2019 Belarusian First League

2019 Belarusian First League is the 29th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2019.

Belarusian First League
Season2019
Matches played210
Goals scored636 (3.03 per match)
← 2018
2020 →

Team changes from 2018 season

Two best teams of 2018 Belarusian First League (Slavia Mozyr and Energetik-BGU Minsk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 2018 Belarusian Premier League table (Smolevichi and Dnepr Mogilev).

Last placed team of the last season (Chist) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2018 Second League (Rukh Brest and Krumkachy Minsk), and the league was expanded to 16 teams.

Krumkachy Minsk were renamed to NFK Minsk during the winter break. In spring 2019, Dnepr Mogilev merged with Premier League team Luch Minsk, citing the willingness keep the city of Mogilev represented in top flight. The united club was named Dnyapro Mogilev.[1] As a result, Dnepr Mogilev vacated their First League spot, and Sputnik Rechitsa (Second League 3rd-placed team) was additionally promoted.[2]

A few days before the start of the season, UAS Zhitkovichi were denied a First League license due to debts and withdrew to the Second League, leaving the tournament one team short.

Teams summary
Location of teams in 2019 Belarusian First League
Team Location Position in 2018
Smolevichi Smolevichi Premier League, 15
Belshina Bobruisk Bobruisk 3
Lida Lida 4
Naftan Novopolotsk Novopolotsk 5
Lokomotiv Gomel Gomel 6
Slonim-2017 Slonim 7
Granit Mikashevichi Mikashevichi 8
Khimik Svetlogorsk Svetlogorsk 9
Smorgon Smorgon 11
Orsha Orsha 12
Volna Pinsk Pinsk 13
Baranovichi Baranovichi 14
Rukh Brest Brest Second League, 1
NFK Minsk Minsk Second League, 2
Sputnik Rechitsa Rechitsa Second League, 3

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Belshina Bobruisk (P) 28 21 5 2 74 22 +52 68 Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League
2 Smolevichi (P) 28 19 7 2 60 15 +45 64
3 Rukh Brest (Q) 28 15 11 2 65 26 +39 56 Promotion to the promotion play-offs
4 Lokomotiv Gomel 28 17 5 6 60 24 +36 56
5 Naftan Novopolotsk 28 13 8 7 58 43 +15 47
6 Sputnik Rechitsa 28 13 6 9 46 36 +10 45
7 Lida 28 12 8 8 49 32 +17 44
8 NFK Minsk 28 11 7 10 41 38 +3 40
9 Granit Mikashevichi 28 9 8 11 38 41 −3 35
10 Orsha 28 9 4 15 33 61 −28 31
11 Khimik Svetlogorsk 28 7 5 16 26 59 −33 26
12 Volna Pinsk 28 5 6 17 29 48 −19 21
13 Slonim-2017 28 4 9 15 18 47 −29 21
14 Smorgon 28 4 6 18 27 63 −36 18
15 Baranovichi (R) 28 2 3 23 12 80 −68 9 Relegation to the Belarusian Second League
Source: football.by
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.
(P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away BAR BSH GRA KHI LID LGM NAF NFK ORS RUH SLO SML SMR SPU VOL
Baranovichi — 0–5 2–5 1–3 0–1 0–2 1–2 0–4 0–2 0–5 2–1 0–5 0–0 0–4 1–2
Belshina Bobruisk 4–0 — 2–1 4–0 2–1 3–0 1–3 1–1 5–0 2–2 5–0 0–2 4–1 5–2 3–0
Granit Mikashevichi 1–1 1–5 — 0–0 2–1 2–0 3–4 2–2 3–1 0–5 2–0 2–2 3–1 0–0 0–0
Khimik Svetlogorsk 0–1 1–2 4–0 — 1–1 0–3 0–4 1–0 2–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 4–0 0–3 1–0
Lida 6–1 0–1 0–0 4–0 — 0–0 2–1 2–2 8–1 2–4 2–0 0–1 2–1 1–0 2–1
Lokomotiv Gomel 4–0 0–1 1–0 6–1 1–0 — 2–1 3–1 1–0 0–2 4–0 1–1 6–1 2–0 3–1
Naftan Novopolotsk 3–0 1–5 0–0 5–3 3–2 2–2 — 2–2 2–4 2–2 0–0 0–0 5–0 2–1 2–2
NFK Minsk 2–0 1–2 0–2 2–0 1–3 1–1 1–4 — 2–3 0–0 2–0 0–5 4–0 3–3 2–1
Orsha 0–0 1–4 1–0 0–0 1–2 0–2 0–3 2–1 — 1–2 1–0 1–5 3–1 0–2 0–0
Rukh Brest 2–0 1–1 1–0 8–1 1–1 3–1 2–2 0–1 6–1 — 1–1 0–3 3–0 2–2 1–0
Slonim-2017 1–0 0–1 3–1 2–1 0–2 0–5 1–2 0–1 1–3 1–1 — 0–3 0–0 1–0 2–2
Smolevichi 4–0 1–1 3–2 6–0 4–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 3–1 0–0 1–1 — 1–0 1–2 1–0
Smorgon 4–1 0–0 0–3 2–2 0–0 1–4 2–0 0–2 1–2 0–3 2–2 0–1 — 0–1 1–2
Sputnik Rechitsa 3–1 0–2 2–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 0–2 3–3 2–2 2–0 0–2 3–5 — 3–0
Volna Pinsk 5–0 2–3 0–3 1–0 2–2 0–4 1–2 0–1 2–0 2–4 1–1 0–1 2–4 0–2 —
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers
Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1 Russia Aleksandr Yushin Belshina Bobruisk 26
2 Belarus Dzmitry Ivanow Orsha 17
3 Belarus Ivan Veras Granit Mikashevichi 15
Belarus Yawhen Barsukow Smolevichi 15
5 Belarus Andrey Solovey Lokomotiv Gomel 13
6 Belarus Vadzim Dzemidovich Rukh Brest 12
Belarus Andrey Lyasyuk Belshina Bobruisk 12
Belarus Denis Kozlovskiy Lokomotiv Gomel 12
9 Belarus Dmitry Gomza Smolevichi 11
Belarus Dmitry Tamelo Naftan Novopolotsk 11

Updated to games played on 24 November 2019
Source: football.by

See also

References
  1. "The united team will be called Dnyapro". Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  2. NFK, Rukh and Sputnik obtained First League licenses
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