2021 Belarusian Premier League

The 2021 Belarusian Premier League was the 31st season of top-tier football in Belarus. Shakhtyor Soligorsk were the defending champions, having won their second league title last year. Shakhtyor Soligorsk won their third Belarusian Premier League title.

Belarusian Premier League
Season2021
Dates12 March – 28 November 2021
ChampionsShakhtyor Soligorsk
RelegatedSputnik
Smorgon
Champions LeagueShakhtyor Soligorsk
Conference LeagueBATE Borisov
Gomel
Dinamo Minsk
Matches played232
Goals scored630 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorerDembo Darboe
(19 goals)
Biggest home winRukh Brest 7–1 Isloch Minsk Raion
(13 August 2021)
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 7–1 Smorgon
(2 October 2021)
Biggest away winSlavia Mozyr 0–6 Minsk
(24 October 2021)
Highest scoringRukh Brest 7–1 Isloch Minsk Raion
(13 August 2021)
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 7–1 Smorgon
(2 October 2021)
Longest winning run13 matches
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Longest unbeaten run17 matches
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Longest winless run14 matches
Smorgon
Longest losing run6 matches
Sputnik Rechitsa
← 2020
2022 →
All statistics correct as of 20 November 2021.

Teams
Locations of the 2021 Belarusian Premier League teams

The bottom two teams from the 2020 season (Belshina Bobruisk and Smolevichi) were relegated to the First League (both relegated after one-year in the top flight). They were replaced by Sputnik Rechitsa (promoted to the top-flight for the first time in their history) and Gomel (promoted after a one-year absence), champions and runners-up of the 2020 Belarusian First League respectively.

In the winter 2020/21, Gorodeya (who finished 13th last year) dissolved and left a Premier League spot vacant. Smorgon (6th-placed team of last year's First League season, promoted after an eleven-year absence) were admitted to fill the vacancy, after Krumkachy Minsk (First League 3rd-placed team) were denied Premier League license, and another two clubs (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Lokomotiv Gomel) rejected the opportunity due to insufficient financing.

Team Location Venue Capacity Position in 2020
BATE Borisov Borisov Arena 12,896 2nd
Gomel Gomel Central Stadium 14,307 2nd (First League)
Dinamo Brest Brest OSK Brestsky 10,060 4th
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo Stadium 22,000 6th
Energetik-BGU Minsk RCOR-BGU Stadium 1,500 10th
Isloch Minsk Raion FC Minsk Stadium 3,000 7th
Minsk Minsk FC Minsk Stadium 3,000 11th
Neman Grodno Neman Stadium 8,500 5th
Rukh Brest OSK Brestsky 10,060 8th
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Stroitel Stadium 4,200 1st
Slavia Mozyr Yunost Stadium 5,300 9th
Slutsk Slutsk City Stadium 1,896 14th
Smorgon Smorgon Yunost Stadium 3,500 6th (First League)
Sputnik Rechitsa Central Stadium 3,550 1st (First League)
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Torpedo Stadium 3,020 3rd
Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsky CSK 8,100 12th

Personnel
Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt Sponsor (Chest)
BATE BorisovBelarus Vitaly ZhukovskyBelarus Pavel NyakhaychykAdidasMinsk Tractor Works
Dynamo BrestBelarus Syarhey KavalchukBelarus Edhar AlyakhnovichSallerRUPP-Granit
Dinamo MinskBelarus Artsyom Chelyadzinski (caretaker)Belarus Igor ShitovSallerNone
Energetik-BGUBelarus Vladimir BelyavskiyBelarus Yevgeniy YudchitsAdidasBelenergo
GomelBelarus Ivan BionchikBelarus Ruslan YudenkovJomaBelorusneft
Isloch Minsk RaionBelarus Artsyom RadzkowBelarus Dzmitry KamarowskiJomaHyundai
MinskRussia Fyodor ShcherbachenkoBelarus Syarhey VyeramkoMacronMinsk Tractor Works
Neman GrodnoBelarus Igor KovalevichBelarus Valery ZhukowskiSallerNone
Rukh BrestBelarus Kirill AlshevskyBelarus Artsyom RakhmanawJomaBelgosstrakh
Shakhtyor SoligorskUkraine Roman HryhorchukBelarus Alyaksandr HutarJakoBelaruskali
Slavia MozyrBelarus Mihail MartsinovichBelarus Mikhail BaranovskyJomaMozyr Oil Refinery
SlutskBelarus Aleksandr BrazevichBelarus Ilya BranovetsHummelSlutsk Sugar Refinery
SmorgonBelarus Vyacheslav GeraschenkoRussia Artur ValikayevMasitaMaxline
Sputnik RechitsaRussia Viktor KumykovBelarus Ihar YasinskiMacronStroidiapazon
Torpedo-BelAZ ZhodinoBelarus Yuri PuntusBelarus Andrey KhachaturyanAdidasBelAZ
VitebskBelarus Yevgeniy ChernukhinBelarus Artsyom SkitawMacronNone

Managerial changes
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
FC Dinamo Minsk Belarus Leonid Kuchuk[1] Resigned 28 May 2021 4th Belarus Artsyom Chelyadzinski (caretaker) [2] 3 June 2021
FC Sputnik Rechitsa Belarus Vyacheslav Levchuk[3] Mutual Consent 4 June 2021 16th Russia Viktor Kumykov[4] 4 June 2021

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Shakhtyor Soligorsk (C) 30 24 3 3 62 18 +44 75 Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 BATE Borisov 30 19 8 3 61 27 +34 65 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3 Dinamo Minsk 30 19 5 6 55 20 +35 62 Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round
4 Gomel[lower-alpha 1] 30 17 8 5 57 23 +34 59 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
5 Rukh Brest (W) 30 16 10 4 52 28 +24 58 Withdrawal from the league[5]
6 Dynamo Brest 30 8 14 8 32 32 0 38
7 Vitebsk 30 9 10 11 37 41 −4 37
8 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 30 10 6 14 38 43 −5 36
9 Slutsk 30 9 8 13 36 44 −8 35
10 Isloch Minsk Raion 30 9 7 14 38 47 −9 34
11 Neman Grodno 30 9 7 14 36 36 0 34
12 Minsk 30 8 9 13 32 52 −20 33
13 Energetik-BGU Minsk 30 8 9 13 35 42 −7 33
14 Slavia Mozyr (O) 30 8 8 14 42 50 −8 32 Qualification to relegation play-offs
15 Smorgon (R) 30 4 9 17 26 66 −40 21 Relegation to the Belarusian First League
16 Sputnik Rechitsa (D, R) 30 2 1 27 12 82 −70 7 Withdrawal from the league[6]
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.
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated; (W) Withdrawn
Notes:
  1. Gomel qualified for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round as the 2021–22 Belarusian Cup winners.

Results

Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.

Home \ Away BAT DBR DMI ENE GOM ISL FCM NEM RUH SHA SLA SLU SMR SPU TZH VIT
BATE Borisov — 0–2 1–1 2–1 3–2 2–2 1–0 3–0 3–2 1–0 3–0 3–0 1–0 2–1 3–0 4–0
Dynamo Brest 0–0 — 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–2 1–3 1–1 0–3 0–3 0–0 2–2 3–0 3–2 0–0
Dinamo Minsk 0–2 2–0 — 2–0 1–2 2–1 2–0 2–0 0–1 1–2 4–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 3–0 3–1
Energetik-BGU Minsk 1–1 0–0 0–1 — 3–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–2 1–2 2–3 1–0 3–0 0–1 1–1 2–2
Gomel 2–2 0–0 2–0 4–0 — 2–0 5–0 2–0 0–0 2–3 3–0 4–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 4–1
Isloch Minsk Raion 1–4 1–1 1–3 0–4 1–2 — 1–1 2–0 0–1 0–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 0–0 0–1
Minsk 2–2 1–0 1–3 2–1 0–0 1–0 — 0–5 2–2 0–3 0–6 2–1 2–2 3–0 0–2 3–3
Neman Grodno 0–2 0–2 1–2 3–0 1–0 1–2 0–2 — 0–1 1–2 2–2 1–0 5–0 2–2 3–1 0–0
Rukh Brest 2–2 3–2 1–3 0–0 1–1 7–1 1–0 2–0 — 1–0 2–1 1–0 5–0 2–0 3–0 2–0
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 4–0 1–0 1–0 4–1 — 4–1 1–1 3–0 3–0 3–1 2–0
Slavia Mozyr 3–1 1–1 0–0 2–3 2–4 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–1 0–4 — 3–1 1–1 3–0 0–1 0–2
Slutsk 3–4 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–4 2–1 2–2 1–1 3–0 1–4 2–1 — 2–1 3–2 2–0 1–2
Smorgon 1–3 1–1 0–5 2–2 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–2 1–1 2–2 0–2 1–1 — 2–0 1–3 2–0
Sputnik Rechitsa 0–3 0–4 0–5 0–3 0–3 1–5 0–1 0–3 0–3 1–2 0–2 0–3 0–3 — 0–3 4–3
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 0–3 0–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 3–3 2–1 1–1 3–3 0–1 2–0 0–1 7–1 2–0 — 1–0
Vitebsk 0–0 3–1 0–0 3–2 0–0 0–4 3–1 2–0 0–0 1–2 2–2 0–0 5–0 3–0 0–1 —
Source: Football Federation of Belarus (in Russian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The 14th-place finisher of this season (Slavia Mozyr) played a two-legged relegation play-off against the third-placed team of the 2021 Belarusian First League (Krumkachy Minsk) for a spot in the 2022 Premier League.

Leg 1

Slavia Mozyr1–0Krumkachy Minsk
Narh 90+2'

Leg 2

Krumkachy Minsk0–0Slavia Mozyr
SOK Alimpijski, Minsk

Statistics

Top goalscorers
As of 20 November 2021[7]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 The Gambia Dembo Darboe Shakhtyor Soligorsk 19
2 Belarus Andrey Solovey Gomel 17
3 Belarus Maksim Skavysh BATE Borisov 13
4 Ukraine Stanislav Bilenkyi Dynamo Brest 11
5 Senegal Ablaye Mbengue Dinamo Minsk 10
6 Nigeria Steven Alfred Slutsk 9
Belarus Dzyanis Laptsew Rukh Brest
Belarus Ruslan Teverov Vitebsk
9 Belarus Dmitry Gomza Gomel 8
Belarus Dzmitry Kamarowski Isloch
Ghana Francis Narh Slavia Mozyr

Hat-tricks
PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Belarus Dzyanis LaptsewRukh BrestSmorgon5–0 (H)[8]18 April 2021
The Gambia Dembo DarboeShakhtyor SoligorskRukh Brest4‒1 (H)[9]25 April 2021
Senegal Ablaye MbengueDinamo MinskSlavia Mozyr4–0 (H)[10]4 July 2021
Belarus Andrey SoloveyGomelSlutsk4–1 (A)[11]18 September 2021

Disciplinary

Most yellow cards: (8)

Most red cards: (2)

Awards

Player of the Week

Goal of the Week

Player of the Month

Goal of the Month

Manager of the Month

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