2024 Belarusian Premier League

Belarusian Premier League
Season2024
Dates14 March 2024–7 December 2024[1]
ChampionsDinamo Minsk
9th Premier League title
RelegatedDnepr Mogilev
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Champions LeagueDinamo Minsk
Conference LeagueDynamo Brest
Neman Grodno
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Matches played104
Goals scored244 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorerRody Effaghe
(17 goals)
Biggest home winBATE Borisov 6–0 Slutsk
(31 May 2024)
Biggest away winSlutsk 0–5 Dinamo Minsk
(15 June 2024)
Highest scoringDynamo 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 (also written as Belarusbank Vyšejšaja Liha for sponsorship reasons[2][3]) was the 34th season of top-tier football in Belarus.

Dinamo Minsk successfully defended their title, winning for the second time in a row.[4]

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.

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)
Locations of the 2024 Belarusian Premier League teams

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dinamo Minsk (C) 30 20 8 2 50 13 +37 68 Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 Neman Grodno 30 20 5 5 45 19 +26 65 Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round[a]
3 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 30 18 8 4 45 21 +24 62
4 Dynamo Brest 30 14 7 9 62 37 +25 49
5 Vitebsk 30 14 5 11 33 25 +8 47
6 Gomel 30 11 11 8 37 28 +9 44
7 Isloch Minsk Raion 30 11 8 11 36 30 +6 41
8 BATE Borisov 30 11 7 12 38 38 0 40
9 Slutsk 30 11 6 13 26 41 −15 39
10 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 30 10 8 12 29 36 −7 38
11 Slavia Mozyr 30 8 11 11 28 33 −5 35
12 Smorgon 30 7 11 12 33 51 −18 32
13 Minsk 30 6 10 14 28 44 −16 28
14 Naftan Novopolotsk (O) 30 5 11 14 27 44 −17 26 Qualification for the Belarusian Premier League play-off
15 Dnepr Mogilev (R) 30 3 9 18 27 58 −31 18 Relegation to the Belarusian First League
16 Shakhtyor Soligorsk[b] (D, R) 30 5 7 18 19 45 −26 2[c] Excluded and dissolved at the end of the season
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.
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ The 2024–25 Belarusian Cup winners qualified for the Conference League first qualifying round. Since the cup winners (Neman Grodno) qualified based on league position, the Conference League spot was passed to the fourth-placed team.
  2. ^ After the season, Shakhtyor Soligorsk folded after exclusion due to a lack of funds.
  3. ^ Shakhtyor Soligorsk were deducted 20 points for match-fixing.[5]


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 — 2–0 0–2 1–2 3–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 0–3 0–4 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 1–1
BATE Borisov 3–2 — 3–1 0–2 1–1 1–3 1–1 0–1 1–1 0–3 1–1 1–0 6–0 7–4 1–2 1–0
Dynamo Brest 2–1 2–0 — 1–1 6–1 1–1 3–2 3–0 2–2 2–2 3–0 3–0 1–2 4–1 0–1 1–1
Dinamo Minsk 2–0 1–0 1–0 — 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–2 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 5–0 0–0 1–1
Dnepr Mogilev 0–0 1–1 0–3 0–2 — 0–1 1–3 1–1 0–3 0–2 2–3 1–2 2–3 2–1 1–1 1–2
Gomel 5–0 2–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 — 0–0 2–0 2–1 2–3 1–2 0–0 1–2 2–1 0–0 0–0
Isloch Minsk Raion 0–2 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 — 3–0 3–0 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 3–2 0–1 1–0
Minsk 1–2 0–1 3–2 0–0 2–2 3–1 3–2 — 1–1 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 2–3 1–2 1–2
Naftan Novopolotsk 0–0 0–0 3–6 1–2 2–1 0–2 2–1 0–2 — 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–4 1–1 1–1 0–4
Neman Grodno 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 3–1 1–1 0–3 4–0 2–1 — 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–1
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 0–3 1–3 0–4 0–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 — 1–3 1–2 2–2 1–0 1–0
Slavia Mozyr 3–0 2–3 1–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–1 — 0–0 0–0 0–2 1–2
Slutsk 1–1 0–1 1–4 0–5 0–1 1–1 1–3 1–0 0–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 — 0–0 1–0 2–0
Smorgon 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 0–0 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 3–3 4–1 — 0–4 0–3
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 1–1 2–0 3–1 1–1 4–2 2–2 1–0 2–2 2–1 1–4 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–0 — 3–0
Vitebsk 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–1 2–3 2–0 0–1 0–1 —
Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Belarusian Premier League play-off

The fourteenth-placed team (Naftan Novopolotsk) faced the third-placed team of the 2024 Belarusian First League (Niva Dolbizno) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025 Belarusian Premier League.

First leg

4 December 2024 Niva Dolbizno1–3 Naftan Novopolotsk Dolbizno
12:00 BST Yushchenko 31' Pranovich 4'
Paparyha 40' (pen.), 59' (pen.)		 Stadium: City Stadium

Second leg

7 December 2024 Naftan Novopolotsk 2–0
(5–1 agg.)		Niva DolbiznoNovopolotsk
11:00 BST Paparyha 55'
Suchkow 85'		 Stadium: Atlant Stadium

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 1 December 2024
Rank Player Club Goals[6][7]
1 Junior Effaghe Gomel 17
2 Yegor Kortsov Dynamo Brest 15
Maksim Skavysh Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
4 Pavel Savitsky Neman Grodno 14
5 Mikhail Gordeychuk Dynamo Brest 13
6 Aleksandr Shestyuk Isloch Minsk Raion 11
7 German Barkovsky Dynamo Brest 9
Roman Paparyha Naftan Novopolotsk
Oralkhan Omirtayev BATE Borisov
Karen Vardanyan Vitebsk

Own goals

Clean sheets

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

References

  1. ^ "Полный календарь чемпионата Беларуси-2024" [Full calendar of the championship of Belarus-2024]. football.by (in Belarusian). 26 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. ^ Генеральным партнером чемпионата Беларуси стал "Беларусбанк"
  3. ^ Belarusbank Vyšejšaja Liha
  4. ^ Vyšejšaja Liha 2024
  5. ^ "Официально". Football Federation of Belarus. 11 May 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ "VBET Premier League – Top Scorers". soccer24.com. Soccer24. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
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