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev (1) BATE Borisov Belshina Bobruisk Template:Flagicon Sergey Yaromko (Torpedo Minsk) (19)
1999
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (1) Slavia Mozyr Gomel Template:Flagicon Valery Strypeykis (Slavia Mozyr) (21)
2000
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Slavia Mozyr (2) BATE Borisov Dinamo Minsk Template:Flagicon Raman Vasilyuk (Slavia Mozyr) (31)
2001
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Belshina Bobruisk (1) Dinamo Minsk BATE Borisov Template:Flagicon Sergei Davydov (Neman-Belcard Grodno) (25)
2002
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (2) Neman Grodno Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Valery Strypeykis (Belshina Bobruisk) (18)
2003
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Gomel (1) BATE Borisov Dinamo Minsk Template:Flagicon Gennadi Bliznyuk (Gomel) (18)
Template:Flagicon Sergei Kornilenko (Dinamo Minsk) (18)
2004
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (7) BATE Borisov Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Valery Strypeykis (Naftan Novopolotsk) (18)
2005
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Shakhtyor Soligorsk (1) Dinamo Minsk MTZ-RIPO Minsk Template:Flagicon Valery Strypeykis (Naftan Novopolotsk) (16)
2006
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (3) Dinamo Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Alyaksandr Klimenka (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (17)
2007
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (4) Gomel Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Raman Vasilyuk (Gomel) (24)
2008
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (5) Dinamo Minsk MTZ-RIPO Minsk Template:Flagicon Gennadi Bliznyuk (BATE Borisov) (16)
Template:Flagicon Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (16)
2009
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (6) Dinamo Minsk Dnepr Mogilev Template:Flagicon Maycon (Gomel) (15)
2010
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (7) Shakhtyor Soligorsk Minsk Template:Flagicon Renan Bressan (BATE Borisov) (15)
2011
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (8) Shakhtyor Soligorsk Gomel Template:Flagicon Renan Bressan (BATE Borisov) (13)
2012
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (9) Shakhtyor Soligorsk Dinamo Minsk Template:Flagicon Dzmitry Asipenka (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (14)
2013
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (10) Shakhtyor Soligorsk Dinamo Minsk Template:Flagicon Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (14)
2014
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (11) Dinamo Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Mikalay Yanush (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (15)
2015
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (12) Dinamo Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Mikalay Yanush (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (15)
2016
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (13) Shakhtyor Soligorsk Dinamo Minsk Template:Flagicon Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (16)
Template:Flagicon Mikhail Gordeichuk (BATE Borisov) (16)
2017
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (14) Dinamo Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Mikhail Gordeichuk (BATE Borisov) (18)
2018
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BATE Borisov (15) Shakhtyor Soligorsk Dinamo Minsk Template:Flagicon Pavel Savitski (Dinamo Brest) (15)
2019
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dynamo Brest (1) BATE Borisov Shakhtyor Soligorsk Template:Flagicon Ilya Shkurin (Energetik-BGU Minsk) (19)
2020
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2) BATE Borisov Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Template:Flagicon Maksim Skavysh (BATE Borisov) (19)
2021
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Shakhtyor Soligorsk (3) BATE Borisov Dinamo Minsk Template:Flagicon Dembo Darboe (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (19)
2022
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Shakhtyor Soligorsk Energetik-BGU Minsk BATE Borisov Template:Flagicon Bobur Abdikholikov (Energetik-BGU Minsk) (26)
2023
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Dinamo Minsk (8) Neman Grodno Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Template:Flagicon Vladislav Morozov (Dinamo Minsk) (16)
2024
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2025
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Performances

Performance by club

Teams Champion Runner-up Third place
BATE Borisov 15 (1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) 7 (1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2019, 2020, 2021) 2 (2001, 2022)
Dinamo Minsk 9 (1992, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2023, 2024) 9 (1996, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017) 7 (2000, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3 (2005, 2020, 2021) 6 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018) 8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019)
Slavia Mozyr 2 (1996, 2000) 2 (1995, 1999) –
Gomel 1 (2003) 1 (2007) 2 (1999, 2011)
Belshina Bobruisk 1 (2001) 1 (1997) 2 (1996, 1998)
Dnepr Mogilev 1 (1998) 1 (1992) 1 (2009)
Dynamo Brest 1 (2019) – 1 (1992)
Neman Grodno – 3 (2002, 2023, 2024) –
Vitebsk – 2 (1992–93, 1994–95) 2 (1993–94, 1997)
Dinamo-93 Minsk – 1 (1993–94) 3 (1992–93, 1994–95, 1995)
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino – – 3 (2020, 2023, 2024)
Partizan Minsk – – 2 (2005, 2008)
Minsk – – 1 (2010)

All-time table

As of end of 2023 season.

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Club1 Seasons Debut Last
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Dinamo Minsk 33 1992 — 939 560 202 177 1701–794 1882 1st (1992, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2023, 2024)
BATE Borisov 26 1998 — 758 496 157 105 1493–598 1645 1st (1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 33 1992 — 939 467 222 252 1413–921 1578 1st (2005, 2020, 2021)(2022)
Neman Grodno 33 1992 — 940 349 243 348 1080–1115 1290 2nd (2002, 2023)
Dinamo Brest 33 1992 — 939 333 232 374 1179–1235 1231 1st (2019)
Gomel 27 1992 — 739 290 167 282 1043–929 1037 1st (2003)
Vitebsk 27 1992 2022 761 271 201 289 859–933 1014 2nd (1992–93, 1994–95)
Dnepr Mogilev 26 1992 2022 737 264 179 284 934–962 971 1st (1998)
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 24 1992 — 689 260 182 247 822–789 962 3rd (2020, 2023)
Belshina Bobruisk 23 1993–94 2023 666 233 151 282 876–952 839 1st (2001)
Slavia Mozyr 21 1995 — 596 217 143 246 826–878 764 1st (1996, 2000)
Naftan Novopolotsk 22 1996 — 643 196 136 311 744–1002 719 4th (2009)
Minsk 16 2007 — 474 161 121 191 566–609 605 3rd (2010)
Torpedo Minsk 15 1992 2019 428 158 115 155 481–475 589 4th (2002, 2003)
Dinamo-93 Minsk 7 1992–93 1998 181 99 43 39 296–157 340 2nd (1993–94)
Slutsk 10 2014 — 293 86 74 133 284–394 332 7th (2017)
Isloch Minsk Raion 8 2016 — 236 92 53 91 292–313 329 4th (2023)
Molodechno-2000 12 1992 2003 323 80 80 163 339–490 320 4th (1994–95)
Partizan Minsk 7 2004 2010 198 80 42 76 288–281 282 3rd (2005, 2008)
Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev 10 1992 2000 271 64 76 131 266–444 268 7th (1992)
Energetik-BGU Minsk 9 2002 2023 258 71 58 129 305–451 248 2nd (2022)
Gorodeya 5 2016 2020 149 44 50 55 162–184 182 7th (2019)
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 8 1992 2001 208 46 44 118 167–327 182 8th (1992)
Darida Minsk Raion 6 2003 2008 168 44 38 86 165–252 170 8th (2006)
Bobruisk 5 1992 1995 122 44 34 44 119–145 166 4th (1992)
Lida 7 1992 2000 182 38 46 98 144–289 160 8th (1994–95)
Granit Mikashevichi 4 2008 2016 112 31 35 46 112–161 128 5th (2015)
Smorgon 5 2007 — 139 28 38 73 112–239 124 8th (2008)
Ataka Minsk 3 1995 1997 75 29 16 30 86–93 103 4th (1995)
Rukh Brest 2 2020 2021 59 26 21 12 106–66 99 5th (2021)
Lokomotiv Minsk 4 2003 2008 112 23 25 64 100–187 94 11th (2005)
Lokomotiv Vitebsk 4 1992 1994–95 107 22 27 58 82–181 93 10th (1993–94)
Kommunalnik Slonim 3 1997 2000 89 15 17 57 66–191 62 11th (1997)
Stroitel Starye Dorogi 3 1992 1993–94 77 14 18 45 48–117 60 14th (1992, 1992–93)
Krumkachy Minsk 2 2016 2017 60 14 16 30 50–86 58 11th (2016)
Smolevichi 2 2018 2020 59 8 14 37 48–111 38 15th (2018)
Transmash Mogilev 1 1997 1997 30 8 4 18 30–52 28 14th (1997)
Dnyapro Mogilev 1 2019 2019 29 7 6 16 29–42 25 14th (2019)
Luch Minsk 1 2018 2018 30 4 12 14 24–44 24 13th (2018)
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 1 2022 2022 30 5 8 17 18–42 23 14th (2022)
Savit Mogilev 1 2008 2008 30 5 6 19 28–61 21 15th (2008)
Svisloch-Krovlya Osipovichi 1 1999 1999 30 4 4 22 24–74 16 15th (1999)
Sputnik Rechitsa 1 2021 2021 15 2 1 12 12–37 7 16th (2021)

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  1. For clubs that have been renamed, their name at the time of their most recent season in the Premier League is given. The current members are listed in bold.
  2. Includes 2002 championship play-off, 2004 relegation play-off, 14 games of Dinamo-93 in 1998 season, 15 games of Torpedo Minsk in 2019 season, and 15 games of Sputnik Rechitsa in 2021 season.
  3. For the purposes of this table, each win is worth 3 points. The three-points system was adopted in fall 1995 season.

Player of the year

Belarusian Premier League Player of the year is an annual award given by a sports newspaper Pressball.

Season Player Club
1992
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1992–93
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Sergey Gotsmanov Dinamo Minsk
1993–94
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Yury Shukanov Dinamo Minsk
1994–95
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Valyantsin Byalkevich Dinamo Minsk
1995
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Valyantsin Byalkevich Dinamo Minsk
1996
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Alyaksandr Kulchy MPKC Mozyr
1997
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Andrei Lavrik Dinamo Minsk
1998
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Oleg Kononov Torpedo Minsk
1999
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Dmitri Karsakov Slavia Mozyr
2000
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Lisovskiy BATE Borisov
2001
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Vitali Kutuzov BATE Borisov
2002
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Dzmitry Likhtarovich BATE Borisov
2003
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Timofei Kalachev Shakhtyor Soligorsk
2004
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Andrey Razin Dinamo Minsk
2005
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Vital Valadzyankow Dinamo Minsk
2006
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Oleg Strakhanovich MTZ-RIPO Minsk
2007
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Raman Vasilyuk Gomel
2008
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Vitali Rodionov BATE Borisov
2009
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Sergey Krivets BATE Borisov
2010
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Renan Bressan BATE Borisov
2011
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Renan Bressan BATE Borisov
2012
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Stanislaw Drahun Dinamo Minsk
2013
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Alexander Hleb BATE Borisov
2014
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Ihar Stasevich Dinamo Minsk
2015
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Ihar Stasevich BATE Borisov
2016
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Ihar Stasevich BATE Borisov
2017
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Mikhail Gordeichuk BATE Borisov
2018
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Flagicon Ihar Stasevich BATE Borisov
2019
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Reserves League

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An annual league competition is organized for the reserve teams of Premier League clubs since 2001. This tournament was won by the reserves of Dinamo Minsk (9 titles), Gomel (2 titles), Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2 titles), BATE Borisov (1 title), Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino (1 title) and Dnepr Mogilev (1 title).

Notes

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References

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External links

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