2012 Belarusian First League

Belarusian First League
Season2012
ChampionsDnepr Mogilev
PromotedDnepr Mogilev
RelegatedRudensk
Matches played208
Goals scored573 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorerYuri Markhel (29)
Biggest home winSKVICH 7–0 DSK;
SKVICH 7–0 Polotsk
Biggest away winRudensk 0–8 Slutsk
Highest scoringBereza-2010 8–2 Volna
← 2011
2013 →

The 2012 Belarusian First League is the 22nd season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2012.

Team changes from 2011 season

The winners of last season (Slavia Mozyr) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by last-placed team of 2011 Belarusian Premier League table (Dnepr Mogilev).

The runners-up of last season (Partizan Minsk) won the promotion/relegation play-off against Vitebsk (11th-placed Premier League team). Partizan Minsk were thus promoted to Premier League and replaced in the First League by Vitebsk.

Two teams that finished at the bottom of 2011 season table (Belcard Grodno and Baranovichi) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2011 Second League (Bereza-2010 and Lida).

Klechesk Kletsk withdrew from the league due to lack of financing and joined Second League. No team was invited to replace them and the league was reduced to 15 teams for the season.

Teams and venues

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Location of teams in 2012 Belarusian First League
Team Location Position in 2011
Vitebsk Vitebsk Premier League, 11
Dnepr Mogilev Premier League, 12
Gorodeya Gorodeya 3
SKVICH Minsk 4
Slutsk Slutsk 5
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 6
Volna Pinsk 7
Granit Mikashevichi 8
Polotsk Polotsk 10
Smorgon Smorgon 11
DSK Gomel 12
Rudensk Rudensk 13
Khimik Svetlogorsk 14
Lida Lida Second League, 1
Bereza-2010 Bereza Second League, 2

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Dnepr Mogilev (P) 28 20 3 5 75 22 +53 63 Promotion to Belarusian Premier League
2 Gorodeya 28 18 6 4 49 21 +28 60 Qualification for promotion play-off
3 Vitebsk 28 19 2 7 57 30 +27 59
4 SKVICH Minsk 28 16 7 5 61 19 +42 55
5 Slutsk 28 15 7 6 59 27 +32 52
6 Granit Mikashevichi 28 14 8 6 41 23 +18 50
7 Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 28 9 12 7 40 24 +16 39
8 Volna Pinsk 28 8 10 10 24 45 −21 34
9 Bereza-2010 28 9 6 13 41 48 −7 33
10 Smorgon 28 7 10 11 23 32 −9 31
11 Lida 28 8 6 14 32 49 −17 30
12 Polotsk 28 7 5 16 24 55 −31 26
13 Khimik Svetlogorsk 28 5 9 14 29 52 −23 24
14 DSK Gomel (R) 28 1 5 22 9 62 −53 8 Disbanded
15 Rudensk[a] (R) 28 4 4 20 15 70 −55 7
Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Rudensk were deducted 9 points due to significant delays in players' payments.

Promotion play-offs

The 11th placed team of 2012 Premier League (Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino) played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2012 Belarusian First League Gorodeya for one spot in the 2013 Premier League and won the series 4–1 on aggregate.

Results

Home \ Away BER DNE DSK GRD GRA KHI LID POL RUD SKV SLU SMR V97 VIT VOL
Bereza-2010 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 3–3 3–0 0–0 4–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–2 8–2
Dnepr Mogilev 3–2 4–0 3–1 2–0 6–1 0–0 5–0 5–0 1–0 3–1 3–0 2–1 6–0 4–0
DSK Gomel 0–0 0–3 0–4 1–1 1–3 1–3 0–1 2–0 0–3 1–3 0–4 0–0 0–1 0–2
Gorodeya 2–1 3–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 4–0
Granit Mikashevichi 4–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–2 0–1 4–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 0–1
Khimik Svetlogorsk 2–1 2–3 2–2 0–0 1–2 0–2 2–3 0–2 0–2 0–3 1–1 0–0 1–2 2–2
Lida 1–3 2–6 1–0 1–2 0–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 0–5 4–0
Polotsk 4–1 0–3 1–0 0–2 2–1 2–0 0–1 0–1 1–3 1–2 0–0 0–5 1–4 1–1
Rudensk 0–1 0–3 2–1 0–5 0–5 1–1 0–4 1–2 2–2 0–8 1–0 0–6 0–1 0–3
SKVICH Minsk 7–1 2–1 7–0 1–1 2–2 2–0 3–0[a] 7–0 2–1 0–0 5–0 0–1 1–0 0–0
Slutsk 4–0 2–2 6–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 5–0 4–0 1–0 0–2 1–0 2–2 0–1 1–1
Smorgon 1–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 1–3 0–1 2–2 1–0 1–0 1–2 1–1 1–1 2–1 0–0
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 1–0 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–2 5–1 3–0 2–1 3–0 3–1 2–2 0–3 1–1
Vitebsk 2–1 0–0 2–0 6–3 1–2 5–0 2–0 4–3 5–0 1–0 0–3 0–0 2–1 4–1
Volna Pinsk 2–1 0–2 3–0[b] 1–0 0–3 0–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–5 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–3
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ Awarded to SKVICH as Lida did not show up for the game.
  2. ^ Awarded to Volna as DSK did not show up for the game.

Top goalscorers

Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1 Belarus Yuri Markhel SKVICH Minsk 29
2 Belarus Dmitry Gomza Vitebsk 16
3 Belarus Anton Matsveenka Dnepr Mogilev 14
4 Latvia Igors Sļesarčuks Dnepr Mogilev 12
5 Belarus Uladzimir Shakaw Dnepr Mogilev / Gorodeya 11
Belarus Mikalay Zyanko Dnepr Mogilev 11
Belarus Sergey Gerasimenko Bereza-2010 11
8 Belarus Ihar Makaraw Slutsk 10
Belarus Vladimir Yurchenko Dnepr Mogilev 10
Belarus Alyaksandr Dzegtseraw Vitebsk 10

Updated to games played on 17 November 2012
Source: football.by

See also