2017 Belarusian First League

Belarusian First League
Season 2017
Champions Luch Minsk
Promoted Luch Minsk
Smolevichi-STI
Relegated Osipovichi
Neman-Agro Stolbtsy
Matches played 239
Goals scored 676 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorer Yury Kazlow (16 goals)
Biggest home win Luch 9–0 Osipovichi
Biggest away win Neman-Agro 2–10 Belshina
Highest scoring Neman-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

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 (P) 30 22 7 1 73 22 +51 0631 Promotion to 2018 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 30 14 7 9 56 30 +26 0472
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 30 14 4 12 42 37 +5 0403
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 2018 Second League
16 Neman-Agro Stolbtsy (R) 30 3 4 23 27 94 −67 13

Updated to games played on 11 November 2017.
Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored); 3rd matches won; 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored
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.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away[1] BAR BSH ENEGRAKHILIDLGMLCHNSTORSOSISLOSMLSMRTMNVOL
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 3–03 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 3–02 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

Updated to games played on 11 November 2017.
Source: football.by
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
2. Match between Torpedo Minsk and Energetik-BGU Minsk (originally 0–0) awarded 3–0 to Torpedo as Energetik-BGU used an ineligible player.
3. Awarded 3–0 to Lokomotiv Gomel after Baranovichi did not show up for the game.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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

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