2010 Belarusian Premier League

The 2010 Belarusian Premier League is the 20th season of top-tier football in Belarus. It started on April 3 and will end on 20 November 2010. BATE Borisov are the defending champions.

Belarusian Premier League
Season2010
ChampionsBATE Borisov
RelegatedPartizan Minsk
Champions LeagueBATE Borisov
Europa LeagueShakhtyor Soligorsk
Minsk
Matches played198
Goals scored498 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer Renan Bressan
(15 goals)
Biggest home winBATE 6–0 Partizan
Biggest away winNeman 0–5 BATE
Vitebsk 1–6 BATE
Highest scoringNaftan 4–4 Partizan
Longest winning runBATE, Dinamo Minsk
(6 games each)
Longest unbeaten runBATE (13 games)
Longest winless runNaftan, Vitebsk, Partizan
(13 games each)
Longest losing runTorpedo, Partizan
(7 games each)
← 2009
2011 →

Teams
Location of teams in 2010 Belarusian Premier League

Gomel, Granit Mikashevichi and Smorgon were relegated to the Belarusian First League after finishing the 2009 season in the last three places. Due to the league reduction from 14 to 12 teams, only 2009 First League winners Belshina Bobruisk were promoted to the Premier League.

Team summaries
Team Location Venue Capacity Position in 2009
BATE Borisov City Stadium, Borisov 5,400 1
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo-Yuni 4,500 2
Dnepr Mogilev Spartak, Mogilev 7,350 3
Naftan Novopolotsk Atlant 5,300 4
Dinamo Brest Brest OSK Brestskiy 10,162 5
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Stroitel 4,500 6
Neman Grodno Neman 8,500 7
Torpedo Zhodino Torpedo, Zhodino 3,020 8
Minsk Minsk Dinamo, Minsk 41,000 9
Vitebsk Vitebsk Central, Vitebsk 8,300 10
Partizan Minsk Traktor 17,600 11
Belshina Bobruisk Spartak, Bobruisk 3,700 First League, 1

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 BATE Borisov (C) 33 21 9 3 64 18 +46 72 Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 33 19 9 5 51 23 +28 66 Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
3 Minsk 33 18 6 9 59 32 +27 60 Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round
4 Dinamo Minsk 33 17 5 11 49 34 +15 56
5 Dinamo Brest 33 12 10 11 48 40 +8 46
6 Belshina Bobruisk 33 12 9 12 31 42 −11 45
7 Naftan Novopolotsk 33 11 11 11 41 34 +7 44
8 Dnepr Mogilev 33 11 7 15 40 53 −13 40
9 Vitebsk 33 7 11 15 31 52 −21 32
10 Neman Grodno 33 7 10 16 27 42 −15 31
11 Torpedo Zhodino (O) 33 7 7 19 33 58 −25 28 Qualification for relegation play-offs
12 Partizan Minsk (R) 33 5 8 20 24 70 −46 23 Relegation to Belarusian First League
Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored.
FC Gomel of the Belarusian First League were the winners of the 2010–11 Belarusian Cup competition and qualified for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League.
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.

Relegation play-offs

Torpedo Zhodino played a two-legged relegation play-off against SKVICH Minsk, the runners-up of 2010 Belarusian First League for one spot in the 2011 Premier League. Torpedo Zhodino won the play-off 3–1 on aggregate and retained their spot in the top flight.

SKVICH Minsk1 – 3Torpedo Zhodino
Torpedo Zhodino0 – 0SKVICH Minsk

Results

First and second round
Home \ Away BAT BSH DBR DMI DNE MIN NAF NEM PAR SHA TZH VIT
BATE Borisov 2–0 1–0 1–3 3–0 1–2 1–1 0–0 6–0 2–0 1–0 4–0
Belshina Bobruisk 0–1 1–0 0–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–0 2–0 0–0
Dinamo Brest 1–4 1–1 1–2 2–3 2–1 0–0 4–0 1–1 1–1 3–2 5–2
Dinamo Minsk 0–1 3–0 2–2 3–0 0–2 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 5–1 1–1
Dnepr Mogilev 0–2 1–3 2–1 1–0 1–5 1–0 0–0 3–0 0–2 3–1 0–0
Minsk 0–0 3–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 3–1 3–1 3–0 0–2 2–1 5–1
Naftan Novopolotsk 0–2 4–0 3–1 0–2 5–0 0–0 4–1 1–0 0–2 1–1 0–0
Neman Grodno 0–5 2–2 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Partizan Minsk 1–1 1–2 0–3 0–2 1–0 1–4 1–1 0–4 0–2 2–3 0–2
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 0–0 1–1 2–0 2–4 0–0 1–0 0–0 4–1 1–0 4–1 1–1
Torpedo Zhodino 0–1 1–2 0–1 2–0 2–3 0–4 1–4 2–0 2–2 1–1 0–4
Vitebsk 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 0–3 4–2 2–2 0–1 1–3 0–2
Source: football.by
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round
Home \ Away BAT BSH DBR DMI DNE MIN NAF NEM PAR SHA TZH VIT
BATE Borisov 2–0 4–0 2–1 1–0 1–2
Belshina Bobruisk 1–3 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–3 1–1
Dinamo Brest 2–0 2–1 4–0 3–1 2–0
Dinamo Minsk 4–0 2–0 2–1 1–0 5–1 0–2
Dnepr Mogilev 2–3 1–1 3–0 1–0 0–1
Minsk 2–2 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–2
Naftan Novopolotsk 1–0 2–0 1–2 2–1 4–4 1–0
Neman Grodno 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–0
Partizan Minsk 1–1 0–0 4–3 1–3 1–0 0–1
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 1–1 3–0 3–2 0–1 4–0 2–1
Torpedo Zhodino 1–1 3–1 1–1 0–2 0–1
Vitebsk 1–6 0–2 1–1 1–3 2–0 0–1
Source: football.by
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers
Rank Name Team Goals
1 Renan Bressan BATE Borisov 15
2 Dzmitry Kavalyonak Neman Grodno 12
3 Andrey Razin Minsk 11
4 Dzmitry Asipenka Minsk 10
Mikalay Yanush Dinamo Brest 10
6 Andrey Sheryakov Minsk 9
Vladimir Yurchenko Dnepr Mogilev 9
Maksim Skavysh BATE Borisov 9
Aleksandr Alumona BATE Borisov / Shakhtyor Soligorsk 9
Pavel Sitko Shakhtyor Soligorsk 9
Syarhey Kislyak Dinamo Minsk 9
Artur Lyavitski Torpedo Zhodino 9
Dzmitry Mazalewski Dinamo Brest 9

Updated to games played on 21 November 2010
Source: football.by

See also
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