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| 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 | 104 |
| Goals | 244 (2.35 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Rody Effaghe (17 goals) |
| Biggest home win | BATE Borisov 6–0Slutsk (31 May 2024) |
| Biggest away win | Slutsk 0–5Dinamo Minsk (15 June 2024) |
| Highest scoring | Dynamo Brest 6–1Dnepr 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. | |
The2024Belarusian Premier League (also written asBelarusbank Vyšejšaja Liha for sponsorship reasons[2][3]) was the 34th season of top-tierfootball inBelarus.
Dinamo Minsk successfully defended their title, winning for the second time in a row.[4]
The league consisted of sixteen teams; the top thirteen teams from the previous season, and three teams promoted from the2023 Belarusian First League.Dinamo Minsk entered the season as defending champions.
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk andDnepr Mogilev were promoted as champions and runners-up of the 2023 First League (replacing the bottom-placed Premier League teamBelshina Bobruisk). Third-placed First League teamVitebsk defeated the second-bottom Premier League teamEnergetik-BGU Minsk in the2023 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) |
| 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 theChampions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | Neman Grodno | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 45 | 19 | +26 | 65 | Qualification for theConference 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 theBelarusian Premier League play-off |
| 15 | Dnepr Mogilev(R) | 30 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 58 | −31 | 18 | Relegation to theBelarusian 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 |
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 | — |
The fourteenth-placed team (Naftan Novopolotsk) faced the third-placed team of the2024 Belarusian First League (Niva Dolbizno) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the2025 Belarusian Premier League.
| 4 December 2024 | Niva Dolbizno | 1–3 | Naftan Novopolotsk | Dolbizno [be] |
| 12:00BST | Yushchenko 31' | Pranovich 4' Paparyha 40' (pen.),59' (pen.) | Stadium:City Stadium |
| 7 December 2024 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 2–0 (5–1agg.) | Niva Dolbizno | Novopolotsk |
| 11:00BST | Paparyha 55' Suchkow 85' | Stadium:Atlant Stadium |
Nikita Krasnov -Slavia Mozyr vsDnepr Mogilev(15 March 2023)Aleksandr Chizh -Vitebsk vsSlavia Mozyr(30 March 2023)Vladislav Lozhkin -Shakhtyor Soligorsk vsSlavia Mozyr(14 April 2023)
Mydo Kingu Yallet -Minsk vsNaftan Novopolotsk(20 April 2023)Dmitry Aliseyko -Dnepr Mogilev vsDinamo Minsk(27 April 2023) Aleksandr Svirskiy -Isloch Minsk Raion vsDinamo Minsk(12 May 2023) Fedor Yurkevich -Naftan Novopolotsk vsDnepr Mogilev(18 May 2023)Aleksandr Mikhalenko -Minsk vsVitebsk(18 May 2023) Artyom Bykov -Dinamo Minsk vsShakhtyor Soligorsk(19 May 2023)Stanislav Atrashkevich -Arsenal Dzerzhinsk vsDinamo Minsk(1 June 2023)| 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 overSlutsk on 31 March
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Jonathan John -Vitebsk vsSmorgon(10 May 2024)
