2024 Belarusian Premier League

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.

Belarusian Premier League

Season	2024
Dates	14 March 2024–7 December 2024[1]
Champions	Dinamo Minsk 9th Premier League title
Relegated	Dnepr Mogilev Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Champions League	Dinamo Minsk
Conference League	Dynamo Brest Neman Grodno Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Matches played	104
Goals scored	244 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rody Effaghe (17 goals)
Biggest home win	BATE Borisov 6–0 Slutsk (31 May 2024)
Biggest away win	Slutsk 0–5 Dinamo Minsk (15 June 2024)
Highest scoring	Dynamo Brest 6–1 Dnepr Mogilev (15 June 2024)
Longest winning run	4 matches Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Neman Grodno Slavia Mozyr
Longest unbeaten run	13 matches Dinamo Minsk
Longest winless run	13 matches Minsk
Longest losing run	7 matches Shakhtyor Soligorsk
← 2023 2025 → All statistics correct as of 23 June 2024.

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)

Minsk

BATE

Dynamo Brest

Neman

Shakhtyor

     Torpedo-BelAZ

Vitebsk

Slutsk

Slavia

Gomel

Smorgon

Naftan

Arsenal

Dnepr

Minsk clubs:
Dinamo Minsk
Isloch
Minsk

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

Niva Dolbizno v Naftan Novopolotsk

4 December 2024	Niva Dolbizno	1–3	Naftan Novopolotsk	Dolbizno [be]
12:00 BST	Yushchenko 31'		Pranovich 4' Paparyha 40' (pen.), 59' (pen.)	Stadium: City Stadium

Second leg

Naftan Novopolotsk v Niva Dolbizno

7 December 2024	Naftan Novopolotsk	2–0 (5–1 agg.)	Niva Dolbizno	Novopolotsk
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

• Nikita Krasnov - Slavia Mozyr vs Dnepr Mogilev (15 March 2023)
• Aleksandr Chizh - Vitebsk vs Slavia Mozyr (30 March 2023)
• Vladislav Lozhkin - Shakhtyor Soligorsk vs Slavia Mozyr (14 April 2023)
• Mydo Kingu Yallet - Minsk vs Naftan Novopolotsk (20 April 2023)
• Dmitry Aliseyko - Dnepr Mogilev vs Dinamo Minsk (27 April 2023)
• Aleksandr Svirskiy - Isloch Minsk Raion vs Dinamo Minsk (12 May 2023)
• Fedor Yurkevich - Naftan Novopolotsk vs Dnepr Mogilev (18 May 2023)
• Aleksandr Mikhalenko - Minsk vs Vitebsk (18 May 2023)
• Artyom Bykov - Dinamo Minsk vs Shakhtyor Soligorsk (19 May 2023)
• Stanislav Atrashkevich - Arsenal Dzerzhinsk vs Dinamo Minsk (1 June 2023)

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

• Mikhail Bashilov - Shakhtyor Soligorsk vs Vitebsk (17 March 2024)
• Aleksandr Mikhalenko - Minsk vs Smorgon (5 April 2024)
• Matvey Svidinskiy - BATE Borisov vs Gomel (6 April 2024)
• Anton Lukashov - Dnepr Mogilev vs Neman Grodno (13 April 2024)
• Yevgeny Malashevich - Dynamo Brest vs Minsk (14 April 2024)
• Yegor Pogostnov - Slavia Mozyr vs Arsenal Dzerzhinsk (28 April 2024)
• Nikita Kaplenko - Shakhtyor Soligorsk vs Slutsk (28 April 2024)
• Jonathan John - Vitebsk vs Smorgon (10 May 2024)