2017 Belarusian First League

Belarusian First League
Season2017
ChampionsLuch Minsk
PromotedLuch Minsk
Smolevichi-STI
RelegatedOsipovichi
Neman-Agro Stolbtsy
Matches played239
Goals scored676 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorerYury Kazlow (16 goals)
Biggest home winLuch 9–0 Osipovichi
Biggest away winNeman-Agro 2–10 Belshina
Highest scoringNeman-Agro 2–10 Belshina
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The 2017 Belarusian First League was the 27th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2017.

Team changes from 2016 season

Two best teams of 2016 Belarusian First League (Gomel and Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 2016 Belarusian Premier League table (Belshina Bobruisk and Granit Mikashevichi).

Oshmyany, who finished 14th last year, relegated to the Second League. Due to First League expansion to 16 teams, they were replaced by three best teams of 2016 Second League (Volna Pinsk, Osipovichi and Kletsk). Kletsk eventually withdrew from participation due to club's lack of financing and infrastructure, and was replaced by Second League 4th placed team Neman-Agro Stolbtsy.

Before the start of the season Gomelzheldortrans changed their name to Lokomotiv Gomel, Slonim to Slonim-2017 and Zvezda-BGU Minsk to Energetik-BGU Minsk.

Teams summary

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Location of teams in 2017 Belarusian First League
Team Location Position in 2016
Belshina Bobruisk Bobruisk Premier League, 15
Granit Mikashevichi Mikashevichi Premier League, 16
Lokomotiv Gomel Gomel 3
Luch Minsk Minsk 4
Smorgon Smorgon 5
Lida Lida 6
Orsha Orsha 7
Smolevichi-STI Smolevichi 8
Torpedo Minsk Minsk 9
Energetik-BGU Minsk Minsk 10
Slonim-2017 Slonim 11
Khimik Svetlogorsk Svetlogorsk 12
Baranovichi Baranovichi 13
Volna Pinsk Pinsk Second League, 1
Osipovichi Osipovichi Second League, 2
Neman-Agro Stolbtsy Stolbtsy Second League, 4

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Luch Minsk[a] (P) 30 22 7 1 73 22 +51 63 Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League
2 Smolevichi-STI (P) 30 18 4 8 46 22 +24 58
3 Torpedo Minsk 30 17 6 7 60 29 +31 57
4 Lokomotiv Gomel 30 17 6 7 49 36 +13 57
5 Belshina Bobruisk[b] 30 14 7 9 56 30 +26 47
6 Energetik-BGU Minsk 30 12 8 10 39 30 +9 44
7 Volna Pinsk 30 13 4 13 48 48 0 43
8 Granit Mikashevichi[c] 30 14 4 12 42 37 +5 40
9 Khimik Svetlogorsk 30 9 10 11 35 42 −7 37
10 Orsha 30 10 7 13 48 48 0 37
11 Slonim-2017 30 10 7 13 33 46 −13 37
12 Baranovichi 30 7 10 13 34 47 −13 31
13 Smorgon 30 6 11 13 34 50 −16 29
14 Lida 30 6 10 14 28 39 −11 28
15 Osipovichi (R) 30 6 7 17 30 62 −32 25 Relegation to the Belarusian Second League
16 Neman-Agro Stolbtsy (R) 30 3 4 23 27 94 −67 13
Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head matches won; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Matches won; 8) Goals scored.
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Luch Minsk were deducted 10 points before the start of the season as a result of match-fixing investigation in the previous season.
  2. ^ Belshina Bobruisk were deducted 2 points before the start of the season due to transfer irregularities in the previous season.
  3. ^ Granit Mikashevichi were deducted 3 points before the start of the season due to transfer irregularities in the previous season. Another 3 points were deducted in October for failing to comply with earlier resolutions.

Results

Home \ Away BAR BSH ENE GRA KHI LID LGM LCH NST ORS OSI SLO SML SMR TMN VOL
Baranovichi — 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 3–2 1–4 2–4 3–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–3 3–0
Belshina Bobruisk 0–3 — 1–0 1–2 0–0 2–1 1–2 1–2 7–0 3–1 3–0 0–0 1–0 4–1 0–0 4–0
Energetik-BGU Minsk 1–1 3–1 — 0–2 6–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 8–2 1–1 2–1 3–1 0–1 1–2 1–0 1–1
Granit Mikashevichi 2–1 2–1 0–0 — 2–1 1–1 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–1 2–0 1–3 0–1 4–1 1–2 0–1
Khimik Svetlogorsk 0–0 1–3 3–0 0–3 — 1–1 1–1 1–2 2–0 4–2 2–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 2–2
Lida 0–0 0–2 0–1 2–0 1–0 — 1–2 0–2 2–0 0–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–1
Lokomotiv Gomel 3–0[a] 1–0 0–3 1–1 0–0 4–1 — 0–2 3–0 2–2 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–3 2–0
Luch Minsk 6–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 4–1 1–0 3–1 — 4–0 3–2 9–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 6–1
Neman-Agro Stolbtsy 0–1 2–10 1–2 0–5 2–0 1–1 1–2 0–5 — 3–6 0–0 2–3 0–3 3–1 3–3 2–1
Orsha 0–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 5–1 1–2 3–0 — 2–4 1–2 1–3 0–2 1–1 0–1
Osipovichi 2–0 2–2 0–2 0–1 1–1 0–2 1–2 1–1 3–2 1–1 — 2–0 1–2 1–1 1–2 1–0
Slonim-2017 3–3 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 0–2 3–0 1–4 3–2 — 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–1
Smolevichi-STI 2–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–3 3–1 3–0 3–3 3–0 4–0 3–0 1–0 — 0–1 0–1 3–2
Smorgon 3–4 0–1 1–0 1–3 1–3 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–3 1–2 8–0 0–0 — 2–2 1–1
Torpedo Minsk 1–0 1–3 3–0[b] 5–0 0–1 1–1 3–2 0–1 5–0 2–1 5–1 3–0 1–0 6–0 — 3–1
Volna Pinsk 2–2 2–1 2–0 1–2 3–1 4–2 1–3 0–1 2–0 5–1 4–1 3–2 0–1 4–0 2–3 —
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ Awarded 3–0 to Lokomotiv Gomel after Baranovichi did not show up for the game.
  2. ^ Match between Torpedo Minsk and Energetik-BGU Minsk (originally 0–0) awarded 3–0 to Torpedo as Energetik-BGU used an ineligible player.

Top goalscorers

Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1 Belarus Yury Kazlow Luch Minsk 16
2 Belarus Valery Gorbachik Smolevichi-STI 15
Belarus Leonid Khankevich Luch Minsk 15
4 Belarus Aleksey Rudenok Neman-Agro Stolbtsy / Smorgon 14
Belarus Aleksey Khodnevich Orsha 14

Updated to games played on 11 November 2017
Source: football.by

See also